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Strategies to Reduce Busyness
By: Scottsdale Weight Loss Center
Published: July 24, 2012
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Why thinking you’re too busy might be interfering with your weight loss goals.
We hear constantly about the obesity epidemic that is ruining the health of Americans, and lately there has been a lot of chatter about the overwhelming anxiety that is leaving millions of us biting our nails and stressing over everything. Well, somewhere in the midst of our poor health habits and inability to cope with stress there is an innate busyness that is taking over.
Telling someone that you are busy has become a sort of backhanded compliment nowadays. Think about the last time you bumped into a friend while out and about. They ask you how you are or vice versa, and the response is often “oh, so busy” or something to the same effect. It is often said with a smile, because even though you might say you wish you weren’t, most of us are pretty proud to be so chronically busy.
The Business of Busyness
Being busy has somehow worked itself into being part of the American way of life, but it doesn’t have to be. Being busy is a self-fulfilling prophecy. If you tell your friends, family members and even co-workers that you are busy often enough, you will eventually be too busy to do much of anything else.
According to economic research, those who make more money feel busier than those who make less. Survey research revealed that on average, someone who works one full-time position in a well-paying field will feel significantly busier than someone who is working three minimum wage positions just to get by. This indicates that being busy is often a social thing, and it is subjective.
If you don’t want to be busy, then the first thing to do is stop telling people that you are! After that, it all comes down to time management and changing your attitude about how you approach your day.
Making Time for What Matters
One of the most common excuses that people deliver when it comes to not being able to lose weight is that their work schedule makes it impossible—they are just too busy. While we are all dealt different cards when it comes to financial and social obligations, there is one common factor we all share: time.
The amount of hours in your day and week match that of everyone else on this planet. When you break it down, we all have 24 hours in a day, and 168 hours in a week. Even if you work more than the average Joe and put in 60 hour work weeks and then sleep eight hours every night (and let’s be honest, both of those numbers are high for most of us), that leaves you with an extra 52 waking hours that are not spent at work!
Exercising for 30 minutes every day only adds up to three and a half hours. When you do the math, chances are there is plenty of time for fun activities in your week, but when you are constantly feeling busy it sure doesn’t feel like it.
If you want to reach your weight loss goals, then maybe it is time to change how you think about your day. You might be surprised how much a difference eliminating the word busy from your vocabulary will do for your medical weight management. When you stop thinking you are busy, you can escape the busyness trap and free up a lot of time to do the things you want to do.
Nick
Nick's Story
"I wish I would have come here first. We spend all our time reacting to the next great weight loss tip or program. It might work for a while, but does not last and we end up yo-yoing from one fad to the next – as we gain more weight." Read More
Gina
Lost 44.5 lbs
"I had no trouble adhering to the meals and they really helped catapult my progress! The classes were so beneficial to me because they helped change my thinking about how I viewed health, nutrition, and fitness.
I will always have my relationship with Scottsdale Weight Loss Center. They truly helped me change my life forever." Read More
Lauren
Lost 60 lbs
"Dr. Ziltzer and everyone who I have come in contact with at the Scottsdale Weight Loss office have been so encouraging and I look forward to seeing them each week. It is now a year and 2 months later since I started. I am down 60 lbs., which is the average amount a 9-year-old weighs, it is crazy to think I lost a whole person! I feel amazing, I hit my goal weight in November 2021 just before Thanksgiving. Nothing on my body hurts anymore..." Read More
Chuck
Lost 66 lbs
"The best thing I did was call the Scottsdale Weight Loss Center. I have a lot more energy, I'm not hungry, and it feels great.
You can take it from me that this is a program that produces results. The staff is always positive, supportive, and never judgmental.
Your visits always result in positive reinforcement, no matter if you had a good week or a bad week." Read More
Emily
Lost 101 lbs
"Here I am at the lowest I have been since high school weighing in at 155lbs. I have lost 101 lbs, BMI of 39 when I started, to 21.6, and of course at body fat % of 47.1 to 26.5%. I told myself by my 30th birthday I wanted to be confident in the way I look and I owe it all to SWLC. The entire staff is so welcoming and they are rooting for you just as much as you are rooting for yourself...." Read More
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Robert Ziltzer, MD, FACP, FAAP, FOMA
Obesity Medicine Certified Physician
Diana Bone, FNP-C
Specializing in Obesity Medicine
Craig Primack, MD, FACP, FAAP, MFOMA
Obesity Medicine Certified Physician
Kristen Ash, FNP-C, FNP-BC
Nurse Practitioner
Alicia Earley, FNP-C
Family Nurse Practitioner
