Tip 6 &7

Tip Number 6

Don't Beat Yourself Up 

 

If you caved in and ate nachos and frozen margaritas at happy hour with your friends, don't blame yourself for blowing your weight loss plan. You will not ruin your diet with one bad moment. Don't try to make up for it with excessive dieting or not eating the next day.

Rather than adopting an all-or-nothing mentality, just get back on your normal plan and journal about your feelings and why you think you fell off the weight-loss wagon. Then put the day behind you. Tomorrow will be better, but only if you let it be.

Tip Number 7

Walk Your Way to a Lower Weight (just get moving)

Most people have not been exercising regularly, so you have to start somewhere! Walking is a great place to start. Go outside and just do it. Each day go a little further or move a little faster. Park further away from the store. Use the stairs!  That's a great strategy for getting people going. And use a pedometer to see how many steps you have taken. My family has one, and we make a game of it, to see takes the most steps in a day. As you feel better you can start to do more.