Losing Weight Without Trying
I have to admit that I haven’t been trying to lose weight in weeks. I had been planning to start the Flat Belly Diet the day after Memorial Day but had no time to sit and read the book ( I have since been reading some every day and have started stocking up on foods to start on Monday). Still, even without committing to any diet, I was shocked to see that I am down two pounds; which means maybe losing weight without trying is not so difficult.
Last week, after I blogged about another interesting diet called the Cheat Your Way Thin diet (a plan that has cheating built into the plan) I started to think about the time that I lost a large amount of weight back in my early 20′s. Sure, I was younger and had a pretty active job but I remember people asking me how I did it. one thing that I do remember was cheating alot but also getting right back on my diet.
In a way, that is what I have been doing these last few weeks. Sure I am older now and a lot less active but just making one change has made a difference-not eating out of boredom every night. Instead, I have been busy with some projects both online and offline and right around the time I start to think about having a midnight snack is around the time that I start to doze off on the couch.
The truth is, many nights when I am eating a large bowl of ice cream that easily surpasses 500 calories I wasn’t really hungry in the first place. instead, I ate out of boredom, however, keeping myself busy at night has cured that. Am I eating perfectly? Far from it. I have to be committed to not only weight loss but a healthy lifestyle change. However, I guess it does go to show that maybe you can lose weight without trying if you keep yourself occupied with other things.