Prairie Health Journals

Do Your Beliefs Prevent You From Losing Weight?

Making healthy choices and becoming more active are important when starting a weight loss program and trying to improve your health and fitness. However, your beliefs are just as important because this is what actually determines what actions you are going to take. If you are trying to lose weight, it will be helpful for you to examine the beliefs that may have made it difficult for you lose weight. The following four factors are commonly held beliefs that many people have. Take a moment to think about what you feel has contributed to your current weight and fitness challenges.
Genetics- Do you feel you have inherited your weight problems from your genes? Do you have overweight family members and feel you might be doomed to the same fate? Has this belief caused you to give up or have feelings of helplessness when it comes to your weight?

Environment – Do you feel your challenges are caused by your lifestyle or environment such as working hours, family priorities or frequent exposure to unhealthy food choices? Do you feel that your hectic lifestyle prevents you from making healthy food choices or finding time to exercise? Has this belief caused you to feel like you have no control over your environment and the challenges it presents?

Knowledge – Do you feel you just don’t have the right information and are unsure of what you should be doing to lose weight? The magazines say one thing, the television tells you another and you just don’t know what to do? Do you feel so confused about what a healthy diet is and how to achieve an active lifestyle that you it prevents you from reaching your goals?

Motivation – Do you have trouble getting motivated to reach your weight loss goals? Have certain past actions and experiences affected your motivation? For example, feeling pessimistic about your ability to lose weight because of past failed attempts? Do you have defeated thoughts that your situation will never change and you will always struggle with your weight?

The good news is that besides your genes, you have total control over changing your beliefs and taking action to achieve your weight loss goals. Changing your beliefs allows you to change your behavior to address your weight and fitness and challenges. You cannot control what natural traits you were born with but you can control what you eat and the activity you do. If you can start to believe in your ability to change the things that are clearly within your control, you can succeed in managing your weight and improving your fitness level. Make a commitment today, believe in yourself and you will get there!

Weight Loss

Many people think the best way to lose weight is to diet, drastically dropping calories or types of food in a desperate attempt to shed the pounds. Others think that exercise is the only way to health, so they exercise frantically for a few months before giving up. Imagine how much money Americans spend on diet pills, miracle diets, or even just exercise equipment. These people mean well, but don’t understand the way the human body works. Their attempts may result in temporary gains, but because they just don’t understand, they often end up worse off than before.

Diets are a temporary solution to a long-term problem. Let’s say someone, after a lifetime of eating poorly, takes a diet. It’s a rough diet, since the calories have to be cut sharply, but it’s worth it, right? The diet turns out to be fantastically efficient (which would never happen), and that person loses tons of weight. They go back to their old eating habits, since they’re ‘in good shape’. But within just a few months, their weight starts ballooning upwards again!

Other people try to exercise frantically, either taking up sports they don’t care for or joining an exercise class that they’ll skip. These people are somewhat better off than the dieters, as exercise is a good start. But what they don’t realize is that exercise should be enjoyable – it shouldn’t be painful or uncomfortable. This book contains information to help you figure out sports that you might enjoy. Turn exercise from a chore into a joy!

So-called ‘diet pills’ simply don’t work. If there were such a thing as a pill that could help you safely remove excess pounds, they would be prescribed by doctors across the globe.

Break out of the cycle of diets and discomfort. You’ll never have to go on another diet! Instead, you’ll learn how to eat good food and lose weight – you’ll be feeling great, and looking good. By establishing good health habits, losing weight will be like breathing. You won’t even know it’s happening! So why wait? You can start losing weight today!

Weight Loss

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