VLCD Thought for Thursday “Train yourself to let go of everything you fear to lose.” ~ Yoda
When you start out on a diet there always seems to be a sudden surge in your social life that means you are missing out on BBQ’s, Parties and coffee dates with friends. This gives rise to one of the most common excuses in the diet dictionary. I will need to wait until my social calendar settles down before I start as I know I will not stick to this otherwise. Then you attend the event possibly over indulge and feel worse for it at the end. If this sounds like you then there is one key warning to this message, if the entirety of your social networking revolves around food and drink then the situation is not likely to improve any time soon . There is always going to be that next event!
Does this mean you have to choose between a social life and weight loss, thankfully no! The issue here is we believe the two to be inexplicably linked, but there is a way to have both. This is where you need to – “Train yourself to let go of everything you fear to lose.” – for the simple reason that you can see friends and have fun without having to eat and drink. Life is there to be lived, and although socialising is a big part of it there is nothing to suggest that sitting at a table is the only way to do it!
The first thing you need to do is focus on the positives of living a clean and healthy lifestyle. This will show you why your goal is not only to look and feel good but is essential to a healthy life style. Our VLCD products are giving you 100% of your daily needs of minerals and vitamins, it is a great feeling to have that box ticked! On top of this the Calorie count is specially designed to be healthy while at the same time restricting your intake to the point that ensures the best possible results while still being completely safe. Your body then does the rest in that as you lose the weight you cut down your risk of high blood pressure, heart disease, stroke, type 2 diabetes, some types of cancer, infertility, osteoarthritis, back pain & depression.
You also need to consider a lot of the time when you are eating socially is due to circumstance rather than necessity and in this instance as it not you controlling your own portions you are often face with more food than you would have eaten in the first instance. In this instance you can be proactive and think of events for you and your friends that do not have to involve food and drink. Going for a walk, heading to the cinema or the theatre! Check for activity days too – you may think this is going to be expensive but more often than not a day out will cost far less than a restaurant meal!
Think of your New You journey more as one filled with endless possibilities to gain things in your life, all of which you can choose to be positive. The things you think you are losing are not actually losses but rather small victories in your lifestyle choices.
Thanks for reading, I would love to hear your thoughts below.
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Kind regards
Grant
Love the last paragraph here Grant.
Think of your New You journey more as one filled with endless possibilities to gain things in your life, all of which you can choose to be positive. The things you think you are losing are not actually losses but rather small victories in your lifestyle choices.
Brilliant way to look at it!! X
Thanks Julie Ann 🙂 I hope you have a rocking day!!!!
Very well put Karen, thank you so much for the support too and I know Ellie will be over the moon when I show her this comment. Looking forward to seeing you in the next Webinar and good luck today 🙂
i had lots of events since starting the plan this year alone i have had two 21st 1 40thparty,a christening. two confirmations and my own 51st birthday and i stuck to plan for everyone of them i wont say it was easy but i wanted to lose weight more than i wanted to eat.i dont drink so thats never been an issue.we can all still socialise we just need to do it a bit differentlt then we used to because that is how we got here in the first place.i have weather permitting a bbq sat and i am making some of the recipes from s.s. including cottage pie roasties and cookakes who says i cant enjoy a bbq except im doing it my way xx
You’ve totally touched my problem Grant. The problem is I have really different experience. Once i wasn’t invited due to my VLCD- but then at least I saw who’s my friend. I spent xmas party on the chocolate bar- was fine. The problem was when I went for the home part and the person prepared the food. she was kind and let me to eat mine. the problem is that instead of people focusing on what she cooked, they focused on my food and had lots of questions. People feel akward around me sometimes. I’ve done what you’re saying and tried to meet my friends not only for the meals. The closest one got used to the fact that I will avoid the food paries. they just start asking how long left to finish. I can’t finish when I blip form time to time.:/
Today I’m going for the birthday meal and I can’t do again with the same group of people that I’ll be sitting with a chocolate bar and make everyone to feel akward (last time they were avoiding even talking how tasty food it is). I will blip but I’ll try to blip healthily. I won’t sabotage myself afterwards to have 5 following days eating rubbish. I’ll take that mean as my two foodpack intake and I will enjoy. Hope you think is the healthy way of thinking.