I believe that most women fail to maintain weight loss when they go on a diet for one main reason:

Diets are temporary

Some last a few days, some last a few months. At some point the diet ends, and you go back to eating the way you did before.

Healthy eating habits, on the other hand, can continue on for a lifetime. What’s more……….

-They don’t involve deprivation
-They don’t require you to be hungry all the time
-They don’t require complete elimination of certain food groups

Healthy eating habits can be developed over time. Small changes over time (as opposed to drastic measures taken all at once) turn into long term habits. Long term habits are what create long term weight maintenance.

It really is that simple.

Change your eating habits over time—-change your body for life.

Or…..

Change your eating habits temporarily—-change your body temporarily.

Which would you rather have????

Before you decide to try yet another diet, try this approach:

-List a few areas in which you think your eating habits could be improved. Pick just one area and list several things you could do over the next few weeks to improve upon this poor habit. Work on doing these things as consistently as you can for the next 3-4 weeks. At the end of the 3-4 weeks, pick another item from your list, and go through the same exercise.

Work on one thing at a time………..and you may never have to “diet” again.

Committed to your success,

Becky

P.S. An exception to my rule about diets is the “Dress Size Reduction Diet” by Registered Dietician, Jayson Hunter. Although he has included the word “diet” in his book, it really is a program that you can stick with in some form for the rest of your life. If you need a “program” to follow in your weight loss effort, please click on the book cover over there on the right. Jayson has written an excellent book that teaches you how to eat whole, nutritious food and get the junk out of your eating plan.

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This is one of my pet peeves with regard to exercise. I often see people doing ineffective exercises at the gym. In extreme cases, I worry people are going to hurt themselves. I’ve ranted here about this before. Now, I’m ranting about it at another website ( I’m an invited author there—honest!!!)

I’ve ranted about why boomer women may want to re-think utilizing an “all machine” workout. Don’t get me wrong, some “machine” exercises are okay (depends on the machine!), but by and large, getting off the machines is a good idea for those of us north of 40.

I explain why here: Becky rants on “all machine” workouts

Make it a great day,

Becky

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