The 30 Day Diet Plan, An Easier Way To Lose Weight?
The best part about the 30 day diet plan is it’s not a diet!
So what is it, you’re wondering?
I came across an interesting article yesterday about doing a 30 day plan. In it the author talked about how some computer software comes with a 30 day trial period. After those 30 days if we like what it does we usually keep it.
I thought this was an interesting idea that could be used with weight loss and dieting.
A lot people tackle weight loss head on, trying to make a huge commitment that they can’t possibly keep. The weight that needs to lost seems impossible and the thoughts of continuing to diet and exercise for the months ahead seem too much and they give up.
But why not go micro small and focus only on changing one daily habit just for the next 30 days? And after the 30 days you can change back if things didn’t work out or you found it too hard too keep doing.
Here are some things you could try out for the next 30 days…
- Cut out soft drinks from your diet
- Do 20 -30 minutes of exercise per day. (This could be broken down into using the stairs instead of a lift or parking your car further way from work and walking the rest of the way.)
- Cutting out snacking and eating in front of the TV
- Drinking more water
- Putting more vegetables on your plate at meal times or even just starting to eat vegetables when you didn’t before. Of if you really want to push the boat out you could try to go vegetarian and cut out meat.
- Use smaller plates at meal times to reduce the amount you eat.
- Stop drinking alcohol or reducing the amount you may drink
- Give up smoking.
- Pull out the old exercise bike and use it while you watch your favorite soap on TV for half an hour.
There are numerous things you could try out and remember… it’s only for 30 days. It’s not a long term contract that’s going to go on and on to infinity.
But do you know what the interesting part is?
If you try something out and do it everyday religiously for 28 days it becomes a habit….and as we all know some habits are very hard to break.
Also if do your new habit or routine for the next 30 days what are chances that you’re going to turn around and undo all the good work.
For example if you gave smoking up for those 30 days do you really think you’d smoke on day 31…(Imagine all that wasted effort down the drain.)
Or would you give it another 30 days??
The best part of a 30 day plan is, it’s not a permanent thing that tends to really push your will power to the limit. Also at the end of the 30 days you can look back and see if you got the results for your efforts.
As you do this keep the following questions in mind.
- Did it work for me and did I lose some weight with what I’ve done?
- Is there anything else I could add to what I’m doing to make it better? Like maybe adding another 5-10 minutes a day to my exercises? Or cutting down, or out, anything else from my diet?
Remember its only for the next 30 days, right??
So pick one thing today you’d like to try out today and then mark off your finish date (30 days from now) on your calendar.
And as the days pass mark them off with a “chunky” red marker, it’ll look great the next time you visit the calendar see all those red X’s one after another and how far you’ve come.
Don’t be shy either; put that calendar up where you can see regularly during the day and where other people can also see it. They’ll probably ask what all the reds X’s on the calendar are for.
Don’t be shy and tell them. This can also help because if you know other people are monitoring your progress and could give you the added push in the early days when you’re not keeping to the plan.
So what are you going to change just for the next 30 days??
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