It's All Mental...

DaniJeanine

Lately, I've realized that weight loss and a maintenance of a healthy lifestyle is more about your thinking than anything. I was stuck in a plateau for a while (prob 2 or 3 months) and I was so discouraged. Finally, I took a step back and realized that I was so focused on the exact number of calories I could eat, including exercise calories that I could eat back, that I wasn't listening to whether or not my body was actually hungry. Lately, I've been more relaxed about the numbers--focused on clean eating and eating when I'm hungry, not because I'm bored and have some extra calories to spare. And ta daaaa....went from the 122 I was stuck at to 117 in two week. Lesson learned: The mind is a stronger health and fitness tool then anything else

Wende3

I agree! If we would all eat to live instead of live to eat, we would all be thin.

DaniJeanine

I agree! If we would all eat to live instead of live to eat, we would all be thin.

YES! And that, for me, was and will likely always be, the hardest part.

heagler870

I completely agree with you! Anyone that every asks me for tips on how to lose weight that is the first thing I tell them. Without the right mentality you're not going to lose and keep it off. I never had the right mentality before I started losing weight and there was a few months into my weight loss that I still didn't, but I start changing as a person, getting to know who I was, liking myself better and the mentality changed. I no longer count calories to lose weight, I listen to my body. I don't over eat *Stuff myself*. On my journey I have changed mentally the way I view food and exercise completely different. They are two things I care about now, where as before I didn't care. I like to think once you have the mental aspect of *I can do this* the physical aspect comes into play. I think it's just learning to be able to focus on the mental aspect of weight loss and knowing that you can do it. I firmly believe once someone knows they can do it, they are an unstoppable force!

heagler870

I agree! If we would all eat to live instead of live to eat, we would all be thin.

I firmly believe in this quote as well! I had always heard it but I didn't care. Now I realize what it's like to eat to live rather than living to eat. It's crazy once you change your perspective how you view things differently. It's pretty amazing to me.

DaniJeanine

^^Absolutely. I used to snack like crazy every day after work/before dinner (I'm a teacher). Then, just by chance, my schedule got busy and I had a lot of errands to do after work. In that time I realized "Hmmmm, I don't NEED to snack before dinner--I'm not even hungry. I'm bored" Once I realized that it became a lot easier to make better choices in the dreaded 3-5 time slot lol