5 Tips to Lose Weight Without Losing Your Mind
How to Lose Weight Easily
3. Start a daily self-acceptance ritual. Yes, you probably want to lose weight because you’re not thrilled with your body or how it makes you feel. However—and this is a big however—you can’t hate yourself healthy. Corny as it sounds, you have to start with love for yourself, exactly as you are. By accepting and loving you as you are now, you then learn to value yourself enough to take care of you for the long haul. So this year, create a short two- to five-minute self-acceptance ritual that you do each morning. Something as simple as telling yourself that you love your body will work, but feel free to make it even more fun by playing a song (or watching a video like this!) that pumps you up and makes you feel better or reading a quote that makes you feel good. The idea is to start your day with a reminder of why you’re worth taking care of. Because you totally are!
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I love all of these! I especially like #2. Sometimes when people decide they are going to eat healthier and exercise they overwhelm themselves with trying to change everything at once. Then if they don’t stick with it they just quit everything. Making small goals every month will help them succeed in whatever goals they have for themselves. That way it’s more of a life change instead of just a “diet”.
This is fantastic. My favorite is the self acceptance ritual. It is so true. Once I started to truly accept myself and love myself then I became ready and willing to make loving nourishing choices that work for me
I love it – these are so true and so helpful!
Staying off of the scale is definitely challenging but it is worth it. In addition to weighing myself I do measurements and “before” pictures. I set a timeframe to go back and check my progress – likely a few weeks to one month. The scale can be really deceiving especially if you are building muscle so try not to focus on that number.
Love these! Plus the simplest, but hardest to do it seems, eat less, move more.
Very good tips, thanks!
The only thing I would add is to drink a glass of water first before you grab a snack – many people feel hungry or have an appetite, but actually are simply thirsty.
Love these tips….. its all in the book which i am due to read again for guidance reinforcement and motivation. Loving yourself enough that you want to take care of yourself really strikes a chord with me
Holiday Season, just a couple of weeks ago, had doubled my weight. I have been working my butt off to shed off these extra pounds and this article somewhat answered my questions! Thank you for this great article!
Excellent tips, thanks for sharing! I love especially tips 1 and 2! I have always done measurable goals which is good but sometimes stressful. Maybe this year I share those goals into months and add something fun and different to everyone of them! 🙂
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Great tips, love the mindfulness one. I didn’t really think about it until you said that a lot of people love food but eat it as fast as possible which is true for a lot of us!
I would also suggest following the 80/20 rule.
Eat healthy 80% of the time and eat what you want 20% of the time.
This way you will make eating healthy into a lifestyle which means you’ll have less chance to bounce back to your old weight and you’ll also be doing it in a way that doesn’t make you feel like it’s a strict diet where you’re not allowed to have some freedom.
Jenn, what a great article and what you wrote is so true! I really love #2. After years of battling with the weight by following the rule of replacing unhealthy things with healthy things, which often-time led to boredom, I eventually figured it’s actually about replacing unhealthy things with healthy things THAT BRINGS PLEASURE. That simple realization helped me turn the tables and win the battle.
Often time the real wisdom lies in simplicity – not the macros, calorie counting chore, or the treadmill.
I’ll definitely share this article with friends who need it.
Isn’t that simple shift SO powerful?! 🙂 Love it, Leslie!
—FBG Jenn
Lovely post – i’m impressed to follow the content and reduce my pounds. Thanks friend. 🙂