The Blame Game

Like denial we also blame others for why we are overweight and can't lose weight.

We blame our parents or grandparents, children, stress, finances, government, news media, bullies in school, health problems and whatever else we can rather than face the most likely culprit of us being overweight. 

Unless someone is force feeding you (whch typically requires a feeding tube and trust me it's hard to get fat getting your nutrients in a tube), there's only one person that has control over wehat goes into your mouth and digestive system.

You.

When I was very overweight and miserable, I blamed all kinds of people and things for my being overweight and miserable.  My parents, for keeping me on a low calorie, low fat diet even when I wasn't overweight, the media for promoting all kinds of fad and fast weight loss "diets" that really didn't work, to doctors for not giving me a pill that help me magically lose the weight, my health conditions which made exercising supposedly impossible (ha!), to the news media that consistently gave out bad health information,

Everythig else but me.

And what I learned, years later after getting healthy again, is that I was the one to blame.  Me.  No one else.  Nothing else.  I ate too much.  I ate the wrong things.  I hated cooking so bought all kinds of fast food and ate out alot.  I had terrible eating habits, though not all that bad,  what I ate was still bad.  I had given up on losing weight so I may as well eat what I want. 

It took being 350 lbs, so totally miserable and depressed and in serious pain from fibromyalgia to finally realize I needed to change.  Desperation.

Even setting off on my course to losing weight, it took me a long time before I could even recognize and accept the blame for my weight and how many years I wasted ignoring it.   I'm not even sure I would have been open to ths message:

You are the problem and the one to blame for being overweight.

Say this.  Embrace it.  Accept it.   It's a necessary start.  Once you do, you are one step down the path toward working on fixing your issues.  Next up, is to figure out how to fix it.

And in today's world of information available at your finger tips, there's no excuse to not find great reading on how to lose weight and get healthy.  The information is out there.   It's up to you to put it to use.  I'll be putting tips here too that I've found on my journey.

Next up:  Excuses