The #1 Reason Why People Fail at Weight Loss

Do you know the biggest reason why people fail? It’s because they don’t have a detailed plan about where they are going, they don’t know what it takes to get there and they have no idea how to measure the end result. Losing weight is not complicated but requires a strategic plan for success. Especially in the times we are living in now, being super busy, little time to cook and fast food places all over. So let’s walk through what you need to do to be successful!

Choose a Goal Weight

When choosing a goal weight it should be an attainable weight. If you are 200 pounds your initial goal weight should not be 120 pound; it should be a number that you can achieve by losing a healthy amount of weight, usually ¼ pound to 2 pounds per week over the course of a few months. For some people, it will take 2-4 week just adjusting to the decrease in calorie intake and learning how to watch your portions. There are many ways to estimate portions just by using your hands, we will cover that later in the month so stay tuned!

 

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Why You are not READY to Change

Deciding you are READY to do anything is ALWAYS the first step. When you are not ready and fully committed to the decision, it usually never happens as you envision. When you are not committed to EVERYTHING it will take to make your transformation a reality, you are not ready to change.Instead, you continue to operate in your negative self-talk and excuses. 

 

Get READY

Thankfully, you CAN address this issue and go on to be successful. There are stages of readiness that can identify where you are, why you are there and how to proceed through them. These are the five stages we use:

 •      Pre-contemplation

•      Contemplation

•      Preparation

•      Action

•      Maintenance

 

 

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Self-What?

 Self-efficacy is the self-confidence you have in yourself to change your negative behaviors and be successful at making those changes in your daily life. A correlation was found between making positive behavior changes regarding your health and how you perceive yourself. Confidence affects decisions that you make, the effort that you put into goals, how you interpret barriers and how determined you are to succeed when faced with adversity.  When you think about it, your confidence IN completing a goal might be just as or more important than really knowing HOWto complete the goal. 

 Behaviors and Feelings that ZAP Self-Confidence

 •      Failure

•      Negative Self-Talk

•      Doubt

•      Inconsistency

•      Fear

•      Insecurity

•      Lack of Trust

 

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Let’s get REAL

We all have had that moment when you can’t fit into your favorite jeans or you realize that EVERYTHING is tighter than it used to be. So what do we do? We decide that RIGHT NOW I am going to make some changes and lose this weight!  We get so pissed off that NOTHING will ruin the determination to reach our goal.

For some, this feeling may last for a while and they lose some of the weight and then start to get off track with their plan that was achieving the results, get frustrated that the weight loss has stopped and quit. 

For others the feeling is short lived and you find yourself reasoning with why it’s all right to give up and stay the way you are. 

 

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