A Great Habit To Follow to Keep Weight Off

Everybody diets, but not everybody succeeds. Why is this the case? Why do we know so many more people who fell off the wagon then managed to see their diet all the way through to the end—and then maintain their success? What is the key difference between these two groups of people, and how can you ensure that you are able to emulate the healthy ones and not fall off the wagon yourself? While there are a host of different factors at play, we're going to reveal a key tip in today's article that all successful dieters follow, and hopefully you will be able to use it yourself to achieve permanent weight loss!

Let's take a quick look at why so many people fail to lose weight once they achieve their goals. The answer is usually quite simple, and that's because they view weight loss and diets in particular as a short term process, a simple goal that they follow until they complete their diet, at which point they think they are done with dieting in general, and can go back to their old lifestyles. Unfortunately this results in their eating all the food that they had sworn off of, or relaxing their guard week by week and slowly and gradually packing on the pounds until they are once again as overweight, if not more so.

So what do successful dieters do differently? The answer is surprisingly simple. They write down what they eat. They keep track of how much they are consuming, ensuring that they never binge and have too many calories. While this can seem to be a chore at first, the very act of writing down what you're eating will help check those gluttonous tendencies. People tend to self-regulate their diets when they have to write them down, becoming much less likely to sneak in an extra cookie than before.

Now, what this means on a larger level is you are keeping your new healthy habits in mind. You are not simply forgetting what you are doing and reverting to old habits, but rather simply remaining proactive and on top of your situation. In reality, having finished a successful diet you should already be in this habit, but continuing it will ensure that you don't begin to slip and pack on the pounds once more, ensuring long term success.

 

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