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Try this Weight Loss Tip to Get Started on Your Diet,
with a Smile.
For those of you still hanging on the cusp of commitment, here's a weight loss tip that might help make your diet more effective when you finally get around to it.
I actually used this trick myself, and I've tried explaining it to many people. Most of them think I'm nuts, and you may, too. But keep a sense of humor, and try it, even if you do think it's silly. You might be pleasantly surprised.
Just before I started on my diet and lost my extra 35 pounds, I was working for a manager who really tries hard to make everyone feel appreciated and special. So she quite often brought us donuts (my downfall) and put them out on a table next to my cubicle for our department to enjoy.
I could smell those donuts all morning until they were gone - and I always helped myself to at least one of them, and usually more. (Which is one of the big reasons why I needed to lose 35 pounds!)
If this, or anything similar, happens to you, and you haven't quite started your diet yet, try this little trick.
Start out in the morning telling yourself that you're going to eat a donut today.
Then when you take your favorite goodie out of the box, tell yourself that you're eating that donut because you really want to know what it's like to weigh 200 (or 250, or 300) pounds!
I'm not being sarcastic - I really did this. And I did it cheerfully, with a good attitude. Why? Because the statement "I want to know what it feels like to weigh (10 pounds more than you already do)" isn't true. And you know it.
But for the last few months you've been telling yourself why it's ok to eat a donut (or your particular favorite, fattening food) - and the excuses you've been making haven't been true either. You just accept the excuse, because it pops into your head. If you thought it, it must be true, right?
What is your usual excuse? That just one wouldn't hurt? Someone's feelings would get hurt if you didn't eat it? You're really hungry and didn't have time for breakfast? Donuts aren't really as fattening as people say they are? I told myself all those things, at one time or another.
See how silly we can be, without even trying?
If you do it my way, you'll be consciously replacing the silly excuse you've been automatically accepting, with something that you can recognize as false.
Neuroscientists know that we all make unconscious decisions, either out of habit or because of instinctive cravings - and then we automatically make up an excuse for it when we catch ourselves doing something that we didn't really want to do.
Some folks call it "denial" and think that it's something that "other" people do. But we all do it. It's the way the human brain is built to work.
By replacing the automatic excuse with a conscious, but equally ridiculous excuse of your own, you become more aware of what you're doing. The habit loses some of it's power, the craving takes on less intensity and gets lost in the silliness of the whole thing.
And you begin to consciously connect the eating of the donut with it's natural consequence. Because it really will make you fat, even though that's not the reason you're eating it.
If you haven't started your New Year's diet yet, try this little trick. Then next week, when you start your diet in earnest, you may discover that half the battle is already won.
New research shows that low-calorie diets can cause food obsessions and binge eating. They can even make sugar addiction worse. No wonder most people end up fatter than they started when they try to lose weight with a low-calorie diet.
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