Small baby steps are far more effective than drastic short term lifestyle fixes

Did you know that many women who start a diet end up being heavier than they were when they first started watching what they ate? From our years of research at Ukmedix News if we had to identify one single factor which caused overweight individuals to carry on becoming putting on weight we would point to the fact that too many people try to make drastic changes in their lifestyles which are unrealistic and unsustainable.

If you are overweight the chances are it is because you are eating too much fatty food and you are not getting enough exercise. What many overweight people do is overnight start eating salads and going for extensive workouts in the gym. This is completely the wrong thing to do and is likely to make you fatter than you were in the first place!

You may be able to call on loads of self control and willpower for a few days or even a week but the chances are that you will fail. As the Mind Gym guru Sebastian Bailey explained to readers of Ukmedix News in an interview, "self-control is like a muscle" and that if you overuse this "self control muscle" and try to do too much too much too quickly it will get tired and eventually stop working.

The secret for sustainable and long term weight loss is to build up your "self control muscle" so that it becomes stronger and stronger and at the same time that you don't overuse it so that it becomes tired. If you have been eating junk food for years you're going to find it very difficult to completely cut out burgers but you could go for smaller burgers, make sure that you eat a salad before you tuck in to it and avoid the chips.

Small baby steps like this are far more effective than drastic short term lifestyle fixes which never seem to work.