All fitness and diet plans have their fair share of failures. Even the most successful diets in the world can’t help you if you don’t stay motivated and follow through with your diet plan. If you’re looking to lose weight, keep it off, or just feel great about yourself, reading this blog post may just change your life!
The importance of intention in dieting
It’s easy to make bad diet choices when you don’t know what you want to eat. A stuck-up dieter might decide that orange juice is a healthy drink, only to find out later that orange juice is actually a high-calorie beverage that drives her into a diabetic coma. This is why having a “healthy” mindset when dieting is the most important thing you can do. You can’t know what you want to eat until you try it, and you can’t try everything. Your diet must be guided by a healthy, yearly, “why” diet plan. If you are struggling with an eating disorder, it’s important to remember that you are not “bad” because you have an eating disorder. You are not a “bad” person for not being able to eat or drink things that you enjoy. You are not a “bad” dieter for having a bag of chips or a couple of cookies every so often. Many people with eating disorders struggle with self-esteem issues, so it is important to remember that you are not always “good” either way.
The New Rules of Diet and fitness
The first and most important rule of any diet is to stay committed to the diet. No one ever becomes “sick” from dieting. Your health is connected to your dieting habits and the only person that can stop you from achieving your health and fitness goals is yourself. The second rule is to stay consistent with your diet. Eating on the “nice to have” list or at the weekends or on holiday breaks is not a good strategy for staying motivated. You have to push through the bad habits and make time for your sport or fitness. If you miss a workout or a diet day, you will lose a lot of the progress that you have made. In addition, skipping a meal will give your body more time to use up the few calories that you have left in your system. The third rule is to reward yourself for success. It’s important to recognise that small wins add up over time. If you make it to your next weigh in feeling proud of yourself for losing weight, then you will have a much easier time keeping your progress going.
The 3 habits of successful dieters
The first habit is called “planning”. If you are not planning out your meals and snacks, then you are probably going to go off-track and end up eating what you don’t want to eat. The second habit is called “executing”. Eating is a distraction and you have to focus on what you are doing instead. The third habit is “managing”. This is about keeping everything in order and making sure that you stay on track.
Take-away
Diet and fitness plans are exciting, but they are also nerve-wracking. The only way to succeed at both is to stay committed to the process and stay consistent with your diet.
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