Beating The Weight Loss Bandits
by:
Janice Elizabeth Small
If you're on a weight loss program you're under constant attack - attack from the food bandits all about you.
There is food waiting to ambush your weight loss efforts at every turn.
It's there on every street corner: available, fast, in immense portions and full of fat.
It's there at every checkout: convenient, brightly-packaged and career "Eat me! Eat me!"
It’s there at activity for every occasion: birthdays, promotions, departure parties, "because it’s Friday".
It’s there at house brought to you larger than life on every TV set, temptingly
advertised, career from the electric refrigerator and larder "I’m here! Move and get me! You cognize you want to!"
Given that the food bandits are out there, what can you do simply about them?
Be available to defend yourself!
Know your weak spots – those food temptations you find hard to resist, and plan to
Avoid them as more as you can. Don't driving past fast food outlets even as if it means a detour. Support tempting high-fat snacks out of your home. Give TV ads a wide berth – in fact give TV a miss altogether and get out and do something. Walk away from offers of food, declining as courteously and firmly as possible. "No thanks, I’m not hungry simply now" should be enough.
Treat your encounter with food bandits with a sense of fun. Do a note in your mind that you’ve spotted one "Alert! Food brigand on left flank. Eyes right! Defeat!"
If you succumb once in a piece to the food bandits, don't let it get you down. Brush yourself down and be available to move out fighting against the next lot.
Be delighted each time you spot and overcome a food bandit. Feel proud that you were able to show who's in charge. You're the boss!
Once you recognise the food bandits for what they are, they lose their power. Each time you take them on and defeat them, you'll notice their influence over you diminish.
Gradually you get into the habit of ignoring the bandits. Long term result – a slimmer, healthier, beautiful you, in total control of the food you eat.
Janice is the publisher of a monthly news-sheet "Think Slim" full of information on losing weight and keeping it off. See her website
