Don’t Let Mental Barriers Limit Weight Loss

Your attitude can be critical to your success. Mental barriers can hold you back. Moreover, since time is going to pass regardless, you might as well begin putting the process to work for you right now. Losing weight shouldn't be the goal, it should be the result that you seek. Your mindset should focus on sustainable goals that you can control. Adding five servings of fruit and vegetables to your daily menu plan is doable and rewarding.

Creating a healthier lifestyle and maintaining it is about a lot more than eating healthy and exercising more often. Success comes from being able to keep a positive attitude and developing a healthy self-image. Depending upon where you are at and what you want to accomplish, creating a whole new body image can take time. But, if you focus on your day-to-day goals, you'll look back one day and everything will be different because your journey was successful.

How to Start Your Day on a Positive Note

By identifying the negative ways you speak to yourself, it will be easier to replace that self-talk with positive statements. To get started, check out the helpful tips discussed below:

• Identify areas of negativity and start every day on a positive note.
• Build positive relationships and avoid negative people who make you feel bad.
• Eliminate episodes of self-criticism and learn to accept compliments.
• Explore your personal body image with its strengths and limitations.
• It is fine to accommodate others but do not say YES to just to make others happy.
• Review your goals. Seeing progress is a great motivator and improves self-esteem.
• Stop negative self-talk to reduce stress and improve your health and wellness.
• You don’t have to be perfect, so give yourself a break to boost self-image.

To boost self-esteem, give yourself more credit and attribute your accomplishments to your own hard work rather than believing you were merely in the right place at the right time.

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Your body is like a machine that require a balance of protein, carbohydrates, fat, vitamins, minerals and water to stay in good working order. The wrong attitude about weight loss can cause you to get the balance all wrong. Forget fad diets that promise to melt fat in days or overdosing on long hours at the gym. When it comes to losing weight and keeping it off, it is the little things like positive lifestyle changes that make a difference in the end.

Statistics show Americans drive their cars for two-thirds of all trips that are less than one mile away. A simple lifestyle change is to burn fat instead of gas by walking instead of riding whenever you travel short distances. It is important to surround yourself with supportive people who can provide healthy reminders to keep your weight loss journey on track. At MRC in Greenville, we believe a little support can have a major impact on weight loss success or failure.