Perfectionism breeds failure

[Helen Bauzon 102]

The less perfect you are, the more weight you will lose.

Change your thinking and lose weight successfully with the Gastric Band, by proportioning 80% of your time follow eating well and being physically active and the remaining 20% let the rules relax. The Gastric Band does not stop emotional eating or grazing, you must do this yourself.

Which categories do you relate to?

1. I experience good or bad days with my eating

2. Once when I start eating the wrong food, I can’t stop

3. I often crave food I shouldn’t be eating

A great starting point is for me to help you stop feeling guilty about your food choices and stop you from starting yet another diet, as this mentality makes you crave and over eat the wrong foods. That is foods that slide through the Gastric Band very easily. The 7 steps below, illustrates what I describe as the dieting cycle. When this is broken, you can control your habit and stress eating with more ease.

Dieting Cycle

(1) You decide to start losing weight

(2) You stop eating “Bad” Food

(3) You crave “Bad” food

(4) Eat some “Bad” food

(5) Feel guilty and unhappy with self

(6) Feel like broken diet & over eat

(7) Will start again on …….. and the viscous cycle begins of trying to start again

How To Break The Dieting Cycle.

SOLUTION: Step (1)

We need to stop the cravings, and the only way to do this is to STOP viewing food as being either “good” or “bad”. You may hear yourself making comments such as, “I can’t have that; it is bad” or “That is a bad food” for example.

Instead, you need to describe the food for what it is. If there was a blind person who had also lost their sense of taste and smell and they asked you what chocolate tasted like, your description of: “oh, it is a bad food!” would leave them with no idea or understanding of the food.

Rather, you should respond, “It is plain dairy milk chocolate in the shape of a small square, which has a rich chocolate taste”. Even having read this last phrase, have you felt your shoulders drop? Chocolate is just a food. Describe the food in a neutral manner.

SOLUTION: Step (2)

The second mistake we need to correct is to stop giving yourself permission to overeat. You must stop making the comment, “I will start again on …”

This must be changed to, “I am not starting anything; I am not on a diet!” Then, you do not give yourself permission to continue eating the easy foods.

Implementing both Solutions, Steps (1) and (2), takes practice and commitment. The more often you try to see the benefit of how it works, the faster you will obtain control of your weight with the Gastric Band.

Slowly with practice you will gain more control confidence and you will begin to shine.