Winning and losing at weight loss
What separates the winners from the losers at the game of weight loss? To those who have been told that they must lose weight to avoid diabetes or heart trouble, thinking of weightloss as a game may sound facetious. Nevertheless, it does have many of the same characteristics.
In a game there are generally two contestants. Of course there is only one prize. Whoever best does best at what is required wins. Just as in monopoly, whoever has the most hotels is typically the winner.
In weight loss, there is seldom a contest with anyone other than oneself. True enough, there can be a greatest loser contest set up at a health club or in a support group. Yet most of us will still think that our real competitor resides within.
Victory at the losing game comes from doing the right things in spite of how we may feel. It means saying no to that one more cookie or refusing to leave the health club until the work out is finished. In the best cases it means refusing to ever even think of putting out only the same or less than the day before.
We all have an inner competitor. Call this aspect of ourselves what you will, it is still always with us. It wants to hold us back when we want to press forward and excel. What we have to do is overpower this aspect of what we experience within.
Where does it come from? Some say that it is no more than laziness. it is most powerful in all of us, so it is believed, because we all have an aversion to hard work. We al supposedly want to be taken care as when we little in our mother's womb perhaps.
If the welcoming of retirement with social security benefits is any indicator, it may be that is considerable truth in that. But, some of us do know that hard work does pay off and that doing can in fact be enjoyable.
What we need around us are others who feel the same, perhaps because they have experienced some success. Relating to these types will enable us to affirm our adult joy in exertion even when others may think we are too old. Carrying them in our imagination will insure that we make the right choices every minute of every day of our weight loss journey.
In a game there are generally two contestants. Of course there is only one prize. Whoever best does best at what is required wins. Just as in monopoly, whoever has the most hotels is typically the winner.
In weight loss, there is seldom a contest with anyone other than oneself. True enough, there can be a greatest loser contest set up at a health club or in a support group. Yet most of us will still think that our real competitor resides within.
Victory at the losing game comes from doing the right things in spite of how we may feel. It means saying no to that one more cookie or refusing to leave the health club until the work out is finished. In the best cases it means refusing to ever even think of putting out only the same or less than the day before.
We all have an inner competitor. Call this aspect of ourselves what you will, it is still always with us. It wants to hold us back when we want to press forward and excel. What we have to do is overpower this aspect of what we experience within.
Where does it come from? Some say that it is no more than laziness. it is most powerful in all of us, so it is believed, because we all have an aversion to hard work. We al supposedly want to be taken care as when we little in our mother's womb perhaps.
If the welcoming of retirement with social security benefits is any indicator, it may be that is considerable truth in that. But, some of us do know that hard work does pay off and that doing can in fact be enjoyable.
What we need around us are others who feel the same, perhaps because they have experienced some success. Relating to these types will enable us to affirm our adult joy in exertion even when others may think we are too old. Carrying them in our imagination will insure that we make the right choices every minute of every day of our weight loss journey.
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Posted by mark clemens at 4/3/2010 1:32 PM 
Categories: Better with age, baby boomers, Lose weight, Take off years, Think and Grow Fit, Foreverfitness, Fountain of Youth
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Categories: Better with age, baby boomers, Lose weight, Take off years, Think and Grow Fit, Foreverfitness, Fountain of Youth
Tags: markclemens forevefitness rockystallone janefonda daratorres jacklalanne
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