Losing Weight is a Mindset
I hate the word diet because right away it sends the mind into a negative place. Diets to most people mean depriving yourself something you like, so right away you start out in a negative place.
I would rather use terms like lifestyle change, when talking about losing weight, because what you eat is just one part of how you look and feel.
When it comes to the eating part, while we do need to change what and how we eat, we don’t need to starve ourselves, nor deprive ourselves total from our favorite foods. The trick as I mentioned in an earlier post is to eat more often and in smaller portions.
When most people think about exercise, again the mind envisions things that are not pleasant and we once again start out in a negative place.
At first what we should be doing is figuring out ways that we can get exercise just by changing things in our daily activities. Again a good example would be taking stairs instead of the elevator.
These little things become a normal part of our lives and therefore we have made a lifestyle change, and have tricked our minds by not really starting a formalized diet plan.
Once we do these two small easy changes, and we start to see results then our mindset is in a more positive place when we decide to kick it up a notch.
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