Video | 6-Day Weigh-ins | Routines | Expectations | Habits | Other Measures of Success
The bathroom scale is the tool most people use to measure the progress of their weight loss diet. But is a daily weigh-in working for you or against you?
If the number is not what you wanted to see, do you give yourself a pep talk and get back to work? Or do you say to yourself, “This isn’t working, so having a treat won’t matter.”
If the number is what you’d hoped for, do you pat yourself on the back and gain motivation? Or do you look at it as a window of opportunity? Maybe say to yourself, “I’m doing great, so having a treat won’t matter.”
If your goal is weight loss and your daily weigh-ins are inspiring you, fantastic! Keep doing what you’re doing. But if not, or you find that you keep losing the same few pounds over and over again without any real progress, I have a new approach for you that takes very little effort but is just enough to shake up your routine and get you to the finish line.
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Video | Habits | Portion Size | Food Choices | Justification | External Cues
Patterns, habits, and routines, no matter how we label them, your brain loves them. These repeated actions save your brain effort, so it is constantly looking to form them. In fact, the more actions that you can turn into subconscious habits, the less energy you must put toward thinking through basic behaviors.
We want certain actions to be habitual. It would be awful if we had to relearn how to brush our teeth every morning or had to consciously walk through each step just to tie our shoes.
The problem is that this habit-forming part of your brain doesn’t judge your actions as good or bad. If you do an action over and over again, your brain says, “Hey, let’s turn that into a habit.”
If you have bad habits when it comes to food, you find yourself staring into an open refrigerator with no recollection of how you got there, or your best intentions of not eating after dinner remain strong all day – until after dinner. You have some established patterns that make weight control difficult.
There is a way to step out of these habitual behaviors, and it is surprisingly simple. In this blog post, I share how putting 5% more effort into your awareness can get you 50% better control over your weight.
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Video | What Happened? | Diluting Keto | Mindset Shift | Takeaway
Back in 2017, my husband lost 81 pounds by following a keto diet for nine months.
Keto worked. In fact, his story was one that was echoed by many back then: rapid weight loss with inflammatory markers and HbA1c measurements dropping from dangerously high to ideal in a matter of months.
Keto success stories are still there but less common nowadays. Did keto suddenly stop working? Did our bodies catch on and say, “Wait a minute, you can’t do that anymore.” In this blog post, we’ll examine what happened to keto and how you can cut through the distractions to recapture the advantage.
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