by Maria's Last Diet
Having the weight drop off you quickly and easily is something every woman wishes for. This is actually not a bad idea in one way. It would mean that losing weight wouldn’t require much conscious effort and self-control. It would happen automatically.
Getting something to the automatic stage is an important principle in all forms of self-change. The sooner your behavior becomes automatic, the more you can count on it occurring and recurring without much effort on your part.
If you could lose weight automatically, then you’d have the greatest asset to self-change there is—that it takes so little effort, and the change becomes ingrained right away.
OK, it’s unrealistic to think that you can lose weight without effort. No one actually does it. But everyone wishes this were so.
Well, what about this? Lose the weight slowly, say, about 1½ lbs a week, because when you lose weight slowly, you are giving yourself time to change behaviors that make up your old pattern of overeating and gaining weight. Then, when you reach your weight-loss goal, you’ll actually be better able to maintain your weight loss.
Slower weight loss with lots of opportunities to modify your old behavior leads to automatic and effortless maintenance of your weight loss.
Can you try for this? Do you have what it takes to wait a while for the automatic until you reach your goal weight?
by Maria's Last Diet
Having the weight drop off you quickly and easily is something every woman wishes for. This is actually not a bad idea in one way. It would mean that losing weight wouldn’t require much conscious effort and self-control. It would happen automatically.
Getting something to the automatic stage is an important principle in all forms of self-change. The sooner your behavior becomes automatic, the more you can count on it occurring and recurring without much effort on your part.
If you could lose weight automatically, then you’d have the greatest asset to self-change there is—that it takes so little effort, and the change becomes ingrained right away.
OK, it’s unrealistic to think that you can lose weight without effort. No one actually does it. But everyone wishes this were so.
Well, what about this? Lose the weight slowly, say, about 1½ lbs a week, because when you lose weight slowly, you are giving yourself time to change behaviors that make up your old pattern of overeating and gaining weight. Then, when you reach your weight-loss goal, you’ll actually be better able to maintain your weight loss.
Slower weight loss with lots of opportunities to modify your old behavior leads to automatic and effortless maintenance of your weight loss.
Can you try for this? Do you have what it takes to wait a while for the automatic until you reach your goal weight?