Self-Monitoring Forces Added Accountability

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Achieving long-term success in weight loss requires developing skills of self-improvement. To ensure that an individual's food intake is conducive to weight loss, personalizing one's menu plan is a great way of moving closer to their goal. By making it easier to compare food intake and exercise results, electronics make it easier to track your progress, adjust your goals and remain motivated in the journey towards sustained weight loss and lasting results.

By personalizing an individual's menu plan and focusing on nutritionally sound foods, as well as gaining mastery over one's own behavior, permanent weight loss success can be attained. Research suggests technology-aided self-monitoring of dietary changes is not only useful in tracking weight loss progress but may be crucial for achieving your long-term weight management goals. Online support can help provide personal accountability.

Tips for Making Lifestyle Changes

Changes in lifestyle habits will form one at a time. As you develop self-monitoring skills and hold yourself accountable to recording your daily activities, it will help you reach your goals. Listed below are four benefits of tracking your food, weight and daily exercise:

1) Understand What You Are Eating – Self-monitoring is a necessary step that allows you to see what you are eating and how balanced your menu plan is overall. This will lead to better food choices in the future when eating in or eating out.

2) Helps Prevent Overindulgence – For starters, avoid skipping meals, stay well hydrated, and be mindful of how much you are eating will make it easier to notice hunger cues to prevent overindulgence.

3) Tracks Your Fitness Progress – Researchers suggest that tracking your physical activities can inspire you to be more active and makes it easier to add to your daily exercise routine, which translates to better weight control.

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.

Use Real-Time Feedback for Self-Improvement

Real-time feedback provides invaluable information to help increase your daily awareness of the eating and exercise habits that impact your goal attainment. It provides a way for you to learn which foods best promote satiety and the exercise routine that best supports your goals. 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.

At Metabolic Research Center, we understand that self-monitoring and self-regulation are important components and can be key to successful, long-term weight loss success. Visit MRC today to learn more about our personalized plans.