Maria's Last Diet

by Maria's Last Diet

Each day on your weight loss regimen what moves do you make to insure that you are generating headway toward your weight loss goal?

Do you have to wake up in a good mood or if you don’t, you are likely to make it more difficult or downright impossible for you to stay on your diet or weight loss routine?

Does everything have to be all right with your relationships, or if it is not, you will fret throughout the day and make your weight loss effort a living hell?

What if your overall motivation flags? Does this mean that you might not even have the weight loss motivation you need and hence you will be in danger of returning to your old weight-gaining pattern of eating?

Were you able to handle the disappointment today, or did the disappointment spread and turn into self-criticism, the kind of self-criticism that left you without the confidence you needed to go forward on your weight loss plans for the day?

As you can see, there are moves you make today and tomorrow and everyday to keep up what you need to keep up so you can eventually reach your weight loss goal. You might not spell these moves out to yourself, but if you look carefully, they are there waiting for you to do something about them. And do something about them you must, or successful weight loss will not be yours to have.

by Maria's Last Diet

To lose a lot of weight is indeed a very hard accomplishment. It is a long-term process that requires daily dedication, plenty of self-reliance, and often too much discomfort. It’s this last factor, the discomfort, which can wreak terrible havoc on your weight loss motivation and make you even want to quit trying.

Would it be possible to make each weight loss step you take day-in and day-out be comfortable for you?

First off, you probably have to identify what possible discomfort might occur if you are working away at losing a lot of weight. You can do this by seeing what the actual activities are that make up your weight loss strategy for the day. Let’s say in this regard that like yesterday and the day before you will be eating according to a specific diet plan. The diet is only one part of your weight loss strategy. You will also need at least the same amount of weight loss motivation that you had for the past two days’ successes in order to keep to your diet today too. This is a second aspect to your strategy: make sure your weight loss motivation is still sufficiently up there. Yet another consideration has to do with checking to see if there are any obstacles that might get in your way today.  For example, do you have a busier day than usual at work, and will this have an impact on your ability to stay on your diet? Or, is it the weekend and you have nothing planned, and you will have to find some way to fight off boredom before it sends you to eating off your diet like it has many times before.

You can see that mentally reviewing what you will have to do each day in order to continue to lose your unwanted weight and then formulating and executing plans to act accordingly are ways to make the weight loss process be more comfortable for you. 

by Maria's Last Diet

What’s your weight loss routine? Everyone has one. If you know the weight loss steps you take day after day when you’re trying to reduce your weight, that’s your weight loss routine.

Now you probably haven’t thought of the weight loss steps you take as part of a sequence, but most likely what you’ve been doing from sun up to sun down when you’re trying to lose some weight is following some type of sequence; first this, then that, and so forth. The sequence is probably not invariable, but too much variation from the familiar sequence might just push you out of your comfort zone, just enough to cause you some type of weight loss difficulty.

One value of sticking to the sequence of your weight loss routine is a psychological process called chunking. Chunking occurs when your weight loss routine hangs together as a chunk. In other words, the entire sequence is something you execute as if it were a unified action. This takes practice and repeated association among the separate elements of the sequence.

Take, for example, the day after tomorrow. Will you do what you did today and what you will do tomorrow in regard to your weight loss regimen? If so, you are counting on your weight loss routine to do some of the heavy lifting. Not a bad idea, ay? So then why not try it more purposefully?