How do I lose weight, not quickly but sustainably?

Hello my friends its Elighton and today I wanted to share six weight loss tips that will help you lose weight in a healthy sustainable way. The information today will be more natural, holistic tips, these are not your everyday dietary weight loss tips, because we have heard many of those already and I wanted to dig a little deeper to fish out some of the practices that I feel like really made a huge difference for people during the process of weight loss.  You might engage yourself in many dietary plans, yet something will be blocking you from the change you are searching for.  So here are some of the tips that has impacted some people, so many of them were mental.  

So the first tip is to recognize that weight loss can only do one thing and that is to have you lose weight right? Weight loss has one job than to make you weigh less. Weight loss cannot make you happier, more whole and more valuable, more worthy, because of the society we live in and all the pressure that it put on us, around our bodies. We think that we cannot be happy, whole, and valuable and worthy in a body that we don’t prefer or in a body that we feel is overweight right? Whenever you have intro personal communication telling you that you are broken, and you need to fix it, you are constantly working against yourself and even if you do lose the weight from that premise you will never feel successful, because losing weight cannot on and off itself or make you any happier or more fulfilled as a person right?, that is emotional work that needs to be done outside of weight loss.  Often time’s weight loss can be a byproduct of doing that emotional work first.  We have to remember that the journey informs the destination, so we need to come from a place of love, unconditional love and showing up for ourselves in a really kind loving way, exactly where we are, even when we’re not where we want to be.

The second tips are to remember that there is no wagon. Anybody who is a dieter or has tried many diets plans, we know that mentality, where we’re on the wagon, we’re off the wagon, we’re on the wagon, and we’re off the wagon right? Where we try to make the changes and in the minute we go off the plan or off what we had intended for ourselves then, we tell ourselves were off the wagon.  But the problem with this thought process as one, it’s rooted in perfection, and it’s very unrealistic because no matter what if you are going to lose weight over a period of time it is not a perfect linear path and what happens is when you tell yourself that the minute you eat the ice cream or the doughnut or the thing that was not on the plan that you now off the wagon. It then encourages more bad behavior and I use that term loosely, but it’s this idea that I’ve ruined it. It’s off the wagon and so what’s the point and that can send us into a day, two days, a week, and a month of spiraling in a direction of continuing to eat poorly and not focusing on the goals that we’ve set for ourselves because we feel like it’s not working anyway. So instead of thinking of a wagon you just want to think this is a continuum and if I slip up or when I make a decision that’s not aligned with my plan I’m going to look at it, and I’m going to learn from it, and I’m going to use this as a part of my journey forward. I’m not going to use it as a reason to stop, and I’m not going to use it as area zone to quit, this is a part of the journey nothing has gone wrong.

The third tips and is one of the biggest mental shifts in this strategy, do not focus on the foods that you need to avoid, instead of focusing on all the foods that you need to restrict and deprive yourself of focus on all the foods you have to include that made it fun, you need to be inspired to cave a new choice, it made it more like a game.  Start thinking what can you try, what’s in season what did you see in that magazine or on that healthy blog, it will become a new playful experiment and not a punishment. It is actually enjoyable. So focusing on all the foods that you get to include in your diet plan, maybe experimenting with a couple new things, that commitment to yourself can really create a mental shift around weight loss and make it a lot more enjoyable and a lot more sustainable.

The fourth tips are which piggybacks off,  tip number three is the crowd out technique again when we are making changes a lot of times we are thinking that we have to do this huge overhaul, and we want to change everything overnight, but the truth is creating new habits takes time, and it takes practice. So a really great way to do that is to use the crowd up technique again instead of saying I’m not going to eat this, or I’m not going to eat that to make a small commitment like I am going to include two vegetables on my lunch plate every single day, and you practice that for one week two weeks three weeks until it becomes so natural and so habitual to you that it doesn’t feel like trying anymore. It’s just something that you do and then once that happens you pick something else to invite onto your plate or into your kitchen or into your day-to-day habits. So maybe it’s drinking more water or working in a certain amount of movement every day, and you just focus on that one thing and as you focus on that one thing other things start to fall away.  It’s a mental shift because instead of focusing on things that we think we can’t do, or we shouldn’t do,  we’re bringing in habits that we want to do and then just letting the other ones be slightly crowded out a bit. It’s a much more gentle approach, and again it is a much more enjoyable approach 

The fifth tips are to focus on your commitments instead of your results. At this stage you must be faithful to your commitment. So many people when it comes to weight loss we think that the number on the scale dictates whether we have had any success or if we’re moving in the right direction but as we know bodies are fluid and ever moving and scales as you know is not linear they move up and down on a weight-loss journey and so it can become very discouraging when you’re using only the scale to decide whether you have moved towards your goal.  When you make the shift focusing on your commitments to yourself that gives you a lot more control over the day-to-day right, so if your commitment is hey I’m going to drink four glasses of water today or hey I’m going to move my body for 30 minutes today, or I’m going to put two servings of vegetables on my lunch plate every day right, you have something very clear specific to focus on, and then you know whether you have been successful that day by your ability to honor the commitment that you made to yourself. So it becomes a much more tangible way to see if you’re making success because at the end of the day.  Weight loss over the long haul comes down to those day-to-day practices those day-to-day habits and so when you are making a habit for that day and paying attention to that day, those are the small wins that add up over time and might I also add. That is how motivation is fed right, often people say well how can I get more motivated how you motivate yourself and I personally have found that motivation is often a byproduct of results. We don’t usually start out motivated, or maybe we do for the first few days but what tends to get us motivated is when we are having results. So if you have the results of honoring your commitment 710 days how good,  you start to feel motivated you start to build momentum and that again makes everything more enjoyable more pleasurable and therefore more sustainable.

Final tip, I want to share with you today, the sixth tip is to be reflective and not rejected right. So when you are not able to stick to your intentions, when you find that you were not able to commit to the things you set out for yourself, instead of using that as a reason to reject yourself and turn your back on yourself and tell yourself you’re not capable or that you’re a failure or this is just something your honor able to douse it as an invitation to stay soft and compassionate and curious imagine every single time. If you made a turn that was off the path you wanted to learn from it right? That you wanted to understand it more instead of just labeling it as a problem and rejecting the whole thing you would in the long run make so much further forward progress. Weight loss is not only about the weight falling off your body or the number of the scale going down, it’s about the relationship that we get to foster with ourselves and when you bring that to the forefront, and you remember that again it’s a huge shift in the weight loss journey. So most of what I wanted to share here today as you can see it’s really reflective of the mental aspects of weight loss yes!, there are definitely action steps we can take on our plates and with our food and it that’s different for everybody but if you can’t get the mental game straight right, if you can’t be on your own side and be in this for the long run, I don’t care what you put on your plate you’re always going to have to come back to the drawing board to deal with you. I would actually go so far to say that I think for many people the weight loss journey only about learning how to foster a kinder more loves relationship with themselves in their bodies, but again that’s just a little food for thought. So I hope that some of these tips have resonated with you if you’re interested in more article like this please come down to the comments below and let me know this is a topic that’s near and dear to my heart, so I do love to share and to chat with you guys about it thank you so much for reading I’m Elighton and I will see you back here next time with some more food and tips.

 

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Disclaimer;  ; my content is based on the research and may not represent the opinion of some medical Practitioner, it is for inspirational purpose.