The #1 Reason Weight Loss Efforts Fail
Posted by fitnesslifestyle on Friday, September 11, 2009
The biggest hurdle for a successful weight loss is not the food you eat and it is not the exercise you can do.
It is negative thinking.
Witness this scenario from a weight my clients' loss journals (with permission):
I want to lose weight.
I was supposed to lose weight.
I have to go on a diet.
I start on Monday. Mondays are easier. Should actually why I wait until Monday? I will start today! It's terrible. It is terrible, but if I start to lose a few pounds, I am excited and then I will continue to be motivated. Is not that how it works?
7.30 Clock coffee black, a hard-boiled egg.
10 clock starving. Oh! Someone brought it donuts!
But I would not have one. Although I'm starving. I actually feel a little weak. Hey, why not know Julie and I do not eat donuts? How does it work to stay thin when they eat donuts? I can not have a donut. I'm so fat. Look at her! She's so much fun. I wonder why I eat a donut and look like a tub of lard and Julie eats what she wants and never gains a pound. Life's just not fair!
11 There is no clock lunch time, but I'm so hungry I could eat a horse. I'm going to the deli and eat lunch early. Checked the salads but they look kind of wilted and not fresh. Saw the soup list. Nothing that I want. It was really nothing else to eat, so I ordered a cheeseburger with fries and grabbed a brownie at the checkout.
11.40 Clock Oh boy, I feel guilty. I'm so weak. I have no willpower. I was so good all morning! I did not even have a donut! I've really blown it now.
I wonder how many calories in the cheeseburger that I just inhaled? It would not have much, it was small. In fact, I'm still hungry. I'll never lose weight. I do not know what's wrong with me. I can not do anything right.
I do not know how I survive in this job, even. I am completely incompetent. It is a good thing my boss is blind. He does not see what an idiot I am.
I have not set forth in life, a terrible person. I'm not even sure it's my fault. Who can I blame? Oh, that's nonsense. It's my fault. I am weak, I'm stupid, I am incapable, I can not do anything right. I'm an idiot ...
(End of diary entry)
It is easy to see how this kind of downward spiral can be a person from eating a cheeseburger to be "a terrible person" in the shortest time to take advantage. When we "awfulize" situations, people or ourselves, it has a profound impact on our attitude to life!
Here are some of the components of negative thinking:
1. Problems are seen as permanent,
2. We identify ourselves as the problem or the cause of the problem,
3. We're starting to feel like the problem is a symbol of personal defectiveness.
I like the journal entry above with a history of my own contrast. Once, on a trip, I stopped Cheap gas station and filled my tank. A while later my car started sputtering and acting as if the engine would die. It was not accelerating smoothly and I felt as if I put cars chugging along, while all around me through accelerated. I immediately connected the lack of performance with the new gas. It would go well for a while, then start the routine again hesitation. I sat down to drive the car until it is filled about one quarter of the tank and below the other at a gas station. Reduce the problems and then I drove until it was less than a quarter tank full and refilled. The more problems.
The point here is that (I certainly do not get emotional about the poor gas probably mixed with water), I have purchased. It was certainly not to blame me for it. I have a mental note to be careful when choosing a service station and I did what I could to solve the problem. Then I moved on.
What would life be if we are this rational and calm about the decisions that are food? If we do not "awfulize" We made a bad decision, but merely fixes and went forward?
Still, the car is correspondingly very useful when it comes to food. Food is our fuel.
If we eat too much at lunch, we're going to skip and sputter through the long afternoon or after a nap. If we ignore real hunger, we are too much the next time we come to eat within 10 feet. And overwhelmed when we are tired or stressed, are the high-carb snack or candy bar comes to us a quick lift, then please write to us in an energy-depleted place are guaranteed to the other requests.
The science of eating can be complicated. Over-emotionality and decisions can be stressful, if not downright traumatic.
Detect and remove destructive and negative thinking when it comes to the all-important process of fueling the body. This is one of the most important steps in developing a healthy life and lifestyle.
Editor Tips
Your goal with exercise is the amount of oxygen to increase your circulation reached. There are many types of aerobic exercise for you to choose from. The activities include walking, cycling, with a treadmill, dancing and jumping rope.
If you have small children, there are some other strategies you might want to try. Get on that treadmill in your home, using tapes, DVD's, or just tune into your local exercise channel. Simply with your baby in a safe area nearby. Your baby can even be a real kick out of watching his mom working out.
But many fitness experts and diet "gurus" give that impression. When you visit a gym today, especially in a major city, you will see a variety of devices, which would, frankly, give a better training, if you tried to pick them up and move them to the dump.
It is negative thinking.
Witness this scenario from a weight my clients' loss journals (with permission):
I want to lose weight.
I was supposed to lose weight.
I have to go on a diet.
I start on Monday. Mondays are easier. Should actually why I wait until Monday? I will start today! It's terrible. It is terrible, but if I start to lose a few pounds, I am excited and then I will continue to be motivated. Is not that how it works?
7.30 Clock coffee black, a hard-boiled egg.
10 clock starving. Oh! Someone brought it donuts!
But I would not have one. Although I'm starving. I actually feel a little weak. Hey, why not know Julie and I do not eat donuts? How does it work to stay thin when they eat donuts? I can not have a donut. I'm so fat. Look at her! She's so much fun. I wonder why I eat a donut and look like a tub of lard and Julie eats what she wants and never gains a pound. Life's just not fair!
11 There is no clock lunch time, but I'm so hungry I could eat a horse. I'm going to the deli and eat lunch early. Checked the salads but they look kind of wilted and not fresh. Saw the soup list. Nothing that I want. It was really nothing else to eat, so I ordered a cheeseburger with fries and grabbed a brownie at the checkout.
11.40 Clock Oh boy, I feel guilty. I'm so weak. I have no willpower. I was so good all morning! I did not even have a donut! I've really blown it now.
I wonder how many calories in the cheeseburger that I just inhaled? It would not have much, it was small. In fact, I'm still hungry. I'll never lose weight. I do not know what's wrong with me. I can not do anything right.
I do not know how I survive in this job, even. I am completely incompetent. It is a good thing my boss is blind. He does not see what an idiot I am.
I have not set forth in life, a terrible person. I'm not even sure it's my fault. Who can I blame? Oh, that's nonsense. It's my fault. I am weak, I'm stupid, I am incapable, I can not do anything right. I'm an idiot ...
(End of diary entry)
It is easy to see how this kind of downward spiral can be a person from eating a cheeseburger to be "a terrible person" in the shortest time to take advantage. When we "awfulize" situations, people or ourselves, it has a profound impact on our attitude to life!
Here are some of the components of negative thinking:
1. Problems are seen as permanent,
2. We identify ourselves as the problem or the cause of the problem,
3. We're starting to feel like the problem is a symbol of personal defectiveness.
I like the journal entry above with a history of my own contrast. Once, on a trip, I stopped Cheap gas station and filled my tank. A while later my car started sputtering and acting as if the engine would die. It was not accelerating smoothly and I felt as if I put cars chugging along, while all around me through accelerated. I immediately connected the lack of performance with the new gas. It would go well for a while, then start the routine again hesitation. I sat down to drive the car until it is filled about one quarter of the tank and below the other at a gas station. Reduce the problems and then I drove until it was less than a quarter tank full and refilled. The more problems.
The point here is that (I certainly do not get emotional about the poor gas probably mixed with water), I have purchased. It was certainly not to blame me for it. I have a mental note to be careful when choosing a service station and I did what I could to solve the problem. Then I moved on.
What would life be if we are this rational and calm about the decisions that are food? If we do not "awfulize" We made a bad decision, but merely fixes and went forward?
Still, the car is correspondingly very useful when it comes to food. Food is our fuel.
If we eat too much at lunch, we're going to skip and sputter through the long afternoon or after a nap. If we ignore real hunger, we are too much the next time we come to eat within 10 feet. And overwhelmed when we are tired or stressed, are the high-carb snack or candy bar comes to us a quick lift, then please write to us in an energy-depleted place are guaranteed to the other requests.
The science of eating can be complicated. Over-emotionality and decisions can be stressful, if not downright traumatic.
Detect and remove destructive and negative thinking when it comes to the all-important process of fueling the body. This is one of the most important steps in developing a healthy life and lifestyle.
Editor Tips
Your goal with exercise is the amount of oxygen to increase your circulation reached. There are many types of aerobic exercise for you to choose from. The activities include walking, cycling, with a treadmill, dancing and jumping rope.
If you have small children, there are some other strategies you might want to try. Get on that treadmill in your home, using tapes, DVD's, or just tune into your local exercise channel. Simply with your baby in a safe area nearby. Your baby can even be a real kick out of watching his mom working out.
But many fitness experts and diet "gurus" give that impression. When you visit a gym today, especially in a major city, you will see a variety of devices, which would, frankly, give a better training, if you tried to pick them up and move them to the dump.