The Choice Is Yours: Are You Willing To Change? Am I?ĭecide Right Now – Are you one of the millions who simply want to lose weight, or are you one of the few who’s willing to do something for the body you desire?
The good news is that it’s possibly a small number of foods are keeping us from losing weight. Right now, we’re probably eating way more than we need to be physically satisfied. Focus: Getting In The Right Frame Of Mind – Because Mindset Does Affect Weight Loss If you don’t know the nutritional count of food – don’t eat it. Or pay attention to how excess carbs make you feel bad, bloated and low energy. The only way you can find that out is by tracking everything and seeing which foods make you lose weight and which foods make you gain weight. Some of us may find we are more sensitive to carbs and need to be stricter about avoiding them. Seriously? So much work, so little freedom in this advice. You need to know the calories, fat, protein, and net carbs of everything you eat. So the fact that this annoys me, does that affect my mindset, and therefore my weight loss efforts? How Does Mindset Affect Weight Loss Efforts? Though I know studies back it up as true. When you track what you eat, you should also make a note of the nutritional count of the foods you eat. Don’t eat anything you don’t know the nutritional count on? When you write down everything you eat, you can identify and eliminate the problem foods sabotaging your weight loss efforts. We are convinced it’s slow metabolism, thyroid issue, or some other problem making us gain weight. Writing down or using apps to track what you eat helps you find the weak spots in your diet.Ī lot of people don’t honestly believe they overeat. You have to identify the problem before you can fix it. How Does Mindset Affect Weight Loss? Write Down What You Eat Some of this you already know but need to be reminded of because it’s been proven to work time and time again. The solution is to find a healthy diet that you can live with NOT to torture yourself for a few days then reward yourself with a cheat meal. So you can see how a couple of cheat meals a month can be a significant setback to your weight loss efforts. You see, fat loss, especially for people who gain weight easily, requires you to enter a state of ketosis where your body switches over to burning stored fat for fuel rather than calories you consume. And because you control your mindsets-they are not some preprogrammed function-it’s you that is actually making your brain and body work for you.” Dr. “Every moment of every day, your brain and body are physically reacting and changing in response to the thoughts that run through your mind-your mindsets add “flavor” to your thoughts, making your brain and body work for you or against you. Cheat Meals: Why You Should Avoid Them – They Affect Our MindsettĪfter going all day eating clean and even getting a little exercise, you might find yourself thinking, “I deserve a little reward.”Īfter all, a can of soda, some fast food, a bowl of chips won’t hurt, right? You can also consider training yourself to put in an extra 1/2 hour of exercise every time you slip up or eat extra healthy for the next 24hrs. Acknowledge that you shouldn’t have broken your diet and finish the day by eating healthy. But please don’t use this as an excuse to eat nonstop for the rest of the day and make yourself feel better by telling yourself this is your “cheat day”.īe strong. Sometimes one slip up can derail your whole diet and lead to weeks or months of binge eating. It’s what typically happens next that makes this such a dangerous pitfall.Īfter a diet slip up, the most common reaction is to write off the whole day and gorge nonstop. Now, this is not good, but by itself, it’s not that big of a deal.
You’re eating right, working out, and then in a moment of weakness, you slip up and indulge in some very unhealthy overeating. You commit to a new healthy lifestyle, and things are going well.