It becomes extremely easy to get distracted, sporadic, it becomes difficult to stay on track with your latest greatest method of weight loss. It’s a challenge to bend your mind around sticking to these once determined resolutions for losing weight and becoming fit.
So maybe you just need a better plan, a kick in the butt, or you need a better disciplined outline to eat better food, work out harder and more consistently, allowing yourself to lose weight naturally. Know there’s no fail safe plans, no new miracles to keep you thin.
It just comes down to knowing what works and what doesn’t. Setting up a plan to reach your goals and then sticking to them. There are a set of tips, rules, which are agreed upon by dietitians which are time tested over time, this to reach your weight loss and fitness goals.
Eating Rational Well Balanced Meals
Eat as well balanced and rational as possible. Forget about all the latest fads, the miracle diet pills, the frozen food plans, all the unsustainable artificial meal plans.
Although there are a few exceptions, most diets just don’t work. They may temporarily, as all they offer is you eating in a distorted way and your body then eventually returns back to their old patterns. You will more than likely return back to your previous body weight, or worse.
What’s recommended to permanently lose weight while maintaining your progress is by adopting a sensible way to eat which is scientifically based.
Just stick to fruits and vegetables, whole grains, lean protein, low fat dairy, and complex carbohydrates, all one item ingredients which are excellent from a weight management perspective.
The well known Mediterranean based dietary habits, for instance, comprises of a healthy, low-fat and balanced diet to keep the pounds off. Portion size is also important, as is always listen to what your body’s saying. Know the signals such as eating when your hungry and stopping when you’re full.
Keeping Track Of What You Eat
Keep a diary of everything you eat, which isn’t easy. But if your serious about losing weight and keeping if off, then keep a food journal to track every calorie, which can prove to be the most powerful tool you have.
If you don’t write down what you eat immediately, you’ll most like forget or just discount it, as denial is easy and a tricky trap when it comes to weight loss and dieting.
You need this information so that over a period of time, you can identify which foods are right for you, and which ones don’t fit into your eating habits. Initially, writing everything down can be a chore, but it’s the most effective way of tracking precisely, in black and white format, exactly what you ate.
Having A Precise Fitness Plan
It’s recommended you exercise at least three to five times a week. Any type of moderate exercise that you can find the time for, will make you feel better immediately after doing it and it will become sustainable.
Try doing an energized aerobic workout for around 30 minutes, followed by 15 minutes of weight training, or whatever is suitable for your current fitness level, followed by 10 minutes of stretching.
Doing so will make you feel instantly better and then you’ll be more inclined to repeat it again, daily. Keep reminding yourself how good that you’ll feel physically, mentally, and emotionally right after you workout.
If you need to, consult with your doctor for a physical exam and get recommendations on the best ways to exercise. You may be advised to begin with shorter aerobic classes initially, and then build it up over time.
Learning To Manage Better
What most tend to do is eat food for comfort, for distraction, or for fun and habit. Food tastes good and is inherently rewarding, so it becomes painful to deny oneself of these desires.
It’s also easy to feel deprived, become desperate and overwhelmed when needing to make changes, this especially when it comes to removing a coping strategy which helps us navigate through uncomfortable feelings.
What we need to remind ourselves is be good to ourselves and remain compassionate during these times. We need to find alternate strategies that works when we’re attempting to remove the reliance of eating too much food.
You can accomplish this by spending more time with friends, reading more, finding new hobbies, going out for walks, yoga, or meditation, anything that can distract.
Utilize these strategies and then use them whenever you begin craving or feeling yourself reaching for those snacks which you don’t need.
Finding The Proper Support Network
Establish a support network, this can be family members, friends, a group, or even a therapist. They can be helpful in helping you feel satisfied, and less likely allow you to stray and rely on food to fulfill your feelings of anxiety, anger, or negative emotions.
These positive relationships are helpful in providing encouragement whenever you feel your enthusiasm begin to wane. You yourself can often become your biggest supporter by writing positive messages down, and keeping an active journal on your progress.
Once you find that you’re struggling, which is common as that’s what we naturally think of first, there’s effective ways of correcting them by learning and then using cognitive behavioral therapy or CBT.
CBT is a proven method which successfully helps people to modify their negative or distorted thoughts, which can lead towards a host of bad feelings and behaviors, including overeating and addictive habits.
Changing these problematic thought patterns will typically lead towards positive changes in your outlook, while clearing a path to a healtheir lifestyle.