Are you ready to shed your excess weight?
You know you would feel and look much better if you lost some weight. Not only that but your health and well-being would improve too. However for one reason or another you haven’t been able to get into the right mindset to achieve what you want.
What can you do to make this the time you really do become the weight you’d like to be and shed the excess fat for ever?
1. Be absolutely clear about the changes you want to make and what will be involved.
Take it step by step. Set small goals and achieve them. For example you might decide not to have so much bread or stop eating sweet biscuits.
Or you might add more fruit and vegetables to your meals and avoid putting such a big portion on your plate.
2. What will you start doing?
You could change your mindset about food and become more aware of exactly what you are putting into your mouth. The best foods to eat are those cooked or uncooked which are as near to their natural state as possible.
3. What will you stop doing?
You might stop buying a bar of chocolate to eat on the way home from the supermarket. Or stock up your cupboard with low fat protein foods such as chicken and fish.
You could stop using so much oil in food preparation.
4. Who else will be affected by your changes?
The person you live with might not want to stop eating certain foods.
What will happen if you take no action and you carry on as before? Your weight will continue to increase and eventually your health may suffer the effects of obesity.
5. Are you ready to take the next step?
Have you decided what your long term goal around your health and well-being is?
It doesn’t have to be about the weight you want to be. It could be instead about how you feel, what you can do which you can’t do now and what sort of energy you will experience.
If you want to change your weight, you have to develop a clear vision of how life would be for you as a slimmer person so that what you come to terms with the way you will be able to do things you find challenging now. You will be able to wear different styles of clothes too and have more energy to enjoy life much more.
Are you prepared to make plans, develop workable strategies for change and then take actions required?
I successfully dropped 125lb by focusing on my mindset rather than a diet. We have to decide that we are worthy of health and then make shifts to conscious eating.
You are absolutely right that we have to make small changes. Big changes yield temporary results. Small changes can be incorporated into our lives and yield permanent health improvements.
That’s great. Well done on your fantastic weight loss. Sometimes it’s difficult to believe that your mind-set is so important: this applies to achieving any goal including becoming a healthy weight.