Wednesday, August 10, 2011

10 useful Twitter sized weight management truisms

  • If you can't happily eat any less, you're not going to eat any less.
  • If you can't happily exercise any more, you're not going to exercise more.
  • If you don't like the life you're living, you're not going to keep living that way.
  • If you accept your personal best at everything else in life, why not weight?
  • If you can't use food both for comfort and celebration then you're on a diet that ultimately you're going to quit.
  • Simply tolerating your life isn't good enough.
  • There are some things in your life, affecting your weight, that you're not going to be able to change.
  • Your best weight is whatever weight you reach, when you're living the healthiest life you actually enjoy.
  • The more weight you'd like to permanently lose, the more of your life you'll need to permanently change.
  • Reality isn't reality television, and it most certainly does include chocolate.


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11 comments:

  1. I am sharing this one...great stuff!

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  2. Anonymous8:18 AM

    Preach it, brother.

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  3. Anonymous9:44 AM

    Great truths! Slowly, I'm learning these things. The journey has begun and I intend to follow it thru to the best conclusion. Thanks for posting this.

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  4. Anonymous9:46 AM

    Great truths! I'm slowly learning on this journey and will follow thru to the best conclusion for me.

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  5. Wisdom and compassion. Lovely. Now if you could substitute the word weight....Why is it so easy to keep getting stuck on a number when we know fitness trumps weight every time.

    We need more emphasis on a healthy metabolism. The process is what counts: What you eat, how much you move, how you live. When those elements are in place, weight often takes care of itself.

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  6. Love this one: "Your best weight is whatever weight you reach, when you're living the healthiest life you actually enjoy." Thanks!

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  7. Love em all. started tweeting.

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  8. On number 3 ("If you don't like the life you're living, you're not going to keep living that way")...I so wish this were more true for everybody. There seem to be a lot of unhappy people stuck in a rut, who can't seem to find the strength to change, and it's tragic!

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  9. I tweeted "Your best weight is whatever weight you reach, when you're living the healthiest life you actually enjoy." And, my friends on twitter and face book went crazy with this. A viral happening. (Of course so many of my friends I met working out and we have lost weight together. Hundreds of pounds have been lost in last year, so things like this hit home fast. I had a feeling this would be the one that would grab them. But, then I saw a friend facebook the whole list this morning.

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  10. Re: Kim Foster's comment: I think if the quote read, "If you don't like the life you're living to maintain your weight (loss), you're not going to keep living that way" it would be more accuate (yet less succinct).

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