The Grounds Why You Can’t Stick To Your Diet Or Exercise Plan – And How To Simply Fix It
If you’ve ever gone to the gym during the week after new years, you’ve likely found it packed wall to wall with well meaning dieters who made a pact with themselves to lose weight.
And then just as suddenly as all these people decided that they were going to get healthy, they mysteriously vanished back to wherever they came from.(Of course, many of us are those very people!)
Why do resolutions seem so hard to keep? Why does our motivation seem to disappear after only a few days? It seemed like a great idea to switch to that oatmeal and tofu diet a couple of days ago. Now it sounds awful. What gives?
Even if you start out with the best intentions, it can be near impossible to keep your motivation high on willpower alone. So what do we do about this?
One way that has worked for hundreds of thousands of people who have been able to lose weight and keep it off is to make slow but consistent lifestyle changes.
If you suddenly started eating nothing but tofu and rice, it might work for a couple days. After those couple days, however, you’d quickly get sick of them and crave a cheeseburger.
The reason is people are basically creatures of habit. And habits take a while to change. We like the same, comfortable routine. Even if we know it’s unhealthy for us, it can be difficult to change.
The secret, then is to imagine the big change you’d like, and then spread it out over a few months. If you slowly introduce small changes into your lifestyle that support a slimmer and healthier you, you will be much more likely to automatically incorporate those into your normal, everyday routine.
And in a few months, you’ll be doing things on a regular basis that support a healthy, slimmer you. You’ll look back to before you started doing this and wonder what took you so long.