New Year's 2006 - A New Beginning
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This New Year's resolve to stop obsessing about your weight and focus instead on daily behaviors that will lead to a slim, healthy body.
New Year's is a time to look ahead, but also a time for reflection. Begin by looking at your past, as there is much to be learned from it.
First make a list of the behaviors that helped you lose weight, then a list of the behaviors that made it difficult. Using this knowledge, next ask yourself what you need to do differently and make a list of behaviors to work on.
Focus on daily behaviors, and set short, attainable goals:
- Be Specific: A goal to simply eat better is not specific
enough. Instead, set specific goals such as switching from 2% milk
to 1% milk.
- Don't Use Absolutes: If you set a goal of never eating sweets
again, you are more likely to fail. A goal of one sweet a day is
more realistic, yet still moves you in the right direction.
- Involve Others: Tell your friends and family what behaviors you
want to change and enlist their support. It's difficult to have
control over your behaviors when others insist on pushing trigger
foods in front of you.
- Plan on Success: Your chances of success will be greater if you maintain the mindset that you will achieve your goals.
It is important to remember that it takes months for a behavioral change to become instinctive. Expect to make mistakes and they won't become failures. Get right back in there and move forward. You can reach your goals!
Healthy regards,
Megan Porter, RD
