I'm OK, you're OK!

Diet Tip #2: Before going shopping, make a grocery list. Then, eat a hearty meal! Then, go shopping. It's a proven fact that if people who are hungry go into a grocery store, they end up buying more things on a whim - including sweets - than when they shop on a full stomach. Once you get to the store, buy everything that's on your list, and nothing else. Don't wander into the candy aisles!

I'm Okay, You're Okay
One of the recurring themes of this blog will be my advice that, if you're a TV watcher, you mute the TV, or leave the room, whenever commercials come on. Well, perhaps you already do so, just on general principals, because most commercials are annoying!

However, some of the commercials are more insidious than others. I'm talking about the diet aid commercials. Not only Jenny Craig and Weight Watchers, but also ones selling weight equipment, like a new one I've seen called the "Shaker Weight" I believe. It's a weight that looks like a dumbbell, that you hold up and let shake. Stupidest thing I've ever seen. But apparently if you use this thing three times a week for a month, you'll tone your body and lose weight effortlessly!

Don't believe it!

Also, don't go for the appetite suppressions, the energy boosters, and so on. You can suppress your appetite naturally, if you "know yourself" (another one of my recurring themes) and thus know how your mind and body react to every conceiveable stimuli.

But another reason why I suggest this is because of the subliminal nature of these advertisements. They all tell you - you're too fat. You must lose weight. It doesn't matter how in shape you are, how great looking you are, these advertisements can't help but engender dissatisfaction in your mind.

The fact that women look at their bodies so critically is made fun of in probably every sitcom you've ever seen. "Does this dress make me look fat?" and of course the bored boyfriend lies and says "No," because if he told the truth and said, "Yes," the girl friend will then take another hour to dress. Yeah, funny, but ask yourself why does it take you (or any woman) an hour to choose what to wear? Because of the indoctrination that starts in our childhood and continues throughout our lives... that we must look good for the guys, but our bodies are just too fat, or too tall, or too muscular, or too flat.

Women's dissatisfaction in their bodies thus starts from a young age, and I urge you to keep this indoctrination (in the form of commercials) from yourself, and from your kids. Yes - even the boys. Because they too are taught from a young age exactly what girls are for - to be their eye candy, and they'll be obsessed with sex soon enough, as all teenagers become! Don't let it start when they are four or five years old!


Here's a photo of a weight bench with a leg exercise attachment, which allows you to do leg curls and leg extensions. If possible, purchase such a weight bench. If you can't afford one with all the bells and whistles, purchase two 10-pound leg weights, which you can wrap around your ankles, and use them instead.