Guest Blogger: Health Enhancement Systems
It’s time to plan for New Year’s resolutions and it’s time to come clean about what it takes to lose weight, and more importantly, how to keep it off; little changes don’t work (NutriSum does, read real wellness program success stories here).
Most of the overweight population continues to be fed the notion that little changes here and there will add up to a healthy weight, when there is zero evidence that little changes work. None.
Think about clients you’ve worked with over the years who’ve lost a significant amount of weight and kept it off; all of them made big changes. They went from no exercise to 30–60 minutes daily, from a pantry full of junk food to a full vegetable drawer in the fridge, from regular late-night noshing to no after-dinner eating, from a daily can of soda (or 2 or 3) to none, from weighing themselves once a year to checking their weight every week or every day.
It’s more than just semantics. If you interview people who have accomplished long-term weight loss (3 years or more), they don’t describe what they’ve done as little changes. And they don’t say it was easy — especially at first. Reversing years or decades of ingrained habits takes a Herculean effort, not just parking an extra hundred yards from the entrance to the store.
Regardless of what weight loss tools (see research-driven NutriSum) you offer your population, maybe the most important thing you can do is convey the message that losing weight and keeping it off take a huge effort. That changing the habits causing overweight will require extreme vigilance. That little changes are too close to old habits… taking responsibility for their weight and their health means completely breaking out of their old habits.
It’s not easy counsel to give or receive, but it’s the truth. Understanding the facts will give your participants a real shot at finally making the big changes needed to achieve and sustain a healthy weight.
Guest Blogger: Health Enhancement Systems
