5 tips for achieving your weight body and eating goals this year

Here are five tips for achieving your weight, body and eating goals this year.

1. Change your expectations of what’s required to achieve and MAINTAIN results (hint: it’s not only eating “clean” and abstaining from life’s pleasures) and increase your tolerance for doing things messily but progressively (i.e. it doesn’t matter if things aren’t perfect, it matters if you make that imperfect action mean you’ve messed up and should quit). 
   
   The compound effect of taking small and imperfect action over a longer period of time will create greater results than short bursts of intense action that you keep regressing on. Increase your capacity for imperfection and focus on gentle consistency. 
   

2. Stop thinking about your weight and eating as a problem and start focusing on loving and accepting your body as it is. The acceptance doesn’t drive disengagement and f*ck-it eating. It drives high-quality action in response to hunger and fullness cues which leads to your natural weight. This is paramount. 
   

3. Shift your mindset from restriction and what you’re cutting out (but secretly really want) to the privilege of being alive and the gratitude you have for your body to enable that aliveness. 
   How do you want to take care of your body today so that you feel the best you can living your life?
   

4. Put your blinders on and acknowledge this is ONLY your race to win. Curate the information you consume 📱 and stop getting sucked into diet culture and comparing yourself to others. It’s just noise which distracts you from doing the simple things that make you feel simply amazing (like eating only for hunger and stopping at enough). It’s radical to do this but will drive you to eat in alignment and integrity with your body, rather than punish it for not being deemed as good enough compared to someone else. 
   

5. Negative emotion is part of life and you need to embrace the discomfort of how it feels without leaning on food (and alcohol) to numb, buffer and cope. When you have the desire to eat in response to an emotion rather than a physical cue, it’s about recognising what the urge is revealing to you that you really need. It’s not the fleeting comfort of the penguin bar. Can you identify what will ultimately bring you the most peace and satisfaction longterm and are you willing to give that to yourself? The goal is to break the learnt connection between a negative emotion and eating or drinking as the solve, and teach your brain a new neural pathway which doesn’t panic or automatically want food when your body feels discomfort.
   
   You’ll need to believe that a) negative emotion is part of life and meant to be there and b) that you’re worthy of feeling good and taking great care of yourself despite it and c) you’re capable of handling how you feel without reaching for a snack.