Whether quitting your addiction to snacking, too much sugar, or
quitting smoking it starts with knowing what you want, checking
obstacles then handling them in advance. Follow these six steps and
you'll more easily reach your goals.
A client wrote,
"Help me! I thought I was finally getting a handle on my weight issue
but the sugar is killing me. I had an awful day. I won't even tell you
what I ate today because it is just so unbelievable. All I will say is
that 90% of my food today consisted of sugar! I really, really need some
help getting past these cravings. I am no doubt a sugar addict. If I
could get past this there is no doubt that I will reach my goal."
If
you see a little of yourself in this message, you're not alone. Many
describe themselves as sugar addicts. They believe if it were only for
that one thing, then they could reach their weight loss goals. If you
believe only one thing stands in your way of losing weight, consider
this: What if that one thing (an addiction to sugar for instance) were
gone? Do you really believe, "If I could get past this, there is no
doubt that I will reach my goal," or is it an easy excuse to stay stuck?
If I told you I could show you a way to stop craving sugar, would you want me to show you how?
Think
about that for a moment. Close your eyes and really think it through.
You've said if only you didn't crave sugar, then you could lose weight,
but is that really true for you? Ask yourself these questions:
Would you eat differently, and if so how?
Would you act differently, and if so how?
What else would change, and what would stay the same?
What would you lose?
What would you gain?
Until
you know what you want, know you can achieve it, and know what else
will change (i.e. how your life may be different), you can't discover
any obstacles that first must be considered. For instance, you may want
to stop eating anything after 7 PM yet your husband doesn't come home
from work until 8 and he wants you to join him for dinner. That's an
obstacle.
If you've got a habit of watching your favorite TV show with a bowl of ice cream, then breaking that habit is another obstacle.
If
you don't work out ways to overcome your obstacles perhaps through
discussion and compromise with your husband, or habit breaking exercises
for your ice cream habit, there's bound to be a problem. Just saying
you're not going to do something any mroe rarely works. Instead
determine what might stand in the way of achieving your goals, find a
way around them, and you're much more likely to actually achieve those
goals once and for all.
The statement, "if this one
thing were handled, then everything else would fall into place" is an
"If Then" statement and gets people into trouble. They want a fairy
godmother to make it all better. A strong belief that one single thing
such as, "eating sugar is my problem," sets you up to fail, especially
if you really like eating sugary foods.
Getting
a handle on your cravings is not an all-or-nothing proposition. You
must leave room for occasional deviations. It's not the occasional side
trip that causes weight trouble, it's the road we usually travel.
In
NLP (Neuro Linguistic Programming) a good starting point is the
exercise called Establishing a Well Formed Outcome. "Well formed" means
it meets all criteria of a well thought-out end result.
NLP: How to Create a Well Formed Outcome & Get What You Want
Here are the steps to creating a well formed outcome:
1) State what you want (not what you do not want). "I want to weigh 135 pounds."
2) Determine whether you can achieve it (do you believe it is possible?).
3) What resources do you have and what do you need (time, money, gear, clothes, equipment, coaching, whatever).
4)
Check whether anyone else is involved and any potential obstacles that
may come up regarding others. Think of everyone involved in your
day-to-day life.
5) Picture yourself "as if" you've obtained what you say you want and see if that picture fits. Do you like what you see?
6) Put together a plan of action for the achievement of your outcome.
While
it may seem like a lot of effort simply to decide what you really want,
going through these steps at the beginning helps you find potential
obstacles which previously stopped you from moving forward. For example,
if you decide you want to join a gym and start exercising every day but
you've forgotten you don't even own a car and just lost your job, that
exercise plan might not work out right now. If you did join a gym, you'd
end up not going and then you'd think you'd failed, yet it was the plan
that failed, not you. You didn't think it through.
A
better plan in this instance may be doing exercises at home, or within
walking distance (or simply walking for exercise). Later, when you do
have transportation, you can rethink the plan and perhaps join a gym
then. There are always options.
It's better to look at
what you want from every angle, then put together a plan you know can
and will work. Then when you know what you want, you'll also know you
can make it happen and begin by taking that first step toward making it a
reality.
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Whenever you are serious and start caring about your health the first
thing stuck in your mind is the required essential nutrition's and
their resources and here I am informing you about these nutrition's,
however the general nutrition's are vitamins, minerals such as calcium,
phosphorus, potassium, sulfur, sodium, chlorine, and magnesium except
these minerals we also require carbohydrate, fat, abundant amount of
water and the most essential one protein now you got it how essential is
the protein is? Now you will be thinking what the protein is and why is
so essential then let me remind you;they are one of the building blocks
of body tissues, and serve as a fuel source, but as a fuel source they
only contains 4kcal per gram which is quite less than the energy offered
by carbohydrate or lipids which contains around 9kcal. However the most
important aspect and illustrating virtue of protein from a nutritional
point of view is amino-acid's composition.
