Anita Mills was 382 pounds when her doctor gave her two rules to lose weight:
Rule # 1 - Eat healthy and do not skip meals.
Rule # 2 - Do not tell anyone you're trying to lose weight.
After losing a whopping 242 pounds, Anita credits the second trick to success.
Here's why .... not having someone questioning what I was eating or trying to do to relax at the weekend has maintained its focus on the target.
Anita said people who ask, "Hey, have something different?" It was much better to say "I'm on a diet" and people look at you.
At first, the advice "do not say" seems-counter intuitive. After all, Weight Watchers and others claim that their supporters are the key to its success.
But a growing number of experts now say to tell family, friends and Facebook about their participation in local weight loss clinic can have a negative effect.
Dr. Jon Walz, Dr. Anita, gives all his weight loss patients the same rules. He said that - since we were kids - we are looking for people who look and act like us. However, when we are obese, which puts us in a circle of friends who prefer not to be from a physical standpoint anyway
The problem with having many obese people is that obesity is fine with habits that support it. And if we are to rid our weight problem, we need to change our habits and behavior "toward obesity" to make a "naturally thin" life.
The doctor was right. When Anita Mills began to lose pounds and could not hide his food, his most obese friends also began to drift.
"People are mean - .. People normally think would welcome a friend told me she liked best friend when I was fat hurts," Mills said.
Dr. Peter Gollwitzer, professor of psychology at New York University, agrees.
His research "when intentions Go Public," describes how to win praise for achieving a goal - as a diet -. It gives recognition to their friends and other people, even before finishing so mark it as a sense of accomplishment and then start telling us that "we did it" before we're done.
"The danger is that you feel you have achieved and therefore do not have to act on it more," says Gollwitzer.
Gollwitzer added that may be well to say a couple of close friends - who also want to see you thin - so they can make responsible and help keep the focus on your ultimate goal, not only the process of day.
But until you reach your goal, just dodge questions about his new way and not tell anyone about your visits to the clinic weight loss until you have completed the program.
Rule # 1 - Eat healthy and do not skip meals.
Rule # 2 - Do not tell anyone you're trying to lose weight.
After losing a whopping 242 pounds, Anita credits the second trick to success.
Here's why .... not having someone questioning what I was eating or trying to do to relax at the weekend has maintained its focus on the target.
Anita said people who ask, "Hey, have something different?" It was much better to say "I'm on a diet" and people look at you.
At first, the advice "do not say" seems-counter intuitive. After all, Weight Watchers and others claim that their supporters are the key to its success.
But a growing number of experts now say to tell family, friends and Facebook about their participation in local weight loss clinic can have a negative effect.
Dr. Jon Walz, Dr. Anita, gives all his weight loss patients the same rules. He said that - since we were kids - we are looking for people who look and act like us. However, when we are obese, which puts us in a circle of friends who prefer not to be from a physical standpoint anyway
The problem with having many obese people is that obesity is fine with habits that support it. And if we are to rid our weight problem, we need to change our habits and behavior "toward obesity" to make a "naturally thin" life.
The doctor was right. When Anita Mills began to lose pounds and could not hide his food, his most obese friends also began to drift.
"People are mean - .. People normally think would welcome a friend told me she liked best friend when I was fat hurts," Mills said.
Dr. Peter Gollwitzer, professor of psychology at New York University, agrees.
His research "when intentions Go Public," describes how to win praise for achieving a goal - as a diet -. It gives recognition to their friends and other people, even before finishing so mark it as a sense of accomplishment and then start telling us that "we did it" before we're done.
"The danger is that you feel you have achieved and therefore do not have to act on it more," says Gollwitzer.
Gollwitzer added that may be well to say a couple of close friends - who also want to see you thin - so they can make responsible and help keep the focus on your ultimate goal, not only the process of day.
But until you reach your goal, just dodge questions about his new way and not tell anyone about your visits to the clinic weight loss until you have completed the program.
