How to Restructure Your Daily Tasks

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A significant part of losing weight and keeping the lost weight off for the long-term may involve restructuring the daily environments to prevent overeating and underactivity at home, in the workplace, and on the road. Following research studies of men and women who have achieved long-term weight loss can offer science-based insights into ways that you can improve your strategies for making better food choices and being more physically active.

Whereas permanent weight loss and management requires your active participation, weight loss specialists can provide you with the education needed to make knowledgeable food choices to promote better outcomes when combined with your exercise routine. Both men and women need a broad array of assistance and support to successfully navigate their weight loss journey. This includes support for managing changes to your routines along the way.

Tips for Self-Regulation Strategies

In self-regulation theories, motivation relies on a proactive anticipatory system and a reactive negative feedback system to reduce the discrepancy between your goals and your behaviors. Listed below are four benefits of tracking your food, weight and daily exercise:

1) Documents Cause and Effect – One of the most important types of self-monitoring strategies in establishing a weight control program is keeping a food log and exercise journal that documents the cause and effect of lifestyle interventions.

2) Helps You Sustain Motivation – Self-monitoring is a helpful tool that allows you to keep both an exercise diary and food diary in real time to help sustain your motivation for better weight control.

3) Establishes Achievable Goals – Studies that examined various of methods of self-monitoring lifestyle behaviors have been shown to be helpful in helping men and women establish achievable exercise goals and may motivate the person to engage in dietary self-monitoring.

4) Real Time Measurement of Progress – In our technologically active world, online food logs and exercise diaries are a convenient way to track real time measurements of your daily weight loss progress.

Self-Monitoring Helps with Weight Management

Self-monitoring can help you manage your weight and will contribute to good health now and as you age. To stop gaining weight and start living healthy, it is important to monitor you weight, food intake and daily exercise. To understand how metabolic health can impact weight loss, you must consider the role that hormones like insulin play in how your body processes its energy needs based on your dietary and exercise habits. Through self-monitoring of dietary and exercise interventions, you can gather data and track your progress. A study at Stanford School of Medicine concluded that monitored weight loss happened in 75% of participants.

To learn more about learning self-monitoring skills to maintain a healthy weight, contact the weight loss specialists at MRC. Here at Metabolic Research Center, our weight loss specialists have been personalizing plans for more than three decades.