I feel I have exhausted this weight loss dialogue, and I am just repeating things that I have already said over the course of eight years.
I have my weight sneaking back up, and I know that I have to take care of it before it is a full blown problem, but one of the downsides of this diet is that it doesn't really help with the weight loss maintenance.
But that is the problem with all diets. How to keep it off? So we go to lifestyle class, and we are accountable to our peers, should be able to talked about our downfalls and the pitfalls of the real life eating. But in reality we talk about goals and lofty ideals. What is your goal for the week? Lose 3 pounds. How are you going to lose that 3 pounds? By cutting back on calories. How are you going to cut back on calories? By planning my meals and sticking to it. Sounds like a plan get back to us when next week.
So the conversation ends.
Or another conversation that is heard all the time.
I do good for the day then I come home and eat.
So what can you do to stop from eating when you get home.
Drink water.
Go for a walk.
Read a book.
Have some vegetables.
Don't have food in the kitchen.
Do something to distract you.
Eat but do it mindfully.
And you say, good ideas, I will try them, thanks.
But really you come home tired and hungry, whether from stress or you didn't have enough time to eat. Those things to do may help you once in a while, but the pull to eat is so very strong. It doesn't sustain me into a change of behavior. Changing behavior is not done in a week or a month or a year. It took a lifetime to develop the behaviors we have now, what makes us think we can wake up one morning and say we are going to change this behavior? We won't. We don't. That is why the weight doesn't stay off.
We have to find what works to change our behavior. Ever train a dog? There are two camps, reward and punishment. Which am I?
I have my weight sneaking back up, and I know that I have to take care of it before it is a full blown problem, but one of the downsides of this diet is that it doesn't really help with the weight loss maintenance.
But that is the problem with all diets. How to keep it off? So we go to lifestyle class, and we are accountable to our peers, should be able to talked about our downfalls and the pitfalls of the real life eating. But in reality we talk about goals and lofty ideals. What is your goal for the week? Lose 3 pounds. How are you going to lose that 3 pounds? By cutting back on calories. How are you going to cut back on calories? By planning my meals and sticking to it. Sounds like a plan get back to us when next week.
So the conversation ends.
Or another conversation that is heard all the time.
I do good for the day then I come home and eat.
So what can you do to stop from eating when you get home.
Drink water.
Go for a walk.
Read a book.
Have some vegetables.
Don't have food in the kitchen.
Do something to distract you.
Eat but do it mindfully.
And you say, good ideas, I will try them, thanks.
But really you come home tired and hungry, whether from stress or you didn't have enough time to eat. Those things to do may help you once in a while, but the pull to eat is so very strong. It doesn't sustain me into a change of behavior. Changing behavior is not done in a week or a month or a year. It took a lifetime to develop the behaviors we have now, what makes us think we can wake up one morning and say we are going to change this behavior? We won't. We don't. That is why the weight doesn't stay off.
We have to find what works to change our behavior. Ever train a dog? There are two camps, reward and punishment. Which am I?
