Each day, as I do my self-improvement routines, I end each one with my mantra – “Every day in every way I am getting better and better.” And I believe that – but sometimes I find myself wondering where the improvement is. There are so many things I want to work on – the technology that will get me out there in the “internet eye” and that is coming along, just slower than I would like. So I just keep telling myself that I am getting better and better and know that all will come to fruition soon.
I know that one thing I really want to work on is getting into a routine. One of the things we all have to think about is what do we want our routine to be. I surely don’t want to get back into the routine I had a couple of years ago of eating everything in sight and wondering why I have to diet every six to eight months – and I won’t. That will not be a routine for me ever again.
My routine now is to listen to my body and when it tells me I have had enough food, I quit eating and I feel great. It’s funny, but when I first started doing this, I felt like I still needed something to eat because I didn’t have that awfully cramped, full feeling in my stomach – but as I gave it some real thought, I realized that I wasn’t hungry and didn’t need to eat any more. Soon – sooner than you might think, eating less was something I could do very easily and I felt great – and I began to reduce my body weight, without going on a structured diet.
Listening to your body is one of the secrets to eating less and weighing less. Another secret is to imagine how you are going to look when you have reached your goal weight. This is called visualization, which is another step in the on-line program, and it works really quite well. Just form a picture in your mind of how you will look when you reach your “perfect body weight” and keep that picture in your mind – especially when you sit down to eat a meal, or each time you have a snack – or go out to eat. With that thought in mind and listening to your body, you are on your way to your perfect body.
Getting back to my old eating routine is not going to happen, because I don’t like that routine. And since I have added my exercise program to my daily routine this is where the better and better comes in.
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Nida Ellis
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