Make the Decision for Good Health



Suzy had trouble deciding what exercise she should do to start her weight loss program. She claimed she really didn’t like to exercise. She wavered at the grocery store when picking out the foods she would buy for herself and her family. “Will they complain and give me trouble if I don’t buy the usual junk foods?” she thought to herself.

Was Suzy feeling fear of the unknown or just plain indecision. The answer is, she was feeling both. Fear of experiencing backlash from her family, fear of failure (“Am I a joke trying to make these changes?”) and fear that the pain of perceived deprivation would be too great to endure.

Suzy had not yet made the “definitive decision” to change her and her family’s lifestyle for better health.

Make the Decision to:

• Buy and eat only wholesome, healthy foods in modest quantities.
• Find a way to get active, mixing what you like to do with what you can do and commit to doing it daily or as often as possible.
• Learn as much as possible about the most healthy way to live your life. "Knowledge is Power!"

After you have "Made the Decision," everything else will fall into place.

Mindful Weight Loss Diet

The first step towards attaining or maintaining an ideal weight is recognizing weight management is more about thought processes and lifestyle than food.  Thousands of dieters start a fast diet regime every day, one that may indeed melt off a few excess pounds immediately, only to have an emotional issue or craving throw them back into making unhealthy choices.  Understanding one’s relationship to food is crucial to reprogramming self-defeating patterns.

 

Secondly, creating a vast array of choices other than food for emotional needs and building a reserve base of alternatives for times when ‘chocolate calls’ or the smell of a favorite comfort food beckons gives the dieter an upper hand over old counter-productive patterns.  A network of supportive friends to call or a planned activity to replace non-hunger related craving for food builds new neurological patterns that become healthy habits.

Excerpt from “The Right Weight Loss Diet Begins in the Mind” by Donna Hinton

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