Hello Spring! BTW How's that Resolution Going?

It’s hard to believe that a mere 60 days ago we counted down the last few remaining seconds of 2016, a year many deemed a “flaming dumpster fire”, and welcomed 2017 full of hope and aspirations. Many of us raised a glass proclaiming “NEW YEAR NEW ME!” Once the excitement, and hangover, wore off and the first Monday of the year rolled around, many buckled down and got to work on the most common of all New Year’s Resolution – to “get in shape” “drop a few pounds” or “commit to a healthier happier you”.

No matter what you called it, the plan was the same for most, work out more, eat well, rest, and take better care of ourselves over all. And for about a week or so, you stuck to your guns, you broke out that new fit bit, kitted out with new gear, determined to lose some weight. Yet, around the third week of January, the crowds at the gym thinned out quite a bit, and getting a treadmill at 5:30 PM was, as it had been during the holidays, NBD.

Welp. Fast forward right past the delicious Valentine’s day treats, and here we are, March 1st, inching ever closer to bathing suit season, and we have abandoned our weight loss dream, defeated only a week or two into our plan.

We are here to ask forgiveness; no, this is not an apology.
We want you to forgive yourself! It’s ok not to be good at losing weight right away, after all it took longer than a week to put on that extra ten or twenty pounds, so it stands to reason that it will take as long to take them off and keep them off. And you are not alone amongst Americans who vowed to lose weight and just as quickly gave up, in fact a whopping 92% of us gave up, rather quickly too.

So what now? Here, the team of weight loss EXPERTS at Eres Plastic Surgery offer up some of their best advice in hopes of shedding some light on fitness and failure.

Chances are the fact that you are not willing to fail at losing weight is working against you. We pick ourselves up and make a totally reasonable plan to work out and eat well, and when the number on the scale doesn’t show the pay off, we become discouraged and not long after abandon our goals and file them under “impossible, not gonna happen”. What’s worse is that in some cases, once we are faced with so called failure on the scale, for many the next step is “screw it, I’m ordering pizza, and one of those awesome pizza cookies too!”

Break the cycle. It’s OK; in fact, chances are that on your weight loss journey there will be many days which are less than perfect. The point is to stick with it and do better the next day, and the day after, and soon the almost perfect days will outnumber the less perfect days. But you will never arrive if you don’t forgive yourself for the bad days.

Set a real goal, and maybe don’t set a number on the scale goal. Instead try “I will go for a 30 minute walk after work today” or “I will cook dinner three nights this week”. Once you set these perfectly reasonable goals, make sure you stick to them, no matter what! There is always a voice in the back of your head telling you to hit the drive through, or reminding you that home is where Netflix is.

Most of us already know how to lose weight, don’t eat junk and move more. There is not an exercise to blast your abs, a magical shot of vinegar, or a “Mayo Clinic Diet” that will miraculously help you lose weight, and if it does, the result won’t last, because the moment you go back to the bad habits, your waistline will show it.

At Eres Plastic Surgery, under the tutelage of the incredible Dr. Amaryllis Pascual, we offer people several methods for weight loss, tailor made to fit any age, weight loss goal, and health conditions. Losing weight is an attainable goal, and there is no reason to go at it alone. Under the guidance of an expert, we can help you take off those extra pounds, in time for bathing suit season!