Well, even dwarves started small.... here's the first one. I hope to add more in due course.
1. Reduce your drinking by: mislaying your glass after the first drink or so. If you have plenty of water between alcoholic drinks, after a while you won't feel thirsty and if you don't have a glass you aren't prompted to drink. So much behaviour is habitual - it takes ages to retrain ourselves and an empty glass means another drink... It helps if there is something interesting happening so that you don't need to drink.
2. Don't drink at all. It is well known that drinking reduces inhibitions, in fact seems to dissolve one's superego completely... so don't. Learn to love slim line tonic with slices of lemon or lime. If it's boring, mislay your glass and stop drinking (see above).
3. Reaching a weight plateau This was an observation made by someone who'd successfully lost about 10 stone. She said for many years she'd been around 15 stone - before creeping up to 20ish - when she lost the weight again she was stuck for weeks around 15 stone - she thought perhaps her body "recognised" the weight - and felt right and was happy to stay there - this seemed a very clever and sensible observation. The only answer is just to keep on keeping on and find other ways to reward yourself for your apparently fruitless efforts. The weight will shifte eventually, and after that her weight loss proceeded normally.
1. Reduce your drinking by: mislaying your glass after the first drink or so. If you have plenty of water between alcoholic drinks, after a while you won't feel thirsty and if you don't have a glass you aren't prompted to drink. So much behaviour is habitual - it takes ages to retrain ourselves and an empty glass means another drink... It helps if there is something interesting happening so that you don't need to drink.
2. Don't drink at all. It is well known that drinking reduces inhibitions, in fact seems to dissolve one's superego completely... so don't. Learn to love slim line tonic with slices of lemon or lime. If it's boring, mislay your glass and stop drinking (see above).
3. Reaching a weight plateau This was an observation made by someone who'd successfully lost about 10 stone. She said for many years she'd been around 15 stone - before creeping up to 20ish - when she lost the weight again she was stuck for weeks around 15 stone - she thought perhaps her body "recognised" the weight - and felt right and was happy to stay there - this seemed a very clever and sensible observation. The only answer is just to keep on keeping on and find other ways to reward yourself for your apparently fruitless efforts. The weight will shifte eventually, and after that her weight loss proceeded normally.
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