How to Become the Type of Dieter who Succeeds

Are you the kind of dieter who starts full of enthusiasm
embracing a new plan on day one yet falling by the wayside a few
weeks or months later?

Or are you a dabbler – someone who tries a bit of this plan a
bit of that and never really gets anywhere?

Or are you someone who gets to your target weight, more or less
keeping to your diet, and then ditches it with glee only to put
all the weight back on again?

It doesn’t matter what type of dieter you have been in the past,
you can be successful from now on, but you will need a change in
approach. After all, if the ways you’ve tried to lose weight and
keep it off in previous attempts haven’t worked for you, chances
are they never will.

How do the people who succeed at losing weight actually do it?

Among my coaching clients I have established four factors that
make a huge difference (and you don’t even need a coach to put
them in place). You become the type of dieter who loses weight
permanently by:-

* making your mind up to succeed no matter what

* being ready to change your habits for the long term not just
to meet your target weight

* having a simple plan to follow that fits in with your
lifestyle and preferences

* arranging support by having the right routines and structure
in place and having someone who you know will be there for you
when the going gets tough.

With these four elements in place the effort of losing weight is
easier than you might imagine. For example, if you are
absolutely determined to succeed you don’t find it so difficult
to choose healthy food options and to fit more movement into
your life even if you don’t want to take formal exercise. If you
are happy to change your habits for life, you avoid the problem
of losing weight and then putting it all straight back on when
you go back to eating what made you overweight in the first
place. If you have a simple plan, you don’t get bored with
counting and calculating, measuring and weighing food – you make
changes which are easier to maintain. And getting support – from
family, from friends, from the routines and structure you put in
place, simply makes things go more easily, whatever system
you’re following.

Think about which of these elements are missing in the way you
are going about losing weight. What do you need to change to
become the type of dieter who reaches and maintains his or her
target weight and stays there? Increase your chances of success
by making sure these elements are present in your next weight
loss program whatever way you choose to lose weight.

Copyright 2006, Janice Elizabeth Small

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