Okay, so you blew your diet for the last few days. You were doing so well for so long and now you are upset that it took you so long to lose a few ponds and in a brief period of time you gained back a bunch of weight. So what happens now? Do you just give up and resign yourself to being over weight? Do you resign yourself that you are going to get even more obese than you are now? Ultimately, as you know, the choice is yours and your choice is one that will have profound effects on the rest of your life. So why are you feeling so bummed out and depressed for eating poorly for a few days?
You are not in competition with anyone to lose weight, or at least you shouldn't be in competition with anyone. The only person you need to be in a race to thinness is with yourself. The best reason to lose weight is for health and anything else is a misleading reason. Let us say that again....You should be losing weight for the sole purpose of being healthy. Period! The logic behind this concept is actually liberating for you on your journey to lose weight. If you try to make healthy choices for the sake of being healthy you will lose weight as a byproduct of those choices. If you try to lose weight so you can go to a wedding then you will more than likely fail in that attempt in the long run. A simple reason for your failure after failure at dieting is because diets do not work. What you need to do is change your life style and make better choices. Eat more fruit, drink more water, eat smaller portions and get out and exercise. If you spend the rest of your life trying to make HEALTHY choices and actually make more of those choices than unhealthy choices you will lose weight. If you spend all your efforts depriving yourself of your favorite foods you will slip up and beat yourself up until you feel as if you failed. Instead of starting a diet start a "live-it" and include all the choices of food you love. The trick is to include them in moderation and only after you have made many good choices.
So, if you are banging your head against the wall over a blown diet you need to stop. What you need to do is enjoy the "poor" choices and then pick yourself up and start your weight loss journey again. As you make choices in your day choose wisely. You do not have to stick your hand in every candy jar at work; you just need to stick it in much less often. By allowing yourself a treat every now and then you are not failing you are preventing deprivation. That deprivation is what will wipe out your emotional reservoir for dieting. By allowing a cheeseburger or fries every now and then you are setting up long term success. A diet is not a race to thinness; it is a journey to wellness. To get wellness just take your time and inch toward your goal with lasting dedication. If your diet plans wavered over the weekend that is alright. Just get right back in the weight loss arena and keep going. After all, your weight loss is an ongoing project that really will never have a finish line. When you do lose all the weight you want to lose you then must keep going to maintain that weight loss. That is why you need to plan weight loss around healthy choices as you can not live a life on a diet. Trying to live a life on a diet is why so many people give up and decide that being obese has to be a way of their life.
You will know better and you will just continue down the weight loss path stopping and starting all along the way. By not trying to make a dash you will make it to the end and be able to achieve all of your health goals and in those goals somewhere will be weight loss.
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