MOTIVATE YOURSELF

Before you begin your battle with obesity you must motivate yourself. Your mind has to be convinced of the need to fight curbing your jolly good fellow instinct to let things be as they are. That is not so difficult. Just think of what you could do before gathering these extra pounds and whether you would still like to enjoy some of these activities. Imagine what it would be like to participate in a cross country walk, if not the race. What it would do to your own self esteem?

How would you like to enjoy a second helping of your favorite ice-cream without having to bother about the flab it would add to your body? How attractive you would become to members of the opposite sex? How much you could enjoy outdoor activities with your children, friends or family? How happy you would be to climb a flight of stairs occasionally without huffing and puffing?

All these and more rewards await you at the finish line. You need to begin the battle and pursue with single minded zeal. Obesity is not a natural condition. Nature made us to be hunters in the wilderness and the most cunning hunters at that. We have used the cunning and intelligence to devise life styles devoid of all physical activity and just like physically unfit animals in our zoos we have also become physically unfit for hunting. To get rid of that obese streak you need do nothing unnatural. You have to just let the Mother Nature take over and you will soon become an example for your obese friends to learn from.

It is not at all difficult. The natural part of your habits has to take over. If you take an animal out of zoo and leave him in a jungle. He would either get hunted by other animals to become a part of the food chain or he would acquire his natural fitness again and become the hunter he was always intended to be by nature.

As a human being you are a part of civilization and if you let the natural instincts take over there is no danger of being hunted and eliminated. But as you acquire the fitness required of a hunter you will begin to enjoy living much more than what you ever could while living with obesity.