Maria's Last Diet

Are You Strong Enough to Survive the Process of Weight Loss

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Can you cope and adjust when you are faced with adversity? You will need this kind of capability if you hope to lose a lot of weight.

Actually for weight loss, you will have to be able to withstand various kinds of adversity and make the adaptations you need to move forward. Once into the process of weight loss, you will have to do without and go without. No more oversized meals of all your favorite fattening foods. Whatever has been causing you to pick and snack after dinner will have to be satisfied in some non-food ways. Rather than letting your mistakes and failures that will come with changing your eating pattern add up and throw you off your weight-loss course, it’s best if you are able to bounce right back into your weight-loss routine.

Are you this kind of resilient person? Well, if not, see what you can do to make yourself psychologically stronger. You are going to need it.

 

About Getting Weighed at Your Doctor’s Office

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Don’t worry about getting weighed at your doctor’s office the next time you go. Your primary care physician, if he or she is like the majority of primary care doctors in the United Sates and Canada, won’t counsel you at all about losing some weight.

Research reported in the May 2013 issue of the International Journal of Obesity revealed that about 9% of primary care doctors counsel about 52% of the patients on 20% of the visits. This means that you have a good chance that your doctor will say nothing to you about losing excess weight.

What’s so good about that? Well, the good part is you don’t have to worry about feeling embarrassed or ashamed about being an overweight person when both you and your doctor avoid the topic of your weight.

Is there a bad part? You be the judge.

 

Food Binge Causes

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What makes you go on a food binge? Have you asked yourself this? If you did, what did you come up with?

Do you go on an food binge because the weight-loss method you are using is too restrictive and too depriving? Do you binge after you have a diet cheat and because you can’t help thinking I got it wrong so what’s the sense of me being careful anymore? Perhaps you binge eat for neither of these reasons.

Maybe you get in really bad moods and your out-of-control eating is your way of staving off a bad mood. You bury yourself in eating and escape the bad mood that way, and the guilt you suffer afterwards from eating too much food isn’t anywhere near as serious as the bad mood that kicks off your binge eating. There is still another possibility. You could binge as a way of attributing your bad mood to the binge itself rather to the things that are truly causing you to be in a bad mood.

As you can see, there are lots of possible reasons for someone to binge eat. What causes you to binge eat?

 

Weight Loss Failure—Is It Bad?

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If you were asked if failing at losing weight is bad, you probably would say a resounding “yes”, with no doubt in your mind whatsoever. There you would be wrong. Weight loss failure isn’t bad; it’s necessary.

Failure is an important part of all that we do, including losing your unwanted weight. Without failure there can be no success. Successful weight loss is actually built on your failures. Take, for example, not sticking to your diet for lunch one day and then at dinner the next day. These are failures. What would you say to yourself about them? You might tell yourself to look more closely at what made you go off your diet, and then do something about that. Because of your failure you start a search process for what went wrong. Then you set about correcting it. Failure in this case spurred corrective diagnosis and then corrective action.

Failure is not only good for learning to do something better. Acceptance of failures, big and little, in the weight-loss process also prevents you from having lots of negative reactions to failing. It limits your frustration, negative thinking, feelings of humiliation, fear of failure, disappointment in yourself, and quitting rather than persevering.

As contradictory as it may sound, weight-loss failure makes successful weight loss possible.

 

Find Out How Being Self-Aware Makes For Successful Weight Loss

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How aware are you of what contributed to your weight gain? Of course, it was eating too much food or too many calorie-rich foods. We all know that. What, though, besides your pattern of eating caused you to gain all that weight?

Was it your husband? Your children? Your mother? Your father? Was it your lifestyle? What was it?

One way to find out is to write your story. Tell it like it is. Start with when you started to gain weight. Or better still, if you remember things that might have led up to you starting to gain unwanted weight, start there. Include situations, events, your feelings, your thoughts, your relationships.

Whatever contributed to your weight gain is probably still there, firmly fixed or lurking just out of sight but still a part of you that you will definitely have to contend with if you want to achieve successful weight loss, and if you want to realize permanent weight loss as well.