The secret of weight management.

The secret of weight management. 12/13/2009

The MOST IMPORTANT RULE FOR LOSING and MAINTAINING WEIGHT.

Energy in exceeds energy out, you Gain Weight.

Energy in equals energy out, you maintain weight..

Energy out exceeds energy in you lose weight’

That is ‘it’. ~ No expensive book, gym membership or weight loss program will tell you a better secret of losing weight.

If obesity ‘runs in your family’, if your metabolism is ‘slow’ or if you have an, ‘injury or illness’, which makes it harder for you to be active, those things are unfortunate, but in relation to our bodies weight, these are ‘just excuses’. I can say this because I was once 115 kilo on a short 158 cm frame and I used all of the excuses above and more, to justify, my own obese weight. It would be very easy for me to slide back into more energy in than energy out (I often do this for short periods), and begin to make excuses again, that old “I have tried but I can’t lose weight’, crap. CRAP. That what it is, to make excuses for being obese or overweight. Choose to be that way if you wish, you are still a beautiful person, but understand, it is our own choice, what weight we are and we are in control of our weight. Weight mastery is our right, it is simple :- Energy in versus energy out. Our choice, my choice for my body. It isn't about New year’s resolutions we start on New Years day and break on the 5th January.

The Secret of weight management is, 'Getting the energy in versus energy out, balance, right, at this moment and for the rest of today'
Can you do 'today'?

Today is the start of the rest of our life, being an expert at weight management, (forget the diets), just expend a little more energy today than you intake, (get nutrition advice of you need it), and strive to do this as a natural part of taking care of yourself, just like brushing your teeth and going to bed to sleep, it's a self care routine that becomes almost automatic over time. lol, I said 'almost'.
Yes, of course I slip back. I just have and probably always will have weeks when my energy in exceeds my energy out.
Correction is simple, if I am overweight, I go back to expending a little more energy that I take in and if I am maintaining weight I keep my energy intake equal to my energy output. I can do this :-) YOU can do it too. :-). I am quite comfortable for anyone including myself to be whatever weight they choose to be. I am all for people loving themselves at whatever size they are and finding peace with food.

I am also for honesty. When addictions are tackled, people need to first look at their addiction and acknowledge they have an addiction before thay can do anything about it.

I have an addiction for the pleasures of creative sedentary activity I need to manage. I also have an addiction for the pleasure of eating.
Food is one of life's great sensual pleasures and I need to work at managing my consumption of it.
This is an ongoing, life long, need, to stay aware of my need to manage these pleasures and not allow them to manage me. It is not about, going on a ‘diet’; it is about living our lives where we can love those things that bring us pleasure without our love for them becoming a problem to us.
We can do it. :-). I can do it. :-).
Tomorrow I plan to share, my tips to achieving the right energy balance.