Have you seriously intended to lose weight, but have fallen off the diet again after a couple of weeks?
Or are you just planning to follow dietary restrictions, but you have a premonition that you will break down and ruin everything? Don't worry in advance.
Dieting will be much easier if you prepare yourself mentally for it. What should you do before starting a diet and during the process of losing weight to emerge victorious from this competition with extra pounds?
First, ask yourself - how long will the diet last and will you be able to stick to it for the prescribed period?
If you have decided to go on a diet for the first time, you should not resort to those types that provide restrictions for a long time. You will not last a month or two on buckwheat or kefir with vegetables and will probably break down.
For starters, it’s a good idea to “sharpen” your willpower on short diets that last about a week or on those that don’t require strict dietary restrictions.
The second question you need to ask yourself is: how will I eat when the diet is over? Will you go back to the diet you had before, or will you maintain the result by changing your previous hearty regimen and menu?
The next point is how much weight do you want to lose and for how long? Just don't set yourself initially impossible tasks.
Losing 30 kilograms in a month is only possible if you literally starve yourself and work 12 hours a day in the gym. Are you ready for such feats? Your body is definitely not ready.
Therefore, set yourself a very small goal to begin with - let's say, to lose one and a half kilograms in a week and maintain this result for three days. If you manage to do this, it will be easier to stick to the diet and not dream about tasty and unhealthy products.
You also need to enter the diet smoothly, without jerks. Change your eating habits gradually, reducing the amount of "forbidden" products and adding more healthy and nutritionist-approved products to your diet.
The body will not be able to quickly adapt to drastic changes, and you, initially inspired by the prospect of losing weight, will increasingly begin to yearn for fried chicken, French fries and cakes from the nearest bakery. And then it's just a stone's throw to a breakdown.
Still couldn't resist and ate a cake in a cafe with your friend? Or you don't understand how, but you stuck your hand in a bucket of popcorn that your other half was eating while you were watching a movie at home together? This should not be considered a serious violation, much less a diet breakdown.
In general, remember that a diet is not a concentration camp, where any, even an unconscious step to the side is considered an escape and is punishable by execution. Sometimes eating a little of the "forbidden" is possible and necessary.
Cheat meals are approved and supported by nutritionists precisely to avoid breakdowns and leaving the "diet distance". It's a different matter when cheat meals are practiced frequently. Then it's worth thinking about changing the diet itself, but not giving up losing weight altogether.
And finally, since on a diet you are constantly haunted by thoughts of fatty, sweet, high-calorie foods, find a way to distract yourself from these thoughts.
How? Do some cleaning, go to the theater, take a walk, sign up for a table tennis class and practice until you drop, embroider, draw - in general, occupy your body and mind with other things and impressions. It's easier to stick to a diet if you don't think about food and when this torment with restrictions will end.
Author: Valeria Kisternaya
