Free tips
on how to lose weight
by: Steve Hill
Many people in life, especially in the western world are
looking at ways to lose weight. In this article I
describe about how I have had an ongoing struggle with
my own weight and how I eventually lost the excess
pounds.
I am somebody who has a
liking to the wrong types of food and drinks and as a
result have had an ongoing battle with my weight for
most of my life. I have to be very careful what I eat as
I seem to gain weight very easily. In my life I have
tried many diets, however I have always looked for a way
to of losing weight without having to resort to starve
myself or by having to do huge amounts of exercise.
I have always been
annoyed and frustrated with family and friends who seem
to be able to eat without getting fat. I am sure I eat
half as much as these people but am still twice their
size, it is not fair! That was until a couple of years
ago.
I decided I needed to
find my own way of losing weight. I had to be honest
with myself, I was aware that I did very little exercise
and that I liked all of the wrong types of food. I was a
bit of a fast food junkie, this was only because of my
busy lifestyle . One of my biggest problems though was
that I liked snack food, such as peanuts, chocolate and
crisps. I also liked an alcohol as this helped me to
gain confidence.
I knew that most people
would advise me to stop eating all fatty type foods,
especially the pizzas and chips. They would also no
doubt, advise me to join a gym and to go jogging every
morning. Get real! Those gyms are full of thin people,
if I go jogging I might get mugged, and I am sorry but
life would not be worth living without my weekly pizza!
What I needed was my own
weight loss plan so I decided that what I would do is to
basically eat a healthy type breakfast, which would be
cerial or toast. I would have a fairly light lunch, such
as a sandwich, however for my evening meal I could eat
whatever I wanted. The main thing and most difficult to
implement would be the fact that I would be no longer
eating between meals. The snacks had to go!. I am not
trying to say that this was easy to do, however I had a
need and was determined to lose weight.
For exercise I decided
to leave the car at home, wherever possible, and walk to
more places. I also started taking my children to the
park more often. At the park we would play games such as
football, cricket and baseball. It is amazing how much
weight you can lose by having fun.
These things in time
helped me to lose a lot of my excess weight.
