The ‘M’ Factor
What ever stage you find yourself in your diet or weight loss programme, whether you are just starting out (it is Monday after all) or whether you are close to achieving your weight, size and shape goal, have you thought about the all important ‘M’ factor?
‘M’ is for ‘maintenance’
Let’s say you do a fantastic job of staying on your diet of choice and losing weight.В What’s going to happen when you reach your target weight?В I hope it will be time for a celebration, but will you have got there by sheer determination with a specific date, size, event in mind?В If so, what happens after the event?
If you achieved your weight goals because you’ve decided it’s ok to do so then maintaining your new shape, size and weight will be very straight forward and will involve little or no effort.В However, if it’s a real slog sticking to your diet and you resent being on it, or are not 100% committed then you are simply attempting to put a sticking plaster over a symptom of the real problem (the reason you over eat, binge eat or yo-yo diet to begin with).В Unfortunately all that will happen IF you achieve your goals is a return to your old eating habits and therefore a return to your previous (if not bigger) size.
In order to succeed it is vital you understand why you binge eat, over eat, under eat or yo-yo diet in the first place.В When you understand that your weight, size and shape goals will be so much easier to achieve and maintenance is not a word you’ll need to worry about as it will happen naturally.
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March 1, 2010
Tags: binge eat, over eat, weight, yo-yo diet Posted in: Attitude & Approach