Be Your Best and Not Your Worst

When you are ready to lose weight, set small goals for how to do it and focus on one goal at a time to avoid overwhelming yourself. Your new mindset will allow those goals to become part of your routine and make permanent weight loss easier. If you turn to food for comfort or eat to relieve stress, you attitude on food could quickly derail your best efforts at losing weight. You should only eat to satisfy hunger. That's your body's natural signal that it needs food for fuel.

Rather than dwelling on negative thoughts, positive thinking can play a significant role in your weight loss efforts. A positive attitude supports an objective health status, whereas perpetual negative thinking can lead to self-defeating behaviors. Motivate yourself with a positive attitude. Studies suggest that people who believe being overweight is caused by unhealthy habits are much more likely to re-think their actions.

Never Mind Someone Else’s Food Choices

Always take time to think through the things that make you, you. Practice developing a positive mindset using some of the tips discussed below:

• Eating right and exercising more are positive decisions for better self-care.
• Treat your body with the same kindness you would treat a good friend.
• Counter negative thoughts by focusing on things you like about yourself.
• Avoid unnecessary disappointment and don’t dwell on negative outcomes.
• Never label foods as good or bad as it can lead to harmful or negative thoughts.
• Always respect your eating environment by avoiding unnecessary distractions.
• Challenge any negative thought and replace it with a more helpful perspective.
• Don’t worry about the weight loss path that someone else has chosen.

A negative mindset can involve restricting or overeating foods, dieting again and again, and feeling shame or guilt upon eating certain foods. Ditch the diet mentality and invest in healthy living.

Reshape Your Attitude at MRC Wichita Falls

Enthusiasm can be contagious and positivity is the precious commodity that allows you infuse your day with success regardless of how chaotic the world around you becomes. Expressing dissatisfaction about your body can cause you to engage in unhealthy approaches to losing weight and keeping it off. Moreover, having a negative attitude can heighten your risk for developing an eating disorder filled with poor choices.

Practicing a healthy lifestyle will make you feel better about yourself than spending the day on the sofa. Exercise provides a sense of accomplishment that improves your sense of self-worth and self-image. If your attempts at self-expression are always met with criticism or punishment from friends or family, you are apt to respond by ignoring your internal sense of self. Contact MRC in Wichita Falls to reshape yourself into someone who is agreeable but less likely to be persuaded.