When I
was in my 20's I used to look at guys in their
late 30's and early 40's and wonder how they could let themselves get
like
that...you know, flabby, out-of-shape, suffering from "Dunlop
Syndrome" (that's the condition where your belly "done lopped"
over your waistline).
Then I
hit my mid-30's, and before I knew it, I was
right there with them.
I
didn't consciously "let" myself get that
way, it just kind of snuck up on me.
I've
got a small frame, so even a little bit of
weight stands out on me...and it seemed like all of it was right where
it was
the most visible.
Yes, I was suffering
from the dreaded "Dunlop
Syndrome".
I
looked like a soda straw on legs with a ping-pong
ball stuck halfway down.
I knew
I had to do something, and luckily my kid
sister had the answer…she knew I was a big milk drinker, and that I
drank whole
milk…at least a gallon a day, sometimes more.
She
told me I had to make the change to non-fat milk.
Now, if you're a milk drinker, you know that it just doesn't taste the
same.
Non-fat (skim milk for my fellow baby-boomers) tastes like water
compared to
the regular stuff.
So,
she told me to mix half regular with half low-fat
and drink that for a while. Then switch to straight low-fat, then half
low-fat
and half non-fat…and within a couple of months I was drinking straight
non-fat
milk and loving it!
Now if
I drink regular milk, or even the 2% stuff, it
seems like I'm drinking buttermilk. If you had told me when I was in my
20's
that I would one day be drinking non-fat milk on a regular basis, I'd
have told
you that you were nuts.
But I
was motivated mostly by the way I looked, and
that I had promised myself never to get like that…and I had to make the
change.
In
retrospect, it was easy. I didn't make any sudden
major changes, I sort of pulled the same trick on my body that it had
pulled on
me - I snuck up on it.
And
the best part? I lost that annoying, unattractive
"belly fat" that made me look like I never wanted to look, without
feeling a bit deprived.
So,
what's the moral to my story? Well, the whole
point is that diet programs don't have to entail a lot of suffering.
You can
make small, but significant changes in your diet, a little bit at a
time, and
get to where you want to be.
The
trick is to start…so check out some of the plans and products
on this website,
figure out which ones will work best for you, and...
Take that first step!
