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Green Mountain featured in USA Today
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"Little steps bring goal closer" by Nanci Hellmich
Focus on living healthfully, not weight loss.
Learn to eat in a way that makes you feel well and gives you
energy. Move your body regularly, manage stress and think
positively. In developing these habits, a person can adopt
a way of living that will bring her or him to a healthy weight
naturally. Focusing on weight often leads to impatience, setting
us up to be enticed by quick fixes that ultimately lead to
failure.
Do your own thing. Living healthfully is
not about doing things according to someone else's rules.
You need to find out what works for you, and you do that by
experimenting, failing, trying again, listening to your body
for the cues that tell you when something is right. It's about
trusting your body.
Pass on perfection. You don't need to be
perfect; you just want to improve. Over time, small improvements
can add up to big changes. What's more, moving away from perfection
lets us enjoy ourselves now while we're on the road to positive
change.
Believe in yourself. Take all that you have
used to make yourself a success in other areas and put it
to work to achieve your healthy lifestyle goals.
Persist. Success is born from past failures.
Everything you've done before, regardless of the outcome,
brings you closer to "getting it" the next time
if you give yourself a next time. Give up the negative, critical
voice and move on.
Understand that it's often not about food.
For many of us, battles with food serve to distract us from
what is really going on — emotions that we may find
difficult to handle, such as loneliness, unhappiness, boredom,
sadness. Learning to cope with these underlying issues provides
much more than the temporary relief of eating. That said,
if we deny ourselves what we really want to eat, we risk adding
feelings of deprivation to the mix. The key is to understand
what we really want. Sometimes it's the doughnut, and sometimes
it's not.
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