How to Stay on Track with a Weight Loss Program

Over the past year I have lost some significant weight. Most of us can stay on a diet for a few weeks without cheating.  It’s what happens after the first 14 days that either defeats us or turns us into a new physical specimen of beautiful proportions.  I do know that doesn’t happen exactly at day #14, but most experts admit that after 14 days any newly adopted process becomes habit.  Then dieting becomes our new normal.  Here are my suggestions for making it to day #14 and into the new habit-sphere.

1)  Make your new food program the most important thing in your life for the first 14 days.  Think about it constantly. 

2) Plan your next move around how it will impact your food choices. 

3)  Avoid trigger-foods and fast-food like the plague.

4)  Stay out of the kitchen. 

5)  Set up your food for the day in the morning and do not deviate. 

6)  Weigh yourself daily for only the first 14 days, so you can see regular progress even if it’s a portion of a pound.  After that go to weekly weigh-ins and report it to someone, preferabbly a weight coach, mentor, or diet buddy.     

7)  Drink lots of water to keep yourself hydrated and feeling full.

8) On day #15 add exercise back into your routine, if nothing else, walk 30 minutes per day. 

9)  Don’t think of food as comfort but rather as essential energy sources.  Don’t eat absent mindedly.  Control those calories with exactness. 

10) If you mess up after day #14 you stop the binge and simply start afresh with the 14 day plan once more.  After awhile you discover your diet has become a life habit and you have lost 50 pounds and know how to lose more.  Your binges have become less attractive since your body has been feeling so much better with less food clogging your system.

You can do this.  Gaining control of the nutrition and exercise makes the rest of life much more productive.  Here is a link to my professional weight coach's website with more motivation stories:   

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