Weight loss is about so much more than food.
Here’s three things you can do (besides making healthy choices) that will ensure your success.
Please stop telling yourself you’re deprived.
We get it…Your friends seem to be able to eat whatever they want and you had a hard day, can’t you just eat a few cookies?
Unfortunately, not all of us react the same to food and some of us have to watch ourselves more than others. That stinks but it is what it is.
Making the mindful choice to avoid foods that harm your health and your weight loss efforts isn’t deprivation, it’s wisdom. You choose you.
You can’t change your food choices without changing your life…at least a little.
We know that if you love snacking while you hang out on the couch at night or surf the internet ….it will be hard to change that choice long term unless you shift the habit that goes along with it. Can you minimize the screen time and go for a walk? Read a book? Go to bed? Take up a new hobby? It will make your new choices so much easier to implement.
Weight and health are not “all or nothing”.
If you have extra carbs at dinner but you ate more greens, drank more water and ate a balanced lunch and breakfast you didn’t “lose the day”.
We notice that many people have a tendency to be all or nothing with their food choices. Are french fries for dinner ideal? Of course not…but if you decide that the day is lost because of them you will follow up dinner with a bowl of ice cream, some pie and anything else that is around….and it will take you days to recover. I am all for mindfulness (and have had my share of fries at dinner), but lets make the best choices we can right now, not based on what we chose 10 minutes ago or some grading system we have created.
