Best diet for fast weight loss
In a time when the world seems to be spinning faster and more furiously, it is a fine time to focus on things we can take charge of: Our own personal health and our stress responses.
I often hear from people wondering “what’s the best diet for fast weight loss?” There’s so much noise in the health and wellness industry, it can be confusing to understand what’s true and what’s just smoke and mirrors. While it’s always motivating to see pounds drop fast on the scale when travelling on a weight loss journey, I always encourage people to think forward to how they’ll feel when the scale quickly bounces back up later with even more pounds than before. With a 95% failure rate of diets, this is the most typical outcome. I encourage you to think about your daily habits and long term health trajectory. It’s our habits that make or break our health over our lifetimes.
One of my many wellness axioms is ‘slow and steady wins the race’ in weight loss. One to two pounds a week is the healthiest and most sustainable rate at which to lose. The challenge is this rate requires consistency and patience; for most people, those are two challenging virtues to cultivate. We all want fast results!
I’m sharing six tips to help you cultivate patience and make weight loss less challenging. Remember, the greatest tool you have for change is your thoughts. When you harness your mindset, your agency for transformation is nearly limitless.
These 6 tips can help not only with progress on the scale, but also for aging with greater vitality, lowering stress responses and reducing inflammation.
3 Mindset Tips
Be accountable
When we have a partner in any change journey, we go farther and bounce back faster when we get off track. Whether the accountability is to a coach, friend or colleague, don’t go it alone.
Be goal focused
When we put our goals in writing and they are specific, realistic and measurable, they are much more powerful than fuzzy goals we might have just thought about.
Know your Why
Your personal Why is internal motivation that you connect to your values. It acts as rocket fuel for your change journey. It keeps you going when doubt inevitably shows up.
3 Executional Tips
Be whole foods focused
Minimize processed convenience foods (don’t be fast, easy or fake) and maximize whole foods. A simple axiom to follow is “eat the rainbow!”
Be a label reader
Care about how you’re fueling your body. Take time to read nutrition labels and ignore front of package marketing claims. Minimize foods with long lists of unpronounceable ingredients.
HydratIon Hydration
Drink mostly water and lots of it. Every day.
To your good health and joy,
Coach Gayle Rose
Certified Health Coach
Certified Behavior Change Specialist
Certified Personal Fitness Trainer
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