Have you been in dieting hell?

You follow fad diets, take dieting pills, and work out 2 hours a day but you still don’t get the results that you’ve been wanting?

Why is that?

Simple! All the fad diets, pills, exercise plans, etc. don’t teach you how to change your mindset, your eating habits, patterns, and behaviors. They are not sustainable.

You do everything to lose weight but you don’t change your ways that’s why you’re stuck.

Sustainable weight loss is only possible if you develop sustainable healthy habits.

Here are 9 tips you can do to develop sustainable health habits to achieve sustainable weight loss:

Feel Good About Yourself
Great changes start when you start to accept who you are. Whatever your size is, start by feeling good about yourself and love the person you see in the mirror.

And loving and feeling good about yourself include teaching yourself to choose good and healthy options for yourself. Whether it’s food, career, relationships, etc. Learn to prioritize yourself, your health, and your happiness.

Check Your Role Model
We all have role models that we look up to and if you want to make some great changes to yourself, you have to check and rethink who your role models are. Do these people inspire you to change? Do they motivate you to achieve your goals?

You have to make sure that you surround yourself with people that will either motivate, inspire or support the change you want to do.

Identify Your Triggers
What triggers you to overeat or act as an eating machine after a long day of work? Is it your emotion, stress, or tension?

Whatever triggers you to overeat, you have to identify them so you understand yourself better and by understanding yourself better, you will be able to manage your eating habits, patterns, and behaviors well.

Commit To Doing Small Changes
Great changes have to start small. So, commit to yourself that you do small changes every day. Make a few simple changes to your diet, habits, and exercise daily.

Maybe you start by waking up early, doing a little exercise, preparing a healthy breakfast, drinking one extra glass of water, taking away a teaspoon of sugar from your regular coffee, eating more veggies and fruits, eating less junk food day by day, etc.

The change will not be comfortable at first and you really have to commit to doing it. But if you do things little by little, you will be more likely to stick to your commitment.

Find Ways To Do More Fun Things
A happy person will naturally make healthier choices for himself that is why always find ways to add more fun and playfulness to your day. And not just the sit-all-day, binge-watch kind of fun but something that will also stimulate your mind and body.

The key is to do more activities that keep you active, fun, and enjoyable and helps you to increase your body movement.

Make Yourself Accountable
It’s hard to change if you’re surrounded by people who don’t support you with your goal. That is why you must make yourself accountable for your change.

Getting support from the people close to you is also essential. Share your goals with them and talk to these people to help you hold yourself accountable as you work your way to reach your health and weight loss goals.

Don’t Starve Yourself
One of the biggest mistakes people do when trying to lose weight is that they charge in and starve themselves thinking they would lose the weight fast when they push themselves to eat little to no food at all in a day.

But starving yourself will only lead to you falling off the wagon, binge eating, and going back to your old bad eating habits.

So, never starve yourself but instead eat when you feel like your body needs to eat. Remember, it’s about whether you should eat or not, it’s about what you eat.

What you can do is prepare healthy snacks that you can grab when you need to. Fuel your body with healthy foods.

Don’t Be Hard On Yourself
Change does not happen overnight and it’s not going to be easy. Temptations to go off and go back to your unhealthy food choices will always be around thus, it is normal that you slip from time to time.

But remember, do not be hard on yourself. When you do, forgive yourself and keep going.

Your mistake should not be the only reason for you to forget about everything and go back to where you started.

Change takes time. You just have to stay committed and stay consistent in your efforts.

Celebrate Little Success
It is important that you are having fun in whatever you do and so you have to learn how to appreciate your efforts and your little wins. Celebrate your journey and remember to savor simple life pleasures.

After all, life is not always about goals, most of life’s beauty is found in the journey. So, have fun and enjoy.

The success of achieving sustainable weight loss lies in sustainable habits. Choose to develop healthy habits and slowly get rid of the old unhealthy ones.