Plan To Win Or Plan To Lose?

If you want to lose weight permanently, you have to plan to lose!

From my experience with my clients, there are 4 plans to think of:

The first is a weekly meal plan. Do your planning on a fixed day every week, for example every Sunday. Get clear on your calorie intake over the course of the week and arrange your shopping list accordingly. Don’t forget upcoming activities with friends and family, business lunches, dinners out- every occasion you will have contact with food.

Permanent weight loss is only achievable if you get your calorie intake handled what will require some planning. In addition, it allows you to get healthy food on your shopping list contributing to your healthy weight loss.

Then there is a weekly exercise plan. If I do not plan my Yoga classes ahead, I won’t go- because there is always something coming up that is “more important right now”. So: make an exercise plan and stick to it. Research has shown that regular exercise is statistically linked with permanent weight loss.

Along with the weekly plans goes a day-to-day plan for the “micro planning” on eating and exercise. Plan ahead for the next day. What will you eat? When will you eat it? When will you be physically active? Want to know a trick to follow through? Plan on paper and be as specific as possible.

The fourth plan is actually the most important one: plan for your “cheat activities” or “indulgences” or however you might call it on a weekly basis. Give yourself some slack. When you know you’ll have a bowl of ice cream tomorrow, it will be much easier to follow through on your diet today making it easier to lose weight permanently.

All planning activities should not take more than 20 minutes for the weekly plans and 3 minutes for the daily plan. What do you think: Is losing weight permanently worth this small investment of your time?

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