Losing weight permanently and maintaining a certain weight requires the mastery of certain skills. Some of these skills include making the right food choices, maintaining a fitness routine, handling stress without overeating, and accepting a new body shape and lifestyle. These should accompany the basic aspect of the diet: weight loss. But when the focus is only on losing weight and not on gaining the skills to maintain it, it's understandable why you lose patience . And, eventually, you can't reach your original goal.
Isn't it time to be honest with your diet? Shouldn't the person preparing the diet—or even the person taking it—be told that he or she must acquire the new ability to maintain a normal weight so that the weight is not regained?
Such a skill takes practice, patience and a considerable amount of time to achieve.
No one goes to a violin course and expects to get a place in the orchestra after 3 weeks. No one goes to a tennis instructor and expects to play for the national team in 2 months.
The student realizes that with time, practice, mistakes and patience he will have achieved a new skill. But many dieters aren't even willing to take the time to practice and recover from mistakes; in fact, the average duration of a diet is six weeks.
Going on a diet isn't the answer either. If a student can't learn the saxophone for a few hours, he doesn't immediately abandon the instrument to move on to another, but that's often what we do with diets: "The diet doesn't work; I'll try another one."
That being said, there is one key quality - perhaps one of the most important to cultivate in your weight loss journey and that quality is patience!
A poet, William Langland, wrote in a poem in 1360 that "Patience is a virtue." It is also a necessary component of successful weight loss.
Burimi: Psychology Today
