First, ask yourself: “When I have done well on a diet, what made it work for me?” Because your own tips are always the best for you.
- Review top diets available Picture yourself on a given diet. If you can’t imagine doing what is required, find a diet that allows at least a little bit of a favorite comfort food.
- Get your body moving. We all know exercise burns calories. If you are exercise-phobic, call it play. Kids love to move. Find some play you like that entails vigorous motion.
- Hollywood standards are ridiculous. Be easy on yourself when you set your target weight.
- Whatever amount you loose in the first 3-5 weeks of a new plan, continue the new ways of living that will enable you to stay at that weight. Moderate weight loss that is maintainable will make you happy. Loosing a lot and gaining back even more will defeat you.
- Eat something lo cal and filling before going to restaurants, then order a very small dish
- Avoid discussing your diet. Commit to it deep inside and keep it your sacred vision.
- Studies show that weighing yourself helps you loose weight. Reduce the food intake if you see you gained a half a pound. If you stayed the same, celebrate your ability to maintain.
- Use self-hypnosis or go to a hypnotherapist. You gained the weight subconsciously, and through hypnosis you will loose weight subconsciously. Its amazing. You’ll see.
- Use the reward system, as long as its not food. Reward yourself by wearing nicer clothes, taking a day off, seeing a movie… doing something you enjoy or buying yourself a low cost gift like a fun magazine. Rewards reinforce the new behavior
- Understand what benefit you are getting out of being overweight. Sympathy? A reason to cop out on commitments? Learn what it is and then you’ll know how to replace that benefit with a new benefit from being trim.
