3 Reasons To Treat Yourself Once A Week For Successful Weight Loss

Go ahead and treat yourself! Weight loss should be about gaining and maintaining a healthy lifestyle. It should not be about losing the weight and then returning to your previous eating and lifestyle habits. If you truly want weight loss and a healthier body than you must adopt an overall better outlook at health and wellness.

Lifestyle means everything in moderation. Moderation is one of the key concepts to weight loss and a healthy, balanced lifestyle. Moderation means not completely eliminating things such as dessert and wine from your diet but instead adding them in sparingly. Psychologically, deprivation doesn’t work for so many people because it leads to an adverse reaction. Knowing you can treat yourself may be the key to keeping you on track.

1. Reward System – Sometimes dieting can be incredibly boring and really hard to stay on track. If you know you have a treat to look forward to at the end of the week, somehow sticking to your healthy regimen seems worth it. A reward makes all this veggie and lean protein eating a little more manageable. It’s a work reward system. You put in the work and get the reward. Who doesn’t love a reward? We’ve been getting rewarded for hard work most of our lives. It all starts when we’re young and our reward for doing our chores is an allowance. This type of system progresses into career where we’re rewarded with money and or challenging promotions with more responsibility. Treating yourself once a week in the health and weight loss realm is quite the same. You work hard at health and weight loss all week and the reward not only shows up in the form of a dessert or glass of wine but it will also show up in measurements and on the scale. You’re creating a positive experience from this system and it becomes easier to maintain your weight loss program knowing that there is light at the end of the tunnel.

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