Choosing the Best Weight Loss Program for You

October 21, 2009 – 7:01 pm

Having recently ‘discovered’ a thin tyre round my middle, I went online in search of a influence loss plan. What a confusing experience! The criteria I eventually used to help me choose may help you too. It had been going on for a while, but with more frequency and more ferocity. I cannot close the button on at least 3 or 4 pairs of pants that I’m convinced fitted me perfectly a year ago. There are at least another 3 pairs that I CAN conclusion – as long as I don’t eat, sneeze, cough or laugh too hard once they’re on!

I’m feeling ambushed. I knew it had to happen – being a little over 40 – okay, 2 years over 40 – and not actuality as active being of the class who I should have been (isn’t hindsight a beautiful thing). But this insidious rocking has developed, it seems, almost overnight. Since my youngest is now 10 I certainly can’t blame her anymore, but I just feel that losing my waistline has been quite sudden. Action is required.

These days, most things start with a search on Google. So I Googled ‘weight loss’ – fool that I am! How on earth do you choose a diet figure from 25 gazillion results?! How do you assess the programs, who do you believe – aaaagh!

I then moved onto the many forums, reading what other people were saying, what questions they had and how they had chosen a weight loss program. I compiled a list – mostly I think common sense – of criteria that I wanted in a weight loss program. This is it:

1. Simplicity
I am neither a master chef nor a math whizz, so any program I’m going steady has to be easy to use – preferably with someone else working out the menus and calories and all that stuff.

2. Flexibility
I eat the foods that I like – and that ain’t going to change now – old dog and new tricks etc. If I go out for dinner, I’m not ordering a lettuce leaf and a slice of cucumber. I want some variety and freedom to choose what I eat (within reason f course).

3. Sustainability
Is this diet going to help me change my eating habits in a way that I can maintain – forever? A plan that I can adapt a little once I’ve lost the initial weight that be inclined help me maintain that weight – that’s what I want.

4. Affordability
I have neither the time nor the money (nor the inclination) to pay a monthly fee and attend meetings regularly. I’m also not prepared to spend a fortune on exotic ingredients and fancy foodstuff – I want a once-off fee, and I’d really like a money-back assurance.

5. Adaptability
When do they expect me to do all that exercise?? Can I adapt what I’m supposed to eat for the rest of my family without facing a mutiny? My lifestyle can only adapt so a great deal of, so I need a program that is adaptable too.

I’scuffle beginning to think I’m being a little too demanding of my prospective weight loss program, but I figure, hey, if I’m going to be alive with it for the next few weeks or months, I get to make some of the rules! In the end I found not just one, but two programs that fit the bill. Find them at http://www.getdown2it.net.

Personal Fitness Coach