A New Year – a new resolution (well, the same resolution as last year, and the year before that, and year before that)!

Scale

I need to shed 30 plus pounds of excess weight Click Here!, and like most of you I have little time and love food.  My doctor friend told me that “some eat to survive, and most live to eat!”

Wow, how true it that!  I love food (especially the junk foods), and food loves me – I have love handles, flabby arm wings, and Santa Claus belly.

Alright, it is not that bad, but bad enough to start worrying about it now.

My husband says to me all the time that I still look beautiful, and the extra weight does not bother him at all – “You look beautiful to me if you gain 100 pounds or lose 10 pounds!”

How sweet is that?  He is the best!

However, like most women in the world, I have some self-esteem issues – I never look pretty enough, or skinny enough, funny enough, and so on.  Honestly, it can be quite tiresome (even to me – this self pity party can be quite exhausting), and I don’t know how my husband puts up with it!

I should just come to terms with it – I love food, so I should both shut up (and eat whatever I want) or do something about it.  However, I think it’s easier to complain about it rather than disciplining my diet low fat cooking) and exercise.  

Junk Food

One of my friends works at a Jenny Craig’s store, and she has lost tons of weight eating their food – honestly, she looks GOOD!  

I know their system works (as long as you stick with their food), but it costs close to $500 a month for a single person.

So I did my math – I would need at least $1,500 to feed myself and my family – that’s quite expensive!

Did you know that according Sharyn Alfonsi, “Americans spend about $35 billion a year on weight-loss products (McNamara).”

I believe it … I am guilty of spending my hard earned money on weight loss programs, diet pills, that burn body fat – I just wanted to lose the weight without exercising or eating the right food.

Exercise

I am guilty of being lazy, but I am dedicated now.  I am going to make better decisions – eating healthy foods, avoid chips, minimize restaurant foods, join a fitness center and love myself.

There is no such a thing as a easy way out!  I am going to do it, and wish you lots of luck (if your New Year’s resolution is to lose weight).

McNamara, M. (2006).  Diet Industry Is Big Business.  CBS Evening News.  Retrieved from http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/12/01/eveningnews/main2222867.shtml  (1/20/2009).

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