Should Weight Loss Cost Money?
Recently I received an email bemoaning the woes of the weight loss industry. The author refers to the number of weight loss programs around and complains:
If all these people are so truly concerned about the weight of the American people, why don't some of them offer their program free to those who truly want to lose the weight but can't afford the programs? Some of us really don't have the finances to afford all the meals, Equipment, and etc. [...]
There are two ways of going about weight loss:
- You invest your own time into reading, planning, and figuring out how you will motivate yourself in the areas of nutrition and exercise.
- You pay someone else to do the planning for you, and assist you with motivation.
Either way we must all make an investment (whether financially, with our time, or with our intentions) if we are to change ourselves.
Admittedly there are certain weight loss programs and clinics that charge outrageous fees - but, for the most part, there are an enormous amount of resources out there that are available for little or no money.
Blaming the greed of the diet industry for your inability to begin changing your life sounds very much like excuse-making.
There are a whole bunch of free resources around; like this, this, this, or this around, but some things are absolutely worth paying for (good food, good advice).
Where there's a will, there's a way.
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I have always been overweight as long as I can remember and it has never bothered me I am not unhappy but recently I read a article about a girl who had a heartattack at age 19 and it made me look at me I am 25 with a 6 year old son who is so proud of me that it takes my breath away he is proud to call me his mother he is not embrassed by the way I look but I would love to get on a roller coaster with him but at 379 pounds that is never going to happen so I stopped thinking about me and started thinking about what his life would be like without me and that is something I don't want to find out anytime soon so I chose to become a better healthier me and lose some weight but it is a whole lot harder than I thought I could use some support I changed my diet and cut out the regular sodas only diet I exercise more but the results are not as I would like them to be any encoughing words out there I'm open for suggestions
Replyi walk all the time i walk home from work which is about 45min walk or more depending on how fast i walk and then at night i go on a walk and most of the time im gone for about 2 hours just to clear my head i have been trying to loss weight for the past year and i have NO MONEY what so ever and all i can do is walk and i watch what i eat i dnt eat fast food and i dnt got out to eat i dont snakand i havent lost weigt and i dnt know what to do anymore aout it i am still walkin and doin what i am doin
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