Lose Weight the Lazy Way: 25 Golden Rules to Success

By Janet Marie

LOSE WEIGHT THE LAZY WAY: 25 Golden Rules to Success is the ideal weight loss guide for women over 40 who want to lose weight and get in better shape…the lazy way! Why work so hard and fail at one yo-yo diet after another when you can just follow LAZYGIRLZ.net Founder Janet Marie’s simple rules to get you going on the lazy path to weight loss success.

Eat What You Love, Never Go Hungry, Get Motivated… and go for it!

So don’t wait another day - check out this fun and informative e-book, because you have nothing to lose…except pounds!

• Language: English
• Publisher: BookBaby
• Release date: Sep 16, 2013
• ISBN: 9781483506920

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INTRODUCTION

Hi, I’m Janet Marie, the founder of LAZYGIRLZ™, LLC, and I’m interested in helping women over 40 like myself get fitter and slimmer...the LAZYGIRLZ™ way...which means...without having to try too hard! That means you don’t have to turn your life upside down trying to fit into someone else’s rigid idea of a diet plan. Forget that!

I am going to help you get motivated, stay motivated, and slowly but surely ramp up your fitness routine and dial back on your calorie intake...while still enjoying the foods you love.

Before we start, I just want to say a few words about myself. I do have a lifelong background in dance and fitness and so, with a couple of lapses in my late teens, I was relatively thin right through my mid-forties. However, when I hit peri-menopause and quit smoking, all right about the same time, over a period of the next ten years or so, I went up 3 full Misses’ sizes. Here’s a photo of me feeling puffy at my high weight. I even purposely hid in the back of the company photo around that time because I was so embarrassed about how I looked. Sound familiar?

Janet Marie Before Picture

Here I am at work, standing next to a music superstar, incidentally.

Those thick velvet pants made me look even thicker.

Anyway, I finally got motivated in March of 2010, and developed this program for myself and...it’s working. I’ve dropped two of those sizes, still have a ways to go on the third, but the main thing is I’m feeling a lot better about myself and I want you to feel better about yourself, too, so this is my opportunity to share my program with all of you. It worked for me; it can work for you!

Janet Marie After Picture

This is me 16 months after I started the LAZYGIRLZ system outlined in this e-book. I’m two full sizes smaller here and most importantly, I’m feeling much better about myself. I’m only 5’4"with a fairly small frame, so dropping two sizes is actually quite significant for someone with my build. I’m actually thinner than in this photo right now and I’ve been keeping my alterations lady very happy taking in my clothing!

So let’s get right into it. I’ve got 25 LAZYGIRLZ™ Golden Rules of Success to share, and here we go.

RULE ONE:

NEVER EAT ANYTHING YOU DON’T LIKE!

Think you can live with that? That’s rule number one.

I’m telling you, if I never have to eat a raw carrot stick again, I’d be fine with that.

Down with carrot sticks, that is, unless you actually love them. I do not!

In short, do not force yourself to eat something just because somebody told you it was good for you – you’ll just resent it and be unhappy, and we don’t want that.

In my opinion, if some diet guru wants you to eat a lot of something you don’t like, or even something that you do like but not in large quantities, then eating that way is only going to make you unhappy. This in turn is surely going to lead you to rebound later and regain any weight you might have lost from the crash diet or whatever you want to call it. I call it a waste of time and energy.

I will give you an example. In a beauty parlor I used to frequent, there was a gal that worked reception there. She was following a diet which had her eating artichokes several times a day, and oh yeah, she lost weight quickly, as this low calorie (64 calories for a medium artichoke), very high fiber vegetable makes the system work to digest it. OK, fine, but the next time I went to the beauty parlor, she was no longer eating any artichokes and she had gained back all the weight...and then some.

Hey, I like artichokes, but if someone tried to force feed me a few a day, I’d end up hating them. That was a case of too much of a good thing...not to mention that it was not a balanced diet.

I happen to know which very-well-known, local trainer had provided her this diet, and ironically, I am in full support of the fitness aspect of his makeover program, which is quite sound. But as for the diet aspects, it’s just not real.

If you’ve tried such odd, one-sided diets, I say to you stop the insanity. In a word: STOP!

Let’s get back to the premise of this rule, though, which is, never eat anything you don’t like. Now there are probably many things you know you don’t like. I don’t care how good they supposedly are for you; don’t go there, or at least, not if you want to succeed in losing weight.

I have a business client who will sit there during our meetings while sipping some bizarre, puke-green-colored shake made from vegetables and spirulina. Spirulina is a type of algae for goodness sake that personally kind of reminds me of pond scum! No thank you very much! Oh, and by the way, this client loves it when I bring back his favorite, chocolate-covered macadamia nuts from Hawaii. He’s like a starved man when he eyeballs those treats I bring him! You cannot convince me that anyone actually loves these bizarre concoctions, or at least, not as a steady diet. The client does not appear to be any thinner to me, by the way. So I say, so much for spirulina.

I will share that I have been no stranger to some of these severe diets in the past. For example, I tried a high-protein, low-carb diet that dried up my skin, made me feel sick, and which made my urine positively stink! (That is a metabolic reaction from the ketones, which are part of a class of organic compounds involved in the metabolism of fatty acids.) This high-protein diet was unnatural and I’m so glad I stopped after a few days.

I tried another popular diet that had me drinking glorified milkshakes for breakfast and lunch, followed by a normal dinner. Again, I found it unnatural and could not stay on it for more than five days. I felt like I was cheating myself out of a real meal and thus, in a word, I felt deprived. Come on, a liquid diet is for when you’re in the hospital or something you do when medically necessary. I say we’re real women and we need real food!

Needless to say, the small amount of weight I may have lost on these extreme diets always came right back.

They don’t work. Don’t do it. Forget it.

A gal I know has a bit of a fast food fetish and I truly feel sorry for her as that’s a tough one. I went into a fast food place and now that by law, they have to display the calorie counts, I blanched when I saw that a grilled cheese sandwich there had a whopping 700 calories...and that didn’t even include the 240 calories for the small fries! Holy mackerel! I do hope this gal can wean herself off of the high-calorie, fast foods and make some progress in the weight loss arena. She and her husband are both overweight.

I’ve seen this lovely couple try high-protein shakes, I’ve seen them cut out all bread, and I’ve seen them do this and that, to no avail. What I do see is that they go out constantly, which means they are losing control over what they are putting in their bodies. (There will be more about this topic in Rule Twenty-Four.) Once we went out to a Chinese place, and they ordered cream cheese-filled wontons to start. That’s fat within fat, folks. They were melt-in-your-mouth good, though – sinfully good!

I care about these people very much, but I feel bad that they keep trying out diets that they can’t possibly enjoy. (I mean, who really wants to live without bread, you know?) Further, the mainstay of their regular food intake tends to be out of control and/or out of balance.

Simple changes like the ones that will be suggested in this book could make all the difference...for them...and for you, too.

Meanwhile, if you don’t like it, don’t eat it! Do you think you can do that? Yes, you can!

Along with this is – get rid of the compulsion