Now, That's What I'm Saying!

In the New Year, it appears even home care magazines are jumping into the motivational health arena. Like this little article I found in the January issue of Better Homes and Gardens, entitled: Healthy You.

Shoring up the basic elements of smart weight loss, the article states reasons for maintaining a healthy weight, while also sighting studies and research that support the importance of daily food logging and regular weigh-in's as tools for dropping pesky extra pounds. Two elements we use in our sessions at SWLB.

Why this article stands out (tucked into the back of the mag on page 109) is the direct relation of accountability to one's success with longterm weight loss goals. For many of us, goal setting is something we either keep in the foreground (think happy Post-It reminders on the bathroom mirror) or lose sight of altogether (do you remember your New Year's resolution from last year?).

The Healthy You article mentions that a recently released study that tracked 1,685 middle-aged men and women for six months compared those who kept a food diary to those who did not. Those who wrote down what they ate every day lost TWICE AS MUCH WEIGHT as those who didn't.

Understanding that weight loss success is related to tracking daily food intake, our program incorporates a mindful approach to food logging that quickly locates trouble spots and presents habitual patterns clearly to each individual. When this honest process is coupled with the accountability of a weekly weigh-in, long term changes in weight and health can truly begin.

I've seen how powerful these two weekly habits can be. A commitment to take the time, and to set aside one's ego (goodness knows it's hard to get on the scale to face the truth about our health), is all it takes to put these tools to work for yourself in 2009.

Hope to see you in the play...

Kimae :)