You have ever had the experience of being so-called successful at losing weight following being a member of a slimming club for a few months, only to re-gain all the weight that she lost when you stop attending regularly.
It seems as if it is almost like a plot to keep you paying to keep on going to the slimming club otherwise you find that you can’t maintain your weight loss.
So, in order to maintain the success you feel you’ve add you need to do more than just go regularly to a slimming club or follow a diet in a newspaper.
It’s about changing your mindset about your weight and realising that diets on their own won’t work. Yes, if you follow what is written, or what you’re told and you will lose some weight. However, the weight is in many and most cases regained very quickly once you decide you’re going back to a “normal” diet.
If diets don’t work, then what can you do to be the way that you would like to be, and be healthy too.
Eat regularly.
You may have tried to lose weight by skipping meals entirely. This doesn’t work because your blood sugar level drops and you begin to crave lots of sugar and other simple carbohydrates. As a result he will probably find yourself eating too much high calorie, high fat, unhealthy food and as a result find it anyway kudos goes back on very quickly.
Eat healthily.
If you think about is actually what you’re eating and try to make your diet is healthy as possible, without being fanatical, then you will have a much better chance at being able to control your weight by controlling your mindset.
Eating healthily means having a balanced diet, eating plenty of fresh fruit and vegetables, low-fat protein, healthy fats such as olive oil and avocado, and plenty of complex carbohydrates. It also means cutting right down on food containing sugar and white foods such as white flour, white rice and white pasta and eating instead more wholemeal foods
. Relax frequently.
If you tend to eat more when you feel stressed take a few moments when you feel the stress building to close your eyes and take some slow breaths in as you breathe in relaxation and breathe out any tension.
Listen to your body.
Learn to listen to what your body tells you it needs at any time of the day and allow yourself to have whatever it seems to need even though at the same time being aware of the healthy guidelines mentioned above.
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. Continue reading ‘Are you ready to shed your excess weight?’
Is it possible to lose weight wherever you are? Perhaps. But there may be better of worse places. Think about where and when you eat what you want to eat and yet lose weight compared with other places where you have a greater desire to eat the ‘wrong’ foods and your weight sours. In each of the situations listed below it is a common experience for some people to gain weight and for others to lose weight. What happens to you in each of the following situations and what could you do to bring the essence of when you lose weight to those situations when you commonly gain weight? Continue reading ‘Weight loss: importance of where you are’
It’s really important to keep on top of the clutter challenge.
Clutter has a habit of re-forming very frequently so that even if you have a good clear-out session form time to time, you find that after a few weeks or few months the problem might be as bad as before.
So it’s important to develop a regular clutter clearing habit.
Here is a tip which will enable you to feel better in yourself, eat less and lose weight. It’s a really simple thing to do, so simple that you may not believe until you try it what a profound effect it will have on you and your life.
If you tend to overeat in relation to feeling stressed then doing what I’m about to suggest will lead to less stress and so you will no longer overeat as a reaction to stress.
What you have to do is to clear your clutter. Yes, when you get tidier and throw away what you no longer need or want then the result will be less stress and so you can say goodbye to overeating too. Continue reading ‘Clear clutter, feel better, lose weight…’
Three things dieters should NEVER say! The simple words keeping you from weight loss success.
At the beginning of the New Year, it seems everyone wants to lose weight and get healthier. The festive parties with the calorie-laden eggnog, butter disguised as cookies and potato latkes are over and we can now concentrate on getting back on track.
Do you resolve each year that this will be the year that you’ll reach a healthy weight and keep the weight off?
What happens after the initial enthusiasm and how can you keep motivated to achieve your goal and keep to a healthy weight?
How can you change your mindset so you can achieve and keep your weight within a healthy range?
1. Set specific goals. Instead of these being around the weight you want to be, how about trying goals which are about changing your habits and beliefs about weight.
2. Decide to introduce a positive change each week and build on your new healthy eating habits each week. Don’t change everything at once. Remember it can take at least twenty-one days for a new habit to embed itself into your unconscious mind.
3. Start by eating more fruit and vegetables and less foods containing sugar. Then eat more healthy fats, such as olive oil and avocado and less saturated fat such as red meat and butter.
4. Do something similar in relation to increasing the amount of exercise you do. Make it simple such as parking a bit further away from the shops, getting off the bus a stop sooner than you need to and taking a walk around the block each day.
5. Notice your self-talk: the things you say to yourself, and make sure you make positive statements such as I am confident that I am gaining a healthy weight, rather than Losing weight is really difficult and I’m going to fail once again.
6. Always remember to have a life too. It’s OK to have something not strictly permitted from time to time: the danger is when that becomes everyday. Get your mind in the right frame by really enjoying the taste of healthy food so that eating more healthily is a pleasure not a chore.
Diets don’t work in the long term: you may lose some weight while you are on the diet but it goes back on plus more when you come off the diet.
You can’t restrict certain food for ever: you need to eat food from each group: carbohydrates, fats and protein, so a diet restricting any of these will lead to cravings and overeating.
Counting calories or points is OK when you are at home but virually impossible when you are eating in a restaurant, so you may be wrongly estimating how much you are actually consuming.
By forbidding cetain foods you may develop such a strong desire to eat them that you end up eating far too much.
So what’s the alternative:
eat only when you are hungry
ask yourself what you really need
you may be thristy rather than hungry so drinlk more water
get to distinguish between real hunger and emotional hunger
deal with your emotional hunger in another way instead of food
enjoy what you eat
say no when you don’t want to eat something
eat slowly
What are your ways to lose weight without dieting?
However good your intentions for keeping to a healthy diet and progressing in your weight loss journey to become the weight you truly want to be, there are days when things just don’t work out well.
Even though you plan to cut down on the amount of white flour and then see and smell the aroma of freshly baked bead with sunflower seeds (=must be healthy) and honey (could be better than white sugar?!) Meant to eat just a slice but the taste ….mmmm….and before you know it most of the loaf has disappeared and your stomach feels rather bloated and full. We’ve all been tempted haven’t we and sometimes given in to the cravings. So then the secret is not to give up but to pick yourself up, dust yourself down and start again: eating healthily, plenty of fresh wholesome fruits and vegetables, whole grains, lean proteins, some healthy fat from avocado, olives, nuts and oily fish, and some low fat dairy foods such as yoghurt and cottage cheese. You will soon be back on track once more!
As always keep your goals in your mind and don’t give up if occasionally you slip off the path you are on. If you are following the advice given here rather than a very strict diet regime then you will lose weight becasue you are treating your body well and you are keeping your mindset positive too. Being in the right mindset is the number one important thing to aim for. Get into it by practising regular relaxation and visualising how you will be when you reach your desired weight.
