Successful weight loss is not simply a matter of exerting mind over matter. It requires knowing who you are, what you want, and having specific goals and strategies about how you are going to get there. The following steps will help you translate what you want into the will to make it happen: • Evaluate your current eating habits as they relate to dietary restraint and dietary inhibition. What are your strengths and weaknesses? • Choose a weight-loss method with a food component that supports the concept of flexible restraint. Extreme diets or diets that lend themselves to on-again, off-again eating can lead to dietary disinhibition and uncontrolled eating. • Define what you want for yourself in terms of weight management. Evaluate the methods you are considering in relation to their ability to give you what you really want. • Create a set of short- and longer-term goals. Determine what will motivate you to get from one goal to the next. Develop and implement strategies that will feed the motivators and help make them a reality. • For each of the basic components of a comprehensive weight-loss method, think of at least four strategies you can implement today. Now implement them for a few days and see if they work for you. If they do, keep them. If they don’t work for you, develop and test new strategies. • Identify five of your temptation foods. Develop specific strategies for dealing with them in a way that will reinforce learning the skill of flexible restraint.
Posted on: Mon, 04 Nov 2013 15:39:58 +0000
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