Often losing weight is not good if you have little confidence. You start enthusiastically and after that, you still get thoughts like:
I’m not going to succeed anyway, so I’d better stop immediately.
I don’t know how to handle it during that dinner, so it makes no sense.
I see other people all eating delicious things that I don’t like, that’s not fair.
I’m tired, I don’t care, I just take that cake.
They think I am a loser anyway because I am overweight, then I will be a weakling …
I took licorice today, you see, I can’t do this.
Do you recognize this? Maybe good to start believing in yourself a little more! But how do you do that?
How to maintain weight loss program
More confidence helps with maintaining your weight loss program!
That sounds logical, but how do you do that?
It is mainly about your self-image and self-worth. If you have a lot of self-esteem, you are much more willing to take care of yourself. Because you give yourself a healthy body.
More self-confidence when losing weight helps if you keep thinking about this:
You know that perfection does not exist, but you do find it nice and good for your health if you lose some weight.
Success and achieving a goal is almost always accompanied by “pain”. You have to do something that you may not like. Also, consider doing a study, then you are studying on Sunday afternoon, while others can enjoy Netflix or have an appointment with friends. Or think of a top athlete who always has to train and hardly has a social life. We often only see the success but not the effort that is put into it. The same applies to achieve a certain weight.
Do you already have a nice concert or trip on the agenda in about half a year? Then consider what you look like when you are there and weigh 10, 15, 20 pounds less? Can you keep repeating that image? Visualize it when you go to bed and when you get up again.
Don’t feel bad if you don’t follow a diet exactly. If you do understand the intention and generally stick to your new eating pattern, then it does not matter that you do not follow the diet exactly. On the contrary, it helps you to maintain your new eating pattern!
Everyone has good and bad habits. The people who seem to be effortlessly slim are undoubtedly struggling with other things they want to tackle and cost them a lot of effort.
Don’t punish yourself by denying you everything to ridiculously maintain your weight loss program. Occasionally give yourself something that you really enjoy. Enjoy it and pick up your healthy eating pattern again.
Search online for tasty, healthy recipes. You can also create a board on Pinterest with everything you like. At Insta you can follow certain healthy foods (hashtag) and thus gain all kinds of good inspiration.
Remember that you have to go through the sour apple. That’s just the way it is. The first two weeks are the most difficult to maintain. Certainly from day 3 or 4. But after two weeks you will already notice results. Not only because of your weight, but you will have more energy and you will also see it very quickly on your face.
Other factors that do not make it easier for you to maintain your weight loss program:
If you are chronically ill or tired quickly, it is difficult to always stand firmly in your shoes. You are more inclined to use fast food that offers you some kind of comfort. Usually, that is not an apple … Even if you are not feeling well, or there is a lot of sadness, it is possible that you feed yourself with comfort food and your self-confidence is less.
Unfortunately, this often results in a negative snowball effect. The snacks make you feel even worse and more tired and you start filling even more with a high-sugar or high-fat diet. As a consolation.
You are often not aware of this pattern. Very often they are unconscious actions. You already have something in your mouth before you have actually thought about it. To break patterns, you not only have to adjust your eating habits, but also certain activities. Are you tired and want to use Netflix? And is this a moment when you grab the chips? Maybe you can now knit, crochet or draw something during Netflixing? You are going to do something that prevents you from eating at the same time.
Do you know that tasty appetite also disappears when you start moving? Go for a walk, iron or tidy up. Instead of bad, you feel proud afterward because you have done much more than sitting on the couch with chips. After that, you can have something nice. Think cucumber. Or a sweet and sour pickle. Or apple with cinnamon from the oven.
A few more important tips if you want to lose weight:
- Make sure the meals are nutritious, so with lots of healthy nutrients. That’s good for your body, that’s good for you. While losing weight, you may be tempted to skip a meal, but then you catch up later in the day (I myself am also a bad morning eater, so important to me too.
- Do not choose a one-sided diet, but something that you can sustain for longer. If you love bread, do not opt for a low-carbohydrate diet, but simply reduce and eat healthier. A diet such as unemployment or losing weight with the Netherlands helps with this.
- It already helps enormously if you no longer take snacks, including soft drinks or coffee with sugar and milk in between. You can lose weight easily if you just take three good, healthy and nutritious meals a day. Then don’t eat too little!
- Do not drink a sip of water occasionally, but empty a glass of water in one go. This fills more and makes you less hungry. Do this about 8 times a day.
Keep your goal in mind. Not an unrealistic goal, but what would it mean if you lost 10 pounds? Or 20? How would you feel then? Try to avoid short-term thinking (rapid saturation/comfort) and opt for the long-term (healthy weight, a radiant you).
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