Are you lost in the middle of dieting?
Do you need a dieting preserver? Do something innovative. Try walking back your weight-loss plan. This lets you take stock and see how you're really doing. It can put you on solid footing again.
So, here's what a "walk-back" might be like.
Let's say you're losing your grip on dieting. Perhaps you've lost faith either in the weight-loss diet plan itself, or - and probably more rightly - in your own ability to stick to it.
Put your focus now on a walk-back that takes you back over the course you took since you started. Here's what you are looking for:
- What goal did I set for myself at the beginning of this weight-loss effort?
- What markers can I see looking back that can tell me if I have been doing what's required to get me there?
- If I can't find any clear markers, what can I set now as definite markers so I can track my progress to goal from now on? For example, are there eating habit changes to make? Can I note the times along the way I am able to do definite things to help me make these changes?
- If there were weeks or months when I didn't lose any of the weight, can I find the reasons why?
Do your walk-back, and you'll find out a lot.
Then proceed ahead again, this time keeping track of your progress. The knowledge that you are indeed making progress is powerful safeguard against losing faith, losing confidence, and losing your way to goal. It is also a powerful safeguard against not losing the weight.
If you find yourself letting go of your dieting again, go back. Take stock. There's always room for improvement, ways to tweak your weight-loss program so it works.
Go back. Then go full speed ahead.
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