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Weight Loss Tips: About Being Realistic
by Tanya Zilberter, PhD

What you desire is one thing what is realistic for you to do is another. Going slower often results in getting there sooner and staying there longer.

Weight Loss Tips Reviews. Realism

The numbers at the end of paragraphs are actual pounds lost by the person sharing the tip and the duration of the time they have kept it off (where available).

  • Go by small steps.
    • What you desire is one thing what's realistic for you to do is another. Going slower often results in getting there sooner and staying there longer. 100 lb. lost in one year.

  • Can you live with it?
    • It's no good if you can't imagine yourself committed to the changes in diet or exercise for the rest of your life. 80 lb. lost.

  • Accept the weight you can maintain however far it is from your ideal one.
    • Many weight losers have had to reconsider what they held for their goals. They never reached their theoretically ideal weight but they could maintain what they did reach. 80 lb. lost and kept off for 13 years.

  • Slow down.
    • This rule is backed up both physiologically and psychologically. Physiologically, rapid weight loss usually means starvation thus triggering the fat storing mechanisms. Psychologically, it gives onetime to adjust to a new life style or make changes in weight loss tactics. 100 lb lost.

    Citations on the topic (source: Prevention.com)


    Rebecca: "My first goal was to lose only 10 pounds. I had very high blood pressure, and my doctor said if I would just lose 10 pounds, he believed that I could get off the pills. Every other doctor before said I had to lose 100 pounds and I thought 'I can't do that.' But 10 pounds, I thought 'maybe I can do that.' Doing it one bite at a time made it more achievable for me ."

    Therese Revitt: "Before I go to bed I'd ask myself, 'Is what I did today something I could do for the rest of my life?' If I felt deprived, I'd do it differently tomorrow."

    Barbara Miltenberger: "I learn how to eat and live with it for the rest of my life."

    Amy Reed: "In 13 years [that I keep off my 80 pounds], I've never gotten down to my initial goal weight, but I'm happy and feel very good even though I didn't reach it."

    Debra Mazda: "Thin is whatever you think thin is. Next to Roseanne Barr, I'm thin. Next to Twiggy, I'm fat."

    Rebecca: "It took me a year to lose 100 pounds this time. I had lost 100 pounds twice before, in less than six months each time, but I didn't maintain it."





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