Dec
31
The difference between men and women
Filed Under Motivation, Positive view
One of the favourite New Year resolutions is to lose weight.
It made me smile when I read results of some research that NY resolutions rarely work. A tiny proportion of people succeed in keeping to them as far as the end of January. What a suprise.
Personally I think resolutions have more chance of succeeding if you know why you want to make that change and that you have framed it in positive terms - rather than doing it because you think you should (or even worse - someone else does).
So when I also read that when men decide to lose weight it is for practical purposes - to make clothes fit, be less breathless etc - and - when woman decide it is embedded in all sorts of emotional stuff - often linked to “when I lose a stone ( or some other arbitrary amount) I will do something else that somehow seems impossible.
The papers have been full of “anti-dieting” articles this weekend and here’s a summary.
- Dieting does not work - eating less and taking more exercise does.
- Your body has been capable of “detoxing” since you were born - so you don’t need to pay out for help now.
- A regular walk can have the same impact as a gym membership - in fact even more because, as well as paying the membership you have to actually go!
This time last year I decided that I would start eating only when I was hungry, eating what I wanted, enjoy my food and stop when I was full. It was incredibly liberating. I dropped a bit of weight and felt fine.
More of the same in 2008.
