Maria's Last Diet

by Maria's Last Diet

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.

by Maria's Last Diet

In the heart of every woman dieter is hope. The hope is: this time I'll really do it.

Is this you? Is this your hope when you begin a new diet?

If you want to bring your hope to fruition, please consider doing something different this time. Try solving those intractable dieting problems: the ones that stalled your diet, the ones that prevented the start of your diet, the ones that steered you off your diet.

How about some help from a problem solver, a weight-loss tool that can keep you on your diet? With that kind of resource in your corner, you could square off against all those diet spoilers like the afternoon slump, feeling ambivalent, losing faith, being too self-critical, not having time to devote to yourself, not believing in yourself, feeling too restricted, craving comfort food, feeling conflicted, losing self-control. The list goes on and on.

Is there such a tool? Funny you should ask. Maria's Last Diet now introduces Diet Tuffy. It is one of those cool inventions that gets you thinking outside the box when you want to keep on your diet.

by Maria's Last Diet

Want to psych yourself out and stay on that weight-loss diet plan?

Switch from food talk to healthy dieting talk.

The important language of dieting doesn't have to do with food. It has to do with the deeper parts of you.

So, if your head is saying you must have lots of ice cream right now, change up the words in your head - like this.

Ice cream? What do I really want? Do I want to feel very satisfied? Do I want to feel well cared for? Do I want some real pleasure? Do I want to feel filled up? Do I need something extra special right now? Am I hurting? Do I have unexpressed anger inside of me? Do I hate myself? Am I tired? Do I need to rest? Do I need to be soothed?

And...

Will ice cream give me what I need?

That's true-to-yourself healthy dieting talk, and it's psychological indeed.