E2Sweet
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My Master wishes me to lose weight. i was wondering if anyone would be able to give me good advice on how i should proceed to do so. i know what all the books and such say but personal advice and storys might would help me find what is best for me...
As a youngin' I was very heavy, but I've discovered various ways to trim off the pounds that I'm more than happy to share.
First, as its been said here, be sure you're losing weight because you want to, and not doing it to fit into someone else's idea of what you should look like. If you do it for someone else, then each time you feel like you've tripped up along the way is just going to generate a bunch of unnecessary emotional baggage that often times just make you want to eat more... At least that's the way I sometimes felt.
Try to avoid the emotion that triggers the desire to eat when you're not hungry. That, for me, was boredom and sadness. Its much easier said than done, but it's important to try to be under the influence of those negative emotions as little as possible.
Accept the fact that this whole thing will not work unless your lifestyle changes.... permenantly. Dieting to drop pounds is one thing, but the real challenge is to maintain the new, lower weight. That never happened for me unless I made sweeping changes in my life in terms of how often I ate, how busy I stayed, how much I ate per meal, when I ate during the day, how much I ate at a time, whether or not I stayed out of the fridge after bedtime, ect ect.. You just have to find changes that work for you and that you are able to stick to. Introduce these changes slowly or all at once, whatever works best for you. Lifestyle change is difficult at first, but it doesn't take all that long to adjust and then it becomes much, much easier...
Stay out of fast food restaurants. The stuff they serve usually isn't fit for human consumption anyway... Its garbage.
When dining out, order low calorie, reasonably healthy foods. Stay away from big platters. Always order light. If you dine at a place when they don't serve low calorie food that you feel tastes good, then go somewhere else.
Next thing I'd suggest is to clear the house of all junk food, and yes, I mean all of it. If, like me, you do need something every now and again to kill your sweet tooth, then try to find one thing that is yummy but low calorie (I use Jello Fat Free Pudding). Keeping the stash of Oreo's or whatever never worked for me... The house has to be purged, and people sharing your space need to show respect to your desire to change and help keep the junk food out of the house.
Steer yourself toward buying food for the house that is relatively good for you and is not loaded with calories, fat, and cholesterol. Its still got to taste good to you, or you will just get sick of it quick. This took me a while to figure this out, but I know now exactly what to buy and what not to when I shop. Again, no junk food...
As you start to find things that work, and you start to trim pounds, don't let it get out of hand. Make sure to check in with yourself to be sure you're in control of how much you're losing and how fast you're losing it. Its not a race to the finish line, and its entirely possible to push yourself too hard and/or develop a little too much will power and wind up with an eating disorder. That's not healthy.
That's about all I can think of at the moment. Again, these are just things I've found that worked really well for me. Others might pick at this and come up with better ideas, but these have been tested and approved by at least one human being who's still alive and kicking. 
Best of luck, and I gotta say, of all the pics I've seen in the forums, yours is my absolute favorite by far! 
Edited for spelling and grammar...yea, both this time...
< Message edited by E2Sweet -- 9/6/2008 12:12:41 AM >
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