How to Make Weight Loss a Lifestyle (Not a Diet)
Build an ongoing approach to eating, exercise and how you see yourself that fits your life.
Weight loss is the byproduct, not the goal
Keep focusing on what’s within your control and the stuff that isn’t will work itself out.
The scale number as a data point
You have to figure out how to handle this. Once you do, things get better. Your outlook, confidence, results...EVERYTHING!
The real weight loss process
If you feel stuck you’re focusing on the wrong thing. YOU can get the hang of this.
Better than perfect
Be consistent with effort and patient with progress. Results will follow, eventually.
You're doing better than you think
Incremental progress doesn’t show up every day. Many times you’ll feel like you’re stuck for months, working towards things you think you “should” be further along on.
The relationship between your effort and the scale
Know what screws up everyone’s perception of how weight loss should go? Those magical first few months of starting back on a fitness routine. You know, where you can drop 10-20 lbs of weight a month for the first month or two. This is your body dropping water weight, getting acclimated to the new routine AND losing fat. The problem is we get driven by the drop on the scale.
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