People often joke about putting on a little winter weight, or say that the reason they have put on so much weight is because they are content (this is a popular one with newly weds). It starts with a small joke over the extra 5 or 10 pounds you are carrying and then you add in a pizza night once a week and the next thing you know you are having to buy a bigger size pair of pants or dress. So how do you know that now is definitely the right time to lose weight? If you have a queen sized bed but have to buy a  Oversized King Bedspread just so you are fully covered when you sleep then it is time to start looking at less pizza and more exercise. Carrying a few extra pounds is one thing, being so overweight that you are noticing some of these things:- -Love life is going downhill -Trouble staying awake all day -You are unwilling to go out with your kids because you get so darn tired after 20 mins outside -Out of breath if you walk up the stairs -Snoring so loudly no one else in the house can sleep All of these problems are real ones that overweight people experience every single day. Some are physically debilitating while other ones have a mental affect on us. If you are snoring that loudly and think you may have sleep apnea then it is time to see a dr and there is a good chance that the first thing he will suggest is that you lose weight. If your libido is falling away then it could well effect your marriage or relationship in the long term. If the thought of missing out on playing with your kids, losing your spouse and being made to sleep in the garden shed aren’t enough to make you look at ways to lose weight I don’t know what will do it for you. Losing weight can be broken down to the simple mathematical formula of taking in less calories than you use for an extended period of time so that your body uses up the supplies of energy that it has been storing as fat. Sounds a lot simpler when you write it down than it is in real life. The expression that comes to mind is “Mind over Matter” if your mindset is poor then you will find it much harder to lose weight, when you are totally convinced that shedding those extra pounds will change your life then you will find it far easier to do.