Problems with dieting and losing the weight are very often more mental than physical. If you can, keep well informed about what you need to do mentally to solve your weight problem and succeed. You should always have the latest and greatest ideas to help you navigate the mental aspects of weight loss more easily, more accurately, and more successfully than ever before.
It's probably best to focus your efforts on the middle phase of the weight-loss process. The middle phase is where you begin to move from overeating and being overweight, to becoming a healthy, ideal body weight. This is the phase that everyone struggles with mentally. The tools that are available seem Stone Age. It's not all willpower and self-control, despite the widely held belief that it is. If you continue to believe this, then losing the weight for you will be as primitive as the caveman's attempts to make things without having the necessary tools.
To back up for a moment: the whole process of weight loss from beginning to end has three distinct phases. The beginning phase is a maintenance phase. This is where you "maintain" all your bad eating habits and where you "maintain" the state of being overweight. Unfortunately, when you reach this phase, you are in the zone. The zone is behaving so automatically that you don't stop to think. What makes it easy to stay here and what makes it so hard to change is you have developed a mentality like an addict who maintains her habit.
In the middle phase, you try breaking the habit. This is where the mental struggle comes in. On the far side of the struggle, though, is another maintenance phase. This is where you try to maintain your life without the bad habits that kept you overeating and overweight. This is what you are striving for. When you reach this phase, you will have developed another habit, this time the good habit of permanent weight loss. You are "clean" and "sober" and you are working mentally (and physically) at maintaining yourself this way.
So the aim is to go from "maintaining what's bad for you" to "maintaining what's good for you", from where the bad habits are automatic, to where good habits are going to become automatic. But you need to go through the middle phase, that mental struggle with yourself, in order to get there. Why not take as much of the mental struggle out of the middle phase as you can?
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