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Weight Loss For Overweight Vegetarian – How to Gain Strong Social Support to Lose Weight Effectively

January 13, 2010
By Laura Ng

Birds of a feather flock together. The kind of friends you associate with can cripple or support your weight loss plan.

If you’ve been hanging out with friends who have the same overweight problems as you but don’t want to do anything about it, they may not show support when you announce your intention to lose weight.

Instead of giving encouragement, they may discourage you by saying, “What’s the point? You won’t make it”, “You will always be the fat chick, so why waste time?”

Once they realize you mean business in losing weight, they may just try to sabotage your weight loss efforts by stuffing or tempting you with high-sugar processed vegetarian foods, passing negative remarks or stopping you from exercising.

Some even threaten to end your friendship with them.

Somehow, their reactions sadden and confuse you. You’re fat and they’re your friends so you expect them to understand and socially support you to change for the better, not sabotage.

At this point, you got to make a choice between these friends and your weight loss goal. Yes, I heard your protest – your friendship doesn’t have to end this way. Perhaps they just need some time to understand.

True. I agree. But real friends ought to feel happy for you, if not joining you, for wanting to become healthier and slimmer.

Sticking with unsupportive friends definitely hinders you from finding solutions to lose weight and stay slim. You may just give up under peer pressure. Hence, try to stay away from them until you succeed in losing weight.

You can do it subtly by meeting them for other social activities instead of meals or meeting them less often.

Meanwhile, try to befriend slim vegetarians, particularly those who have successfully lost weight and able to keep it off. Most of these slim vegetarians feel exceptionally proud of their fat loss success and would be more than willing to share their vegetarian weight loss secrets.

Observe their eating habits and lifestyle so as to pick up a few tips for yourself. Who knows, you may just find some vegetarian weight loss buddies for company. Best is, you might learn some unheard-of techniques which can prove pretty efficient for you.

But don’t get me wrong. I’m not asking you to break up with all your overweight vegetarian friends. Simply exercise your judgment. In fact, after you lose weight successfully, you’ll have a chance to share your success stories and motivate them too.

Therefore, I encourage you to stay in touch with those you believe will accept the new you and help them.

I’ve been there, done that, and this is one of my secrets in losing weight which I’m sharing with you now.

Laura Ng has melted 27 pounds away and ended her overweight problems with healthy vegetarian meals and active lifestyle. She has created a vegetarian weight loss guide where you’ll discover the shortcut techniques to effectively lose fat and gain health in as little as 7 days.

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