Weight Control, Not Weight Loss

Frankly, I prefer to hear about efforts to have weight control than wishes for weight loss. The former seems more permanent and realistic to me.

Just think how bulging this weight loss craze has become. And it's getting worse. Why? Because our modern lifestyles constrain us to keep on doing the things that make us fat.

I can just list a few situations and you will be guilty on at least one count - even if you are not overweight. (Some of us are so genetically lucky!)

• Missing breakfast and snacking (or grazing, it seems) throughout the day
• Not getting regular exercise
• Taking in more calories than our physical activity level demands
• Eating the wrong foods

However, if we get these habits under control our lifestyle now becomes one of weight control,rather than the reactive weight loss measures many of us have to take, resulting in the economic fattening of pill and potion pushers (a.k.a. drug makers.)

Let's practice weight control instead of relying so much on quick weight loss fixes. In most cases, they don't make you lose it permanently. You have to put your hand in your pocket and go back again and again.