3 Steps to Follow When You Want To Lose Weight But Don’t Know Where to Start
You know when you want to lose weight but you don’t know where to start? When you feel overwhelmed with all of the diet and exercise information out there and it makes you want to run to the freezer for ice cream to avoid thinking about it?
I know what it’s like! For example, one expert says to “Eat like this” and another expert says “Never eat that!” and so on and so forth.
All of the endless, conflicting information leads to confusion and results in indecision which leads to inaction, which ends up in …. the scale doesn’t move or, if it does move, it’s not going in the right direction (ack!).
Information Overload Can Spark a Spiral of Emotional Eating
When you want to lose weight, information overload as well as too much conflicting diet and exercise information can lead to frustration before you even get started. It can also spark a spiral of emotional eating, binge eating, and stress eating while you try to turn to food for comfort due to so much confusion with endless dieting information that never seems to end.
So what can you do? You certainly don’t want to pile on even more frustration when you’re already feeling overwhelmed because where will that lead you? Just to more binging or emotional eating, which only serves to feed the cycle of your overweight problems which is what you’re trying to solve by collecting all of the conflicting overwhelming diet and exercise information out there. Double ack!
What if we keep it super simple and only look at 3 things you can do when you want to lose weight but you don’t know where to start?
Sound good? Let’s do it!
3 Steps to Follow When You Want To Lose Weight But Don’t Know Where to Start
Grab pen and paper and then start with my steps below. These aren’t physical weight loss steps that will confuse you, no! These are clarifying “Get Going” steps which you can use to get in action mode right now.
Don’t wait!
Clarity
1.) Get Clear: What exactly do you want?
Grab pen on paper to answer these questions for yourself. This exercise won’t help you if you only read it. 😉
Start by getting clear on what exactly you want. So what do you want? You can easily say you want to lose weight but how many pounds? What size jeans do you want to wear?
How will you feel and how will you look? What will you do differently in your life if you really could lose weight and reach your weight loss goal?
What will you look like? Do you want to be healthy fit and strong or are you only interested in weight loss on the scale, even if it’s unhealthy and unsustainable? (I hope that’s not where you’re coming from!)
What will you think and believe about yourself if you really do achieve your ultimate weight loss goal?
How will each area of your life change if you reach your ultimate goal weight?
Commitment
2.) Get Committed: What are you willing to do to achieve everything you wrote in Step #1?
After writing out all of the details of what you want in Step One above, then commit pen on paper to exactly what you are willing to do to achieve the results you want. Are you willing to commit?
A commitment is a promise to yourself. It won’t always be easy to keep this promise but if you do keep it and you change your lifestyle to live healthy and fit, then over time you can lose weight and shape up. It will take time and consistency to get there but without a solid commitment to yourself and to your goals, how will you ever do it?
You see…. maybe when you glanced over my 3 steps I’m offering you for FREE to complete right now…. maybe you thought that my 3 steps don’t look like weight loss steps because I’m not telling you want to eat and what not to eat. I’ll give you some tips on that side of the solution before I wrap up this article but if you don’t complete my 3 steps pen on paper, the rest won’t matter.
You can have the cleanest eating plan in the world but if you haven’t identified exactly what you want and you have not committed 100% to yourself and your goals, then what kind of results will you get?
You’re right: you won’t lose weight and get the results you dearly want. So let’s keep going with my 3 steps now. And here in Step 2, in addition to committing to yourself, also write out the specific steps you are willing to take in order to get your results you outlined in Step 1.
Write out all of the actions you are willing to commit to, such as prepping your meals in advance, eating clean, and walking 5 days a week, which are some simple lifestyle actions that can help you lose weight, get healthy, and get fit over time.
Action
3.) Baby Step It: What is a baby step you can take today?
IMPORTANT: Nothing changes without action and to successfully lose weight, action must be healthy and consistent over time.
We have to get real about losing weight. The fact is, losing weight takes time and sometimes it takes a lot of time. It all depends on how overweight you are currently but no matter how many pounds you need to lose, you can do it if you stick with it, over time.
A huge problem many have when it comes to losing weight is putting it off.
Either putting it off until Monday, or putting it off until the first of the month, or putting it off until January 1st, or putting off weight loss until someday, you know, that Some-Day that never turns into To-Day. Add onto this the confusion and overwhelm due to conflicting diet and exercise information that is running rampant out there, and you could end up putting off your weight loss journey for the next ten years.
This is not a joke and actually, I have spoken with several women over the years who began following me when I first started coaching in 2009 and they struggled for many long years before they decided to reach out to me and get coached. Don’t do this to yourself! It’s too much time to stay in the struggle and while there is good news in this (my clients break free of the struggle in eight weeks or less) the bad news is the longer you put it off, the longer you have to live in the struggle. Not fun!!
So identify one baby step you can take immediately to begin moving towards your weight loss goals you detailed in Step One. If you need ideas, a couple examples could be 1) eating only when physically hungry (If you are not struggling with emotional eating or binge eating or comfort eating, then this should be relatively easy to do) or 2) cut all of your portions in half while saving half to eat later when you’re physically hungry or 3) replace all soda with plain water.
Any one of these would be a step in a healthier direction and you could start with any of the three immediately. Start with only one healthy baby step to keep things simple and get started now.
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