Your New Years Weight Loss Resolution™ by JayKay Bak PDF EBook JayKay Bak Your New Years Weight Loss Resolution | Page 40

Through education and sound knowledge on knowing how your body
burns and stores fat means that you are in a strong position to finally
shed the weight once and for all.
Knowing how to recognize fad diets and how to avoid them means that
you are so much more ahead of the game than you were before. You
won’t be tempted to fall for these fly by night diets that promise the
earth and deliver nothing but disappointment.
You have also learned that it is a lifestyle that you are pursuing and
not a quick fix. It was years of habit forming eating that got you here
in the first place and it would take more than a week’s worth of dieting
to undo it. It can be done, you can do it. The thing that you should
be excited about is that now you finally have the answers to really do
it this time and not some band aid temporary solution to a lifelong
struggle.
As you can see, weight loss is so much more than just the weight
itself. It’s more than just looking good or being able to fit into
something, although those things have their importance. Weight loss
is a holistic thing because it goes deeper than just the issue of the
weight itself. It encompasses the drives and motivations as to how we
got there in the first place.
So to get rid of the weight once and for all it requires some serious
thinking on your part to identify the root cause of the matter and as
you have read in previous chapters, it’s more often than not more than
just the physical weight itself that is the problem. Once you
understand this, the weight will not only come off but it will stay off for
good.
Inches or Pounds?
Which is more important? When we start a weight loss program we
become obsessed with the scales where we weigh ourselves several
times a day to see of that pesky little needle has shifted. Suddenly
our entire diet's success teeters on that one measurement. We weigh
ourselves before we eat and after we pee. We weigh ourselves 2 or 3
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