How I Lost 40 Pounds in a Month

It was a cold late October when without any real thought I changed my life. It wasn't that I was going to start dieting to lose weight, but I was going to start doing things that would change how I felt. I didn't think I was that overweight that it bothered me, or that anyone noticed, so it wasn't like I had will power on my side helping me out.

My doctor was highly concerned about the drastic weight loss I on the other hand was tickled pink, after all I'm no diet expert!

I wouldn't recommend this for just anyone, but I think if some aspects of how I lost the 40 pounds in a month applied to anyone's everyday living, weight loss will occur. Soda pop is full of calories, just as many juices are, and much like smoking and drinking a person can become addicted to it.

At the time I started the changes in my life, I didn't much care for water, and was truly addicted to soda pop, but I decided I would start with what I had thought would be the easiest change I could make. So, once a day I replaced my cup of soda pop with a glass of ice cold water. I forced myself to leave it by me all day, until I drank it all. After drinking a 12 ounce glass of water a day become something that didn't gross me out, I decided to step things up. I decided to drink two of those glasses of water a day, until I eventually had replaced all my glasses of soda pop.

I would still have the longing for a glass of soda pop, so every once in awhile, I would reward myself with a glass of pop, about once a week. Rewarding myself with the soda pop helped me maintain drinking water. This was a huge loss of sugar that I'm very sure of helped in the weight loss, but this wasn't all I did, after all if it was that simple, wouldn't everyone be doing it?

Did I exercise to lose those 40 pounds of weight in a month? Nope. Not once! In fact, I sat at the computer nearly 18 hours a day working.