Planning is key. Meal prep for a week in advance of your first try. Buy only healthy food. Let yourself run out of junkfood in the house. Pay your bills so you cannot afford to quit - you can only eat healthy. Take at least 3 days at home to start your change. This is the only way I ever made it through my first ever detox. Withdrawal from sugary junkfood can be intense. On day 2 I was so sick I could not eat and threw up a lot. On day 3 I just felt exhausted and barely able to move. I would have quit given even a glimpse of an opportunity. Food addiction is real.
Watch health documentaries, there are tonnes of good ones out there. Surrounding yourself with the message that good food is good makes you want to eat it. Watching TV and seeing commercials for takeout makes you crave it. So watch things that make you feel like your good food choices will heal you. Pinterst and Tumblr are awesome sources of positive attitudes toward foods and fitness provided you follow the right tags.
Daydream about yourself and how you will look and feel and the things you will do at your goal weight. Visualising yourself achieving your goals will motivate you a surprising amount. Write out lists of clothes you want, shoes maybe. I daydream how I will look in winter boots and coats, how I will look in short summer dresses, how I will feel in tight jeans that aren’t uncomfortable.
Remind yourself of the non weight related things you have to gain. Better sleep, better energy, better oral hygiene, better attitude and you’ll feel like you’re coping better
Get you a motive board. A whiteboard you keep in your bedroom. Scribble all over that shit as often as you need. Write your daily goals on it, your weekly goals, your monthly goals. Put a calendar on it and cross off days. Write down a thing you’re looking forward too or a quote that motivates you. Change it as often as you need. Your motive board should make you feel good to look at and it should make you feel good to wipe clean and write on.
Keep a weightloss diary full of pics and stuff and recording your weights etc and journal if you like. This one was never really my thing, too much upkeep for a lazy woman like me.
Don’t focus on exercise. If you feel motivated to exercise do! But don’t feel negatively when you don’t. I lost 60lbs first time around before I felt like I could exercise. When you do decide to start exercising start light. Start with 30mins. Hell start with 5mins. Clap for your damn self.
Avoid the bad shit. Seems simple, isn’t. Psych yourself up before you go into the grocery store. Visualise the food you are going in to buy and what it will look like on the conveyer belt as you leave etc. Go in with your mind set on ONLY those foods. Do your total best to avoid those junkfood/snack food aisles and do not look at the candy by the register because if you’re like me you WILL crumble. Write yourself a list and stick to it strictly if that helps. I ordered online a few times to avoid seeing all that beautiful snack food.
Never get hungry and never shop hungry. (Not applicable to your first week, when you will likely feel hungry a lot but simultaneously ‘not hungry for fruit/veg’) if you get hungry your body seeks a quick fix (junkfood) for energy. Whereas if you eat when you just start getting hungry you’ll eat less in one hit and make easier choices with regards to healthy foods.
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