So you want to take off 20 pounds quick, right? Well, you are not alone.
Perhaps you have tried to do this on your own by starving yourself for a
week or going on some fad diet. Sure, you'll take off 5 pounds right
away, but then you find that you reach a plateau and cannot seem to lose
the last 5 pounds. Half of the time, you end up gaining a few pounds
back and feel more discouraged than ever.
Perhaps you have seen ads for "magic pills" that cost a fortune and
promise to melt off your excess pounds without any effort on your part.
Save you money. There is only one way to lose weight and keep it off and
that is to cut your calorie intake and increase your level of activity.
There is no "big secret" to losing weight, but you do have to have the
mindset for it. In other words, your desire to lose weight has to be
stronger than your desire to eat. With that mindset, you can do
anything.
I never had a problem with my weight until I reached 40. At that time I
found that I was packing on more weight than ever before. It was also at
this time that I quit smoking. I found myself eating more and
exercising less. Before I knew it, my clothes were really tight and I
had gained an extra 20 pounds, seemingly overnight.
But I wasn't about to go buy new clothes. I had lost weight before.
After I had my children I had some extra pounds to lose and took them
off right away. So I figured it would be easy to just get rid of 20
extra pounds. So I started a diet and starved myself for a week. I did
lose 5 pounds but that was it. I couldn't get the scale to budge after
that. And then I came down with a cold.
I wasn't ready to give up. I tried several different methods to lose
weight but nothing seemed to work. Then I talked to a friend who I
consider to be a weight loss expert. My friend had lost 80 pounds. She
confirmed that it takes a while to lose weight, that weight loss does
not happen quickly and that it should take four months to lose 20
pounds. But then she let me in on a few secrets of how I can speed up
the process and lose 20 pounds in three weeks.
