Starting your weight loss journey is probably one of the best life changing decisions you will ever make in life. This is true because most habits you need to adapt in order to lose weight can also help you achieve any goal you need to achieve in life. Discipline is a virtue that you will need to successfully lose weight and keep it off for good.

With Discipline you can develop these 7 habits that will help you lose weight and keep it off for good.

Don’t do all of these at once. Choose the one that seems the most feasible for you, and try to stick with it for a week or so. Once you’re doing it fairly consistently, add another one. Over time, you will realize that many of these habits can be interconnected.

Setting SMART Goals

Your goals should be specific, measurable, achievable, realistic and time-based. Perhaps you’d like to drop three dress sizes or four. Don’t go there — not yet, at least. Set a more realistic goal of losing a dress size or two, and give yourself plenty of time and some flexibility to reach that goal, keeping in mind that most people take at least six months to achieve that degree of weight loss.

Eat Breakfast Every Morning

Slowly and mindfully eating breakfast in the morning is a healthy habit worthy of adapting. Many people skip breakfast because they’re too busy or they aren’t hungry. Try getting up 15 minutes earlier (which means going to bed earlier so you don’t sacrifice sleep time) to make time for breakfast and practice putting down your utensil or sipping water, coffee, or tea between bites. When you eat breakfast, you give little room for snacking and stress. Your energy levels increases and you can burn more calories.

Self Monitoring

Writing down what you eat and how much you exercise can help you gain awareness of your behaviors and track your changes toward specific goals. To keep tabs on your eating and exercise, you can go low-tech (a pocket-size notebook with a pen) or high-tech (a smartphone app). The idea is to pinpoint areas you need to improve. You can contact our Clinical Nutritionist to provide you with an adequate meal plan, that contains all the meals you love with recipes on how to prepare them the healthy way.

Find a Support Network

You need to find at least one weight-loss buddy, your spouse, a friend, a relative, or a colleague to help motivate you and hold you accountable. In-person groups, can serve this purpose; so can online support groups.

Diversify your Exercise

Try a new form of exercise. Skip ropes; go dancing; Jog around the neighborhood. Finding a form of exercise that you really enjoy will make it easier to stick to an exercise routine — and incorporating new types of exercise can keep you challenged and less likely to become bored.

Make Sure you are Getting Enough Sleep

Research shows inadequate sleep can lead to weight gain this is likely due to its effect on hormones that signal hunger and fullness. Most people need about eight hours of sleep a night, but there’s a lot of variability — some people need more, some less. You can tell if you’re getting enough sleep if you wake up feeling refreshed and ready to go.

Don't be Sedentary, Cut Down on Screen-time

People often complain that they don’t have enough time to exercise or to shop for and prepare healthy meals. But in fact, most people spend many hours watching TV or using their computer for fun. Keep track of your screen time for a week, then try scaling back the number of hours by a quarter or a third, and devote that time to your weight-loss effort.

We hope you found this article educative. At Skin101Weight loss Clinic, we are ready to make your weight loss journey as easy and seamless as possible. Our services are top notch as always and our goal is to help you feel more confident in your own skin, the best way we possibly can.

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