Watch out for people who might even want to sabotage your weight loss efforts!

At this time of year there is plenty of talk about losing weight and getting fit as a New Year's Resolution and everybody has their own opinion. At Ukmedix News we are great believers in discussing weight loss and sharing tips but a word of warning from us would be too remember that your weight loss efforts and plans are only about you and nobody else!

Some of us who have big families and lots of opinionated friends may find that losing weight involves everybody giving you a bit of advice, some of it even conflicting! In this case, maybe the best thing to do is just to get on with losing weight without telling anybody. The only person you will be accountable to is yourself!

When you tell people you are losing weight, they often ask you how you are doing it and give you their opinion which often involves telling you to do things differently. This is not constructive because weight loss requires a focused plan and the last thing you need is everybody telling you that you are doing it wrong. Watch out for people who might even want to sabotage your weight loss efforts!

By all means get professional advice before you start losing weight but once you have a plan why not just get on with it and stop talking about it!

If you tell people that you are losing weight when they offer you food they often say things like -just have one, it's the weekend or come on they are very light-. If on the other hand you say that you are full up already they are much more likely to leave you alone.

This advice might not work for everybody because it has been shown with some diets like Weight Watchers and buddy diets that peer pressure and group therapy can really work, but maybe too much of it can put the emphasis of the responsibility for success on external factors rather than on you alone.

One of the reasons why new fad diets are a bad idea is because they take the responsibility of losing weight from the individual and they put it in a diet book. With any weight loss attempt you should always remember that ultimately the buck stops with you!