Ask yourself, “Why am I overweight?”
Your first answer will be that you eat more than your body requires for fuel.
Your second answer will be that you don’t exercise enough.
Then ask yourself, “Why don’t I eat better fuel or exercise enough?”
Write down your answer.
Knowing the answer to this question is imperitive if you want to lose weight permanently. You need to know what got you here in the first place so you won’t repeat it. Revisit this question often. Anytime you miss a workout or overeat ask yourself, “Why am I eating this?” or “Why am I doing this?”
Never let yourself get too hungry and stop the minute you are full.
So many of us wait way to long to eat. We get really, really hungry and then eat more than we really need. Make sure you keep food with you so you can eat high grade fuel the minute you get hungry. Try to eat protein with each meal to keep you sated for longer. Stop eating the minute you get sated. No matter if you are in the middle of a bite, put the food down when your stomach is done. You should feel light and energized after every meal or snack. Remind yourself that you can eat the minute you get hungry again.
How can you plan to eat when you are hungry? Write down your ideas.
Stop being mean to yourself.
Watch how you talk to yourself during the day. Notice the thoughts you have and how they make you feel. Are you kind to yourself. Do you encourage yourself? Do you give yourself the gift of patience? Through the process of losing weight and understanding how you got overweight in the first place, show yourself some common decency. You would never let someone else be as mean to you as you are to yourself-you would never choose them as a friend. So make sure you are being a good friend to yourelf.
Write down the ways in which you are mean to yourself.
What are the thoughts that you are having on a daily basis about yourself?
Know that when you are losing weight there will be times you want to eat when you aren’t hungry. If you can be kind to yourself during these times you might begin to understand why you feel like eating and then with that knowledge begin to change it.
These three tools have been summarized and simplified from "If I am So Smart, Why Can’t I Lose Weight?" by Brooke Castillo
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