Now we know why we don’t stick to a commitment we have made. It is because NOW usually wins against LATER as explained in If You Don’t Read This Now, You’ll Hate Yourself Later, which is the first article of this ‘How to Stick to a Diet’ series. To reverse the situation, we have learned about plan A, which is about increasing the size of ‘REWARD’ that we’ll get at later time.
But to stick to a diet, we need as much help as we can get. That’s why we also …
The first article of this ‘How to Stick to a Diet’ series - If You Don’t Read This Now, You’ll Hate Yourself Later - explained that we don’t stick to a commitment we have made because NOW usually wins against LATER. To reverse the situation, we need plan A.
Plan A involves increasing the size of ‘REWARD’ that we’ll get at LATER time, so it is greater than the benefit of now. Here are 7 ways to do it:
1. Use Your Rational.
The article How Successful-Weight-Losers Start Dieting asked you to list …
Successful-weight-losers and those who failed have the same number of slips during dieting.
That’s what nutritionist Katherine Tallmadge, MA, RD. found.
Then how can they lose weight and keep it off, whereas the others fail?
They picked themselves up and move on.
It’s just like the saying:
“You don’t drown by falling in the water. You drown by staying there.”
So, the good news is: even though you slip and make mistakes in your dieting, you can STILL succeed.
The other news is: you need to PREPARE ahead for that ‘down’ moment.
When we are just about to …
Which weight loss program is the most effective?
Adam Gilden Tsai, MD tried to find out the answer. His team reviewed a very large number of research studies.
Some of the weight loss programs that he investigated: WeightWatchers, Jenny Craig, L.A. Weight Loss, Health Management Resources, Optifast, Medifast, eDiet.com, Nutrisystem.com, WeightWatchers Online, Take Off Pounds Sensibly, and Overeaters Anonymous.
Do you want to increase your likelihood to succeed in losing weight?
What kind of question that is. Of course, you do.
Experts say that the more confident you are about your ability to lose weight, the more likely you will succeed.
Yes, it’s the same with many things in life. From babies learning to walk to adults trying to master a foreign language. Confidence breeds success.
So how to increase our confidence?