Reprogramming the mind to lose weight is a strategy that allows us to continue to focus on diet and physical activity constantly, so that healthy eating and exercise become a natural habit in daily life, which favors proper weight maintenance for longer, avoiding the known accordion effect.
To reprogram the mind, you need to identify bad habits and trade them for a healthier routine, but that’s also nice, because only then will healthy habits really stay.
So see below 7 tips to help you in this mental rescheduling process
To truly believe that you are able to lose weight and change your lifestyle, you need to let the brain predisposed to face difficulties and fight harder to achieve the desired sleep.
On the other hand, imagining that this will be just another failed attempt to follow a diet, the brain gets used to it and accepts defeat, without fighting hard enough to win.
If weighing up every day results in constant anxiety about the balance result, which does not differentiate, for example, if the weight gain or loss comes from fat or lean mass, in addition one or more poor balance results can influence a total abandonment of eating and healthy habits, generating a new cycle of weight gain.
For example, it is recommended that weighing be done no more than once a week, but only at least once every two months, to track body weight gain or loss.
Follow-up with a psychologist helps understand the reasons for an uncontrolled diet and excessive weight gain, which can often be the result of childhood or relationship problems.
Psychological support develops a greater ability to manage emotions and helps build new healthy rather than bad habits, such as consuming too much alcohol, fast food, and soft drinks.
Assessing and maintaining concentration on each achievement, however small, generates a domino-motivating effect that increases the frequency of good achievements and better results, so on the days when the diet is respected, but not physical activity, for example, it should be about focusing on the positive side of having followed the diet well, not on the failure of training.
However, even if it is necessary to value each achievement, it is also important to commit to trying to start again the next day that part that ended in failure or frustration, because in this way the spirit of success and improvement is maintained.
When exercising, for example, it is important to focus on the feeling of pleasure and the mission accomplished by the exercise, not just the unwanted appearance in the mirror.
Remember that dieting and training well brings a good feeling to the body, helps to maintain positive choices more easily, because good memories give rise to the desire to repeat this action and, after a while, this repetition will become a habit.
It is natural for the brain to enjoy routines and create habit patterns for frequently repeated actions that bring a sense of pleasure or achievement, however, you have to be careful because the brain also creates auto-repeat patterns for unhealthy actions, such as overeating and laziness for exercise.
Therefore, it is important to start diet and physical activity with the determination to follow the correctly planned for at least a few weeks, because the more an action is repeated, the more automatic it becomes for the brain and the more it is.easy for the brain. Keep it as a natural habit of daily routine.
Setting real goals is important to generate a cycle of small victories, which together will provide more encouragement and determination to achieve the ultimate goal, on the other hand, by setting very difficult goals, feelings of defeat and failure become more constant, bringing the feeling of incapacity and the desire to surrender.
Talking to professionals as a nutritionist and physical educator is a good strategy for planning real goals and facilitating the path of achievement.
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