6 Tips To Achieve Sustainable Weight Loss

The diet and weight loss industry makes billions of dollars every year from people who really need actual help to change their eating habits, patterns and behaviours and make some real sustainable lifestyle changes that support that.

Diet and weight loss pills and programs do not teach you the strategies and techniques on how to change your eating habits, patterns, and behaviours; and more importantly, they don't teach you how to manage your thoughts and emotions that are tied up to emotional eating, binge eating, and overeating.

So, how do you achieve sustainable weight loss?
Here are 6 tips to help you achieve sustainable weight loss;

1.     Set realistic goals
There is no such thing as overnight success. Sustainable weight loss takes focus and attention but more importantly, you need to have knowledge of whats happening in your body and what to do to change your experiences. It is important to set realistic goals and take things one step at a time...

Don't wait for you to lose weight to actually start living life and doing the things that you have long wanted to do.

Do it now and start getting active and doing things that move your body and gives you happiness and pleasure.

Do you feed your hunger or do you feed your feelings?

The primary reason why some people overeat or reach for food for comfort is because they currently have an emotion or feeling that is unpleasant.

And that's exactly the reason why they reach for food is because they want to feel a sudden relief from that unpleasantness, they want some comfort.

What can you do?

Every time you feel compelled to reach for food for comfort, take a moment to investigate what triggered your urge.

To manage emotional eating, you have to identify your emotional eating pattern, take note of what you're feeling in the moment you're reaching for the food.

This will help you manage your emotions and the patterns that triggers you to emotional eat.

FIND OTHER HEALTHY WAYS TO FEED YOUR FEELINGS
To stop emotional eating, you have to find other ways you can fulfill yourself emotionally in healthy and helpful ways.

✔If you're feeling lonely, sad or depressed, play your favourite music, play with your pet, or call someone who...

"You have to learn how to redirect your thoughts, feelings and behaviours and coach yourself."

I will be happy when...
I will be happy as soon as...
I'm not going to be happy as I am...

Are you saying any of those to yourself or others?

Are you putting off your happiness because you still haven't achieved X?

😬A certain body size?
😬A specific weight?
😨Your dream job?
😲The business you've long wanted to build?
😵A loving relationship?
😳A certain income level?

Happiness should not be put off.

You can be happy while pursuing the things that you want to do or achieve in life.

Stop undermining your happiness! Be happy now!

How?

Here are 5 simple ways you can be happy now;

✔Daily reminder
Remind yourself daily of your bigger purpose. Use a mantra, daily ritual, or journaling to help ground yourself in what matters most to you.

✔Know your destination
You want to be certain of who you want to be and where you want to go. When are certain about your goals you create better plans to achieving them.

✔Celebrate the journey
Celebrate your small wins and savor your progress. Remember, happiness is not the destina...

What's the biggest mistake women do when trying to lose weight?

Health is not a result of a once in a lifetime transformation but a series of small steps every day towards changing your habits and preventing relapse back into old ones.

Health is not achieved by just following a specific diet plan or exercise program because to be healthy is to be willing to take the long road of changing how you think, feel and react to life.

You will only achieve sustainable health if you change your old unhealthy habits to healthy and helpful ones.

And creating new healthy habits, its easier than you think, but you have to do it every day, not just on the days you feel like it.

Most times, you will find yourself on the brink of slipping back to your old habits but if you keep your promise to yourself and do the following tips, you will achieve sustainable health by creating sustainable habit change;

🎯 Set real health goals, not just a number on the scales:
The best thing you can do is to breakdown your big goals to small little steps so you can achieve little by little...

If we want to live a balanced life, then we need to balance our emotions instead of anchoring them to food and beverages, instead of divorcing ourselves from them and burying ourselves in "busy" work, instead of running away what we can't run away from - our internal discomfort.

I remember when my life was out of balance, when my life was so full it was actually empty and I was using food and beverages as a substitute for everything that was missing.

What I really needed - wanted - was someone who understood my situation, someone who actually understood what I was experiencing AND had answers to help me resolve it myself. I wanted someone to walk beside me and help me through it all the way.

Living a balanced life is obtainable, even if you're living the most chaotic one right now, there is a way, and it's way easier than you think.

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