Psychology
Motivation and willpower are the second to none in importance for follow-through and success of your weight management effort.
How can you ensure that you stick to your diet? Most people start bending the rules just 2 days after starting. Most dieters end up the same weight, or even heavier, two years after a diet.
What’s the point of suffering for several weeks to lose a few kilos, when most of them would be back within a short period of time? Research shows that this so-called ‘yo-yo effect’ is bad not only for your physical well-being, but also for your for your mind, as it can lead to depression.
The secret of sticking to a diet is: take small steps, reinforced on a daily basis, to create a set of healthy habits BEFORE or RATHER THAN embarking on any major diet. It needs tasty things to ensure that you follow through with a diet. You will be far more likely to follow the instruction to eat a scoop of chocolate mousse every day, than have a protein shake.
Adherence to a diet depends on realistic targets, feeling of satiety and reward. They reinforce a positive attitude and create a virtuous circle, making sticking to a diet much easier. Improving self-confidence is not a by-product of weight-loss; it is a condition for you to manage your weight.
You cannot ask the impossible from your willpower; however, you can increase it. At TheSlimSchool, we use simple psychological tricks to reduce cravings without going cold turkey – replacing the worst offenders by similarly tasting, less addictive foods, making access to dangerous food more difficult and by diverting your attention to other pleasant things in life.
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