Tuesday, March 4, 2008

Change Your Lifestyle?

Change Your Lifestyle?
The progressive and continual increase in obesity and
weight related problems has resulted in over weight people
being told constantly to change their lifestyles. More and
more people are now starting to become aware of the fact
that dieting at best is a short term solution towards
weight loss. The success rates of most diets are
ridiculously low. Certain products touted as weight loss
aids are virtually useless and can at times be detrimental
to your health.

Because people in the know are aware of the failures in
conventional dieting and the inadequacies of many other
weight loss products, they have come to the conclusion that
something else is required to help people to lose weight
and lead healthy lives. That something is the mantra
'change your lifestyle' being coined.

The fact is for people that are overweight and want to
change that situation, they have to change the way that
they live their lives. Constant dieting or taking dubious
weight loss supplements is not going to help people to lead
healthier lives. In many cases these types of methods do
more harm to your body than good. The human body likes
continuity, is doesn't like a irregularity in your life,
and irregularity is what it gets when you are constantly
trying to change what you are doing to it in regards to
diet. This is why a plan of changing your lifestyle is so
important.

Now it is easy to say to someone that they must change
their lifestyle. It is easy to say that you must start
eating in a healthier way. It is easy to say that you must
begin exercising and become more active in your life.
People that are overweight and don't want to be, are
already aware that they must do these things. What they
don't need is to have these words rammed down their throats
on a regular basis. What they do need is methods for
implementing these changes successfully into their lives.

Knowing what to do is easy. Actually doing it is something
completely different. As I previously mentioned the human
body thrives on continuity and it is not very keen on
change. If you are overweight and you have lived a life of
inactivity, and have had unhealthy eating habits for a long
time, then this is the life your body has become accustomed
to. When you try to change your behaviours, your body will
not be happy about it. This is illustrated by the fact that
so many people fail to lose weight. Trying to change your
body so quickly with behaviours it is not used to will
result in your body fighting these changes, which in turn
will prevent you from losing weight with any long term
success.

Now here is the thing, initially changing your lifestyle
doesn't begin with you changing your behaviours, it starts
in your mind, and you have to start changing the way that
you think of yourself. At the present time you will think
like a person that is overweight, a person who cannot be
bothered with exercise or any increased activity, a person
that doesn't have a healthy diet, and a person that finds
change difficult.

While you think like that any new physical changes that you
try to incorporate into your life will ultimately lead you
to failure. Simple because you don't really believe in your
mind that this new person you are trying to be is you. If
you don't believe something then clearly you think it is
not true. When you know something that's not true, how can
you muster up the commitment, determination, and passion to
follow it through?

You need to start believing that what you are about to
attempt is going to be achievable. Stop thinking of weight
loss as hit and miss. Begin thinking of weight loss as a
skill to be learned. Any skill takes time and effort, and
weight loss is no different. Learn about the relevance of
carbohydrates, proteins, and fats. Learn about how food
affects your body. Learn about exercise and fitness. Try to
learn about these things prior to starting a weight loss
program, because this will make you more prepared and give
you a good foundation. Remember that any skill is often
difficult to learn at the start but the more you do
something the better you get out at it.

Try to get it into your mind that thousands of people lose
weight successfully, so why should you be any different.
People who lose weight successfully do so by been better
prepared and having better knowledge. Write out a diet
plan, write out an exercise plan, gain some knowledge, and
you to will have a greater chance of success. If you really
want to lose weight then you will do it. Stop jumping from
one failure to another; instead come to understand that
there are no quick fixes. Change things slowly, drop
certain items from your diet one at a time, begin
exercising slowly and build up from that. Finely believe
that you are capable of doing whatever you set your mind
to. The reason that you should believe this is because it
happens to be true.


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