From the author: If you cannot lose weight while sitting or lying down, change your starting position and do the same while standing. Or better yet, on the move. And you will see that this is starting to work out for you. Self-help methods. These recommendations can help those whose excess weight is associated solely with an unhealthy lifestyle: eating patterns, low mobility, sleep disorders. What can you do for your own slimness, lightness, fit, grace and beauty on your own, without therapy? Much, if at all. - truly, sincerely intend to achieve their goal. Therefore, first of all, answer yourself honestly to a series of questions to see your real level of motivation. Think carefully before answering. Take your time. Especially if you feel a lot of unspent energy inside and it seems to you that you are already ready to do anything to strengthen your own health and a slim, fit body. Remember that you are still sitting in a chair (on a chair) or standing. Therefore, fantasize to yourself outside the apartment, where you are in sportswear, on the move, in any weather. And don’t let this fantasy in your head fly quickly like a shooting star across the sky. Let her linger for a few minutes and look through the calendar of your life forward: you are walking in the snow in the frosty winter, you are walking in the rain in the spring, you are moving in the heat in the summer, you are on a walk in windy weather in the fall. How do you like it? These are simple questions, the answers to which can show you a lot of interesting things about you. Am I ready to make serious and regular changes in my life: will I go for walks for 60 minutes every day in the rain, in the snow, when there are clouds in the sky and only when there is a strong hurricane outside, do physical exercises at home. Walking can be replaced by the gym or swimming pool with the same regularity. Will I keep a daily self-observation diary and write down in detail everything I eat and drink, strictly taking into account and adhering to the daily caloric intake. Even if it seems boring and pointless to me. What unhealthy eating habits am I definitely giving up right now, and not tomorrow or Monday (cakes, sweets, sugar, salt, smoked meats, sausages, etc.) Do I feel ready to replace fried food for boiled, steamed, baked or raw food, reduce portions of food and increase the number of meals, go to bed no later than 23-00, and preferably at 22-00. These questions do not imply answers that you do not have money, time, energy for this, that it is tasteless, takes a long time and boring. If at this point you remember about money, it means you “forgot” about your goal. If you don’t like these questions and you still want to live as before and have a slim figure, then you are dreaming of the impossible or a miracle. Then it's not time for you to start making changes yet. And that's good to know. Your happy hour may be ahead. And I wish you that it happens in your life. Remember that all your weighty arguments about the fact that you cannot live without a TV, computer, sofa, candy, chips, sausage and beer actually show your true intentions. And all this suggests that you still like your body shapes and volumes. And in this place you may not agree with me :) More precisely, you, of course, don’t like your kilograms, but not enough to change your initial position “sitting” on a chair or “lying” on the sofa and get out of it. It is important to know that your true motivation is not your words, it is your actions. This is a test about how well you know yourself and whether you are ready to actually lose weight. If your motivation is low, you will not achieve your goal and will quit. And then it is useful to strengthen motivation. First, strengthen your readiness and only then engage in weight normalization. Those who realize that any changes are work, and big changes to rebuild their own body, improve health and form new eating habits - this is a big and long-term work, have more real opportunities to do this creative, exciting