5 Easy Steps to Lose the Weight and Keep It Off Forever
Ever find yourself asking this question? “How do I lose the weight and keep it off forever?” It is the forever-unanswered one, for decades at least. There are so sO SO many “solutions,” and I must quote there. You know exactly what I am referring to.
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The way is easy and free. It is based entirely on science. It does not require any complicated steps that make you buy any services or products. It is about how you live your life every day. You can read more about this topic on my interview with Authority Magazine.
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Without further ado, here are the 5 simple steps I tell everyone who wishes to lose the weight and keep it forever:
Summary
Step 1: Start small
Instead of banning yourself from all kinds of soft drinks and alcohol, you might want to start by reducing your intake bit by bit. I recommend using the SMART Principles when setting up your goals. This is precisely how one of my clients (T) did it.
T was having a can of ginger ale every day plus one or two alcoholic drinks on the weekends. She knew that it was not healthy and wanted to cut that all off when she first joined my program. However, instead of telling T to ban all these drinks, I told her to begin by splitting her ginger ale in half and share the other half with her mom. That way, she could still enjoy the ginger ale while reducing the amount at the same time. Plus, she can also use the shared experience to include her mother in her fitness journey.
Related post: How to Use the SMART Principles for Exercising?
Step 2: Keep track of your progress
As T continued to drink half a can of ginger ale each day, I had her keep track of how many cans she would consume per week. It was a simple task. She would put a checkmark on her tracker each day when she only had half a can of ginger ale instead of the whole can, and she would draw a star if she did not drink any at all. In just 3 weeks, T found that she no longer had ginger ale every day. Instead, she enjoyed them only on the weekends. The significant result might not be too apparent at this stage, but she could still see her progress day by day.
Step 3: Trust the feedback from yourself
It is the hardest part of starting out since we all tend to compare our progress to others.
As T was going through her weeks, she found that her skin condition improved and got clearer. She learned that she felt better on days without the ginger ale and thus continued to reduce its consumption on her own. She trusted herself to move forward and cut off ginger ale entirely in just a month. T could not believe the incredible result she had gotten. The change she made seemed small, but it brought a huge benefit!
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Step 4: Reward yourself at important milestones
Here is the fun but necessary step!
Cutting off ginger ale is in no way a small feat. It was a massive win for T to cut soft drinks entirely out of her life without hesitation. Of course, she would still reward herself with eating out, but she would often opt for no soft drinks! It is encouraging to give yourself something nice when you conquer a big mountain.
All wins count, no matter how big or how small!
Step 5: Level up your success
You have completed level 0 of the game. It is time for level 1.
Cutting off ginger ale was not the only thing T wanted to do in our program together. She had other goals, especially after she started feeling much better about herself and her health. SO, what else did T do? She started walking her dog 3 times a week and did gardening work for her yard. She was no longer the couch potato I knew when we first met. She is now an active person who also loves her mother and her dog!
How to lose the weight and keep it off: A summary
If you have made it to this point of the blog, you can clearly tell that to lose the weight and keep it off is extremely simple. The most critical issue is setting up your discipline to instill these new habits into your life.
Level your game to lose the weight and keep it off!
Change is always hard. But you must turn your life around, starting with lose the weight and keep it off. You do not want to be one of those people who do yo-yo diets and have to keep worrying about their weight for as long as they are alive. You want to create changes once and be done with it forever.
So, if you are looking for a fitness professional to guide you through this treacherous path, then I am here for you. I am an ACSM Certified Exercise Physiologist who spent 4 years going through an accredited university to learn all about exercise and how it affects your body.
With our time together, I promise you will find joy with exercises and live your life the way you have always wanted. Click here to apply!
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