This is an email that Joshua was sent yesterday. It contains a very interesting tactic for combating weight loss self-sabotage:
"Joshua, I signed up last week on PEERtrainer, and I have just today been reading your articles. At a time where a lot of negative things are going on in my life, your encouraging articles are really a help!
So, after reading your article on how to stop sabotaging my own weight loss, I am going to make my first attempt to stop the procrastination: I am giving up one weight-loss-sabotaging food this week: deep-fried foods. You also made me think about making a list of the foods that are the most detrimental to my dieting efforts, and then trying to give up one of those foods each week. If there are ten "blacklisted" foods, then theoretically, within ten weeks, I will have really changed my eating habits for the better!
In any case, thanks for your encouraging words. I know that you write them for the 'masses,' but I want you to know that they made an impact on one single person, at least."
So, after reading your article on how to stop sabotaging my own weight loss, I am going to make my first attempt to stop the procrastination: I am giving up one weight-loss-sabotaging food this week: deep-fried foods. You also made me think about making a list of the foods that are the most detrimental to my dieting efforts, and then trying to give up one of those foods each week. If there are ten "blacklisted" foods, then theoretically, within ten weeks, I will have really changed my eating habits for the better!
In any case, thanks for your encouraging words. I know that you write them for the 'masses,' but I want you to know that they made an impact on one single person, at least."
In case you missed yesterday's email and attached article here it is:
I want to encourage the reader who is giving up fried foods. You are taking one of the most important steps toward a healthy diet because fried foods destroy health in so many ways. This is one of six "problem foods" Bob Greene asks his readers to give up in the first 4 weeks of the Best Life Diet.* I would encourage you not to rush, though, to target too many sabotage foods too quickly. If at the end of week 1 you still have to consciously think at every meal about avoiding fried foods, then you might need another week just to focus on that and really establish the habit before you move on to something else. Good luck!
*I don't belong to the Best Life website--Peer Trainer is much more affordable--but I am using Bob Greene's book & journal.
Posted by: Susan | March 27, 2010 at 09:10 PM