Dear Madame L,
If basketball players in high school can improve their free-throw percentages simply by visualizing themselves stepping up to the free-throw line and making those shots, why can't I lose weight just by wanting to so badly? I've even tried visualizing myself as a thin person, but it isn't working.
What's the problem?
Dear What Problem?
It's complicated.
And none of the diet books on the subject is being honest with you in suggesting that it's a simple matter of will power, mind over body, or whatever.
Have you ever noticed that in EVERY SINGLE AD showing a person who lost more than 7 pounds on whatever weight-loss plan, there's a little asterisk, directing you to a note below that says, "Results not typical."
Darn right they're not typical! And in too many cases, they last a short time and are ultimately unhealthy.
Madame L urges you, urgently, to find a nutritionist, health coach, fitness coach, lifestyle coach, counselor and/or doctor who will help you find a reasonable weight-loss method.
Visualizing yourself behaving with healthy habits is not a bad place to start, but it's one of many steps on your road to a healthy body.
Best,
Madame L
1 comment:
I have personally discovered several fast weight-loss regimen (that's already plural, right?) that work. In no particular order:
1. a good case of Shigella
PRO: 14 lbs lost in 10 days.
CON: a lot of blood and vomiting.
2. a blood-pressure-lowering diuretic.
PRO: 7 lbs lost in 7 days.
CON: excreting rocks.
3. The Vitamin C diet
PRO: You eat all the dark Chocolate you want.
CON: Requires discipline to eat a sprig of
broccoli each evening. Feel like a slug.
4. The Vitamin O diet
Like the Vitamin C diet, except you eat Oreos and nothing else except multi-vitamins.
5. The Aspirin diet
PRO: no interest in any food of any kind
CON: You turn white, weak, from blood-loss.
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