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So I have been wondering - what am I doing wrong? And it started to dawn on me that weight loss is so similar to investing or frugality or smart living. So why not tackle weight loss on similar lines like smart investing and financial prudence. I will start with three basic investing tenants - long-term focus, incremental progress and education.
Long-term focus entails having a long time horizon and long-term objectives to be successful. Health and well-being are long-term goals and weight loss is a by-product of health living. So I intend to not fall for fads and short-term gains but chalk out a long-term healthy living strategy.
My strategy is to avoid the scale and focus on lifestyle. I want to invest in creating a healthy lifestyle that allows me to eat healthy and nutritious food, manage portion size, monitor meal frequency and include regular exercise in my daily routine. I will create a detailed plan of what this means to me so I have some guidance to get started. Over time - it should become habit.
Incremental progress is the slow and steady paradigm of making money or losing weight. If I follow the plan - the gains will be small but regular and add up to what I desire in the long term.
And finally education makes you smart and smart people make smart choices like avoiding empty calories, shunning trans fats, eating nutritious food and exercising.
Jumping on the scale is like checking your account balance. If you don't have a good plan working for you - your account balance will not magically go up or your weight go down. So instead of spending time hopping on the scale I will spend more time reviewing and analyzing my choices - food, exercise, money and life. I guess if I learn to live well - the rest of the pieces should start to fall in place. We will see!
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