weight loss program: need will power

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I'm on a cardio exercise routine (ride the bike for 1 hour everyday). My goal is to lose a bit of weight. The problem is, I love to eat. Sometimes I love it so much I lose all will power to refrain from eating all that fatty delicious food, or help myself to seconds at dinner, or have a bedtime snack before I go to bed. I honestly do try, but sometimes the cravings get the better of me.


So I just wanted to know if there's anyone out there with tips on how to strengthen my will power.

 

Maybe get some juice and when you feel like eating have a small glass of juice.

 

whenever i get the urge to eat (outside of regular mealtimes, that is) i either jump on the exercise bike for another five minutes, or have a cup of green tea. and seeing as how i'm also doing that to help quit smoking, i'm losing a hell of a lot of weight, lol

 

I have struggled with being overweight my whole life. I have yo-yoed up and down for years now, anyway one nutritionist I had told me that when you have a craving wait about 20 minutes and it should go away. I can only speek for myself but it seems to work. Hope this helps.

 

First thing to do is to lose the guilty attitude about eating. People eat. Food tastes good. There's nothing wrong with liking cookies. Accept yourself and stop worrying about food. Once you stop worrying and feeling guilty about it, the thought of food naturally leaves the mind.

Second, make replacement treats. Instead of a cookie, maybe have something nearly as good, but healthier. Keep progressing on this until maybe you're eating an apple instead of a chocolate bar.

Best of luck!

 

Part of my job as a life coach is to help people change habits. From the perspective of a hypnotist, I'm tempted to wonder about your motivations, for exercising, weight loss, and for eating. Obviously your motivation to eat is stronger. It might be better to examine your motives for wanting to lose weight - maybe you will need to change your motivations, not your goals. For example, wanting to exercise because you think you "should" or because someone tells you to to lose weight is not usually a strong motivation for people. Wanting to exercise because the aerobic rush makes you feel great, because you enjoy challenging yourself, or because you love your body and want to take care of it tend to be stronger motivations.

What is really important to you? What do you value? What are your reasons for wanting to lose weight? What do you love about exercise? What are your reasons for eating? Are you genuinely hungry, or are you motivated by something else, such as sensual gratification (the taste, "mouth feel" and feeling of fullness associated with eating), comfort, filling a feeling of "emptiness", boredom, or some other reason? What is the need that eating is fulfilling? What is the need that exercise and weight loss fulfills?

These may sound like rather esoteric questions for something as physical as weight loss, but the mind and body are truly connected, and our patterns of eating and weight loss are actually very complex and can be difficult to change if that complexity is ignored. The common trap of mentally beating oneself up, or "punishing" oneself for "failing" to meet goals only makes it more difficult, and if comfort or emotional gratification is a motivation for eating, may only serve to reinforce the very patterns you're attempting to change.

 

If you only focused on losing fat instead of losing weight (overall, included muscle mass and strength) you would realize the most important thing about losing fat is eating all the time. Yes, the thing is not how much time one can spend doing intensive cardio, the thing is how good our metabolism can be boosted, and the ways to boost your metabolism (the thing that burns calories and keeps your body active) are.

Increasing your protein intake
Eating meals every 3 hours
Cardiovascular exercise done at 80% of your highest.

Eating will never be bad, eating food that has minimum or zero nutritional properties is really bad to anyone. Stick to a program that combines cardio, weight training and a diet program based on natural and generous meals, always meet your calorie intake, this will determine your goal either it is losing weight or gaining mass.

I am currently on an intensive program that combines a lot of cardio and a lot of food, and heavy weight training, my goal is drop down my body fat and gaining muscle at the same time. And it is working, but like I said this was my personal goal, I have been working along with a Nutritionist who is also certified as a Professional Trainer, he has been my coach for 5 months so far, so the info im sharing with you is the same info that worked for me. I have never been over weight, im coming from a under weight problem, and now the old problem it is totally fixed..

Hope this info helps, anyway I invite everyone to join this group called HipFitness.

http://www.hipforums.com/newforums/group.php?groupid=16



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