Maria's Last Diet

Changes in Yourself With Successful Weight Loss

by Maria's Last Diet

After you lose your unwanted weight are you more yourself or less yourself? Are you the same self or a different self?

Losing a lot of weight is more than what it is cracked up to be. It is not only a loss of excess weight that is occurring; it is also a very real personal change—back to the person you once were, onward to the person you never were.

Make no mistake about it; reducing your weight has consequences beyond simple weight loss. Everyone knows this. Everyone thinks about it. “I’ll be a lot happier when I’m thin.” It’s even talked about by everyone. “It’s like I’m a teenager all over again.”

This change in yourself is certainly welcomed with open arms. If this is so true, then why, if you have this kind of very positive goal for yourself in mind, do you find it so hard to lose weight?

Do you know why?

 

Weight Loss is Hard. Why?

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When it comes to eating too much food or eating too many calorie rich foods, are there ideas, feelings, and memories that you prefer not to have?

What for instance, made you go against your vow to lose your unwanted weight and eat like there was no tomorrow? Do you know, or do you prefer to keep yourself in the dark about your motivations for going against yourself?

What made you procrastinate to the point of not doing anything about your excess weight?

What made you regain weight after you were so good at dieting and exercise and losing weight?

Do you prefer not to know?

Check it out and see

 

Tell Me Your True Weight

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Weight is not something you can be truthful about. How true is this?

In a 2003 review of 1970-2002 research studies, 57,172 women underestimated their weight. Is this so surprising? Everyone, women included, wants to put her best foot forward. Do you think this is stil true 10 years later?

Guess what happened when it came to estimating height. The best-foot-forward hypothesis struck again, women, 39,244 of them, overestimated their heights.

Now, for those of you who want to put your best foot forward for real when it comes to weighing less, you know what you really have to do.

Let us help. Losing unwanted weight is not only a dieting and exercise matter; it is also a psychological matter. You’ve got to get yourself to do what you’ve got to do all the way along the line, from start, to sticking to it, to keeping it off.

For help in using psychology to lose weight, please go to The Reading Room and the White Paper, both of which are in the left-hand column of this blog at MariasLastDiet.com. Or, if you want to have an actual book or an e-book to read through and refer to, check out the weight-loss books for women section on the right-hand side of this blog.

If you need more specific help, email us at hi@mariaslastdiet.com and we’ll point you in the right direction.

 

Thinking About Your Weight Loss Goals

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Thought process.

• What weight loss goals can I pursue tomorrow, and why do I want to pursue them?

• What am I aiming for with these goals to lose weight?

• What can I do to achieve these goals?

• When, where, and how should I act?

• When tomorrow comes, how well will I carry out my weight loss plans?

• Will I be able to see whether I’m progressing or not?  

• Will I need to make adjustments in my goals and plans?

• Will the weight loss goals I set for tomorrow still be important to me tomorrow?

 

Changes in Yourself Like Long Term Weight Loss Require Reclassifying

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What was once desirable is no longer desirable and what was once undesirable is now desirable. An essential part of any weight loss process is reclassifying the things in your life that are good for you and what in your life is bad for you.

Once upon a time not too very long ago eating too much food or eating too many calorie rich foods might have seemed good for you. Now with a weight loss mindset your task is to reclassify eating too much or too fattening food as bad for you. Eating less and eating right becomes good for you; that is if you want to lose your unwanted weight.

Because of your new weight loss goal, you reclassify, not only food, but also anything else that is related to your weight loss goal. This includes personal relationships, feelings, thoughts, attitudes, beliefs, waking and sleeping habits, level of awareness, and much, much more.

Reclassifying is not dieting nor is it exercising. It is a separate albeit essential component of the process of weight loss. So be aware, if you can, that you have to give yourself the time it takes and the wherewithall it takes to reclassify. Rome was not built in a day, and neither is reclassifying.