by Maria's Last Diet
Has the way
you’ve been looking at your own dieting and weight problem gotten you where
you want to be? If not, why not try reframing the problem.
Restructuring your
problem, rethinking it, will make it easier to solve. In fact, stating your problem anew can be an insight in itself and point the way to a new, effective
dieting and weight loss solution.
This is just what Emily did. She
simply couldn’t start on her weight loss diet plan even though she desperately wanted to
lose forty pounds. Every time she thought about going on a diet she felt it
would put too much pressure on her. She was sure she didn’t have enough time or
energy to give to dieting.
One day
when Emily was shopping with her sister Anne, she began lamenting out loud
about how hard it was to start her diet plan. She wanted to do it, she didn’t want to do it. Just
thinking about it raised her tension level. She launched into reciting a list
of all the demands her life made on her.
“Maybe
that’s the real problem,” Anne told her. “It’s not dieting that your biggest weight loss challenge, it’s the rest of
your life that’s too hard.”
Her
sister’s words got through to her. She felt like she had been let out of a box.
Emily’s problem restated: There is too much pressure in my life and it prevents
me from doing something I want to do for myself.
This
rethinking of the problem pointed Emily in a whole new direction for finding a way to start her diet.
by Maria's Last Diet
Has the way you’ve been looking at your own dieting and weight problem gotten you where you want to be? If not, why not try reframing the problem.
Restructuring your problem, rethinking it, will make it easier to solve. In fact, stating your problem anew can be an insight in itself and point the way to a new, effective dieting and weight loss solution.
This is just what Emily did. She simply couldn’t start on her weight loss diet plan even though she desperately wanted to lose forty pounds. Every time she thought about going on a diet she felt it would put too much pressure on her. She was sure she didn’t have enough time or energy to give to dieting.
One day when Emily was shopping with her sister Anne, she began lamenting out loud about how hard it was to start her diet plan. She wanted to do it, she didn’t want to do it. Just thinking about it raised her tension level. She launched into reciting a list of all the demands her life made on her.
“Maybe that’s the real problem,” Anne told her. “It’s not dieting that your biggest weight loss challenge, it’s the rest of your life that’s too hard.”
Her sister’s words got through to her. She felt like she had been let out of a box.
Emily’s problem restated: There is too much pressure in my life and it prevents me from doing something I want to do for myself.
This rethinking of the problem pointed Emily in a whole new direction for finding a way to start her diet.