Using Technology Can Improve Weight Loss Results

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Tracking your food intake and exercise by self-monitoring your behaviors can help you make better choices to reach sustainable weight loss goals. For instance, you will quickly learn which workouts and the foods that are really worth it. Based on a body of scientific evidence, the use of behavior and lifestyle modifications can result in loss where the goal weight can be maintained for living healthy. However, nutrition education and expert support can be key for the long haul.

With dedication to improving your self-monitoring skills, understanding more about proper nutrition and exercising regularly, you will be better equipped to achieve sustainable results safely and more effectively. Making a commitment to increased physical activity and understanding how to make better food choices are critical components of a comprehensive weight loss strategy. Moreover, long-term weight control depends on self-regulation.

Know When You Need to Make Changes

Lifestyle based interventions can promote behavioral modification strategies for evaluating changes to dietary and exercise changes for better long-term weight control. Listed below are four benefits of tracking your food, weight and daily exercise:

1) Triggers Mindful Behaviors – Mindful self-regulation requires developing the self-monitoring skills to regulate your attention and respond effectively to changes in eating and exercise habits.

2) Better Understanding of Your Habits – Maintaining frequent and consistent records with comprehensive logging of details helps to provide a better understanding of new eating and exercise habits.

3) Reduces Chances of Weight Regain – Without mindfulness, the self-monitoring of lifestyle interventions that were put in place to lose weight can decline overtime and increases your chances of regaining 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.

MRC Personalizes Plans to Fit Your Goals

Digital tracking tools allow adult dieters to be more aware of what they are eating and how much they are moving as well as how those lifestyle changes may be impacting weight control. The advantage of technology lies in removing the previous hassle of self-monitoring results. In contrast, the use of the latest self-monitoring technology alone, without the addition of human support, is highly unlikely to produce meaningful changes in weight to support healthy living. Over the long haul, any form of self-monitoring of dietary intake and daily physical activity can be combined with routine weigh-ins to help men or women lose weight more effectively.

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.