Better Results Come from Adopting Better Habits

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Regular self-monitoring is an important component of a successful weight-loss program as it provides you with valuable insight into your daily food intake and exercise habits. This helps encourage you to make other changes that promote better health. Tracking your food intake and exercise can help you make better choices to reach sustainable weight loss goals. For instance, you quickly discover the food and exercise routines that are really worth it.

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. With a better understanding of the importance of nutrition and exercise, you can achieve weight loss results safely and efficiently. Diligent self-monitoring of “cause and effect” will allow you to reach and maintain your target weight for the long term.

Benefits of Investing Time for Tracking Data

Evaluating the effectiveness of specific changes in lifestyle habits can be extremely important for making adjustments to dietary intake and increasing daily activities. Listed below are four benefits of tracking your food, weight and daily exercise:

1) Triggers Mindful Behaviors – Self-monitoring helps to trigger more mindful behaviors for changing eating and exercise habits and is considered by medical experts to be the cornerstone of behavioral weight loss treatment.

2) Better Understanding of Your Habits – Self-monitoring factors such as frequency, consistency, and comprehensiveness following lifestyle interventions provide you with a better understanding of eating and exercise habits.

3) Reduces Chances of Weight Regain – Current scientific recommendations encourage individuals to continue to self-monitor lifestyle changes for dietary intake and exercise for long-term maintenance of lost weight.

4) Helps You Reach Your Goals – Higher frequency of self-monitoring is associated with weight change in individuals who self-monitor consistently but had little impact on weight for those who did not self-monitor.

MRC Personalizes Plans that Fit Your Unique Needs

Digital tracking tools, such as smartphone apps and wearable devices, have been shown to increase a person’s engagement with the lifestyle interventions they put in place to shed pounds and begin their journey for healthy living. In contrast, the use of the latest self-monitoring technology alone, without the addition of human support, is highly unlikely to produce meaningful changes to support healthy living over the long term. Overall, the science suggests that people who consistently use good self-monitoring skills and apply the latest technology to lose weight were more motivated to shed unwanted pounds than those who tracked changes less often.

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.