You are overweight and unhappy with the way you look and your level of fitness. Correct? You want to lose weight more than you want to stay the same. Right? You are ready to fight to achieve your weight control diet goals. So what’s stopping you?

You have the power in your own mind to turn your current situation around so that you are trim and healthy and happy in your own soon to be more shrunken skin. Are you ready to fight the battle of the bulge? You only have to defeat the negative thoughts coming from your mind. You need to break the patterns and habits that you have let yourself slide into.

It’s very simple, it’s just not easy. You have to want it, but it’s worth it, so here we go. 5 surefire ways to win the battle of your bulge.

1. Start your weight loss program now. Today. After you’ve finished reading this, put pen to paper and work out the structure of how you will change your eating and exercise patterns and get into it. Do not wait for some “significant” date or time. There is a pub I know well in a tiny outback Queensland town that advertises “Free Beer Tomorrow”. At first viewing, everyone gets excited, but the sign never changes and tomorrow never comes. Start your diet and exercise program today.
2. Care about yourself. Care enough to put the fork down and back away from the table. “I shouldn’t be eating this, but who cares?” is deadly for your diet and more importantly, for your self esteem. You have to love yourself. Care enough about yourself to take on board a bit of tough self love.
3. Embrace hunger pangs. So what if you are not feeling full, you don’t have to keep eating until you need to undo your top button and let down your zip - honestly, it’s not a good look. Hunger pangs mean that your body is dipping into it’s fat reserves and having a good chew - that’s what you want, so welcome a few complaints from your flabby tummy. Remember it takes around 20 minutes for the food you have in your mouth right now to settle in your stomach so eat slowly and pause before you gorge yourself and regret it (again) later.
4. Forgive yourself when you digress. If you have had a chocky biccy or three at the office morning tea, don’t you be thinking “Woohoo, I really stuffed today up with those biscuits, might as well write the weight control diet off and wolf down a pizza lunch, an afternoon cake and coffee snack, a deep fried dinner and a family block of chocolate for afters”. You need to be thinking something like “Those biscuits were nice, but I can’t do that every day. Best I have a bit longer walk tomorrow to make up for it”. Forgive, but don’t forget and you’ll stay on track.
5. Sever the link between food and reward. So many of us have grown up with sugary, salty, fatty foods waved in front of us as treats or bribes. Food rewards are for Pavlov’s dog. You don’t really want a doggy treat; go for a new novel, a walk on the beach or in the park, a bunch of flowers, some perfume, a trip to the theatre - anything that makes you feel good. Work out (and write down) 4-5 things that are great rewards for you that don’t involve increased cushioning around your hips.

Follow these 5 simple steps, but be prepared to struggle a bit, because you are changing long ingrained habits. Know that you will succeed if you focus on winning the battle of your bulge.

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