Average Golfer needs to lose weight!

The average golfer is 20 or more pounds overweight. That’s not good for your health or your game. I know, because I am an average golfer. I do have some things that I am working on though, so I thought I would pass them along. They might help you lose weight fast.

Let me start by saying, “I don’t want to go on a DIET!” Diets don’t work! If they did there would be ONE! I have to change the bad eating habits, and overcome what has been learned incorrectly over the years. Yeah, just like my swing.Next, I am changing my attitude from “I’ll give it a try”. There’s no conviction in those words. I’ll fail before I start.

I MUST have firm and positive words in my goals. For example, “I am going to lose 5 pounds in 30 days”. “I will eat better every day”. “I am going to be successful no matter what”. These are my S.M.A.R.T goals. What does that mean? Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Realistic, and Time Bound. It takes the loopholes out of my commitment to change.

Try, hope, and failure are words that should not be in my vocabulary. They are feeble and failure-oriented. Instead… words like “I will”, “I am going to”, are more success-minded. Do you see where I’m going with this?

Here is another nutrition tip. Change one eating habit right now! Not tomorrow. Not next week. Right now!One thing I gave up a while ago was a big desert every night after dinner. You can do this also. Start today and replace it with a sugarless, low fat snack.

I eat sugar free jello or pudding which is real tasty. Or even better is a piece of fruit, Cantaloupe, Banana, Strawberries. Do this every day until it becomes a habit. It takes about thirty straight days to change a habit, so if you fall off the wagon for a day, you have to start over at one. Then it’s on to the next habit change.

One last tip. Diet and exercise go hand in hand. My cardiologist told me to take an hour a day just for me. I do aerobic exercises like stretching, and walking, and get my heart rate up to target for at least 30 minutes. I don’t always like it, but you can’t produce if you don’t have the capability. If I’m not good myself, I can’t be good for anyone else either.

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