From WebMD; this confirms what I’ve been saying all along. Change your lifestyle, make time for you and make sure you’re eating properly and getting the active your body needs to stay healthy.
Step off the scale now and no one will get hurt. Focusing just on weight loss can lead to cycles of losing and regaining weight, lower self-esteem, and a preoccupation with food and body image.
“You’ll do better if you have goals that have to do not with weight, but with health,” says Carol Landau, Ph.D. While a New Year’s resolution is a great way to get in touch with what’s important and how you want to change, “Most diets don’t work,” she says.
“Instead, focus on finding health results in lifestyle changes that are more likely to last.”
The irony is, if you make your resolutions about wellness, rather than weight, you may get the best of both worlds: You’ll feel better, get healthier and yes, lose weight.
Forget the scale, think about “losing inches”. How many pants sizes can you drop? Buying new clothes is the best reward. And you can do that by quit eating the food and drinks that put on the fat and eat the foods that will help you lose fat.
Good: Resolve to change daily behaviors
“If you’re totally inactive, it may be walking a mile by Feb. 1,” says Landau. “If you’re already pretty active, it might be training to run a 5k race.” Or it could be a more flexible goal, like being active every day. Let your goals be achievable and based on things you can actually do, rather than weight-loss results. It could be eating a healthy breakfast every morning, or eating fish twice a week and making sure you sit down when you eat.
You might resolve to eat a fruit or vegetable at every meal of the day. Eating more fruits and vegetables, along with drinking plenty of water and walking daily, has been shown to be a pretty powerful combo when it comes to weight-loss success. But that’s not your concern now. Before you get there, your goal is to create a healthy habit you can sustain. Same goes for exercise: Your goal is to create a habit that will improve the health of your body and mind.
You won’t have to rely on the scale to know if you’ve been successful, either. If you have an orange at breakfast, a salad at lunch and a green vegetable at dinner and you’ve won. Took a 20-minute walk during your lunch break? Pat yourself on the back. Work towards a healthy body and your body will burn that excess fat.
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