Natural Weight Loss is Not a Diet Pill

It’s ironic, isn’t it, that when you search for “natural weight
loss” online you see a load of ads for pharmaceutical products.
Since when did natural come in pill form?

Real natural weight loss starts in your head when you decide
that you’ll do whatever it takes to lose weight by changing the
quality and quantity of food you eat and the amount of exercise
you take.

You naturally lose weight when you do what is good for you most
of the time and gain it just as naturally when you don’t.

Now that’s easy to say and not so easy to do when you want to
lose weight and your normal inclination and habit is to do what
you know you shouldn’t.

You can use all the willpower you like in your weight loss
program but, if you are forcing yourself too far out of your
comfort zone, you’ll be going against the grain and making life
exceedingly tough for yourself.

Most people give up on any weight loss regime that forces them
to make huge changes to their lifestyle and routine well before
they’ve reached their target weight – if they even get past the
first two weeks.

Instead of pills and punishing diets and workouts, you need a
weight loss program which takes into account the natural human
tendency to resist change. And this means taking things one step
at a time, building up good habits until they feel part of your
normal routine. It means gradually switching to moderate
quantities of healthy natural foods. It means starting to move a
little more than you do just now and building that up each day.

Natural weight loss occurs when you have built up the habits
that support it. It feels great to lose weight that way and
what’s more the changes you make to your habits stay with you -
they are permanent and you never need to think about clicking on
those natural weight loss diet pill ads ever again!

Copyright 2005, Janice Elizabeth Small

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