Before talking about holistic weight loss, have you ever thought about how all areas of your life affect each other? For example, you may have financial difficulties and do not sleep well at night as a result, you wake up tired and don’t have the courage to exercise. Or maybe you’re in an unsatisfying relationship and feel trapped, so you’re searching access to food.
In the midst of all this, if you want to lose weight, how easy would it be to stick to a strict diet or exercise program or both? Probably not much. Even if you succeed, it will have an expiration date and then you will go back to your old habits and behaviors because the above problems will still exist.
Therefore, holistic weight loss aims to identify the problems that lead us to such aggravating behaviors (emotional eating, stress eating, etc.) and find solutions to bring balance to the areas of our lives that we are not satisfied with. At the same time, we begin to create new positive habits in our lives that are easy for us and based on our personal needs and life circumstances, so that they become established over time and become a way of life. In fact, we consciously learn to love and care for ourselves.
10 tips for comprehensive weight loss:
- Let’s eat more consciously. Eating calmly, chewing our food well and stopping as soon as we are full.
- Participating in the preparation of our meals. This is the surest way to control what we eat and make better choices.
- Creating a beautiful dining routine, paying attention to the dishes, the table, the place where we eat, to create a mood to really enjoy food and avoid eating on the couch in front of the TV.
- Read the ingredients on the labels of the foods we buy. Most packaged foods are high in sugar, salt, and bad quality fats that should be avoided.
- Let’s put it exercise in our lives. There are many types of exercise and you are sure to find something you like. If you like it, you will do it happily and systematically.
- Find ways to manage our stress. Chronic stress can lead to obesity and other diseases of our body. Exercise, meditation, nature, and laughter are just a few of the things you can do to manage your stress. Find what works for you.
- Good bed. Studies show that lack of sleep can lead to obesity and, of course, bad mood, which in turn leads to frequent cravings and overeating.
- Feel gratitude. The surest way to happiness! When we are grateful for what we have, we focus on the positive and feel good about ourselves. When we feel good, we don’t need distractions like food, alcohol or cigarettes.
- Make meditation. Meditation can not only help reduce stress, but it can also help change negative beliefs that can prevent us from having the body we want.
- Learning to love ourselves. The most important! When we truly love someone, we want to take care of them and protect them from harm, but unfortunately, we haven’t learned to do that for ourselves.