How to Identify Daily Threats to Healthy Living

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Studies suggest your readiness and personal motivation to self-monitor and self-regulate your weight loss and weight management strategies are key components for managing a successful weight-loss journey. The long-term success you will enjoy after working to lose weight will depend heavily on your willingness to self-monitor, self-assess, and self-regulate a follow-up plan for weight maintenance and ongoing strategies for healthy weight control.

Learning to anticipate and identify any problems that threaten to undermine the weight loss success you have attained is crucial to self-management and implementation of strategies to resolve problems as they emerge. Monitoring eating patterns and daily physical activities are key to successful weight maintenance to support healthy living. Plus, learning to anticipate and quickly identify problems that threaten to undermine your weight loss success.

Tips for Positive Lifestyle Interventions

Behavioral interventions are a central aspect in promoting healthy lifestyle changes that can lead to weight loss and prevent weight regain by self-monitoring of your daily activities. Listed below are four benefits of tracking your food, weight and daily exercise:

1) Learn More About Your Body – Weighing yourself is an important and simple self-monitoring behavior that allows you to learn more about your body. It serves as real time reminder of your eating and exercise habits.

2) Builds Healthy Habits – Recording your daily food intake and exercise habits are positive techniques for self-monitoring that can provide important feedback that will allow you to build habits for healthy living.

3) Tracks Body Mass Index – If you want to lose weight for healthier living, it starts with self-awareness of your eating and exercise behaviors. Self-monitoring your habits can be self-assessed by tracking changes to your body mass index.

4) Easier to Focus on What Works – Self-monitoring along the same lines of food logs, exercise diaries that record physical activities can be used to make it easier for you to focus on what is working to make knowledgeable changes.

Making Adjustments for Better Outcomes

Observing and recording eating and exercise behaviors followed by self-assessment of the feedback will increase your self-awareness of lifestyle interventions and serve as an early warning system to make adjustments for better outcomes. Successful self-regulation of lifestyle interventions that are implemented as weight control strategies depend on the truthfulness, consistency and timeliness of self-monitoring changes in performance ti help you attain your goals. Since self-monitoring of lifestyle interventions is positively related to long-term weight control, the comprehensiveness and consistency of record keeping for food intake and energy expenditure should become a habit into itself.

At Metabolic Research Center, we’ve been personalizing lifestyle interventions and healthy living strategies for more than three decades. Visit MRC online to learn more about self-monitoring your way to a healthier life with better weight control.