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The Great Big Trip Wire Of Weight Loss
It will get you every time until you dismantle it
I’ve written a lot about a healthy relationship with food and weight loss. It’s clear to me now that one part of our lives has the capacity to trip some of us up more than anything else.
It works by eroding everything you’ve worked for. It makes you consume far more calories than you want or need to.
It stops you exercising, it kills your routine for days and undoes all the small gains you have earned through daily hard work in the matter of a few hours.
Worst of all it’s something that’s almost impossible to avoid unless you want the fact that you want to avoid it to become “a thing”.
It’s tempting, expected, fetishised, celebrated, longed-for, diarised and associated with “having a good time”.
It’s our old friend, turned biggest enemy… alcohol.
The Triple Threat
When you’re trying to lose weight, you’re well aware of that simple phrase that people (who don’t understand because they’ve never been overweight) say to themselves as they walk past you in the street, judging you for being fat:
“Just eat less and move more. What’s so hard?”
