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Post by bbbearsmom on Apr 16, 2024 22:41:04 GMT
– This is from an article: Are you going for an A+ in weight loss? Don’t. Aiming for 100% rarely works, in my experience it backfires. That’s because you can only be perfect for a limited amount of time. I would rather you aim for 75% to 80%. Work hard enough to pass, but not so hard that you never see your friends or have a life. As a result, you’ll find winning this mind game even easier to win.
What percent of effort do you put into your weight management journey?
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Post by bbbearsmom on Apr 16, 2024 22:42:12 GMT
This may be rationalization, but I like that I'm not perfect and still dive face first into food sometimes. I just wrote that but also, I do think about having the peace of not struggling and enjoying the times everything goes right. A big part of me getting things right a lot is working on the mental part. This really is what I want, and I don't hide from the actuality of the laws of the physical world and aging. Guess Beck might say I still struggle because I don't wholeheartedly do all the work with Beck. So, there you have it, in a way I want to be perfect to eliminate the struggle, but I just don't do all the work and push myself.
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Post by cathygeha on Apr 17, 2024 8:21:41 GMT
I *know* that there will be times I won't be 100% on program and that is fine. I don't intentionally go off program. I do try to plan for events but even when I plan, plans can go awry. Also, more than one event with food might suddenly occur and that is REAL LIFE. So, the 100% OP days will hopefully balance out the days that I am not on program. I wake up in the morning most days with the plan to track, stay on program, and more often than do...if my mind is in the game.
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Post by ermabom on Apr 17, 2024 11:42:42 GMT
I remember someone posting 'Progress, not perfection' a long time ago in some discussion. I think back on this a lot. I tend to be a perfectionist but I have realized that weight maintenance and a healthy lifestyle are not helped by perfection. One has to focus on the positives because there will always be negatives.
I'd like to give about 60% to weightless but honestly, I think I'm giving about 30%
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