Take Notes

Now let’s apply this to a weight loss journey, shall we?

There’s talk about scheduling, organization and discipline for increased productivity in life right? Well, how about we tell you that this same discipline is what will make you get up and exercise for that half hour stretch everyday no matter how tired you feel?

The thing is, effective weight loss is all about consciously doing and not doing certain things with consistency – with consistency being the key word. If you are at least 40 pounds overweight and you watch what you eat, when you eat and exercise just for a single day and then went back to your regular mismatched, unchecked eating habits and lack of physical activity, you aren’t really going to make a difference, are you?

But if you were to do the same thing, check what you ate, when you ate it and continued with your physical exercise on a regular basis, without fail, you’d see definitive results that would surprise even you.

Losing weight requires a lot of self-control and discipline because you have to actively exercise your willpower and make conscionable decisions that lead to healthier results. It is a significant lack of willpower and self-control that has people spinning in a downward spiral, preventing them from effectively getting fitter and leaner.

When you incorporate discipline and organization in all aspects of your life, you are inadvertently exercising your willpower. And since improved self-disciplined and strong willpower is a learned or acquired behavior, you are facilitating your weight loss journey every time you follow a particular schedule.

Grab a Pen and Paper; Take Notes

Are you aware that, according to research, people who systematically take notes and track their progress in written form are far more productive than their non-tracker, note-taker counterparts?

Writing down information by hand, or by typing it out in your phone, tablet, laptop or computer is possibly one the best ways to actively inform your brain to pay attention. When you write, you are forcing your mind to hone in on what it is that you are doing, actively involving yourself within the processing of the information you are noting down.

This written information allows for improved levels of understanding, and assimilation for the writer. What’s more, writing also gives one the opportunity to become more organized and detail oriented a fact which is particularly helpful for an individual striving to turn their life around and walk a healthier path.

When you have packed on the pounds over a period of several years, you essentially lose track of what it was that caused you to gain that weight in the first place. Was it your unhealthy dietary choices, or your untimely eating habits? Was it the sleeping right after eating, or not eating for extended periods of time and then over-stuffing yourself?