Day #2 – Losing Weight with Will Power

I’ve started my health kick, correction, I’ve started my health journey. Too often people say they are on a “health kick”. I think the term alone plays an important role as to why people stop losing weight. A health kick is short term and only lasts for as long as you stay motivated.

I’ve spoken in my previous article about “Motivation” and “Will Power“. I still think those are the two most important factors why people stop losing weight and gain the weight they have lost.

For those of you who are following “my journey”, I’m on Day 2 of my weight lose routine and I’m going to share with you the small victories I have as they happen. I may post daily or every other day so please come back often to see how I’m doing and I would love to hear what you are doing.

Some people find that buying DVD’s or investing in someone’s weight loss techniques will help boost motivation. For some this is true and there is nothing wrong with that. I’ve looked into one that caught my eye, but to this day I have not purchased it yet. Over on the right side of the site I have a link to “Fat Burning Furnace“. For now, I won’t recommend it nor will I say it doesn’t work. Maybe down the road I’ll give it a try but I’m going to rely on pure hard work and determination.

To even begin to lose my weight (I set a goal of 50 lbs), I need to figure out what exactly I’m doing wrong and start to fix it. So, here goes… (and the list will be large)

The object of this exercise is to face the facts and understand what it is that is stopping the weight loss. One small victory at a time.

1. I don’t have a regular eating pattern.
2. I eat often at night and before I go to bed.
3. I spend too much time in front of the computer without any exercise.
4. I eat Fast Food when I’m too lazy to cook my own meals
5. I go to the grocery store hungry and make bad food choices
6. I’ve never counted a calorie ever in my life (I think this will be my biggest hurdle)
7. I’ve bought gym memberships only to use them for a small period of it’s life
8. I eat when I’m stressed out
9. I don’t exercise enough
10. I’m a good talker with very little action (I hope to break this pattern by this blog alone)
11. I’ve bought workout DVD’s and don’t use them.
12. I hate walking for long distances, it takes too long to get there so I would rather run, then I become frustrated and my motivation levels are decreased
13. I don’t usually eat breakfast, I’ve eating so much the night before I’m not hungry.
14. I leave myself rushed in the mornings, so I don’t have time to eat breakfast.

I’m sure I’ll add to this list, but for now I’m going to make a VERY strong effort to NOT EAT after 8pm. I’ll give this a try for a week and report back how well I do.

Wish me luck!