When you are hungry it most likely means that you are losing weight. That’s how your body tells you it wants more because it’s used to having more. It means that you are taking in less food than what your body is use to – and that’s why it’s hungry. But it’s also why you are losing weight. If you give it anything extra than what is on you program you will go from a losing day to a maintain day. In order for you to maintain, your body needs to get the amount of food you need to sustain your current weight. But if you feed it a little less, just enough to be a little hungry – that’s when you know you are losing weight. Because the bottom line is you need to take in less than what your body needs to lose the weight.
You should never be starving but a little hungry is okay.
While it seems so simple, we all know it’s anything but that. If it was easy then everyone would be thin. What you need to remind yourself daily is why you are doing this and how much it means to you. It’s just so easy to go off program for the smallest reasons. We all have our own excuses and some of them are very valid. But there is really no excuse that is good enough to go off program. Think about it – whatever is going on in your life – eating more doesn’t solve your problems, nor does it make anything better, it only gives you something else to be upset about.
If you are 140 and you want to be 130 you need to eat like someone who is 130.
When it’s really hard to stay on that’s when you have to have those visions in your head of you getting dressed and nothing fitting you. Remember how unhappy it makes you when you are overweight and uncomfortable in your body. Yes, it’s always hard to eat less than what your body wants. But this is what I can tell you from what I see. When you are doing the right things you feel better. Everything in the day is easier to get through. Eating clean and healthy and for weight loss makes a bad day better and makes a great day amazing. While most people would say it’s just so much easier doing the wrong things the fact is it’s just so much easier doing the right thing. Because when you are doing the wrong things the entire time you are thinking how will you get back to doing the right thing. Stop thinking about the Monday you will start or the next perfect week. Just keep doing the right things and stay on your program and if you haven’t been doing the right thing then start right now, today, this moment and begin a healthy life that makes you feel good. It’s time to move forward, be strong and make the commitment to yourself. We will always have some weight loss days that will be absolute torture to get through. But you have to fight your way through it. And for most, the hard days of weight loss are still easier then to be off and out of control.
So you have to ask yourself – what feels better being in control and a little hungry – or out of control and overly full…
Melanie knows the answer…
Congratulations Melanie for reaching your goal
You look absolutely amazing!
Melanie loves the life she lives and lives the life she loves!
~Love to Live Healthy with Josephine Fitzpatrick
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