I wanted to share a few thoughts that have helped me lose weight. Some of these were taken from other places (at least one or two from this message board
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The thrust of No S is to retrain yourself. We got ourselves here by establishing bad habits and thinking patterns, and these same thought patterns can undermine the progress we're trying to make as we try to establish new habits. I've noticed certain thought patterns in myself and use some of these ideas to try to combat them.
First, I've noticed that I try to make excuses to not go to the gym, to not eat correctly, etc. Every time I notice this happening I concede a little BUT I demand a little. For example, yesterday morning I woke up and started getting ready for work, thinking to myself I was way too tired to go to the gym after work. When I noticed that I was thinking "there's no way I'm going to the gym", I changed it to "I'll take my gym bag just in case...if I'm still tired after work I can skip". Later in the day I did the same thing as 4:00 was approaching. I said "no way I'm going" and changed it to "I'll pull into the parking lot and if I'm still tired I'll drive off". I ended up doing my longest run so far and felt great about myself. Give it a try, it's pretty effective.
I also have a tendency to overeat or to eat foods that aren't healthy for me (like everyone else here!). I read somewhere that an effective technique is to not just imagine how great what you're craving will taste, but to also imagine how it will make you FEEL. This really works for me. I might want a brownie but I think to myself "that tastes really good, but it's going to make me feel gross and really disappointed that I fell off the wagon". So far I've been doing No S since Monday and have avoided all the S's. This has helped.
Finally (and I'm sure I saw this here somewhere) -- when I get discouraged I think to myself "a mile's awhile but an inch is a cinch". We'd all like to see results immediately but it took forever for me to get to this weight, so it's going to take a long time to bring it down, too.
Anybody else have any mental coping mechanisms? Also, anybody else use Nike+iPod? I love it!