#154: As Simple as Deciding and Doing?

Every day we make decisions and take action on those decisions.

You don't want to get out of bed but you decide it would be in your best interest to do so, especially if you have to go to work, and then you get up.

You may wish not to go to work but decide again that it's in your best interest to do so and so you go.

You look askance at the dirty dishes in the kitchen sink and want to not wash them but once more decide it's in your best interest to do so, particularly if they are your last clean ones, so you wash them.

Many times every day we make decisions that are in our best interest and then we act on those decisions.

Except when it comes to our health. We often decide we WANT to lose weight and gain better fitness but then we stall. We don't take action on our decision and remain overweight. We continue to not like the way we look and feel. Maybe because food has been a comfort to us for so many deep-seated reasons. Maybe losing the amount of weight we want to lose seems overwhelming. Compared to deciding to and then brushing our teeth it IS daunting.

Whatever the reason, we fail to act on our decision to take off the pounds. Perhaps that is due to the enormity of the act of losing 20 or 70 or 150 pounds.

But what if we look at losing weight like brushing our teeth. Doesn't take much effort to put toothpaste on our toothbrush and clean our teeth, does it?

What if we break down the pounds we want to lose within a reasonable time frame to monthly totals and further break those monthly pounds into daily totals that we then break down into daily totals of ounces. Can't anyone lose a few ounces a day if they really tried?

Looking at losing weight that way doesn't seem so hard to do.

So, tomorrow morning when you want to climb back under the covers, ask yourself what you can do just that one day to lose a few ounces. Then do it and repeat it the next day and the next and the next until soon looking to lose ounces will become an inbred habit you do automatically.

Even in weight loss the old adage applies: Keep It Simple. Decide and then do is something we all can aim for, especially when it's in our best interest.