Anne Collins, our Resident Slimming Expert, is one of Ireland's most experienced weight-loss consultants. Over the past 19 years, she has helped thousands of men, women & teenagers, including many suffering from severe obesity.
BEING FAT IS HARDER...
For every 14 pounds (1 stone) that you're overweight, you're carrying around an extra 14 cans of baked beans. So if you're 42 pounds (3 stone) overweight, you're carrying an extra 42 cans.
Why am I telling you this? Because sometimes we pretend that dieting is difficult.
We pretend to ourselves that it's easier to carry around 14 or 28 or 42 cans on our bodies, than it is to stick to our diet.
A Case History
Some time ago, a lady came to see me to lose weight. She was about 50 years old, and she weighed about 210 pounds (15 stone) so she was about 70 pounds (5 stone) overweight. When she arrived she was quite breathless and every time she breathed, she wheezed.
I asked her whether she had ever dieted before and she said she had – many times – but she'd never stuck to a diet for very long, because she didn't find it very easy!
And I felt so sad for her, because here she was, wheezing away from the effort of carrying 72 cans of beans around all day, and yet she had convinced herself that doing this was easier than sticking to a diet!
So, the next time you are tempted to give up your diet because you're not finding it very easy, just remember this:
Compared with the awful strain of constantly carrying extra weight around on your body, dieting is easy!
