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I've been thinking about weight loss programs. Okay, I haven't been dwelling on it, but an email came through this morning about a corporate rate for the Company if we join en masse.

So, the basic concept I assume is something like for X amount of time, your target weight loss should be Y, achieved through weekly checkups and a strict dietary health plan plus scheduled exercising. Which doesn't make much sense to me.

Okay, it works. I don't doubt it. That many Jenny Craig commercials can't be wrong. But what I don't understand is why?

Why would having a laid out lifestyle plan alter your body shape? More explicitly, what makes you stick with the program?

Because as you go through this X amount of time, you're constantly being monitored and praised/reprimended depending on your performance. Maybe they even have a binge-cringe hotline, with help 24 hours a day; for those times when you feel like stuffing 3 bacon-double-cheese burgers with half a jar of mayo and extra-large sized fries made with pig lard down your gaping maw - right before dinner.

So it comes down to accountability. When there's someone watching your weekly progress, you tend to stick with the program, for fear of looking like a failure. At least that's my conclusion.

Okay, so what happens once you get off this program, when you've got to go it alone. Do you revert back to the old you? Is that why Oprah's on an endless cycle of fat-thin-fat?

I know there's a disease aligned to chronic obesity. Not everyone in the world can be thin. I accept that, but there's countless people out there who has no self-accountability. Who doesn't realize they're letting themselves go, who doesn't know that the extra bag of potato chips at 3:30 in the afternoon is a bad idea. One day they wake up and realize "Oh no, I'm spherical!"

Well I say, put down the lard and look in the mirror. I know myself for these last 2 weeks, I've been pigging out like food's free. I notice right away my fat cells producing overtime. So now I gotta hit the gym extra hard to try burning some of these fat-boys.

In the end, you're not suppose to please anyone but yourself. Forget about these dietary programs, have some discipline and learn to live healthy. Stick to your own schedule, don't let the mirror or the scale dictate the amount of love you have for yourself. Pick up an exercise that you enjoy, and stick with it. Say no to cheese on your burger, or ignore the craving for extra butter on your popcorn. Gradually, you'll become a new person, and you'll love it even more.

You may never have the perfect figure, but that's okay. The people who do, use it to earn a living. Unless you intend to be on the cover of Victoria's Secret of Muscle Mag, don't worry. This isn't about shape or weight, as much as it is about confidence. Once you start feeling good about yourself, you'll stop abusing your own temple.

....I said: DROP THAT BURGER AND GIVE ME ONE PUSH-UP. posted by losir at 10:54 AM