Self-Monitoring Leads to Better Decisions

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If you are tired of dieting only to regain the weight you worked so hard to lose, developing self-monitoring skills is a simple way to make real changes that can result in a healthy weight that you can maintain for the rest of your life. Routine self-monitoring can help you document what you have eaten that day, so you can actually see where you need to make improvements. Plus, weighing yourself regularly is known to be more successful in keeping weight off in the long run.

For men and women who have been living a sedentary lifestyle, a slow progression is the recommended strategy. Starting with thirty minutes of low-impact daily exercise with a gradual build-up over several weeks is a prudent approach. In addition, tracking physical activity is essential for monitoring your fat burning goals and following good dietary intake strategies can provide an additional layer of support for making better food choices.

Why Implement More Mindful Behaviors?

Lifestyle changes that promote healthy eating and exercise need to be self-monitored and adjusted to improve long-term weight loss outcomes at all ages. Listed below are four benefits of tracking your food, weight and daily exercise:

1) Triggers Mindful Behaviors – Mindfulness is commonly defined as the awareness that arises when paying attention to the present moment with an openness to disengage from distractors and be open to cognitive monitoring.

2) Better Understanding of Your Habits – Self-monitoring factors such as frequency, consistency, and comprehensiveness following lifestyle interventions provide you with a better understanding of eating and exercise habits.

3) Reduces Chances of Weight Regain – Current scientific recommendations encourage individuals to continue to self-monitor lifestyle changes to dietary intake and exercise for long-term maintenance of lost weight.

4) Helps You Reach Your Goals – A recent study found that participants who self-monitored lifestyle interventions more frequently and consistently were more effective at reaching and maintaining their weight loss goals.

Metabolic Research Center Can Personalize Your Plan

Researchers have concluded that human support is still necessary for most people when implementing lifestyle interventions and making changes to weight loss strategies. By providing an important level of accountability, monitoring can deliver the best outcomes. New research shows that dietary and fitness trackers do promote positive health changes by helping men and women to make better food choices and move more to lose weight and keep it off for healthy living. The success of digital tools that utilize smartphones and the latest technologies appears to come from tapping into a dieter’s competitiveness by identifying factors for the successful intervention of strategies in real time.

Treating your body in ways that make you feel energized and empowered makes it much easier in the long run to meet your weight loss goals. At Metabolic Research Center, our weight loss consultant can personalize a plan that fits your needs.