I was reading some message board posts over at the weight loss forum wahm.com.  I’m a moderator there, so it’s kind of my job to go through and read posts by members there.

I noticed a post by someone who had a craving last night for a candy bar and some type of sugary drink.  She went out to get those items, but came back from the store with healthy snacks instead.  Her thoughts after that were that “being skinny” and feeling deprived go hand-in-hand.  It doesn’t have to be that way!

I came to the conclusion years ago that life is too short to walk around feeling hungry and/or deprived.  I don’t want to - period.  I’m not going to - period.  But that’s what makes losing weight in a healthy and natural way so much fun!  You don’t have to be deprived of your favorite foods.  You don’t have to starve yourself.  That’s not what life is about and it’s certainly not what healthy weight loss is about either.  Now, don’t get me wrong - I’m not saying you can eat a whole bag of Doritos in one sitting or scarf down a gallon of Ben & Jerry’s in one afternoon.  My motto is and has been for quite some time:  everything in moderation.

Okay, so there is one thing I can’t drink in moderation yet and that is soda.  So I stay away from it completely.  If I have a sip, then I will go on a week-long binge and have to start all over as far as getting off soda.  But I rarely miss it, and when I do miss it, I think about how it was ruining my teeth, how it made me feel when I would crash shortly after drinking it, and how much tighter it made my pants feel.  That usually does the trick.

Losing weight and improving health should be fun.  If it’s not, then there is something wrong and you need to re-evaluate what you’re doing and change things to make it fun.  There are hundreds of thousands of healthy foods out there that are delicious.  There are hundreds of exercises that are fun to do; you just have to find them by trial and error.  

I think too many times people make losing weight too difficult and it just becomes too exhausting and they give up.  Don’t let that happen to you - live a little and have some fun while losing weight!  You may be suprised with your results. 

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