How Do Negative Thoughts Affect Your Diet?
What you eat has a very big effect on your diet, so does your workout routine,
But did you ever consider the effect of your thoughts?
What you think is a very significant factor on your way to a slimmer body,
Don’t underestimate it, it can and will change your diet.
Like many other fields of interest, dieting is very motivation based – no motivation equals no results.
But our motivation to diet can be a tricky thing.
I know that many times in my life I started a diet just because of one long look in the mirror.
I thought that I hate the way I looked, and I have to change it – no matter how awful the diet will be.
Sounds familiar, doesn’t it?
But in fact this is a very bad way to start a diet.
Usually this kind of events leads to a short boost of motivation that fades away quickly.
It fades away because it’s hard to do things we’re not happy about.
When you think negative thoughts about yourself and your diet you’re actually disrupting your own efforts.
The other way to look at it is to say: “how great it will be if and when I’m a lot thinner!”
There is a very simple way to find out how positive/negative your thoughts are:
Try and put a smile on it.
Thoughts that can be associated with a happy face are the ones you want to take with you to a long journey such as a diet.
Almost every thought can be spun to a positive light,
But in a diet, it’s so easy to fall into a negative thought cycle.
When dealing with self esteem issues like we do when we are on a diet,
We can easily make one bad day bring us to our diets’ end.
For example: you didn’t follow your diet and ate some chocolate. That leads to frustration with yourself. You tell yourself that this challenge is too hard. You think you don’t have enough will power, and never had. You quit.
The simple trigger to all those things is not the fact that you ate a bite of chocolate But your harsh reaction to it.
If you took things with a cooler perception, you wouldn’t have made such a big deal out of it.
It is all a matter of believing in yourself.
Also, negative thoughts have another ugly side effect.
When you think negative thoughts you feel bad.
And what do we do when we feel bad?
If the answer isn’t already obvious: We eat to sooth ourselves, and so the vicious cycle goes.
Don’t shoot yourself in the foot by allowing negative thoughts to roam around in your head.
You need to fight these negative thoughts with positive ones,
Tell yourself you can do it,
Counter the disappointment of eating chocolate by reminding yourself that you followed your diet perfectly for the last week or two.
There is always a silver lining when you’re willing to look for it.
If you can’t find it, talk to a friend or family member to help you get back on track.
I know it takes a lot of energy and focus to fight these negative thoughts away, but developing awareness to them will make it easier eventually.
This can make or break a diet.
Use your head to improve your diet
Where did your diet go wrong?
Good Luck,
David
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