Easy Way To Lose Weight

True confessions time.

Since I started this blog, I’ve gained 9 pounds. I think it’s only been 2 weeks.

I’m absolutely astounded. I know I’ve been eating more.

I always do that when I don’t get enough sleep. And I’ve been going to bed around 3 or 4AM and getting up by 6 or 7AM for weeks now.

When I’m sleep-deprived, I tend to reach for food to try to stay awake.

But I haven’t needed to lose weight for years. This is truly surprising that when I start to sell a diet book, I gain weight. What does that say about me?

First, I now need to take my own advice. And I will. Starting today, the weight comes off. No ifs, ands, or butts. (Bad pun, I know.)

Second, I think maybe I’m reading so many blog posts, stories and articles about other people’s weight loss battles that I’m starting to relive it all myself… even though many of you are winning a tougher battle than I did.

Does that sound plausible?

Now understand I’m not saying any of the blogs or articles I’m reading are responsible for my weight gain. But I’m starting to think about food and weight 24 hours a day because now it’s become my job in a way.

I’m also beginning to feel again some of the emotional insecurity that so many of you write about. Not that any of us have to look very far for that.

But it’s strange because your weight loss battles are not mine. Or at least they weren’t supposed to be. It’s one thing to feel the emotions, it’s another to regain some weight.

I have a question for any of you reading this. Have you ever regained weight when you heard of another person’s struggle with weight? Does it make you start reliving your own weight loss problems?

Before starting this blog, my article topics varied. Even when I wrote my book, my focus was only on how the diet worked. I talked about our problems. But overall, it was a positive book with a positive outcome.

The bad stuff was behind us.

I didn’t gain an ounce even as I created the sample Indulge Menus with cheesecake, strawberry pie, and hot fudge sundaes.

But now I read the blogs of other people who aren’t so positive all the time. My heart goes out to all of you.

I also have people writing to me about their weight loss struggles. And I think I’m starting to internalize the fears and the struggles of the people I want to help.

I think writing every day on a blog about weight loss and related issues has me thinking about the subject all the time.

And obsessing about food — isn’t that how many of us gained weight in the first place?

But I don’t think it’s about the food. Because I dealt with food constantly when I wrote the book. I don’t even think it’s about lack of sleep. I haven’t slept well in almost 2 years. Why gain weight now?

I think it’s about feeling the emotions again. I’m starting to internalize your struggles and it’s affecting me so much, I’m starting to eat more and gain weight.

I guess it just goes to show you have to deal with the emotions of weight loss as much as with the actual food you eat.

I thought of not writing this post.

First of all, I’m ashamed to have to lose weight. Now of all times. It’s ridiculous.

I could feel myself gaining weight and still, I didn’t get weighed. Until now.

Maybe I didn’t want to believe I could gain again.

I don’t want to act like 9 pounds is anywhere near the struggle that many of you are facing. But it’s a wake-up call to me.

I’ve often said that you have to be prepared to backslide and be able to deal with it. And you should deal with it way before it reaches 9 pounds.

You should weigh yourself once a week after you reach your goal. But I haven’t been doing that.

It’s not that I thought I could never gain weight again. I guess other priorities took over in life.

We’ve had a slew of medical emergencies in the last couple of years, particularly in the last two or three months. I delayed starting this blog because of them.

But we’ve had medical emergencies before. I haven’t gained weight.

So now comes the final question. Is blogging bad for your weight?

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