Stan Toler - Minute Motivators for Weight Loss: Quick Inspiration for the Time of Your Life

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MINUTE MOTIVATORS FOR WEIGHT LOSS

Copyright 2017 Stan Toler

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Contents

Man does not live by celery alone!

Food alone doesnt make a diet. Right food choices are just one part of a successful diet plan. The other ingredients include direction, determination, and discernment. Dieting isnt just about what goes into your mouth. Its also about what goes into your mind.

Minute Motivators for Weight Loss will be your friend as you make wise decisions about your lifestyle, good choices about your future, and a careful evaluation of yourself.

Written with a lite touch, this book will enlarge your spirit as you reduce your calories.

Stan Toler

Dieting is a lifelong journey.

Tough diets never last, but tough dieters do.

Mark Hollingsworth

A diet doesnt last for two weeks or two months.

It isnt just about getting into that new dress or that new pair of pants for your twenty-fifth high school reunion. You know, the one where youll meet those classmates you envisioned as being tiny as a twigonly to discover theyve added a few rings around the trunk as well!

Youre on a diet your whole life. Every bite you take is part of your daily dietyour necessary intake of food. So the diet you choose has to be one that will lastone that will keep you healthy for the long haul. Dieting is a series of daily choices that ultimately will be measured by how much you weigh and, in some cases, how long you live. What you decide about your dietary options today will directly affect your dietary requirements five, ten, or twenty years from now. In other words, brownies today, bulges tomorrow!

Dont try to cram a lifetime of good eating into one month. Choose eating habits that will last as long as you do.

Consult a doctor before you diet.

My doctor has advised me to give up those intimate little dinners for four, unless, of course, there are three other people eating with me.

Orson Welles

D ont jump on the fad-diet bandwagon. Man does not live by celery alone! Horror stories abound of fad dieters who have harmed their bodiesor lost their livesby ignoring their need for a holistic approach to losing weight.

A little boy was asked what he would do when he got big like his daddy. He quickly replied, Stop eating jelly donuts! Common sense is just as important as carbohydrates. You dont have to give up reasoning just because you gave up coconut cream pie. Caution is in order. Youve heard the expression, Dont try this at home. It just may be that home isnt the best place to start a diet. Maybe it should be started at the doctors office. Start with a professional opinion about weight loss, not the advice on page one of the inquiring-mind magazines at the grocery checkout counter.

Get the whole-health view. Be sure that your bodys need for nutrition will be met, even as you reduce your intake. In other words, proceed with caution.

Say no-no to yo-yo dieting.

No food tastes as good as the food you eat when youre cheating on a diet.

Derl Keefer

I f you have two sections in your closet marked before and after, then maybe its time to swear off yo-yo dieting. You know you cant live on turtle toenails forever! Up-and-down dieting is bad for your body, worse for your spirit. Avoid the temptation to shed a few pounds quickly on a diet that you cant sustain. Yo-yo dieting leads to frustration as you realize, I always gain it right back. Easy off leads to easy on.

Take the long view; think months, not days. Im in this for the long overhaul. That late-night infomercial spokesperson with the simonized white teeth and the fifteen-inch waist may say she lost twenty pounds in two weeks, but she may not be talking about pounds. She might mean her basset hound ran away! Stability is key to successful dieting.

Adopt a plan that will meet your desire to be fit next year, not just your desire to look good next week. If youre going to hide the Gummi bears, then burn that map to their den!

To diet means to do it!

A window of opportunity wont open itself.

David M. Vaughn

D ieting is a fifty-fifty proposition: 50 percent will and 50 percent wont . Its like deciding not to drive the wrong way on a one-way street. You make an on-the-spot decision based on the fear that your new pearl necklace wont fit around a neck brace.

Not only does dieting require an act of the wont, it requires an act of the will. Dont be fooled by fad diets that promise results without effort. To change your diet means to change your way of life. And that will take some resolve. Youll have to decide to change the way you think about food, about comfort, about yourself.

Saying no to food will be the easy part. Saying yes to new attitudes, new disciplines, new life habitsthats the hard part. Its a New You resolution, not a New Years resolution.

Getting started is a will thing. But just like putting on a Speedo in the fitting room of the department store and deciding whether to look in the mirror, sooner or later, youll have to just do it!

Establish a desired weight goal.

Without a deadline, baby, I wouldnt do nothing.

Duke Ellington

D ieting involves setting goals. Those goals will vary from individual to individual. Some set goals like losing enough weight so that when they tie their tennis shoes they dont need to have an oxygen tank handy. Others want to lose enough weight so that when theyre driving a car, someone on the passenger side doesnt have to hold the seat belt.

Give yourself a target, and your diet is more likely to be successful. But dieting goals must be realistic. If everyone were a runway model, nobody would be left to applaud and take pictures. What is a reasonable weight for someone of your age, height, and body type? Is your goal reachable? Can you sustain that weight over the long term? What is your projected date to arrive at the goal? Find an appropriate goal and an appropriate time frame.