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There are two central factors when it comes to building motivation for change. And motivation for change is the most powerful driving force of all if you want to lose weight.

How important losing weight truly is for you makes a huge difference in whether or not you’ll be able to sustain yourself throughout the process. Equally powerful is how confident you are in your ability to do it.

Of course, having both of these issues foremost in your mind would be most valuable. So take a look at these ideas for yourself, even before you begin a diet or other weight-loss plan. Remember, these two factors will definitely affect the outcome of your weight-loss attempt.

Here are some questions to ask yourself. If you don’t know the answers on the spot, no problem. Just give yourself a number of days to think about it.

1.    Is your weight a pressing issue for you?
2.    Does the way you eat bother you in any way?
3.    Do you feel you have a significant eating problem?
4.    If so, what do you want to do about your eating?
5.    What are the most important reasons why you want to lose weight?
6.    When you decide to do something, do you usually do it?
7.    What challenges have you already met successfully in your life?
8.    How did you do it?
9.    What would be a big obstacle for you as you try to lose weight?
10. What might you do to overcome this obstacle?

These are just some kick-off questions. But they are issues to be dealt with, things to understand, things to know about yourself. If you follow along this line of thinking, you will already be building a path toward change.

Posted by Maria's Last Diet on Monday, July 26, 2010 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

Are You Not Losing the Weight? Then See If This is You.

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Hey, do you want to know the precious and guarded secrets of gaining weight?

Here they are in a nutshell. Do all of these things (or even some of them) and you’ll be a successful weight-gainer, time and time again.

Keep going on the next diet, without understanding why you’ve failed in the past.

Do not for one minute consider your own psychology and what might be contributing to your inability to lose weight—beware of this because if you do it, you might not gain weight, and you might even lose.

Make sure the diet you pick is the latest, most popular one—never mind if it’s too harsh, or if it doesn’t fit your particular likes and dislikes one bit, or if it might not be in synch with your lifestyle. Just try it.

Don’t tell anyone what you are doing, because then if you break your diet you don’t need to be embarrassed.

Don’t consider your feelings or your moods at all. Just rely on willpower to get you through any difficult periods.

Eat as little as you can, to the point of feeling starved. This will ensure a backlash at one point or another where you try to make up for that terrible hunger by eating everything in sight.

Make sure you try to be perfect on your diet, and as soon as you cheat, well then, just give up. It’s the only way.

Keep spending your $$ on diet pills and supplements, anything the diet industry has to offer. Rely on what’s out there, never on what’s inside of you.

Be in a big hurry. Do the crash-iest diet ever. The faster the better. 20 lbs in 2 weeks seems like a good goal.

Do all of these things, and you are sure to gain weight. These are the secrets no one really tells you about, but they are powerful. So if you want weight gain, every one of these secrets will help you get just that.

Posted by Maria's Last Diet on Friday, July 23, 2010 in Eating/Weight/Diet Problems | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

Do You Know that Losing the Weight is Mostly Mental

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You may not think so, but successful weight loss is mostly a mental process. You can diet, yes, and that can help. But the winning formula is not usually Dieting=Weight Loss. If it were, the statistics on successful dieting would be much more positive than they are.

It’s not that diets don’t work. It’s a case of figuring out why diets have not worked for you, at least in the long term. So, this time, why not try to solve the following equation:

X=Weight-Loss success for me

What is X?

If diets have not led you to permanent weight-loss success, try and use this new slant to come up with the mental aspects that come into play when you diet. Think of all the non-food issues that have hindered your weight-loss attempts in the past.

Once you can face the mental processes that go on when you try to diet, you will have a much more powerful equation:

Facing What I need to Face Mentally = Weight-Loss success for me.

Posted by Maria's Last Diet on Thursday, July 22, 2010 in It's Not Just About Food | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

Honesty is the Best Lose-the-Weight Policy

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Solving a weight problem for good requires uncommon honesty. You can talk to woman after woman, and they will tell you this diet doesn’t wok, that diet doesn’t work, they just can’t lose weight because of metabolism, or they are too busy or too stressed or whatever. It is the rare woman who will tell you she herself can’t work the diet, it’s not really that the diet doesn’t work or that the timing isn’t right.

It is the uncommon woman who can be totally honest with herself; it is the uncommon woman who can lose weight and keep it off.

Posted by Maria's Last Diet on Sunday, July 18, 2010 in How to Get There | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

What is the Best Diet Plan...for YOU?

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How hard it is to hear your own voice amid all the noise.

This diet, that diet, this new pill, that new supplement, this unbelievable piece of exercise equipment that lets you drop 20 lbs by using it 5 minutes a day, this prepared menu, that diet shake, this nutrition bar, that celebrity endorsed fitness plan.

Where are YOU in all of this? Don’t you count as an individual? What about your own particular problems with eating too much? What are they all about? What about the particular challenges you face in your life that you navigate by using food?

What do strangers advertising the latest greatest best fastest easiest cheapest
trendiest ways to lose weight know about what YOU need?

Nothing. The only one who knows about you is you.

Tap into this invaluable resource. It’s the only way to solve a weight problem for good.

Posted by Maria's Last Diet on Wednesday, July 14, 2010 in How to Get There | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

Weight Loss Success is All About "Getting Yourself To..."

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Now please consider this. Even more than you might suspect, it is what you as a person already have inside of you that puts you at your best and your worst for “getting yourself to” weight-loss success.

What it takes to “get yourself to” is not just reliance on willpower or weight-loss motivation or perseverance or commitment, or even a combination of these. Success with “getting yourself to” is about constructively solving the nonfood difficulties of your life; so you won’t need to resort to overeating and weight gain.

When you think like this, the requirements for your weight-loss goals change from a narrow focus on food to a broader understanding of yourself as a person. What personal strengths you can draw on and what weaknesses you can work on become important considerations. What about you has been out of your reach, untapped and untried? What is too tangled up that you can’t get to about yourself? These broader personal characteristics, this psychology of yours, and not just that diet plan you are on or the exercise you’ve started, will have to be your most prominent concern.

Posted by Maria's Last Diet on Sunday, July 11, 2010 in How to Get There | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

What Influences You to Gain Weight? What Influences You to Lose the Weight?

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Losing weight deeply involves the psychological side of things, without a doubt. But this doesn’t mean that the environment is left out of the equation when it comes to the success or failure of reaching your weight-loss goal—far from it.

Let’s say you are on a diet, trying hard to stick to it. First, picture yourself at home, with all your handy diet foods in the fridge, perhaps a pair of “skinny” jeans hanging on your closet door for inspiration, maybe a friend coming over for lunch who’s also trying to lose weight, your food log and feelings diary close at hand. All this goes to make a supportive, encouraging environment, doesn’t it?

So now, picture yourself at a restaurant that has yummy food on the menu. It’s your friend’s birthday celebration, and everyone is partaking of food and drink to take full advantage of the party, to have the utmost good time. No one would expect you to stick to a diet here, right? There will be a big cake for dessert, there’s lots of wine flowing, and you feel all loosened up. And, to eat a skimpy portion of fish and salad and skip the cake altogether would make you feel like a party-pooper.

Which situation will help you lose weight?

These are the things you will have to grapple with during your weight-loss journey—everyone does. Sometimes a good, off-the-diet dinner is just the “time out” you need to stay the course, other times it can threaten to throw you completely off track. Whatever the environmental cues you are dealing with at any given time, they do have their power.

It’s the negotiating you do between your inner (emotional) and outer (environment) worlds that is crucial. One is surely influenced by the other, and it works both ways.

You are never without your personal psychology, and you are never totally separate from the world around you. Stay tuned to both aspects of your life while you are losing weight, so you can be aware of what is influencing you at any given time.

Posted by Maria's Last Diet on Wednesday, July 07, 2010 in Influence | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

Being All Too Agreeable Won't Get the Weight Down

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Have you been a “Yes Girl” about your weight? Like, for instance,

    YES I will go off my diet because I feel like it

    YES eating everything in sight is just what I do

    YES I am doomed to be a failure at losing this weight

    YES I will gain the weight back every time I manage to lose

    YES temptation is much more powerful than anything in me

    YES I will forever be a woman with an eating problem

    YES I am totally lacking willpower

    YES I must live with my bad feelings about being overweight

    YES I will keep on trying to diet even though it doesn’t seem to work

    YES I give up on myself with regard to my eating

You can change the yes’s to no’s. Try putting a NO, I won’t, before each statement. Then you can find ways to accomplish each NO.

Posted by Maria's Last Diet on Tuesday, July 06, 2010 in Eating/Weight/Diet Problems | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

Freedom from Overeating and the Weight

by Maria's Last Diet

Happy red, happy white, but don’t be blue.

You can make a declaration of independence from your eating/weight problem, and you can start on July 5th.

The way to leave a weight problem far behind you is to make a very personal inquiry into the nature of your problem. This is always an interior process, one of thinking, remembering, facing, allowing, forgiving, discovering.

The psychological side of losing weight is the part that really matters, the part that will set you free. It is the part that powers whatever diet you go on, and makes it work.

See if you can come to July 4th, 2011, ready to celebrate not only the nation’s independence and freedom, but your own as well.

Posted by Maria's Last Diet on Sunday, July 04, 2010 in Holidays | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

Food Scare (as advertised on TV)

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Don’t fall for everything you read, and certainly not for everything you see on TV. “As seen on TV” is often used as a calling card for something. But a recent look at some TV ads shows that this can sometimes be a reason NOT to use a product.

A study published by The Journal of the American Dietetic Association last month is very important for anyone who is dieting, or for anyone in general. The study looked at TV ads for food, and actually recorded 28 days worth of food ads. The researchers then analyzed the nutritional makeup of these foods—800 different food items, to be exact.

Here’s what they found. A person who eats a diet made up mainly of these advertised foods, will be provided with the following: Too much cholesterol, much too much salt, too much fat. And if this isn’t bad enough, this same person would be getting, on average, three times the amount of sugar she should be having in a given day.

That’s what 800 advertised on TV foods would give you in terms of nutrition.

EVERYONE BEWARE!

Posted by Maria's Last Diet on Friday, July 02, 2010 in Tips | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

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Dieting Motivation and Self-Confidence: Some Things to Consider

Are You Not Losing the Weight? Then See If This is You.

Do You Know that Losing the Weight is Mostly Mental

Honesty is the Best Lose-the-Weight Policy

What is the Best Diet Plan...for YOU?

Weight Loss Success is All About "Getting Yourself To..."

What Influences You to Gain Weight? What Influences You to Lose the Weight?

Being All Too Agreeable Won't Get the Weight Down

Freedom from Overeating and the Weight

Food Scare (as advertised on TV)

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