Thinking Patterns Toward Weight Loss

Being trim and healthy feels better than any food tastes.  You may not believe this statement if you have never been there, but we who have can testify to this truth.  Compare the two before you stray from healthy eating and exercise time.

Keep upmost in your mind a vision of achieving your goals.  Let that be the impetus that carries you through.  Do you have a picture of your goal?  If not, find one and place it in prominent places like the refrigerator door, workplace or mirror.

We have the most advanced brains in existence and can do almost anything we set our minds too!  If the brain can be trained to believe it is right to kill innocent people in God's name, it can certainly be molded to control our eating and behaviors toward weight loss and good health!.....Linda Hibbard

Revamp Your Goals

• Focus on behavior instead of weight numbers.  Instead of "I'm going to lose 2# this week." (You can't guarantee yourself a weight change) say, "I'm going to nibble on carrots rather than potato chips this week." Realistically, you can only promise yourself behavior changes.
• Plan tangible rewards (non-food), for instance: Put a dollar in a jar after each exercise session.
• Schedule the extra time if needed for exercise or to shop and prepare low-fat, healthy meals.  If you leave it to chance, it might mean that you won't get to it.
• Weigh yourself once a week, always at the same time of day, preferably first thing in the morning after voiding and before eating or drinking.  Chart on a graph.