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Eat less calories than you burn
For 4 weeks keep a log and write down everything you eat. This includes EVERYTHING - even the little things like ketchup. Figure out what you really eat on a daily basis and then cut it by 10-20%. You will lose about 2lbs a month, it might not sound like much BUT that equals 24 lbs a year. And more importantly that is weight you can actually keep off.
No matter what you do, no matter what you eat, no matter how much you work out you can not lose weight unless you burn more calories then you ingest.
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Great tip. I'd just add one thing: drop your judgments. Give up beating yourself up for food choices. Separate from your stories of good and bad. And just keep being in truth about what you're eating. Reframe the purpose of your food journal to be purely about seeing what is true. Noticing what your patterns and habits are. Awareness is the only way I've found to be able to work with them.
I jot down what I eat every day—and try to note as much as possible how I'm feeling before and after (especially the next morning). This way, I can really see over time which foods are working for me—and how...and which ones aren't—and how. I can see what triggers my eating behaviors.
Think of yourself as an anthropologist, studying the ways of being you.
keep bringing soul into it,
sharon
Sharon Rich (www.soulincorporated.net) supports people in writing powerful new stories of possibility and passion that create change in their bodies, businesses, relationships and lives.
Great tip.
When you look at calories and calorie reduction you have to be more mind full about what you are doing, (which the journal is great for) but you have to look at your choices and ask yourself why am I making them.
Its almost like saying, "Guns don't kill people, people don't kill people, its the bullets that do it." That is a true statement but with out you and the intent the actual calorie is nothing.