Fight Emotional Attitude For An Effective Weight Loss

Having a good exercise is a good way to make a person feel better and to improve their own self-image. According to the study that was conducted by the researchers in George Washington University Medical Center, overweight and obese people are stronger believers of the importance of workouts and exercise than people with normal weight. But most obese and overweight people don’t like the idea of exercising in front of thinner and younger gym-goers. They feel embarrassed and uncomfortable sweating out in front of the muscular and svelte health club staff. All in all, it is actually emotions and lack of determination that keeps people from having a regular exercise. Physical vs. Emotional hunger Studies have shown that there are actually five major differences between physical and emotional hunger. These are the following:

1. Physical hunger comes naturally and gradually while emotional hunger is a feeling of sudden cravings for a particular food.
2. Physical hunger is always being felt in the stomach. When you are hungry, there will be a slight and sudden pain that you will feel in your stomach. Emotional hunger is all in the mind. You tend to crave for a particular food even though you have already eaten.
3. When you are open to a variety of food options, you are really hungry. But when you feel frantic and desperate for a particular food that is considered as an emotional need.
4. Physical hunger could wait whereas emotional hunger should be satisfied right away.
5. Even though you’re in a diet, physical hunger will leave you satisfyingly full while emotional hunger will make you feel guilty.

Self-monitoring, stimulus control, cognitive techniques and slower eating are some of the techniques in behavioral therapy to control one’s eating habit for a more effective weight loss. There are actually a lot of ways on how to monitor and control yourself to make sure that you are not already drifting away from your healthy eating and weight loss habits.

1. Keep a food journal. You have to write down a list of possible healthy foods that you are going to eat during your weight loss diet. In this way, you will be more organized and you will not think twice about what meal that you are going to have.

2. Keep an exercise journal. When you have an exercise journal, you will have to track of all the exercise you have during the week or during a month of regular workouts. You will be more motivated and it could also help you in deciding when is the right time to change your exercise and weight loss program.

3. Take measurements. Measurements will tell you how much weight you have lost. In this way, you will also know if you’re on the right track of your weight loss goals.

4. Test your body fats. This is actually the best way to know if you were able to lose fats during your monthly diet. It is important to have this kind of test so that you will know whether you are really losing fats or if it is already muscles that you are losing.

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