I have lost 48 kg the last three and a half years and I'm sure that more people need to loose weight,
every professional within different weight industries and almost everyone else knows this as well.

The problem is that what I found out its not what you eat, how much you work out or how many methods you use.

Its a matter of realizing and deciding "ok, this is it, I'm overweight and I will do what it takes to reach my goals"
Anyone heard of alcoholics (on AA) saying "Hi, my name is XXX and I am an alcoholic". Probably not since most of the meetings
are closed, but what Im after is that it is actually the same thing.

Having an eating disorder, no matter if it is making you overweight or underweight, is something that you need to
get into your head to figure out solutions for. Before someone says "But isnt bodybuilders or fitness freaks
having somekind of disorder as well" I would say that being out of control and in perfect shape is not great in some cases.

So here is how I got out of my eating disorder, which I now see that it had nothing to do with supermethods or eating grass or
running 150km a day.

1. Talk with a professional (dont stop reading here, its ok to go to step 2)
   I did this, at work we had help of occupational health company Boråshälsan, by talking to a nurse in a group therapy manor
   It was a great time opening up both to people I knew and someone from outside my world
2. Talk with supporting friends about your eating disorder and ask for their support
   What you dont need is someone telling you what to do, what you need is support in the rollercoaster ride that weight loss or weight gain actually is.
   You need someone that can be honest to you and remind you of your goal in a way that makes you work in the right direction again if you fall of the train
3. Admit to your self, family and your friends that you actually have an eating disorder
   You need to do this because it makes it so much easier to reach your goals. The most important to admit that there is a problem is your self.
4. Start over each day and be prepared to fall of the train
   Since this is not some method thats supposed to work in different steps, start over each day
   Be prepared to fall of the train, it will happen, but remember that it is ok since you will start over each day to reach your goal
5. Set up small goals where you give your self something for doing good
6. Write a food and workout diary
   Write down EVERYTHING you eat every day during a period of 10 weeks. This way you will be able to go back and see what makes you successfull
7. Workout and do this when you want
   Find a workout that fits you that you can do whenever its ok for you to do it.
   Its doesnt have to be football or aerobics or something like that, its ok take a walk at lunch or doing 10 situps in the morning, as long as you start getting this into your life with working out.
8. Learn whats in your food and learn that its fun to cook healthy
   Read on the boxes when buying foods and ask someone you know (there is always several that knows this, and I know you know this as well)
   Go cooking courses or cook with friends and family and have fun in the kitchen.
9. Stop looking at the scales every ten minutes
   It is normal that you change your weight during the day or between days, and it could be a stress factor looking at the scale to often. Once a week is enough
10. Eat what you eat today, but learn how much normal is
    Talk to a professional, look at internet/books or use the different applications that is available to learn how much normal intake is.
11. Let it take time
    If it will take years, let it take years. There is no fast way to weight success
12. Be successfull and share your knowledge with others!

So, admit, decide, do it and be as successfull as possible!

If I can do this, I know you can!

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Anyone heard the phrase "its common sense" and look like a question mark?
Thats because so many people have different perspectives in what common sense is

So what it common sense?
To me its trusting the spontaneous feeling how I should react when Im in a situation and
right after this stopping the most extreme reactions before I actually let out my reaction

Its this stopping or filtering, in my mind, that is common sense. To react in a polite and
calm manor.

If the reaction would be to much mainstream, I use my experience and mold it into
a new reaction that fits the situation, and if it is to extreme I filter it a bit.

Is it people being afraid that makes them not trust their common sense?
Probably an experience and bad confidence thing. I see it amongst younger colleagues and
people with a bad confidence.

When your placed in situations, see to it that you try to learn how different people react in different situations
and when you see reactions that in their turn get a calm and polite reaction back you have seen the result of common sense

In the title it says "A lost art" and thats because I personally dont see this as much as I, and lots of people with me, would
like to see it.

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During the years I have heard that business to business (B2B) commerce must have a look at
business to consumer (B2C) to survive or grow.

I would say it should or could be the other way around, B2C retailers are really good at marketing,
social networks and sharing, but there are some things where they could learn from B2B

• Not listening whats good for one person but for all visitors. Personalizing is good, but it takes time from important things like giving the other customers service and in a business time is money even if it is different ROI on different times
• Dont be hysteric about prices, what´s really important is the service level you can offer to all customers in form of delivery times, stock figures, order history and more basic functions and of course that the solutions is fast and secure
• Dont leave everything to the end user, help him decide. By giving the person whats good enough could be a good starting point of making your assortments smaller so there isnt that many products just taking up important space at you or your suppliers warehouse
• Viral marketing is not all good, anyone tried to let 5 persons stand in a line, say something to the first person and then let them whisper the thing to the next inline and see if it was what you said to the first that the last person says?

This is of course not the entire truth, I know, but what I want to say is that it is important to learn from each other. 

I admit that its fun to work with B2C since thats where the cool and new techniques is developed but I think B2B is as fun and challenging to work with since there the heavy things like automization and integration is more important even though more and more B2B wants upselling functionality in their solutions.

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