Behavioral Weight Loss Tips
Behavioral Weight Loss Plan

Here are our behavioral weight loss tips and a free behavioral weight loss plan. Make it easy on yourself! In the first sections, we show how to optimize weight loss programs.

Ask yourself, “What can I do to improve my environment and my lifestyle for weight loss?” If you do that and follow our behavioral weight loss tips, we can give you a free and effective behavioral weight loss plan that will sustain you hour-by-hour, day-by-day.

sidebar quotation from Wallace Stevens: "I am what is around me."

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Until you reach your weight loss goals, it makes sense to adopt a behavioral weight loss plan. The overall plan is to avoid whatever hinders you and to surround yourself with whatever helps you.

For example, should you watch food commercials on television when you are trying to lose weight? Should you keep lots of refined (processed) carbohydrates or tempting sugary foods in your home?

Should you make friends with a gym rat or two? Or, should you hang out at pizza joints or bars? Please spend time with people who will help you on your journey to weight loss rather than those who will hinder you.

It would be great if all your friends and family wanted you to succeed. However, might some not want you to change your eating habits? If, for example, they are overweight might it not put pressure on them to change their eating habits, too?

You don't control other people, and it's futile trying. You can only control yourself. You can do that best by adopting an effective behavioral weight loss plan that will enable you to succeed. In that way, you will be setting a good example for others to follow.

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The morning routine is very important and can establish your determination and mood for the rest of the day. As a behavioral weight loss tip, this one should not be overlooked.

Look at your morning routine with fresh eyes. For example, suppose you are in the habit of watching television news or reading a newspaper during breakfast. Is that a habit that's serving you well?

No, it is not. In terms of mental nutrition, the first hour or two in the morning are the most important hours of the day. This is the time to focus on your goals and plan your weight loss routine for the rest of the day.

Mornings are the time to fill your mind with positive mental food and organize your thinking to serve your behavioral weight loss plan. Mornings are the worst possible time to think about how many murders there were in the city last night or how poorly your favorite sports team is doing.

For now, forget that stuff. Otherwise, you are allowing your environment to hinder you. Instead, focus on your weight loss goals and plan your day. We are not saying that you shouldn't pay attention to the rest of the world, but we are saying that you should pay attention to it in a way that is as innocuous as possible.

Watch or read about the news later in the day or, better, read a weekly newsmagazine — as long as you don't read it in the morning.

In terms of mental nutrition, the first hour or two in the morning are the most important hours of the day for everyone, not just those seeking weight loss.

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• Releasing a Psychological Weight Loss Trap
• Visualization Techniques for Weight Loss
• Positive Attitude and Achievement
• Goal Setting for Weight Loss
• Commitment and Achieving Weight Loss
• Learning How to Achieve Natural Weight Loss

If you make them part of your behavioral weight loss plan, even for just three months, you may be amazed at how helpful they are. For the free psychological tools and more behavioral weight loss tips, see this section of our website:

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Like meditation, it's a tool that, if used, will help your "inner" environment. In fact, if you already meditate, it's not a tool you need—though there's no reason not to use it also.

It's called "Morning Pages."

We borrow this particular way of using this tool from Julia Cameron, who discovered an effective writing practice that works. It's a very simple practice that doesn't require much time. However, it must be done every morning without fail as part of a morning routine.

Try it for three months and see if you don't notice improvements as a result. There's no reason not to do it every morning for the rest of your life. You may find that it becomes nearly as valuable as breathing!

Here's the practice: each morning write three pages of longhand writing, strictly stream-of-consciousness. That's it!

If you include this practice in your behavioral weight loss plan, make morning pages part of the morning routine that forms your "inner environment."

To get the full benefit from morning pages, one should not skip them or skimp on doing all three pages every morning. You may use a spiral notebook or loose-leaf pages, but put the pages away as soon as you are done writing them and do not look at them for at least two months. Don't show them to other people.

That's all there is to it and it's an excellent technique to include in your behavioral weight loss plan.

"There is no wrong way to do morning pages . . . The morning pages are the primary tool of creative recovery" (from Julia Cameron with Mark Bryan, THE ARTIST'S WAY).

Why this Behavioral Weight Loss Tip?

Doing morning papers as part of your behavioral weight loss plan will enable you to empty your mind of all kinds of thoughts that block productivity.

Much of what you write will be about petty, inconsequential, daily life stuff. Much of it may be complaining, or angry, or bitter. Some of it may be hopeful. A lot of it will be negative, which is perfectly normal.

After all, we all have an internal critic, a perfectionist censor who is always belittling or mocking us. Your censor's statements are not true, and, by writing them down, you are letting them go—thus freeing yourself from that tyranny.

In time, morning pages, like meditation, will lead you out of dissatisfaction and work well for behavioral weight loss.

Though simple, especially at first morning pages may not be easy. Just sit there and keep writing sentences until you have filled up three pages.

You may write about anything at all!

You may write about your experiences with eating or exercising well. You may write about your feelings or your failures or your successes; you may write about your remembered past or your imagined future.

You may write about other people in your life or even just the weather. Write about whatever comes to mind.

Any topic is acceptable.

Do you initially resist this way of reforming your environment for behavioral weight loss? Cameron claims that those who are initially most resistant to a morning pages practice come to love it most.

Add morning pages to your behavioral weight loss routine each morning for the next ninety days. Determine for yourself how much you can improve your environment and weight loss in three months.

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For example, teach yourself the "swish" technique [pattern] of NLP. Then use it to improve something. Use it for just ten minutes for two weeks. Notice what happens.

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Building a Behavioral Weight Loss Plan

• Meditation: An Aid to Weight Loss
• How to Cure Emotional Eating

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