How to Open Your Mind to New ideas
Added 2024-10-14 07:00:03 +0000 UTCI’ve been on a diet for several months, with some success. I see now that the problem keeping me from weight loss was mental. The key was accepting that I was going to be unhappy no matter what I did.
I wasted a lot of time looking for a way to lose weight that allowed me to eat large quantities of food I liked, without having to spend all day, every day, walking on a treadmill. I wanted a means of losing weight that would not make me unhappy. What I should have been looking for was a way to lose weight that made me less unhappy.
I’m counting calories, which means I still eat what I want, but I eat less of it. Or, I eat more of things I don’t like. So, yeah, the plan has obvious downsides. So does being overweight.
They way I’m looking at it these days is that I’m trading away the downsides of being overweight (fatigue, everything taking more effort, aches, pains, illness, and a measurably shorter lifespan), for the downsides that come from calorie counting (enjoying my meals a certain amount less).
For the last six months, it’s a trade that has worked for me. Talk to me in another six. It may be a different story.
If you are at all tempted to tell me I didn’t look like I needed to lose any weight, thank you. If I didn’t look heavy, it’s down to three factors.
I carried the weight pretty well.
I primarily choose images to draw from that were taken when I was at the low points of my yo-yo dieting.
I was drawing myself. If you were drawing yourself, you’d look fairly thin as well.
As for Rick’s weight-loss plan, I’m sure it will work. After his inevitable death by malnutrition, rapid weight loss will ensue.
