Da Bears championship playoff game Sunday is absolutely no excuse to eat junk food like there's no tomorrow, and it won't help Da Bears win - not even one little bit.
But what it will do is retard your weight loss and wellness efforts too early into your new year's health and fitness plan.
If you find yourself getting swept up in the football frenzy of food, drink and fun - you have to learn how to enjoy yourself without carb-cramming like everyone else at the party. Maybe others can afford it - but you certainly can't.
And as far as using Da Bears as an excuse for not losing weight this coming Wednesday at weigh-in, I wouldn't if I were you. It's become one of my least favorite excuses of all.
Sure, it's funny at first, but in the end, how funny is it to sacrifice your health, weight loss and wellness for mere football fun food.
A lot of us got through the holidays pretty reasonably unscathed, and did real well the first two weeks of Elgin's Biggest Loser 4 competition, but this past Wednesday, I wish I had a dollar for every time one of you used Da Bears as an excuse for your mystified gain.
Partying hardy, eating everything in sight with reckless abandon just isn't worth it in the long run - as you'll soon find out the next time you step on the scale.
And a few of you seem to have lost sight of the real reason why you're in EBL in the first place.
You're not doing it for me - you're doing it for you, for your family, for your future.
I'm not your enemy - you and your demons are.
Personally, I don't care if you eat carbs like crazy till the cows come home. That's your choice. I finally made my peace with my weight and found the keys to true and everlasting weight loss. I can only share what worked for me with you. If you think you know better, so be it. However, you're not fooling anyone but yourself because it's written all over your body and your face.
When I congratulate you on a big weight loss and job well done for the past week, and some of you snicker and say in an aside to the rest of the group within earshot - "Don't tell Laura, but I ate carbs!" That's entirely your choice. Sooner or later it will catch up with you - and you'll continue to be stuck in the same old weighty situation you've been stuck in for how long now? Aren't you tired of it? I was dog-tired the third time my weight sky-rocketed to over 300 pounds - this last time tipping the scale at 317. That was IT for me.
What's gonna be IT for you?
Whatever diet you choose is, of course, up to you. Whatever you're doing to lose weight, or not, is up to you. I just hope you choose a healthy eating plan that you can live with for the rest of your life. Because if it's not, the joke's on you. It's not my weight, heath and fitness that are at stake here. It's yours.
If you continue to eat the same way that got you into this overweight trouble in the first place, you'll continue to get the same old results. What else do you expect?
Some of you are a bit too young to really realize the ramifications of chronic obesity - because that's what being fat and over weight really is - obesity. And it will surely shorten your life considerably. Just wait and see
How's this gonna sound:
Dear Mrs. Obama: The real reason we have an escalating obesity epidemic in our country today is because most people don't really care. They'd rather lazily lie around and eat everything they want, hoping no one notices. Or some think they're gonna pay the piper later on down the road.
It doesn't work that way.
For some, this road will be all too short because of critical health complications . . .
You've read my book, blasts and articles, and are listening to me and the other successful EBLs who have found out for themselves that most of the time, cheating just doesn't pay.
What's that old Chinese proverb again?
"If you wanna know about the road ahead, ask someone who's on her way back." That be me.
Enjoy the game. But bring your own diet-friendly snacks and drinks. I always carry something low carb that I love to eat to keep me from caving into the temptation of the "pokey-bait" that's usually the standard fare for these kinds of affairs.
And by all means, make sure you get your pre-game daily cardio in.
Train like Da Bears!
Do it daily for the health of it.
Best,
Laura
1-22-11©
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