If you’re looking to achieve sustainable and realistic weight loss – slow and steady wins the race!
Have you ever set yourself a weight loss goal, which seems to be going nowhere?
Maybe you’ve lost weight in the past only to regain it a few months later.
Here are my 3 top tips to build healthier habits, to ensure your weight loss sticks.
This means saying goodbye to fad diets and quick fixes (because let’s face it, if they worked, you would only ever need to go on one).
1. Break a large goal into smaller, more achievable steps
When we’re looking too much at the bigger picture, weight loss can seem daunting and unachievable, but also be more difficult to achieve and sustain.
By breaking down your larger goal (e.g. losing 10kg) into smaller, more achievable steps, you’re giving yourself checkpoints along the way. These checkpoints double as an opportunity to celebrate the small wins.
2. Start with the basics and build from there
The key to successful weight loss is nailing the basics and then fine-tuning things from there.
To do this effectively, start with one key habit and once you’ve achieved this, you can move to the next.
But what are the basics? Some examples include drinking enough water, including some protein with each of your meals and eating plenty of fresh fruit and veggies.
3. Consistency is key
Consistency is the secret to forming habits!
This means that one or two ‘less healthy meals’ will not derail your whole week’s progress.
Perfecting sustainable weight loss includes still enjoying the foods you love in moderation, and fuelling your body with the nutrients it needs the majority of the time.
When trying to change our behaviours and build healthier habits that will stick, such as weight loss, there are a few things to consider.
In fact, there are many more factors involved beyond the foods you consume and the calories you burn, including your mindset.
At RTH our main focus in our nutrition & fitness programs is on psychological changes – because mindset changes are the key to counteract deeply ingrained, lifelong habits and unwanted eating patterns like overeating, binge eating, obsessive calorie counting, night eating etc.
