There is multiple things to help you stay at goal. Weight Tracking pre-planning your meals, drinking your water, exercise, going to meeting, and so on. All these things that take just a few minutes of our day. But, there is ONE thing that keep you from doing these things that is the most important thing to learn to keep the weight off.
You see, as I was losing the weight, what I didn't realize, that was the easy part. I did all I was suppose to, or so I thought. I tracked, I pre-planned my menu's. Everything except learning that there was other things to focus on for my success other than just the scale. How many of us are addicted to stepping on the scale?
I was so busy focusing on what that scale said week to week, day to day, that I didn't take the time to learn what I needed to keep the weight off. I didn't change my habits. I temporarily replaced them because I wanted that scale to go down. But I didn't take the time to make those changes a lifestyle.
So, as you go through your weight loss journey, here is my best advice I can give you, so that hopefully it doesn't take you twenty years to finally 'get it'.
As you lose weight, certainly praise yourself every time the scale goes down. It IS worth rewarding yourself. But, if you're really into this for the long haul, don't focus all your energy on what the scale says. Know that there are going to be times that the scale barely goes down, or even goes up. Know that this isn't a quick loss program. Take all that time it takes to get to goal, to focus on changes you need to make in order to keep the weight off.
If you ever get on the scale and you're upset with the weight loss or gain, you have NOT made all the changes you need to make in your habits to keep it off.
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