| Who really wants to lose weight? None of us, right? | | | | goes hand in hand with one of our favorite activities - |
| How much fun is it to be on a diet, deprived of all you | | | | snacking! We get to snack on such wonderful things |
| really want and need when there is a McDonald's, | | | | as tv dinners, popcorn, potato chips, cookies, and my |
| Krispy Kreme or Baskin and Robbins right around the | | | | personal favorite - chocolate chip cookie dough ice |
| corner calling out your name? Learn to love what | | | | cream! Hmm, hmm, makes me hungry just thinking |
| you've got, get more (and bigger portions) out of life | | | | about it. So, pull up to Extreme Makeover, pull out that |
| and let all the skinny people fend for themselves! | | | | bag of popcorn and snack away!6. Never Count |
| Following is our guide to not losing weight:1. Drive | | | | Calories, Fat Grams or Carbs.Who has time to read all |
| Everywhere You Go.God gave us cars for a reason - | | | | those labels anyway? You know if something is good, |
| so that we would never have to walk another step | | | | right? You don't need a label to tell you that. And fat |
| unless we wanted to! Forget about buying or using a | | | | grams and carbs? Forget about it - the government |
| bike, motorcycle or your own two feet. Drive | | | | can't even decide what's healthy anymore and what's |
| everywhere you need to go - even if it's just around | | | | not. Good carbs, bad carbs, who can keep up? Eat |
| the block.2. Never Take The Stairs.All those exercise | | | | what tastes good and let God sort out the rest.And, |
| books are always advising us to 'take the stairs | | | | finally:7. Never Weigh Yourself!This is the final and |
| instead of the elevator'. Can they spell | | | | most important step - never get on that scale! Don't |
| c-o-n-v-e-n-i-e-n-c-e? Elevators get us to where we | | | | even buy a scale (and if you already have one - |
| need to be quickly and efficiently - and that's good | | | | throw it out)! Because, if you do, you will find that doing |
| enough for us. Use stairs only in case of an | | | | all the above things will not only cause you not lose |
| emergency.3. Eat Whatever You Want.There is so | | | | weight, but you will in fact gain weight. But, by not |
| much wonderful variety in today's foods - we have | | | | buying a scale, you won't be aware of that fact until |
| fast food, gourmet food, pastries, fried foods, seafood, | | | | your clothes no longer fit, your blood pressure goes up |
| beef, fish and poultry - how can you restrict your | | | | or until your cholesterol shoots sky high! But, until that |
| eating to just one or two things? Eat whatever you | | | | time, leave the scale and the calorie counting behind |
| want - enjoy yourself and worry about the | | | | you in your quest to not lose weight!(In case you |
| consequences tomorrow.4. Exercise, | | | | haven't figured it out - this article is in no way meant to |
| Shmexercise!Exercise - who needs it? You probably | | | | be serious. It is simply our ironic way of pointing out the |
| get enough exercise in your daily life as it is - chasing | | | | countless excuses we use to remain overweight, our |
| after the kids, doing housework, keeping up with your | | | | refusal to diet and our lack of motivation in |
| appointments, going to church, and all that driving | | | | incorporating exercise into our daily lives. Stay turned |
| around has to burn off some calories, right? So, don't | | | | for my next (and more serious) article in this series - |
| worry about it - the last thing you need to do at the | | | | Simple Ways to Lose Weight. Until then - Be |
| end of a hard day of work is drag yourself to the | | | | Blessed!)Sonya C. Triggs is a contributing writer to |
| gym. Work hard, rest harder.5. Watch As Much | | | | Urban Christianz Ministries. Visit this website to get |
| Television As You Can.What does watching television | | | | practical advice about every day spirituality, dating, |
| have to do with not losing weight? Watching television | | | | relationships and becoming closer to God. |