Mental Mistakes of Weight Loss

Posted: May 01 in Obesity and your Health, Weight Loss Blog, What is Obesity by

Don’t fall for these common thinking traps that could catch you off guard with your weight loss goals.

Medical weight loss programs are designed to give you everything you need to be successful with your weight loss program, from what you should be eating to how often you should be moving. The program puts everything you need right in front of you, but it still takes mental commitment on your part to keep up with it. If you are experiencing difficulty with your motivation level, or you realize you are starting to go back to poor previous habits, contact your weight loss doctor.

The biggest problem that people run into while working with a medical weight loss program are mental pitfalls. These are common errors in how we think about weight loss that can result in major setbacks.

Here are the biggest mental mistakes to avoid:

  • “I can lose it later.” There is no time like the present. If you aren’t willing to make the changes you need to be healthier now, what makes you think you’ll want to do it later? What’s worse, the unhealthy choices you make now could actually make it harder for you to become healthier later. Never put off something as essential as a healthier lifestyle.
  • “Once I lose weight, it will stay off.” Losing weight is tough work, so it isn’t surprising that once you reach your goal you are ready to take a break. But maintaining that weight loss is important. If you go back to your old habits, then you are going to eventually make it back to your old weight.
  • “This pill / tea / product will boost my metabolism so I can eat what I want.” You’ve heard the old saying about things that seem too good to be true, right? Because almost every time, they are. There is no magic bullet that will deliver weight loss, no tea that will make your metabolism move so fast you’ll lose all the weight you want while eating burgers and milkshakes every day.

Mark Twain once said that everything in life came down to mind over matter. If you believe something enough, then you could actually make it happen. This is a pitfall that too many people fall into during the weight loss process. There are countless weight loss myths out there, and the reason they persist despite all the evidence to the contrary is that somewhere, deep inside, we want to believe these little myths as truths.

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