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To Lose Weight

To lose weight, I have dubbed my unique approach to reinventing your health after 50, The Tripod Health Induced Weight Reduction System because there are, simply stated, three areas of concern in order to lose weight . In progression they are: introspection, exercise enjoyment and eating styles (notice, there is no mention of diet .) Now, as an added bonus after you start putting The Tripod System to work and even more importantly, realizing results, you’ll want to click on the page tilted “supplements, vitamins and protein powder drinks”. Restrain yourself from looking for or clicking on this page as this will be one of your 1st external rewards (see below). I know it doesn’t sound like much…but wait until you hear the inherent benefits.

A lot of my system is wrapped around psychology strategies, like Food for Thought, Psychology of Eating and intrinsically rewarding ones self for accomplishing steps along the way as you set out to lose weight . However, I do endorse an injection of external rewards along the way as certain increments of accomplishment are met. I have learned a long my journey of various ways to lose weight that if the weight loss was a result of external forces ,like that of friends or family, I would yo-yo . Definition of yo-yo dieting is you simply you take it off and over time put it back on. There are some inherent dangers to yo yo diets as Medicinenet.com reveals. How many have experienced this great phenomenon? My guess is probably somewhere in the neighborhood of 95% of you, unfortunately. Indeed, you remove the external accolades and the weight begins to reappear gradually, resulting in your health depreciating at the same time.

Conversely , when we are driven internally to improve our health, the accomplishment of meeting a goal becomes self satisfying (we’re doing it for ourselves) and we don’t look to outside forces for praise or encouragement…we begin to intrinsically reward ourselves. It is this intrinsic feeling that gradually becomes interwoven with the goals to lose weight and realizing better health over all. Your intrinsic connection to your inner self might be variety of things like feeling better, fitting in to some favorite clothing that you out grew, improved self esteem, better feeling of self worth, less lethargic, more energetic and the like. I’m sure you get the concept by know.

External rewards can and should be used when reaching incremental goals that are realistic and attainable . Ideas would be: after losing 5lbs treat yourself to a movie, next 5lbs treat yourself to an ice cream sundae (you deserve it!) Next 10 lbs , buy yourself (something special you’ve been wanting), not more than $50.00. When you lose weight of 30lbs and keep it off for a month you should intrinsically feel self satisfied for having more energy and being able to wear some clothes in your previous wardrobe. When you reach the goal of losing 40lbs you should treat yourself to special weekend away. For instance , if you like golf…play that course you have always dreamed about and fits your budget. I think you get the idea by know of what differentiates external from internal (intrinsic) rewards , so when you reach your mega goal of the 50+ lbs of weight loss, you come up with the reward. Hint, start imagining and thinking of what it will be know…this breeds tremendous intrinsic motivation and keeps one focused on success. Remember , You Can Do It !

Now, let us get started by doing some introspection.

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