If your goal is to change all your bad habits when it comes to eating then you need to begin at home.

 

There are DNA factors that contribute to your weight gain, but just as important if not more important are the psychological factors- emotions, expectations and traditions that we live with every single day.

 

Weight loss experts have long known this; University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill researchers report that most women pack on almost 25 pounds during the first five years of marriage; men typically gain 30. And the likelihood of overweight parents having heavy children is well documented.

 

These types of patterns that are keeping families and individuals overweight is pretty typical.  Change is necessary though and you need to break these patterns.

 

One big pattern you need to break is the cycle of loved ones sabotaging your best intentions. 

 

Many of us turn to friends and family for support to lose weight, but sometimes those same people cause us to fail. "Loved ones may undermine your efforts without meaning to at all," says Edward Abramson, Ph.D., a professor emeritus of psychology at California State University, Chico, and author of Body Intelligence (McGraw-Hill, 2005).

 

It is very common to have only one person in a household wanting or needing to lose weight.  Without any intention from the others they may be helping you to fail.

 

Here are some solutions to work through this issue. 

 

 

 

 

• Instead of banning foods for the entire family ask the other family members or friends to eat them at another time or away from you so that you aren’t prone to eat these bad foods also.

 

• Tell your friends and family members how you would like them to respond if they see you splurging on something you shouldn’t be.

 

• Focus on well-being and not weight.  The weight will automatically follow when you start making following more healthier habits.  Don’t focus on the scale.  Make one healthy habit change a week and before you know it you will have made a handfuls of healthy changes and your weight will drop as a result.

 

If you start game planning to break the cycle of people or things that may be derailing your weight loss efforts you will much better off then if you never created a plan.  There is always a solution to a problem.  Just take the time to recognize the problem and then come up with the solution.

 

I know you can do it!

 

Yours in health,

 

Jayson Hunter RD, CSCS
America’s Trusted Weight Loss Expert

 

 

 PS: To learn more healthy eating guidelines go read this article here:  Top Ten Healthy Eating Guidelines

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