It's All Mental...

DaniJeanine
DaniJeanine Posts: 473 Member
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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 :)

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  • Wende3
    Wende3 Posts: 41
    I agree! If we would all eat to live instead of live to eat, we would all be thin.
  • DaniJeanine
    DaniJeanine Posts: 473 Member
    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
    heagler870 Posts: 280 Member
    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
    heagler870 Posts: 280 Member
    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
    DaniJeanine Posts: 473 Member
    ^^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

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