Exercise. I’ll burn off some energy.

So I went for a walk.

And that was the way it went for the next 6-8 weeks.

Each day I thought of just one more thing I could do to lose weight.

It was gradua

I didn’t really know what to do about it. All I knew was I didn’t want it to keep going up.

It alarmed me.

I thought about what I would like to weigh. What was my ideal weight? I wasn’t sure, and I’m still not, but I remembered thinking that I wanted to weigh what it said on my driver’s license. Though it wasn’t my true weight, it was what I wished I weighed!

Like you, I had heard of different diets, what you should eat, what you shouldn’t eat, the ultimate exercise programs, etc.

It was very confusing.

But then I had a thought.

I thought, what is one thing I can do today, just today, to lose one pound of weight.

I mean, anybody could lose one pound of weight, right?

And the answer came to me immediately.

Give up sugar. Give up the chocolate chip cookies, anything with sugar in it.

I emptied the cookie jar into the trash.

Okay, that was good, so what was one more thing I could do to lose just one pound of weight.

Exercise. I’ll burn off some energy.

So I went for a walk.

And that was the way it went for the next 6-8 weeks.

Each day I thought of just one more thing I could do to lose weight.

It was gradual

Like you, I had heard of different diets, what you should eat, what you shouldn’t eat, the ultimate exercise programs, etc.

It was very confusing.

But then I had a thought.

I thought, what is one thing I can do today, just today, to lose one pound of weight.

I mean, anybody could lose one pound of weight, right?

And the answer came to me immediately.

Give up sugar. Give up the chocolate chip cookies, anything with sugar in it.

I emptied the cookie jar into the trash.

Okay, that was good, so what was one more thing I could do to lose just one pound of weight.

Exercise. I’ll burn off some energy.

So I went for a walk.

And that was the way it went for the next 6-8 weeks.

Each day I thought of just one more thing I could do to lose weight.

It was gradua

It was very confusing.

But then I had a thought.

I thought, what is one thing I can do today, just today, to lose one pound of weight.

I mean, anybody could lose one pound of weight, right?

And the answer came to me immediately.

Give up sugar. Give up the chocolate chip cookies, anything with sugar in it.

I emptied the cookie jar into the trash.

Okay, that was good, so what was one more thing I could do to lose just one pound of weight.

Exercise. I’ll burn off some energy.

So I went for a walk.

And that was the way it went for the next 6-8 weeks.

Each day I thought of just one more thing I could do to lose weight.

It was gradua

And the answer came to me immediately.

Give up sugar. Give up the chocolate chip cookies, anything with sugar in it.

I emptied the cookie jar into the trash.

Okay, that was good, so what was one more thing I could do to lose just one pound of weight.

Exercise. I’ll burn off some energy.

So I went for a walk.

And that was the way it went for the next 6-8 weeks.

Each day I thought of just one more thing I could do to lose weight.

It was gradua

Exercise. I’ll burn off some energy.

So I went for a walk.

And that was the way it went for the next 6-8 weeks.

Each day I thought of just one more thing I could do to lose weight.

It was gradual.

But each day it would be a new thing.

For example, I started increasing my exercise. Instead of just mowing the lawns, and working on apartments, I would also go for a bike ride and exercise at the local park on their free outdoor equipment, and after that I would think, okay, what’s one more thing I can do to lose just one more pound of weight? So I would ride down to the high school and run and walk around the track four times.

At home I would ask myself the same question. For a few days I got onto the meat only diet, but I didn’t like it because it felt unnatural. But I did start reducing the size of each meal. I’d make my hamburger smaller, or make half a burger. I’d order the child’s size Whopper when I was at the mall with my youngest daughter.

It was gradual, but ongoing. The exercise kept intensifying. I kept adding one more thing. Riding the bike, doing the exercises at the park, going to the high school, then stopping at the middle school track to do just two more laps, and ten more pus