New Goals to Replace Old Habits

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The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition posted a study that shows those who consumed an energy-reduced diet kept the lost weight off for two years, in stark contrast, those who consumed a calorie-controlled diet and regained the weight. By making it easier to compare food intake and exercise results, electronics can help track your unique progress, so you can adjust your goals and remain motivated on your journey towards sustained weight loss with lasting results.

Weight loss is an intricate process that requires dedication and persistence to achieve lasting results, so you must develop certain self-improvement skills to reach and maintain your desired weight. With the right tools, technology-aided self-monitoring is not only useful in tracking weight loss progress but may be crucial for achieving long-term success. By implementing these strategies, you can be more successful in making lasting changes.

How to Establish New Lifestyle Habits

It is easier to establish new lifestyle habits if you are self-monitoring the results. It allows you to stay mindful of holding yourself accountable each day. Listed below are four benefits of tracking your food, weight and daily exercise:

1) Understand What You Are Eating – By recording your daily food intake, you will better understand your current eating habits, as it is very easy to forget or ignore everything that you put in your mouth during the day.

2) Helps Prevent Overindulgence – Breaking the habit of overindulging at mealtime or when you snack requires focus. Being dedicated to self-monitoring makes it easier to check in with your body’s hunger cues.

3) Tracks Your Fitness Progress – Tracking you daily physical activities will hold you accountable to yourself and will become a healthy new habit that takes little to no time out of your daily schedule.

4) Allows You to Plan Ahead – Tracking what and when you eat allows you to plan ahead and the better you get at planning ahead the more empowered you feel as you take control of your daily menus.

Restore Your Energy and Stamina at MRC

Before the advent of newer technologies like smartphone apps and wearable devices, people often complained about the host of barriers that self-monitoring required, such as paper diaries, referencing calorie charts, and the overall time commitment. Despite the previous concerns that daily self-monitoring of weight loss variables could have negative consequences, recent studies suggest there are no statistically significant detrimental effects of self-weighing to promote self-regulation. Research has demonstrated that both men and women who engage in more frequent self-monitoring actually lose more weight during his or her weight loss journey and regain less weight after they’ve reached their individual goals.

Here at Metabolic Research Center, our approach is to restore your energy and stamina, so you are less likely to experience unwanted food cravings following a personalized menu plan. Plus, we provide the support needed for self-regulation.