Too Stressed To Lose Weight?

Can't commit to losing weight? Too tired, too busy or too preoccupied to put the effort into a new fit and trim you? Putting off a decent diet and exercise program until after Christmas, after the exams, after the baby is born, after...(insert perfectly valid sounding excuse here).

Look, there will never be an optimal time to start changing your eating patterns and getting into a daily exercise routine. You just have to commit to changing your life while you still have time. That means now, today. No one is likely to live forever, but fit and healthy people tend to live longer, more fulfilling and active lives than sedentary fat folk.

Nothing is going to change for you until you change it yourself. You cannot change the events happening around you, but you can change what you are doing. It is simple. It is not easy. You have to want to change and your hard work will bring the results you crave.

If you are too tired to lose weight, then you need to have a good long think about why you are tired. Is it your diet, your lethargy, your workload, your negative emotions getting the upper hand? If you are too tired to lose weight, change something or several somethings about what you are doing on a daily basis so that you are not tired. Just eating properly and taking some regular exercise will actually markedly increase your alertness and resilience in a matter of a couple of weeks.

Are you too busy to work out and stick to a decent diet that will support your poor long suffering body? You have to find a way to drop something out of your frantic day. Don't be afraid to cut back your workload by an hour a day for some quality "me" time - you can afford one hour a day; if you think you can't, well there is your problem found - denial. The world of work (whether paid or domestic) will not stop turning if you check out for a mere hour. Drop an hour of drudge and get busy on your weight control diet and fitness program.

Are you too preoccupied to lose weight? Don't underestimate the cunning nature of the evil side of your brain (that's the bit that fabricates excuses for scoffing a whole packet of chocolate biscuits in one sitting, the bit that whispers convincingly that you can walk tomorrow, but tomorrow never comes). You can let your brain make plausible excuse after excuse, so that you can't start a life changing diet now because your children need a filling meal and you can't exercise today because you can't leave your aging dad alone in the house. Look at all those fit and trim people out there, eating well and exercising happily. Do you really believe that they have nothing other than exercise and healthy diet to occupy their brains?

Fit and healthy people have learned how to beat tiredness, organise their busy day and put their concerns and responsibilities into perspective so that they can put the work into looking after themselves.

You have to make the time and effort to look after yourself with a decent diet for life and a daily fitness program. You cannot allow negative feelings, workload and other commitments to prevent you from taking care of you. You are the only one who can make the difference for yourself.

It takes hard work and determination but you will feel so much better for it.

Rosie Peters gives common sense advice, encouragement and tips for weight loss, sensible diet and lifelong fitness. Sometimes it's not what you want to hear, but what you need to know. Visit Rosie at weight-control-diet-advice.com. Rosie's ebook, Weight Loss is Simple may be the inspiration you need.

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