Losing Weight

       I don't know about you but I had a scare by a doctor who said I was overweight. He said I needed to lose weight and I responded in kind by telling him that I tried to lose weight and had failed. I tried to lose weight by riding my bicycle around the neighborhood about once a week on the weekends. Well, this did not work at all. What gave me an idea on how to tackle my weight lose was when the doctor said I needed to practice portion control. This got me thinking that the reason I was still gaining weight was because I kept eating more calories than I needed on a daily basis. In other words, I was over eating, and no amount of exercise was going to make me lose weight.

       This is when I devised a strategy to tackle my weight problem. A lot of people act like losing weight is something that just can not be done. I thought so to until I started counting my calories. A very simple but effective method for losing weight. At least for me anyways. You see all you need is a notebook and a pen. Everyday you need to write down how many calories you take in and limit those calories. You could say that this is just a diet, but I don't see it as such because I still eat whatever I want, just not more than I need. A man needs about 2,500 calories a day to be satisfied and a woman would probably need around 2,000 calories. 

      When you start writing down your calorie intake you start to see just how much you have been over eating. For me, I thought that buying a burrito pack from Taco Bell was just enough for me, but come to find out one burrito is really enough for a meal because they are loaded with calories. The may seem like a no-brainer , but to someone who keeps putting on the calories it puts thing into prospective to just exactly what you need for a day and sheds light into just how you have been eating too much.   

      This method is slow, you will lose between 1 to 5 pounds every week depending on where you're at on your weight lose journey. In the beginning I lost about 4 pounds every week. Then I lost about a pound before I shrunk my calories intake by 50 and I started losing about 4 pounds every week again. I hope this helps someone out there start their weigh lose journey. I know some people say it hard to lose weight but I found by doing it this way it is very easy for me. I started out at 340 pounds and I am now at 286 pounds and have been doing this since January 25, 2022. 

         So it's been awhile since I wrote anything. I have been sitting on this thing for years now and I think I might just continue writing things for fun. The theme as always is strategy and everything related to it. I have a tweet that talks about just doing nothing and sitting on something for awhile until you decide what you want to do and if the thing you are doing is really want you want. Part of any good strategy is allowing things to happen. You have a plan and you put some thought behind what you want to do and what you want to achieve and when you actually start to do what it is you set out to do, you meet some resistance and some challenges you didn't expect to happen. 

                What alot of people don't realize is letting things simmer for a bit is a strategy unto itself. It may take a few days, a couple weeks, three months or even a decade before you are able to finally act on something. (Especially if you are thinking long term) The point is you can always come back to an idea and pick up where you left off. Case in point this here blog that a let sit for a decade and have finally come back to it. I never stopped thinking about different strategies for accomplishing my goals. I just haven't put it into writing. I may post some more or I might take another decade to post again. I don't know, but it's all for fun so there is no pressure!

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