You have to realize that losing weight involves a major lifestyle change. If no changes are made to your lifestyle, the moment you stop eating healthy (your diet), you are likely to return to your previous eating, which leads to the Yo-Yo phenomenon. When you go back to your previous eating you will gain all the weight back.
Since you will be making some huge changes to your diet, you need to condition your brain so that eventually, making better food choices will be automatic. To change your lifestyle you must take psychological and behavioral actions. Your attitude and perspective are essential. Your thoughts will guide you to success or to failure. If you are in the wrong state of mind, you will not follow the eating approach.
Do whatever it takes to make eating healthy a positive experience. An early win helps enormously for anyone trying to achieve a difficult task. The new behavior starts to feel normal. It will take less discipline to repeat the action. Developing routines and making it your lifestyle is the key. Once you have created new routines and stick with them, those routines will eventually turn into habits and become your new lifestyle. When your decisions, food choices, and lifestyle become an energizing routine you will be setting yourself up for weight loss success.
Losing weight and sustaining that healthy lifestyle is a process and journey. It is never over.
My routine is to know and plan what I am going to eat each day. I am prepared for making meal choices. Another one is to make sure I have unprocessed food at home to eat when I am hungry.
ReplyDeleteRoutines are the way to go when developing and keeping healthy lifestyle habits. The first few days are the hardest and then once things become habit then they soon become second nature. Exercise is a great think to fit into your routine. I like to fit it into my morning and then I spend the whole day feeling more positive that I have accomplished it.
ReplyDeleteToo often we fall short of the desired change we want to embrace. Life change is hard, really hard and devoloping routines may help.
ReplyDeleteONE of the best things you can do is develop a routine. Once you are locked in the diet and the workouts will seem very easy!
ReplyDeletePeople skip the most important key to weight loss all the time and that is sleep. When you don't get good sleep you are less likely to have energy to work out, you are more prone to over-eating, and your hormones are sluggish which causes the body to hold onto fat! Start by sleeping better and the rest will fall into place.
ReplyDeleteRoutine is so important, especially if you lack motivation or tend to make excuses for yourself. You are spot on in this post!
ReplyDeleteRoutine is so hard for me but so important.
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