Keep Your Visits to the Weight Loss Clinic a Secret

Anita Mills was 382 pounds when her doctor gave her two rules to lose weight:

Rule # 1 -. Eat healthy and do not skip meals

Rule # 2 -. Do not tell anyone you're trying to lose weight

After losing a whopping 242 pounds, Anita attributed to other advice for her success.

Here's why .... By not asking questions to someone that is eaten, or trying to get her to relax on weekends kept her focused on the goal.

Anita is said to have people ask, "Hey, did you do something else?" is so much better than announcing: "I'm on a diet" and have people watching you.

The first "do not tell" advice seems counter-intuitive. After all, Weight Watchers and others claim that their support groups are key to your success.

However, a growing number of experts now say that the story of family, friends and Facebook about her involved in local weight loss clinic and may have a negative effect.

Dr. Jon Walz, Anita doctor, gives all his weight loss patients, the same rules. He says that - since we were kids - we ask people who look and act like us. However, when we are obese, which puts us in a circle of friends where they do not want to be from a physical standpoint, anyway

The problem with that many overweight friends is that obesity is becoming OK with the habits that support it. And, if we are to break free from our weight problems, we must change our "obesity-oriented" behavior and habits of "naturally thin" lifestyle.

doctor was right. When Anita Mills began to lose weight and could not hide their diet more, her friends more obese also began moving away.

"People are mean - .. People who would normally think would be supportive of one friend told me she liked it better when I was a fat friend, it's hurt." Mills said the

Dr. Peter Gollwitzer, professor of psychology at New York University, agrees.

His study, "When the intention to go public," describes how to receive compliments on achieving the goal - as a diet - gives us recognition from friends and others, even before we might have done. We then described as the sense of accomplishment, and then begin to say that "we did it," even before they did.

"The danger is that you think you have achieved your goal and therefore need not act on it any more," says Gollwitzer.

Gollwitzer added that it might be OK to say a few very close friends - who also wants to see thin - so that they can hold accountable, and help keep the focus on your ultimate goal, not just day-to -day process.

But when you reach your goal, only to sidestep questions about his new form and not tell anyone about your visits to the clinic for a weight loss program until you have done.