Is Your Diet Over Managed? :

Do you try to over-manage your diet in hopes that you w have more success? Is s how your typical weight loss attempt looks:

1. Decide what to eat for the week, including snacks
2. Get to the grocery store and stock the house with "healthy" ds
3. Read every d label
4. Buy a d journal
5. Measure all the ds you eat
6. Record the carbohydrates/proteins/fats of each d
7. Count every calorie, including chewing gum and coffee creamer
8. Avoid too much sodium
9. Avoid sugar like the plague
10. Give up, "Who wants to live like s, I would rather deal with the weight."

You have been taught how to act when on a diet but trying to do too much can easily lead to overwhelm and you likely to quit in frustration vowing to never go on a diet again!

The problem with diets in general is that they based on a temporary mindset. The mere fact that you have to "go on" a diet means that you w eventually "go off" of it.

You wing to go on a diet and do what is necessary to make the diet a success but the whole time you might be nking, "I can't wait until s is over."

In order to create a mindset that supports long-term weight loss success you must look at dieting not as a collection of annoying tasks but as an action you taking to improve your quality of life. This requires a us shift.

When you over manage your diet you very used on the one ng you want to nk less of - FOOD. F becomes the center of the universe on a micro-managed diet because every bit of it is analyzed, measured or weighed. This is a problem because you get what you us on, if your approach to weight loss is keeping you laser used on d you w always want more d.

A better solution is to us on what you w get once you have lost the weight. This creates a target for you that becomes cler the more you us on it.

Let's say you would like to lose 40 pounds, what you want to do is us on what life w be like without those extra pounds. Put yourself in a movie and look at the world through the eyes of you at your goal weight. What you wearing, how you holding your body, how high is your confidence level when you walk in a room.

Make the pounds real to you, pick up someng that weighs 40 pounds and try to walk up a flight of stairs. Then put the item down and climb the same stairs, note how much easier it was with less weight, now us for a moment on how effortless climbing those stairs w be when your body is lighter.

You w st find it necessary to monitor your d intake and plan meals but by shifting your us away from d and onto the great possibilities that to be you w find your motivation actually builds and you much more likely to see your plan through until your goal is reached.

If you could make weight loss easier by just changing the way you nk, would you want to learn how? Click on s link for my free audio recording Change Your Thoughts - Lose Weight.

Dr. Becky Gaspy is the creator of Weight Loss without Worry helping you change your mindset and your weight in just 7 weeks.