Maria's Last Diet

by Maria's Last Diet

So you think you can't lose the weight?

Yes, you can.

Break it down.

Losing weight is a humbling process. It's about getting to know yourself inside and out.

Here's a mini-step-by-step guide. See what pieces of the weight-loss puzzle have been missing for you. Then you can fill them in.

1. Figure out what has been the biggest problem for you about losing the weight.
2. See where you've come across this same problem in other areas of you life.
3. Remember how you dealt with it.
4. If you didn't deal with it well, create 3 ways to deal better with this impediment to losing weight.
5. If you did manage to tame this problem in another area of your life, borrow the same strategies you used.
6. Try out these ways of combating the problem a number of times. See what works and see what doesn't.
7. Next, think about any other problem you see as being a stumbling block to losing the weight.
8. Proceed with steps 2 through 6 regarding this next problem just the way you did with the first problem you thought of.
9. Repeat this process related to every problem you think you have that interferes with your ability to reach your weight-loss goal.
10. Each time you confront a problem, realize that you are learning a little bit more about how to lose weight.

Instead of trying to master the whole idea of weight loss, break it down into small steps that you can practice and get comfortable with. Then you can put it all together, and do it right.

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How’s this for walking right into the lion’s den?

What if during your first week of dieting, you made lots of mistakes? That’s the very last thing you want to do, you say. This depends on your perspective.

Let’s take an unexpected perspective. It comes from error management training. Error management training is a program used in various situations, software learning, business, etc., in which trainees make lots of errors. The errors are not only allowed, they are wanted. Because it’s through making errors that the trainee learns to learn from her errors, learns to deal more effectively with errors, such as keeping her level of frustration and disappointment low.

Now apply “making lots of mistakes” and learning from them to dieting. Can you find a way to have your mistakes help you with weight-loss motivation? Is there a mistake in your list of mistakes that will give you the weight-loss support you need? Will you be able to build confidence by capitalizing on one of your mistakes?

Try to have fun with the concept that weight loss for women is all about making mistakes. If this is a “can do” for you, then see how you can put your dieting mistakes to work for you.

Write and let us know what mistake you made and how you were able to learn from them.

by Maria's Last Diet

OK, you bring out the South Beach diet book and decide you'll give it another try.

So - what's the secret sauce that will make it work for you this time so you don't end up making the same mistakes again?

That's what you need to find...the secret sauce to pour over every day of your diet. If you don't know exactly what it is, here's some help.

    The secret recipe sauce ingredients -

• knowledge - about what went wrong last time; about what went right last time

• a plan - to fix the things you did wrong; to utilize the things you did right

• small steps - to make the road to goal manageable; to keep up weight-loss motivation

• a way to track progress - of weight lost; of behavior change

• helping relationships - to get advice when you need it; to give you strength when you need it

                Mix well, and have on hand for every single dieting day.

by Maria's Last Diet

Can't lose the weight?
Can't stick to a diet?
Frustrated?
Disappointed?
Desperate?

It's time to do something different.
It's time to think outside the box.

For years and years now, women have depended on "the diet". 

There have been hard diets, easy diets, strict diets, lenient diets, healthy diets, crash diets, celebrity diets, all-you-can-eat-of-one-thing diets, soup only diets, protein only diets, carb only diets, no-sugar diets, caveman diets, raw food diets, juicy diets, 4 day miracle diets, 20 lbs-in-two-weeks diets, prepared food diets, low calorie diets, liquid meal diets, one-meal-a-day diets, color-coded diets, mid-life diets, fasting diets, organic food diets. We could go on and on, couldn't we?

OK, so is it the diets themselves that fail so many women?

Or is there more to it?

Can you remember one diet you went on where you had very high hopes at the start, and then those hopes began to fade as the diet slipped away from you?

Now it's time to think outside the diet box.

Name 5 reasons why you couldn't make that diet work for you. The only guideline here is that none of these reasons can have anything to do with the actual food, the diet itself.

Go ahead. Give 5 non-food problems that interfered with your ability to lose weight on that diet.

This kind of thinking will free you up to solve the real obstacles that have been preventing you from losing the weight you want to lose.

Then you can go on a diet. There are certainly lots of good ones to choose from.

From your outside-the-box vision of the matter, you'll get a whole new take on losing weight. Then you can use a diet, but rely on your powers of problem solving to make it work.   

Hey! I can help with this.