Quick Weight Loss Tips - Make Your Habits Work For You

Posted by Quick Weight Loss Coach on June 23rd, 2008 at 07:59pm

To help you understand how you can make your existing habits and attitudes work for you, and help you achieve your quick weight loss goals, we need to introduce the concept of “small steps for big change”, which is central to the success of any weight loss plan.

This concept simply means that all the small actions you take, when put together and done progressively, can lead to a big change in your health and weight.

So often, I see people who are committed to improving their health but their actions fail. This is because their expectations are too great, and the changes they are trying to put in place are too drastic, unrealistic and unachievable for them.

This site is all about achievability, and the small steps for big change concept will be crucial to your success.

What is a Habit?

A habit is a series of behaviors we have got used to doing in response to a specific cue. When trying to adopt a new, healthy regime, we can often come unstuck as we try to ditch too many habits too quickly, and implement new actions which bear no resemblance to our existing life.

Such a large change can be daunting, difficult to maintain and often leads to us dropping all the good actions we need to take. Implementing new habits does involve some planning and thought, but the new habits I am going to ask you to develop need not be a world away from some of the ones you already have.

Grooving the new habits necessary to help you lose weight and improve your health need not be that difficult. The trick is to piggy-back your new habit onto something you’re already doing.

For example, one of the most popular forms of physical activity is walking. We know from research studies that walking can improve your health and help you lose weight and keep it off, but the way you’re walking at the moment may not be sufficient for you to reap these benefits.

So the one simple habit you need to evolve may not be miles away from what you’re already doing. All you need to do is address your walking technique and pace.

Not all of your existing habits will be beneficial to your health, and it’s likely that some may need to be ditched. However, eating the odd bar of chocolate or indulging in a cream tea once a week is not a bad habit - it’s when these ‘weekly’ habits are more of a daily habit that action needs to be taken.

Since we all have individual habits that directly affect our health and wellbeing, we need to apply a good dose of truthfulness. It can be very helpful to put these actions into context, and introduce an element of reality into how many times you actually complete the behavior. The more truthful and honest you are with yourself, the more successful your quick weight loss program is going to be.

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