I Want to Lose Weight

I'm Stuck...
I have been overweight since I was young. Its always bothered me and recently I have wanted to lose about 75 pounds to get to a weight that I would be comfortable with. Well for the past two months I have changed my eating hapits quite a bit, I am eating healthier and less. I have changed to eating mostly fish and boneless, skinless chicken breasts, and more vegetables. my snacks are crackers, fruit and similar. I have almost completely elimanted sweets aside from an occasional small piece of chocolate or a 3 Musketeers bar on occasion. I am walking more and bought a bicycle I ride to work and around the neighborhood. Even when my parents and I go out for our dinner and movie day. I generally go for things like salads or chicken sandwiches and I have plain popcorn. Granted there is the occasional chinese or fries, but that isn't often. I have used diet supplements and my soda at meals is now tea, but no matter what I can not lose any weight, granted I havent gained either but it is frustrating. I have been told that perhaps it is because I recently quit smoking, abd to be grateful that I haven't gained after quitting. I don't accept this and don't know what I am doing wrong to be unable to lose any weight. I recently was talking to a co-worker that said he is in a similar situation. It is so aggravating.

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Certain foods might be creating more problems than you realize. I'm not saying this is a fact, I'm saying it's a possibility. Something you can try, to determine if one particular type of food is causing you problems, is a process of elimination. I imagine you already weigh yourself every day so even a small change is going to show up fairly quickly. Four likely problems areas would be milk (and milk products), wheat (and wheat products), corn (and corn products) and sugar. Take them one at a time and eliminate just that one item from your diet, entirely, for seven full days. In other words, go one full week without eating any milk or milk derived products (you'll have to be aggressive about reading labels.). Go the next full week without eating any wheat/wheat derived products, then go a week without corn and finally, go a week without sugar. Be totally strict with yourself, for one full week, with each item (you have to do it over if you cheat even once). If your weight takes an unexpected dip during one of those weeks you'll have identified your personal problem-food and, by tightly controlling your intake of that food item you'll be able to begin loosing weight. Give yourself a realistic goal. Try for a pound month. That's twelve pounds in a year. In two years, without a particularly restrictive diet, and some common sense, you should be able to shed 24 pounds. If that's not enough, you'll have two years of experience in maintaining a sensible diet so you can just stick with it until your goal is achieved.

Something else you should consider is that being fat doesn't make you ugly, stupid or socially inept. It just makes you fat, like MOST Americans. How can anyone else love you if you can't love yourself. You are unique, you are special. The glass is half full, not half empty. Start focusing on your own positive qualities and stop selfishly clinging to your negative qualities. I know, if you convince yourself that you're a "loser" then you don't have to prove differently,so you can just mope around until everything turns to crap and say "see, I told you". If you reject that self-fulfilling prophesy then you'll have to use your intelligence and talent to rise above negativity and maybe begin to appreciate your own good qualities. It could happen. :)

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