Why Call Them Love Handles When We Hate Them?

s there a lot of you to love? Are you built for comfort, not speed? Do you boast massive love handles? Are you perchance warm in winter and shady in summer?

If this is you, then it's time then to stop trivialising your weight. If you are using euphemisms to laugh off (somewhat bitterly) your lack of a weight control diet and fit and healthy lifestyle, it's time to drop the pretense.

If you want to improve your health and fitness for the rest of your life, you have to face the cold hard truth head on. You need to make a decision. You have two clear choices (ok, three).

1. You can own up to the fact that you are fat and unfit and learn to love yourself as you are. This is physically easy but emotionally the most difficult of your three choices. It involves slaying your lack-of-self-esteem dragon, which is a monster, rather than a myth.

2. You can put your mind to becoming fit and healthy and get on with doing the hard yards to achieve a great personal victory. This is what you would like to do, but do you want it enough to see it through?

3. You can continue with the ostrich act and joylessly keep shoving your chubby face in the sand and waving your wobbly bottom around for comic effect. You can keep on making hollow sad little jokes about your situation and pretend you just don't care. Changing nothing is a choice. You shouldn't really think of it as a very good choice, though. You are worth much more than that and you have two other perfectly fantastic choices to select from.

Look, you really can come to terms with being overweight and attain a state of true happiness in your own, admittedly somewhat stretched skin. It would help your potential longevity if you could consider eating nutritious food and doing some daily exercise despite deciding not to lose weight. There are plenty of overweight but fit people out there who have a great lifestyle and the expectation of a long and healthy lifespan. You could be one of them; it's up
to you to make the decision and stick with it.

However, if you can work on your mindset to the point that health and fitness becomes a driving force in your life rather than a vague desire, you can lose your excess flabby bits and become trim and fit forever. You'll feel great once you've done it, believe me. It will take time (more time than you want to give it) and commitment (much more commitment than you have become used to giving to your diet and exercise program). But honestly, what
viable alternatives do you have?

It is such a pity that people trivialise weight control issues. When you are overweight you have to take yourself seriously and stop poking fun at yourself in relation to your size and shape. No good can come of this self deception.

Related to this, expecting to lose weight practically overnight is setting yourself up for failure and yet more bitter comfort eating.

Make a choice but do yourself a favour and strike out choice three. You know it is ridiculous to remain overweight, unfit and unhappy when you can either be happy and fit and overweight or happy and fit and slim and trim.

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Rosie Peters gives common sense advice, encouragement and tips for weight loss, sensible diet and lifelong fitness. Sometimes it's not what you want to hear, but what you need to know.