Event Dieting

How To Avoid Weight Gain After Your Wedding, Vacation Or Reunion

SEATTLE, WA (Monday, January 02, 2006) - Event Dieting: That’s what we call any upcoming occasion for which you don’t feel you look good enough. And guess what? It doesn’t work! Oh, you may lose the weight for the event, however since you just set your goal for a brief period, the weight will soon return. And frequently its friends—more pounds—will show up with it. That’s because the weight loss was the exception to your lifestyle, not the rule.

And then there are those occasions you want to event diet before; you plan to lose the weight and your resistance pops up at the most inopportune times and you just can’t seem to motivate yourself. That’s when your brain begins to allow you to see yourself in a better light. It sounds something like this: “I guess I don’t look too bad. I could probably afford an outfit in a larger size just for this special occasion.” Sound familiar? Want to stop this destructive behavior? Here’s how:
We frequently know when special events are coming well in advance of the occasion. Unfortunately, we learned very early on to procrastinate and wait until we’re right up against it to actually take action (Remember cramming for tests in school? Same thing.).

Instead of doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results (the definition of insanity!), try a saner, more practical approach for the next event at which you want to look fabulous.

Actually, you could begin today, right now. Then when the event occurs, you won’t need to change one thing about yourself. Wouldn’t that be nice?

One reason it might be difficult to begin—and stay with—a healthy lifestyle is that so many Americans have become accustomed to immediate gratification and results. We want it all NOW. And if we can’t lose 5 pounds in the next few hours, then we’ll eat a candy bar. But something has to make us feel better right now. Recognizing that that thinking may be part of your makeup is the first step toward changing it.

To be slender and live that lifestyle, it behooves us to learn what those who have mastered that behavior know.

Delayed gratification is a skill that many slender people seem to have mastered. The next time you feel hungry, wait for a few minutes before eating. Waiting too long can lead to low blood sugar and the tendency to overeat, so make it a short period of time. Just play with it a bit. You want to interrupt the automatic responses that may have been leading to overeating or eating when you’re not really hungry. Creating the habit of delayed gratification requires that you be present and conscious more than you may be accustomed to. Listening to a hypnosis tape during your day will help you accomplish this awareness. Ironically, many people believe that hypnosis make you unconscious. Actually, the opposite is true: Hypnosis and hypnotists help you relax to become more conscious so that you can then decide who you want running your life—you or that doughnut!

Another way to insure that you will never again event diet is to simply become more active in your daily life. Remember, the most difficult step in going for a walk is the first one. After that, those steps become easier and easier.

Often people who are out of shape claim that exercise hurts. If this is the case, check with a physical therapist to learn what movements you can do that you will be able to do. There’s always something. You may even discover that as you move your body more and more, the aches and pains diminish and you are able to move your body more and more!
One of the dangers of going on a diet is that at some point you will be going off the diet. A diet by definition is a change in your normal behavior. No diet can teach you how to keep weight off when you return to your old eating patterns—which, being a human, you will do. The best advise about dieting is don’t do it. It hasn’t worked so far in keeping weight off and remember our definition of insanity!

To prepare well in advance for your event, begin now to eat less food in general. To do this, eat a bite of protein with everything you eat and be sure you have some protein in the morning. Just eating protein in the morning can reduce grazing throughout the day and especially nighttime grazing. If you eat just 100 calories less per day, at the end of the year you will have lost at least 12 pounds! Doesn’t that sound easy?

Your body is like a bank in that the calories you deposit into it will accumulate unless you make withdrawals, which is your physical activity. It’s quite simple really. Just withdraw more than you deposit and you will be ready year round for any and every special event.

Now we just need to figure out why we never have any clothes to wear and what are we going to do with this hair!

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