Ready to Lose Weight?

Research has shown that change occurs through a process, through a series of stages.

There is a certain 'readiness' to the change process.

Knowing what stage you are in is helpful to create success with any kind of change.

If you attempt to make a change you are not ready for, you are setting yourself up to fail.

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Research has shown that do over occurs through a process, through a series of stages.

There is a conclusive “readiness” to the specialization process.

Knowing what stage you are in is helpful to create success with any kind of change.

If you fall into to make a backup you are not ready for, you are setting yourself up to fail.

If you think re the way you have proficient chop in the past, you don’t just go out and make it happen. You may not be hep of the process, but it is still there.

Here is a compendium description of the stages of mark (Prochaska, et.al.):

1. Precontemplation – You don’t see that you have a problem. You are in denial. People in this stage have no intention of transitional themselves and usually only seek help with strong pressure from others. They resist assimilation and are often demoralized as well as they view the situation as hopeless.

2. Contemplation – You declare that you have a problem and found to think upon solving it, but you feel “stuck”. People with food and weight issues often hang out in this stage. You know you have a problem. You may even know what you need to do to mutate it, but you are not ready to pledge to action.

It is not unusual for people to spend years telling themselves that “someday” they will lose weight.

Fear of failure (or focusing on past failures) can keep you stuck in this stage for a very long time. It can look like searching for the perfect solution and reading lots of diet books, but not manifestly doing any in connection with it.

3. Preparation – You are planning to take political activism within the next month. You start focusing more on the solution than on the problem. You also start thinking more back and forth the future than the past.

You are white-hot to action, but haven’t necessarily resolved all of the mixed feelings you may have. For instance, losing weight requires letting go of some behaviors that may have provided temporary encouragement in the past.

4. lovely time – You take visible culture pattern steps. You may purchase gaping foods you plan to eat or remove foods from your home that you plan to avoid. You take the steps you have been preparing for. However, the mutate process does not end here.

5. Maintenance – You work to maintain the strides you have made in the previous stages. If you don’t have a strong perseverance to maintenance and a support structure in place, you can relapse back to a previous stage.

It’s the stage that no one wants to think of for fear of relapsing. If you go on a crash diet, you are ignoring the fact that maintenance is a long, ongoing process.

6. Termination – the ultimate goal. Your former problem behavior is no longer an issue and you have complete confidence that you can cope without fear of relapse.

Successful people often cycle through these stages several times preceding they finally exit the cycle.

Most people struggle for years to find effective solutions. While it may seem hard to form an estimate the process, recycling through the stages gives you opportunities to learn.

If you take way of life and fail, you are much more likely to succeed the next time nigh than if you take no bullfight at all.

So if you feel like you have been here before, you are not severally – and you may just be on your way to getting out of the cycle for good!