Hire a Slippery Slope Architect for Your Weight Management House-PODSNACKS-ArtoftheDiet119-Rebroadcast
Summary: <a href="http://www.artofthediet.com/design-your-own-slippery-slope-diet-house-podsnacksart-of-the-diet-069/self-portrait1400-podsnacks69/" rel="attachment wp-att-6766"></a><br> “I think losing weight, on any program, is done from a house built on a flat piece of land but weight maintenance needs a house built on a slippery slope.”-Pat Coakley<br> <br> [THIS IS A RE-BROADCAST from a year ago and guess what? I think Slippery Slope Architecture for Weight Management is the single best concept I've had on this whole subject of weight management in 8+ years of gabbin' pretty much non-stop about this topic. I am going to try a Facebook LIVE today for the first time on <a href="http://facebook.com/artofthediet">my facebook page</a> to wish y'all a Happy Thanksgiving! If I'm successful, it will be accessible just like a post even if you are not there LIVE. Probably around 11 AM if I can get the tech to work! The day before Thanksgiving in the US at 11 AM. Perhaps the world's worst time to do a Facebook Live. Maybe I should do it from the check-out line in a grocery store in order to get listeners! PS. I made a special 10% off discount code for my AOD podcast listeners. It is AOD10OFF at checkout at my store. I posted the AOD signature mug below! All orders on those have to be made by December 8th in order to be received by Xmas!<br> <br> So, why do I say this about the slippery slope for weight maintenance?<br> Because losing weight can be done over and over. Our individual stories can attest to that. Statistics from any national weight loss program can tout, as WW did recently, that folks lost more weight on the new program (Dec 2015) after three months than new members lost a year earlier after three months on the older plan.<br> Recently, a member admitted with great courage and shame that she was returning to WW for the 5th or 6th time, to lose 100 pounds.<br> So, yes, we know we can lose the weight, over and over again.<br> It’s the keeping it off that is the bigger challenge.<br> I liken my 8 years ago 60-pound weight loss at 64 years old to living in a house on flat land. I was determined. I tracked. I weighed portions. I put in my 10K steps. I went every week to weigh in. I was scared. I was scared of being hobbled by knee and back problems as I aged.<br> Heightened focus, whatever its source, solves some of the usual suspects, ie. my evil twin, from sabotaging my efforts.<br> The seven years of weight maintenance, however, has required a house built on a slippery slope because all the things that got me to goal weight, though still effective, has lost out to my diminishing attention span and a body that subtly but insistently seems to be playing on the wrong team. (PS. There are biological and neurological reasons for that suggested in the article linked below, called, The Fat Trap.)<br> So, today on the podcast, I talk to myself about some of my own skills that I forget but have written about or podcasted about for two years AND have used successfully in the past but continue to need to implement in the future for more than 90 seconds.<br> The Art of the Diet for some weeks is the Art of War. A set of skills really can defeat the enemy staring out innocently from the bathroom mirror each morning.<br> Remember, Bill Murray’s quote about acting? I know exactly how he feels.<br> “Movie acting suits me because I only need to good for ninety seconds at a time.”-Bill Murray<br> Weight maintenance would suit me just fine, too, if I just needed to be good for ninety seconds at a time.<br> PS. I am hoping to prime the pump for the return to reason and my non-saboteur brain activity by decluttering my closet and drawers the Marie Kondo way. The YouTube link is below. Why don't you try it, too, and let me know if it helps your saboteur-self at:<br> <a href="mailto:artofthediet@gmail.com">artofthediet@gmail.com</a><br> <br> <a href="http://www.artofthediet."></a>
