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Is your attitude hanging up your workout? |
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Written by Rocco Castellano
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Thursday, 22 March 2007 |
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 Q: How do you suggest I go about losing weight?
I am a female, 5’4’’. I have to lose about 30-40 pounds to reach a healthy weight.
I have tried many diets and lost the weight, but it creeps back on because I get bored of the diet or get tired of the exercise. I used to spin three times a week and gave it up all together, because I could not make it to the class every week.
How much exercise should I do — and what type of exercise — to be able to lose 1-2 pounds per week and maintain the routine and weight loss efforts?
Can you suggest foods I should eat without craving for sweets?
Thanks, I need some guidelines to help me get started and become healthier.
Kisa
A: I don’t know if you should be asking me or a friggin’ therapist this question.
Asking me to set guidelines for you would be a total waste of my time.
Think about it. You’ve tried diets (which I don’t believe in), lost weight, but because you were bored, it crept back on.
Maybe, just maybe ... you decided to go back to eating like “you were going to the chair” and wanted to sit on your lazy ass instead of being consistent with an exercise program. I think that would be closer to the truth.
I’d also like to know what kept you from going to spinning class every week. Was the boogey-man waiting to steal your lunch money?
And now you want me to come up with some magical way to get you to exercise, eat sensibly, not crave sweets and lose 1-2 pounds per week? I think you should write some other personal trainer that you can bullshit.
Your problem has nothing to do with guidelines and the right program; it has everything to do with your attitude.
Change it and you will see the pounds come off.
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Rocco Castellano is the co-founder of askROCCO Media, which provides boot camps, seminars, media content and online fitness services at askROCCO.com. He is certified by the National Academy of Sports Medicine and has written “askROCCO Uncensored v1” available at bookstores.
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