Healthy Lifestyle Choices and the Tools to Succeed – 2
Guest Writer Amber Platt
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Healthy Lifestyle Choices and the Tools to Succeed – 1
Being Realistic
Individuals see the success stories of celebrities and infomercials, which promise a fast, streamlined opportunity for weight loss with minimal effort and time. This view is unrealistic, since a majority of us do not have the luxury of having a nutritionist, chef, and trainer available to us at our beck and call, let alone the time it requires to get oneself to those weight goals in such a short duration of time.
The realistic approach to weight loss is moderation, which includes the weight loss also needs to be in moderation. An individual should not lose more than two pounds per week with the exception of water weight in the beginning of one’s lifestyle changes of diet and exercise. It is unhealthy for the body to have a radical change, which can be just as strenuous to the body as being overweight or underweight.
Everyone’s body needs to be able to adapt to the change rather than contend with any medical emergencies, which may arise from too fast weight loss, which proves to be unhealthy and often results in the same weight loss being gained back in record time, creating a yo-yo effect.
Individuals need to create realistic goals and provide opportunities for celebration and praise by creating realistic mini-goals, thus allowing an individual to mark their successes. An example would be an individual desiring to lose 100 pounds. Instead of focusing on this large number, which can be daunting, they break down the main goal into mini-goals of increments of 20 pounds. Every time they reach another 20 pound weight loss, they reward themselves with praise, a massage, a merchandise purchase, or any other productive criticism and continue onto the next segment of their final goal.
Patience
We are participants in a fast paced world and we expect our weight loss to be instantaneous along with everything else we contend with. This is the wrong attitude to have toward weight loss goals, because it sets an individual up for failure. An individual did not gain all the weight overnight, thus they will not lose the desired amount of weight overnight.
Patience is an incredible tool, which allows individuals to see their goals come into fruition. Thus when an individual creates mini-goals, has a support system, remains motivated, and remains realistic about their goals, they become patient in the progress toward their weight loss goals. We should not be in a rush to eradicate the harm done to our bodies, rather we should allow our bodies to adapt and cope to the changes we expect of them through exercise, healthy eating, and healthy lifestyle choices.
Forgiveness
Our greatest enemy of our weight loss success is often ourselves. For many, once they have messed up their healthy eating by overindulging, they begin to belittle, berate, and chastise themselves for allowing their cravings and vulnerabilities to affect the success of their weight loss plan. We forget no one is perfect and instead of realizing everyone is capable of mistakes, we take on the attitude of “well I did it once, I am bound to do it again, what is the use of trying?”
We become our own worst enemies rather than forgiving ourselves for our mistakes, evaluating what went wrong, and realizing we can continue in our efforts for weight loss, not only tomorrow, but also for the rest of the day. Forgiveness is a powerful emotion and tool, one we often fail to provide ourselves which, allows us to falter and fail. We are human, thus we have the right to err, and rather than put ourselves on a pedestal, we need to celebrate our successes and learn from our mistakes, which will result in individuals seeing their goals succeed.
Weight loss is not about fads, rather healthy lifestyle changes that, entails an individual to unlearn their bad habits while learning beneficial habits. The rate of success is contingent upon a healthy support system, becoming and remaining motivated, pursuing healthy lifestyle choices in eating habits and exercise regimens, being realistic about goals, having patience while each goal comes to fruition, and the ability to forgive oneself if they make a mistake rather than allow the error to undermine the ability to forge forward in their weight loss goal. Weight loss does not happen overnight and we need to remain positive in order to overcome our obstacles while we continue working on our goals.
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This is all very true!
It is so difficult sometimes when food is used as an emotional crutch, though.
Strees, anxiety, depression can all have you turning to food for comfort but unfortunately this just adds to your problems, as well as your weight, in the end.