1. Losing weight is hard
Your negative attitude will reflected in your efforts to lose weight. You need to think of it as a new experience that will change your habits and transform your life for the better.
The most important part is your mind, not the body. You can’t just move your mind. You need to move your body too. But if you can change your mind, changing your body isn’t about hard work at all.
2. Plans and programs are the way to lose weight
Most people know that lose-fat-fast schemes are best avoided as soon as you’ve finished the diet and lost a few kilos, you start eating normally again, and back comes the weight. It’s a cycle that keeps the fitness and diet industries going.
Your local gym may seem like a good idea in theory, but it doesn’t foster a long-term approach to weight loss. It doesn’t matter how many calories you burn in twelve weeks. It matters how many calories you burn in your entire lifetime. Losing weight successfully is about changing your lifestyle and your habits for the better and enjoying the results.
3. Thinking of your weight loss as a ‘lifestyle change’
It is a lifestyle change, but that term has now become so much of a cliche that as soon as we hear it, we neatly put it away in our mental filing cabinet and never look at it again. You have successfully managed to dismiss a whole range of behaviours without examining them properly.
It is a process that needs and deserves your thought and attention. Losing weight is a step-by-step process.
4. Losing weight means eating less
You don’t eat less than you used to eat when you were overweight. One of the great misconceptions of weight loss is that you need to eat less. You don’t need to eat less, Low-energy density foods are the key.
The choice is yours. You can eat quite a lot if you eat the right things. One of the other great things that I have found about healthy eating is that if you f¡ll up on the good-for-you foods then the not-so-good-for-you foods won’t seem so tempting. Eating well means that you’ll feel good and you’ll function better physically and mentally. It’s win, win, win! Learning how to eat well (in a way that works for you physically, psychologically and practically) is a skill that, once learned, you’ll have for life hopefully a much longer life!
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