If you want to lose weight I suggest you make your Number 1 goal
'eating for health'. When you make your health your priority,
you're likely to lose weight anyway. The process occurs more naturally.
You focus on what you want to achieve - health, rather than what
you don't want in your life which is excess weight...
Many people need to lose weight due to a medical condition and
often the emphasis is on losing weight rather than eating healthily.
When you diet and restrict your food intake, it doesn't necessarily
bring about good health.
In fact, it can even cause health problems. Focus on your general
health and as that improves, you'll find that you've started making
the changes needed to lose weight. Most of us ignore the need
to eat for the sake of our health until a problem occurs.
I really encourage you to be someone who eats for health, before
you're forced to by illness. Prevention is better than cure.
Many people set their goal to lose a certain amount of weight.
This they may achieve. However, they may not be aware of what
could have happened to their general health. Consider the people
who deprive themselves of food, take diet pills or drink diet
shakes. I'm sure most of us can relate to taking this route to
weight loss at some time; I certainly can.
The goal is to lose weight and in the short term there's a good
chance this will be achieved. But in the long term what potential
harmful effect have they had on their health? Unfortunately, they
may not know this until it's too late.
Yo-yo dieting in itself can cause problems with your metabolism,
which in turn makes it harder to lose weight.
Setting a goal of 'eating for health' gives you a clearer picture
of where you're going. You'll be more organised, make better decisions
and know what motivates you to do it.
Set the goal which you want, not what other people think you
should choose. Look at it as a lifetime goal and not something
you'll start next week and probably stop a few weeks later.
You may say that health is important to you but do you really
know why? Saying it isn't enough. Let's take this opportunity
to explore what it really means to you and get you to commit to
doing it. Your journal is an ideal place to explore your goal
further.
