We Don’t Need Willpower for Weight Loss

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Our culture puts an enormous amount of pressure on women to lose weight. This pressure becomes internalized, creating a lot of conflict and confusion. While weightloss programs can be a way of restoring health to those that are overweight, they can also cause unhealthy habits and mindsets. 

At The Metabolism Reboot, we understand the urge to lose weight. In fact, we have helped thousands of women lose 20 to 45 pounds in 6 weeks on average. However, we feel like it’s easy to get lost in the chase and lose sight of what’s really important. Rather than obsessing about how to lose weight, we believe that our clients should focus on becoming a healthy person. 

Developing healthier habits can eliminate stress, hormone imbalances, and inflammation in the body, which are the main causes of weight gain. Getting healthy leads to natural and sustainable weight loss.

How to Lose Weight Without Exercise or Starvation Diets: Start With Your Mindset

Weight loss gurus and fad diets encourage women to develop extreme habits around food and exercise. They tell you that relying on willpower and discipline can help you to achieve your weight loss goals. This method of forcing yourself to do things you don’t want to do can only last for so long. 

It’s easy for a non-smoker to say “no” to a cigarette. If you don’t enjoy cigarettes, there is no impulse to indulge. However, for people with unhealthy eating habits, telling them to eat less is not a valid, long-term solution. Eventually, there will be a day when someone offers you your favorite dessert and you’ll take a bite. This also holds true with intense exercise. This sort of lifestyle will leave you feeling depleted, malnourished, and dejected.  

While taking up a low caloric intake diet and intense exercise program may cause short-term weight loss, the intensity of these methods eventually breaks your spirit and harms the body. Unhealthy habits are ultimately unsustainable, even if you are seeing the results you want.

How to lose weight without exercise or starvation diets starts with your mindset. Essentially, you are who you believe you are. If you identify as a healthy person and dedicate yourself to building habits that nourish the body, you won’t have to rely on willpower. While your bigger goal is to lose weight, establishing your identity as a healthy person will create positive changes in the body over time.

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You dont need willpower to lose weight.

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Long-Term, Sustainable Weight Loss for Women

What does it mean to be a healthy person? When it comes to weight loss for women, healthy habits begin with regulating the body. At Metabolism Reboot, 90 to 95 percent of our clients are women over 40. It is very common for women in this age group to experience hormonal changes. Many of our clients are also working professionals and/or mothers, which can cause increased stress. 

Stress and hormonal changes are the main causes of weight gain and can make it increasingly difficult to lose weight. 

Establishing a healthy lifestyle starts with the food you put in your body. Consuming healthy proteins, vegetables, and fruits helps to balance hormones and blood sugar levels, and lessens inflammation. Once the body feels properly nourished, natural weight loss can occur without extreme dieting or exercise. 

Eating healthy, real foods actually rewards the body and mind without willpower or forceful behaviors. They make you feel better, give you more energy, and ultimately offer the results you desire. This makes the process much more sustainable than starvation or extreme workouts. 

The Metabolism Reboot: How We Can Help

Are you struggling to lose weight? Do you try to force yourself to eat less and exercise more? Are you mad at yourself for not maintaining it? 

At The Metabolism Reboot, we understand how frustrating that can be. We are dedicated to offering weight loss solutions that actually nourish the body rather than deplete it. 

Your health and wellness is the most important component of weight loss. We will put together a plan to give your body the proper vitamins, nutrients, and foods that it needs in order to shed fat and keep it off.

Are you ready to get started? Schedule a Metabolism Strategy call today!