Everyone's a Weight Loss Expert

You are beginning to lose weight. You have bitten the bullet, not the corn chip and you are steadily shaving the pounds off your happily surprised frame. You understand the secret formula of losing fat. Weight loss means energy burnt is greater than energy consumed. Or to put it in the vernacular, you have stopped topping up on fatty, salty, sugary treats and you enjoy some regular rigorous exercise almost every day of the week.

Food is no longer a comfort, a mood lifter or a cure all for boredom. Exercise is eagerly anticipated, rather than dreaded and avoided. You are on your way.

Now you have banished your long ingrained poor dietary habits and (lack of) exercise habits. You are working out what sort of weight control diet you will to live by for the rest of your life. And it doesn't scare or intimidate you. You are looking forward to a long fit and healthy life and you know you can do it.

You should be very pleased with yourself and motivated to continue. But you have another hurdle to face. Your public. You see everyone's a weight loss expert. And not all of them actually want you to win the fat loss battle.

I'm not kidding. Even the checkout chick at your local supermarket who is 10 kgs heavier than you were at your biggest is going to notice you've lost some weight and tell you what is good for you or even worse, that nothing you do is going to make a long term difference and you might as well give up. "I lost more weight than you, but I put it all back on" is to be expected.

Some close friends who you thought would be pleased as all get out about your increasing health and vitality are going to be spreading horrid little rumours with such negative whisperings as "Well, she's lost a lot of weight, but she's looking very drawn".

Your sister may say rather suggestively "Are you sure you're not losing too much too quickly?" in an attempt to rock your resolve as she pushes her homemade chocolate fudge brownies to well within your grasp.

Be ready for it. It can be damaging to your body and mind if you let it. Don't let this behaviour get to you, no matter who is the perpetrator. Be strong; you've come too far to give in to this negativity.

You have to recognise this stuff for what it is; weight loss envy. These people don't want to see you succeed because they prefer having you the way you were. Your fat loss will scream to the world at large that it is definitely totally possible to lose weight on a weight control diet and regular exercise program, whether the folk around you like it or not.

It's actually quite easy to sort the weight loss experts from the fraudsters. A weight loss expert will help you to lose fat and delight in your achievements. Everyone else can be safely ignored.

Rosie Peters gives common sense advice, encouragement and tips for weight loss, sensible diet and lifelong fitness. Sometimes it's not what you want to hear, but what you need to know. Visit Rosie at weight-control-diet-advice.com.

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