Ever realize you are thinking thoughts like these? 



It sure would be nice if I had the time to cook decent low fat and low calorie meals. I know I would lose weight then. I am so tired when I get home from work that I just pop anything I can find into the microwave oven and eat in front of the TV. The kids occupy so much of my time that I just can't ever get anything prepared that seems to be a healthy meal.



All these thoughts gang up on people when they're considering exactly how they're going to lose the weight that they want to. And it's not like these issues aren't valid, you have a life to live and other people are in your life. It's not like you just can go off by yourself and live in a cave eating brown rice for each meal. This is the real world and you need some help losing a few pounds that works in the real world.



Step one. This is your life. You're the one who feels bad about being overweight. And it is your right to be able to take care of yourself in a way that makes you feel good. In a manner that makes you feel healthier and in a way that tells others you are just as important in your life as they are.



That is a fact. It is not like they are going to do the working out for you. They are not going to look at you and ask if you'd like some assistance figuring out a healthy eating plan.



You will need to let them know. And this is what stops a lot of people cold when it comes time to make that big mindset change. They make up the worst type of things in their minds and imagine the other people telling those things to them. True enough, occasionally, your wife or husband is going to whine. Sometimes the children are going to want pocket pizzas every night just like they used to eat.



But most times, people will just say, Okay, what can I do to help.



The easiest way to figure out how to make your life work so that you can lose weight is to do some advance planning. But you can actually only do that if you decide it is important enough to spend some time on. Meals which are prepared in advance of when you need to eat them are more often than not much more nutritious in a healthy way than meals you eat out and about.



Choosing a menu and making a week's dinners ahead of time ends up being a lot easier way to eat than almost any other way. You get the chance to determine ahead of time what you must buy to make the meals and you buy those things. You wind up buying surprisingly few additional high calorie goodies.



It is sort of funny. People have this whole mindset against preparing their week's worth of eating, but once they start and keep going long enough to see some results, they become thrilled with their improvement.



Fair warning though, it's hard to prepare a year's worth of meals. 



Making a schedule of what you're going to eat and staying with it is one of the best ways to change your ways of eating. And changing your eating habits is about the most effective way ever to lose weight and keep it off.