CHANGE YOUR MIND – CHANGE YOUR BODY

HERE ARE TEN SELF DEFEATING BEHAVIORS  THAT ARE CERTAIN TO SLOW DOWN YOUR EFFORTS AND MOMENTUM IN YOUR QUEST FOR AN IDEAL BODY. DO YOU RECOGNIZE YOURSELF HERE?  IT’S TIME TO CHANGE YOUR MIND AND THE BODY WILL FOLLOW EFFORTLESSLY. GIVE UP THESE WAYS OF THINKING STOP STRUGGLING ONCE AND FOR ALL.

1) Give up the latest fad diet from the hottest guru,  miracle supplement( goji berries? acai?), and  tv infomercial program. Find ways to eat that match your lifestyle preferences and tastes. Trying to make a strict diet fit into your life is a recipe for failure. DO what works best for you and your body. You will have longer and more lasting results. Turn it around – make the diet work for !

2) Stop seeking a magic solution – Accept that common sense eating- moderate portions, healthy choices and regular exercise and movement are the true workhorses of long term diet success. They aren’t glamorous or slickly packaged and marketed programs but they still work better than anything else out there.

3) Give up eating unconciously – KEEP A FOOD JOURNAL- It’s the #1 tool for helping you to maintain your range of calories so you can burn fat and lose weight .

4) Stop reliving your past failures and unsuccessful efforts at weight loss. The past is over – it’s time to plug into the future and make good choices right now. Now is where all the power is and you always have a choice to move closer to your goals or move further away. Everyting you have done up to this point is a learning experience. Live your life lessons- don’t make the same mistake twice.

5) Stop belittling yourself because your body is not cover model perfect. Be grateful for the gift of life and do what you can with the body you have been given.

6) Give up the diet mentality- Thinking you are on a diet assumes that sometimes in the future you are going to go off the diet and start back with your old ways. Think of your eating as a new program and a lifestyle choice. Start with maintenence in mind and act as if you were maintaining a long term weight loss goal. See the national weight loss control registry for more info on how others maintain their long term weight loss.

7) Stop trying to be perfect- Accept that you will make progress, backslide and then come back again and again,

Don’t go it alone- Get into a support group, hire a trainer or find a buddy.

9) Stop blaming your genetics, lack of time or medical issues- Take responsibility for your life and your time and do whatever it takes to make it happen.

10) Stop thinking of yourself as having a problem. View your efforts at weight loss as a period of self exploration and an exciting journey to find a new you. Don’t think or yourself as a lazy fat person- see yourself at your best and ask who would I be if I woke up tomorrow morning and all my excess weight was gone? What would your day look like? What would you be thinking when you looked in the mirror?