Here are the first six chapters of HOW I LOST 60 POUNDS IN ONE YEAR. These chapters say what I did, and outline the reasons why I did it. These reasons might also apply to you and your life.
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© Copyright 2015 Dale Richard Samson. Short quotations are permitted with attribution. Cite source as “How I Lost 60 Pounds In One Year” by Dale Samson at http://www.howilost60pounds.com/
1. MY SUCCESS
On Monday, 4 November 2013, I weighed 240.75 pounds.
On Thursday, 12 February 2015, I weighed 179.5 pounds.
Thus I lost 60 pounds in 15 months.
That’s a 25% decrease in body weight.
As you can imagine, it’s a lot more fun looking in the mirror now.
I have had to buy a lot of new clothes.
2. THIS IS HOW I DID IT
I can offer you my story, and my thoughts about how I did it. That is what I have written up here.
This is in no sense scientific. I have not done a lot of research. I have not read a lot of books about weight loss.
This is in no sense medical advice.
But I was looking in the mirror, and not liking what I saw. I wanted to lose weight. I have now done so successfully.
There is something to know about how I did it. If you want to lose weight, as I did, the story and methods about how I did it may be useful to you.
From a “scientific” viewpoint, this is only “anecdotal evidence”. That’s a fancy way of saying it’s a story.
This is the story of my own experiences and my own success. It worked for me. If you imitate what I did, maybe you will also be successful.
3. MOTIVATION IS IMPORTANT
You may think, “I don’t need to be told that losing weight would be a good thing!”.
OK. You can skip this section if you want to.
But you need to be very clear on your motivation. You need to be clear in your own mind about why you want to lose weight, and about what you hope for that losing weight will make possible or make easier to achieve.
Losing weight is not easy. You probably already know that. If you are going to lose a substantial amount of weight, you need to be able to stay with it, and keep going. You will be discouraged at times. There will be times when it looks hopeless. There will be times when you lose control, and you pig out. There may even be times when you just plain give up. When any of these things happens, you need to be able to pull yourself together. Maybe the next day. Maybe even two or more days later. But you need to be able to remind yourself of why you want to do this, and why it is important to you, and why you want to get back with the program and carry on.
4. ROMANCE IS THE BIG ITEM
The big item, of course, is romance. Sex appeal. Being attractive to the opposite sex.
Men want a woman. Women want a man. Thus there is a process of searching and pairing off, which can be called the “sex market”.
Looking good is important. If you see someone driving a Mercedes, you automatically think, this guy or girl has money. So he or she is automatically more valuable in the “sex market”. Similarly, if you see a beautiful girl, you know at once that her value in the “sex market” is substantial. If you see some badly dressed overweight guy, you know that this is not going to be a match. If it is a match, he probably spends a lot of money on her.
I am a guy. My name, “Dale”, can be either a guy’s name or a girl’s name. My middle name is “Richard”. “Dale Richard Samson”.
I spend plenty of time looking at pretty girls. And generally they are thin. Thinner is not always better. And there are some voluptuous women who are very attractive without being particularly thin or skinny, but they are not what you would call “fat”, either. There is definitely such a thing as “too skinny”. But that does not happen very often.
The general rule is that beautiful women are thin. There are an enormous number of women who would look better if they lost weight. It is fun to take the viewpoint of a fashion designer. Pretend you’re Calvin Klein, or Oscar de la Renta. And look at some girl or some woman, and ask yourself, “What could we do with this woman to make her look better?”. In a large percentage of cases, the first thing that comes to mind, is that she should lose some weight. One could ask, “What could she do to look better without losing weight?”. But that’s a different question. We are talking about how, for a large percentage of women, losing weight would make them look better. They would be more sexually attractive. They would be better able to attract a desirable man.
The same is true for men. A large percentage of men would look better if they lost weight. Men in their 40s, 50s, and 60s usually have a paunch. And it really looks pretty repulsive. The only thing is, that it is so commonplace and routine, that it is the expected thing. So nobody pays any attention. But it still doesn’t look good. And any women who are around looking for a man in that age group will definitely notice.
Men spend a lot of time looking for a woman. But the reverse is also true. Women spend a lot of time looking for a man. Men want to have a woman. It is equally true that women want to have a man. Men find a slender woman much more sexually attractive than an overweight woman. Women find a slender man much more sexually attractive than an overweight man.
5. SEX APPEAL IS FOR OLD PEOPLE TOO
Sex is definitely not only for teenagers.
The publicity tends to focus on movie stars – girls who are young and beautiful, and guys who are young and handsome. That’s fine. But people who are not so young anymore need to avoid the temptation to think that sex doesn’t apply to them and that wanting to have sex appeal is somehow wrong or stupid. It is both right and intelligent for middle-aged and old people to be interested in sex and to desire to be attractive to the opposite sex.
I am 71 years old. I was 70 years old when I started losing this 60 pounds I have just lost. And I’m delighted. I may not have much of a sex life right now. But I truly believe that my prospects are significantly better than they were. I think I look a lot better than I did. That makes me happy. Or at least happier than I was. Other things being equal, looking good is very desirable. I expect to spend the rest of this lifetime being much lighter than I was, and much happier than I would have been at my earlier weight. And I’ll probably live longer too.
While we are talking about looking good, it should be pointed out that clothes are very important to looking good. The first thing that is needed to look good is the intention to look good. That is why we are talking about motivation. In current American culture, it is common to think that it is somehow cool to look like a slob. Wear a sweatshirt and a baseball cap and baggy pants. This is the sheerest nonsense. Europeans have more sense about this. Italian men always look good. A man or woman with self-respect makes himself look good. He or she wants to look good. He or she wants to be attractive to the opposite sex. He or she wants to have style and flair. This is true at any age.
It is harder for older people to find a sexual partner than for younger people. Perhaps the main reason for this is that a lot of people are paired off. They are married, or at least in committed relationships. So they are “off the market”.
Older people are usually not as healthy as younger people. Their physical energy is less. They are tired more. Also, they have commonly had failures and traumatic experiences which leave them more discouraged about life. An old person often just decides that he or she is now “just an old person”. So they basically give up on life. They are essentially just waiting to die. Such people are “off the market”.
This discussion about how to lose weight is not for people who have given up on life. You need to decide that life is not over yet. You have things to do and places to go. You still have things you are trying to get done in this lifetime. So you might as well get your body in shape and look good.
6. OTHER REASONS TO LOSE WEIGHT
If you lose weight, so that you are no longer overweight, your health will very likely be better. You will probably live a longer life. You will have more energy.
The body is easier to move around, just because it’s not so heavy. I was walking along one day, not long ago, and I noticed that my body was lighter. And it was easier to walk it down the street. I was not carrying around so much weight.
I remember shopping for shirts when I was heavier. I would go into the dressing room, and try on a shirt. And I hated it, because it was so embarrassing because my stomach was so big. Sometimes a shirt that looked fine just wasn’t big enough, and the buttons would not connect with the buttonholes. Or it would reach but be very tight. What a nightmare! Well, that doesn’t happen anymore.
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