Have we done our homework? Where is the notebook where you jotted down your daily food and drink intake, the fat grams, the number of minutes of exercise you did each day? What did you do with the negative thoughts that came along each day? Did you talk back to them? Good for you.
Now let's go to session 12 which will help us go through the slippery slope of changing our lifestyle. For lapses there will be. They are a normal part of the process. We will be kidding ourselves if we did not go through some of them. For any weight loss program like at this site , we will experience a lapse.
To be successful at what are trying to do, that is lose weight and change lifestyle, is to learn how to recover quickly from these lapses. Find out what makes those lapses happen. In other words, what triggers them? Then practice how to react to these triggers and get back on track. Check this out:
Lapses are normal for we are humans. To err is human; to forgive divine, right? So we are likely to experience lapses especially in high-risk situation. A lapse occurs when we do not follow our plan of eating right and moving more. It is usually a separate event from which we can easily recover.
A lapse won't hurt our progress unless it graduates into a series of lapses which they call a relapse. This is when we lose focus and go back to our old unhealthy habits. We can still recover from a relapse but it will be harder than dealing with a lapse.
After relapse comes collapse. This is when we have returned to the old habits and have gained back all the weight we have lost. The wrong thing to do is to react to a single lapse as if it were a relapse. So it is the way we respond to a lapse that is important. The truth is that no single lapse will ruin the progress we have made.
So let's learn to master how to respond to lapses so we can regain our focus and go back to the healthy ways of eating and exercising. Talk back to it and to someone who supports your weight loss program. Ask why the lapse occurred and learn from that.
Then focus again on what is right and all the positive changes you have made. Lapses are just opportunities to learn something. Remember that had we not done something good, there would not have been any lapse. Know the high risk situations. Do you eat more when you're tired? Take a nap. Do you eat more when you're mad. Take a walk; it will lift your spirit.
Continue to keep a record of your daily weight, food and drink including fat grams intake, and the number of exercise minutes. Then identify a high risk situation that made you eat and not exercise. Then deal with it accordingly. Share with us next week how you dealt with this slip
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