If you have tried those weight loss programs where you have to
keep to a strict eating plan and follow a particular exercise
regime you may have found it a bit of a struggle to keep going.
Chances are you gave up after a few weeks or even a few days.
When we start out full of enthusiasm it's difficult to see the
sheer effort that it will take to keep going when the novelty has
worn off, it's a wet Tuesday in February and we're just plain
tired of it all.
Some people do manage to makeover their lives overnight. It's
fantastic if you have the willpower and determination to achieve
this but most of us can't handle that much disruption to our lives
all at once. We are already struggling to keep up with all we
have to do each day.
So what do you do if you know your willpower is likely to give up
on you when the going gets tough?
Try the Singular Success Method!
This involves changing your life one habit at a time. You decide
which habits you want to adopt and you work on them one by
one, integrating them into your life until they feel quite natural.
Once you're happy that you can take on something else, you
add that into the mix and you keep adding new habits only at
the rate you can handle them. In this way you can transform
your life and your shape over the course of a few weeks or
months without the hugely stressful sudden overhaul in your
lifestyle.
You may find you're happy to tackle two habits at once - one
where you concentrate on your intake of food or drink and
another where you concentrate on moving a bit more and that
will make the process faster. You just have to make sure you
take on only what you can handle at any one time - given all
you have going on in your life.
And the best thing of all about this method? You achieve
success after success and that brings its own momentum -
you're not constantly left feeling like a failure for not keeping up
an impossibly ambitious change in your lifestyle.
Copyright 2006, Janice Elizabeth Small
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