Maria's Last Diet

Weight Loss Practice—It’s a Must

by Maria's Last Diet

If you think of being able to lose weight and keep the weight off permanently as a set of skills, then in order to develop your skills, like in any other endeavor, you need to practice.

Deliberate practice, as the research studies call it, is something all people do when they are trying to learn and develop a set of skills, any set of skills. You did it when you learned to read and write. You even did it as an infant and toddler when you learned to walk and talk. You practiced over and over again. Experts in all walks of life practice and practice long and hard and that’s what makes them experts.

With weight loss, you don’t have to be an expert, but you do have to be good enough. Even ‘good enough’ requires practice. Think about it: cooking, planting, talking to your kids. It takes practice and lots of it if you want to be good enough. What makes you think losing your unwanted weight is any different? How do you become able to lose weight and keep the weight off permanently? Just like you get to Carnegie Hall. Practice, practice, practice.

 

Facing A Diet Problem, or Weight-Loss Difficulties? What Can You Do About It?

by Maria's Last Diet

Can you practice and learn so you can do better? Of course you’ll say yes if you were answering in principle whether you can practice and learn so you can do better. But what if you were asked, “can you practice and learn so you can do better at losing excess weight?

What if you practiced just what those weight-loss activities you’ll have to do later today or tomorrow or next week?

How about if you over-practiced what you need to do to stick to a diet or how you’ll go about changing your pattern of eating?

Could you practice the exact procedure you’ll be using to get back on your dieting plan if and when you fall off of it?

What if you could practice and prepare for the unexpected, those obstacles that you didn’t foresee, the ones that pop up and ruin your weight-loss effort?

Could getting a good grasp beforehand on the underlying principles and concepts involved in self-change make a difference later on when you’re trying to do something to stop your emotional eating and change your eating habits?

Have you tried practicing and learning beforehand so you can do better later on when you’re deep within the weight-loss process and in need of skills and strategies and self-confidence to get you successfully through to losing more weight? If not, try it and see what you think.

 

Losing A Lot of Weight. It Takes Practice

by Maria's Last Diet

How often have you heard the slogan “Practice makes perfect”? It means, of course, something that you do over and over, you will learn to do very well.

So if you take perfect with a grain of salt and you take practice seriously, and you apply them to reducing your weight, you have a way to improve your chances for losing unwanted weight.

Let’s look at a particular form of practice, mental practice. It’s something you’ve probably done many times in your life, often without realizing you’re doing it. You’ve probably done it when you have something difficult you want to say to someone else. You go over it in your mind before you say it to the other person. You say the words to yourself, first one way and then another. You might even visualize yourself with the other person, and visualize the other person’s reaction as well; all of this taking place beforehand, before you say an actual word to this other person.

You can do the same with the process of weight loss. In fact, you might already be doing some mental practicing before undertaking a weight-loss activity: visualizing yourself beginning a diet or imagining some ways to stop yourself from cheating on a diet or conceptualizing and rehearsing how to stop your emotional eating. Practice for successful weight loss makes perfect sense. You probably can’t do too much of it. Even if you are already doing it, you can step it up—do more of it, do it more deliberately, and then see how it pays off.