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Ask yourself, “What makes me not want to take action now and start changing my life for the better?” Here are some common barriers or excuses that many people claim:

• “I have no time.” Solution: If this is your answer because you work long hours and you have to juggle responsibilities between home, work and family then you and millions like you have legitimate time issues, you have my full respect and understanding because believe me I can relate with my 80 hour work weeks. Not making changes to the better in your lifestyle is no excuse either and no you do not have to diet and you do not have to go out of your way to “exercise.” Remember your good health is so precious and that is what is enabling you juggle all these responsibilities.

• Without your good health you will not be able to juggle anything. So here is the solution. Regarding food intake, all you need is to preplanned and make more favorable food selections, starting from your weekly supermarket trips and take these high fiber snacks with you to work and learn how to make healthier food choices when you eat out without affecting the quality or taste of food. This will be discussed in detail in the next upcoming food section and you will have lots of tips at your disposal and you will generate your own ideas as well. Regarding activity, you do not need to be going to the gym for two hours a session in order to benefit; but rather, the gym is everywhere you are. Increase the amount of walking you do at work, home and while shopping. For more tips on this, check out “Tips on How to Increase Daily Activity” in the activity section.

• “I have no willpower necessary to lose weight.” Solution: You don’t need any. You are not starting a diet and you are not expected to muster all your effort to remain without a certain food for any period of time, and you are not required to run in the next marathon. The answer is to make small actions daily to the better and gradually improve those choices of actions. All that is required from you is to make better food, snack, beverage and activity choices, and when you “mess up,” make a better choice the next time. You will notice that the more you exercise your ability to make good choices that your choices will regularly keep improving.

• “I have failed before, and I am tired of trying to lose weight.” Solution: Name one person in our Universe (The Earth and surrounding planets) who has not failed in one way or another. Success comes after failure and the bigger the failure, the bigger the success. The glass is always half full. Though losing weight and keeping it off is no simple matter, those who have succeeded kept trying until they won. Those who have control over their weight have dropped the “diet” concept. See the section “The Habits of People Who Lost Weight and Kept It Off” which you will find later in this section. This applies to smokers as well. Most of those who quit permanently did so after several failed attempts.

• “I have no money. I am on a fixed budget.” Solution: You do not need any additional money. There is no need for gym membership, no need to invest in equipment, no need to blow your budget on expensive “Quick Weight Loss” products, “diet pills”, or “diet club” memberships. All you need to do is to increase the number of daily steps, make better food selections at the supermarket, at home, while eating out and at work, as will be discussed in the food section. In the Activity section in Action Step 4 of this guide activity tips are covered in detail.

• “I’m not athletic. I don’t like to exercise.” Solution: No one is asking you to be athletic or to love “exercising”. If you notice, I have not used the word “exercise” in this guide for fear of discouraging those who “don’t like to exercise.” There are misconceptions about how much activity is needed for good health and weight loss. Actually, not much is needed. Just increase your total activity and walking intermittently throughout the entire day to about 30 or 45 minutes. You can accomplish anything you want especially if it is that simple.

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