Health

Keeping your Sanity and a Reasonable Weight

How I dropped my weight 40 pounds and kept it off for 31 years without special diets or exercising

Photo by Jade Masri on Unsplash

Synopsis

• Diets don’t work because one day they will end. This article explains how to identify and change things permanently. Once you’ve decided what weight you want, it provides tips to handle your everyday meals, substitution techniques, methods to stay on track, and how I handled two remissions. During the shutdown, I lost 7 pounds because larger restaurant meals were factored into my normal week and home meals were smaller. I show many detailed, usable examples. Good luck.
• COVID updates at the end of this story.

I start to notice my weight

People around me have talked about their diets for years, but nothing ever changes. Why?

Diets don’t work
Because they attack the wrong problem

I have never been on a diet. I didn’t think I was ever that fat!

I had no trouble getting in and out of a restaurant booth, or standing up from chairs, like other people that I saw in restaurants.