Simple Mindset Shifts for Improved Weight Loss and Wellness

Losing weight and creating a healthier lifestyle starts with eating balanced, nutritious meals that can nourish your body and improve your metabolic health. Understanding this basic principle can help you achieve long-term success, but you can improve your experience and make weight loss easier no matter where you are on your journey with a few helpful mindset shifts.

Start Thinking in the Long-Term

It’s tempting to want to lose as much weight as possible in the shortest amount of time. But this can do more harm than good, potentially slowing your metabolism and causing muscle loss. Plus, drastic weight loss is difficult to sustain, which means you’re likely to gain back whatever weight you lost.

If you want to lose weight and keep it off, you have to ditch the diet mindset and make lifestyle changes for long-term results.

Eating nutrient-dense foods can fuel weight loss at a healthy rate, helping you lose about one to two pounds per week and keep you feeling full.

The healthier the foods you eat, the better you’ll be able to avoid diet fatigue or succumbing to cravings common with starvation or crash dieting.

Having a patient approach to weight loss can help you finally get off the dieting roller coaster so you lose weight and keep it off for good.

Focus on Benefits Beyond Weight Loss

Losing weight may be your primary goal, but it’s important not to overlook other life-changing aspects of your journey that can happen when you maintain healthy eating habits and get closer to your goal weight.

Losing weight can increase your confidence, give you more energy, improve your sleep and digestion, reduce stress, improve health risk markers, and support a healthy immune system. Experiencing these non-scale victories can be empowering and motivate you to continue to make healthy lifestyle choices.

Try for Consistency, Not Perfection

Perfectionism can be a major roadblock on your path to weight loss that can lead to frustration. What’s easy about living a healthy GOLO lifestyle is that you don’t have to be perfect to experience positive results. You just have to be consistent.

Maintaining a ‘progress over perfection’ mindset helps take the pressure off of doing everything just right. Life happens and having a balanced meal isn’t always possible. If you happen to indulge in an unhealthy meal, don't dwell on it — just get back on track at the next opportunity.

Adopt a “Choosing” Mindset vs. a “Cheating” One

An important mindset to grasp is the idea that having a meal or occasional treat that doesn’t fall in line with your healthy eating lifestyle isn’t ‘cheating’. It’s a conscious choice you’ve made that shouldn’t leave you feeling defeated.

Remember, as long as you’re eating healthy meals on a consistent basis, there’s no need to beat yourself up over an off-plan meal or ‘treat’. Take ownership of your choices, enjoy special occasions without the guilt, and move on.

Focus on Sleeping More and Lowering Stress

Two of the most important aspects of living a healthier lifestyle are sleep and stress.

When you don’t get enough sleep or feel stressed, you’re more likely to turn to ultra-processed foods or sugary drinks to help you get through the day, which can completely derail your progress. Feeling rested and relaxed can make it easier for you to eat healthy meals throughout the day.

Without getting consistent sleep or coping with stressful situations in a healthy way, you can potentially get yourself into a cycle where each aspect of wellness continues to get worse, making it increasingly more difficult to reach your weight loss and wellness goals.

Don’t be Afraid to Ask for Help

You don’t have to attempt your weight loss and wellness journey on your own. Getting support from family and loved ones can increase your chance of success to keep you motivated and stay on track.

Whether you lean on family, friends, or both, it’s important to remember is to be clear and specific about what you want. General statements like "I need help with my weight loss attempt" can be too vague. Instead, get specific about the exact type of help that you’re looking for.

If you can’t get help from the people closest to you, don’t worry. You can expand your circle by joining the GOLO Facebook Community

GOLO has an official private Facebook group with thousands of people in a similar place on their journey. Our successful testimonials often mention this group as one of the best things that GOLO offers!

The group is run by GOLO employees and only people who have purchased can join. You can find the answers to just about any question you may have, along with encouragement and new friends! This may be the best way to help you build the support system you’ve been looking for.

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