A successful diet is not only based on what you consume and what you spend on a daily basis. It is also the establishment of a favorable environment that will help you daily to get closer to your goal. Here are 10 tips to make things easier and help you achieve weight loss success!
1. Successful dieting: having a real goal
Why do you want to lose weight? Starting to lose weight requires having a specific and personal goal in order to know exactly where you are going.
that your reasons be medical, psychological or aesthetic, it is important to identify a well-targeted objective that will act as a personal driving force, beyond a simple number on the scale. Losing weight under duress or pressure or to please someone never works in the long term!
2. Find your rhythm
Before succeeding in your diet, going on a diet (changing your diet, your pace, etc.) is already a constraint in itself. So more the proposed program adapts to your needs in terms of organization, tastes…, and the easier things will be.
The more constraints there are, the more difficult it will be to put in place over time and therefore to achieve your objective. This is the strength of the Cohen Method, we adapt your program according to your preferences and your pace of life.
3. Be forgiving and patient
Weight loss is a bit like life, it’s “not a long calm river”! We lose quickly at first, then the weight loss slows down, sometimes stagnates… and starts again.
We are also going to experience events likely to undermine the good intentions at the start.
Be forgiving and patient and don’t give up if you break down or your weight loss isn’t going as fast as you’d like! It’s normal, it’s part of the life of diets and in no way calls into question your long-term success.
4. Control your weight
It is obvious you will tell me, but at what rate? On the Cohen Method, I recommend stepping on the scale once or twice a week.
Some do it every day, why not, as long as it doesn’t become obsessive because weight loss is really assessed over 1 week and not from one day to the next.
And in addition to the balance, don’t forget measurements !
5. Make menus and groceries in advance
There are several advantages to this:
- You go to anticipate what you are going to eat (no more wondering “what are we eating tonight?”).
- You are going to make savings while shopping (no temptation to buy something else by sticking to your list).
- You go win time.
- You will eat what you prefer!
- You limit cracking or junk food because the fridge is empty or you haven’t had time to prepare it.
6. Limit temptations at home
Avoid cupboards overflowing with temptations is the first thing to do for a successful diet. By sorting and organizing your cupboards, you limit the demands related to the mere presence of food at hand and you focus on your objective.
Are you several at home? Try having your own closet!
7. Detach yourself from those around you
The person who shares your life makes you think and that does not help you to succeed in his diet. Your friends comment on how you eat out. In family meals, jokes about your diet are a bit heavy…
Detach yourself from that. Your weight loss is your story, it’s your “thing to you”. Put aside the reflections that are often jealous reflections (or jealous!).
8. Choose the right period
Going on a diet, I like to say it’s “a little job”. It is therefore to make efforts by modifying our daily habits.
It is then necessary that the moment is well chosen to succeed in your diet. If you have worries, a family concern, a health problem to solve that does not require losing weight… Then wait.
Don’t inflict on yourself “double jeopardy”you will start with a freer spirit when the time is right.
9. Avoid processed products
The point of avoiding processed foods is to control what you eat as much as possible.
And it goes through… kitchen ! Losing weight doesn’t necessarily mean eating fish fillet and steamed beans…
The delicious recipes of the Cohen Method prove it every day! Without forgetting that the composition of processed products is often complicated. Stay in control!
10. Keep your slimming diary
Can you remember exactly what you ate in the last 2 or 3 days? It’s very complicated and discrepancies can happen without you realizing it.
hold your Slimming notebook, or food diary, allows you to fully control what you eat. And if you make a difference, it does not matter, you are aware of it and you will adapt the next meals!
You see, program success isn’t just about following meal plans. It takes a positive environment to help you put the odds on your side.
