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Eating with Others during your OPTIFAST ProgramMedical weight loss is a time of change—a time for learning and growing as you adopt a new healthy diet, lifestyle and way of thinking. Making these changes will be both challenging and rewarding, but before you tackle the physical changes of weight loss, it is time to address the mental aspects of losing weight.

Mentally Preparing for Medical Weight Loss

Sometimes, despite proper preparation, change can still be hard to accept. Whether you’ve been planning for months to start your medical weight loss program or recently decided to change your health, the change can be overwhelming. As you encounter the mental challenges of changing the way you think and feel about your healthy habits, it helps to tackle the change one step at a time.

Changing One Stage at a Time

Change doesn’t happen overnight. Instead of attempting to jump right into a new lifestyle, consider changes regarding your body, diet and exercise habits at a gradual pace. This will be easier once you have a keen understanding of change and how it works in the following stages:

  • Resisting and Reacting to Change: This is the first stage of change you’ll encounter during medical weight loss. At first you may have the urge to resist change, but in time will learn to react to change by adhering to the rules of medical weight loss as you move forward in your weight loss journey.
  •  Adjusting and Exploring Change: You will enter this stage once you become more accustomed to your new healthy way of life. The adjusting stage is pivotal during weight loss—especially when dealing with slipups. You may accidentally break your medical weight loss diet rules at a friend’s birthday or skip the gym because you can’t miss you child’s soccer game, and that’s okay. During this stage you will work with abrupt changes as they occur and do your best to develop the healthy habits that will help you continue to lose weight.
  • Living Well in the New Normal: Your transition has come to a close and you now live in a state of normalcy. What once was a learning process for new healthy habits has now become a normal way of life for you. Engaging in daily exercise and eating healthy are no longer seen as requirements but more so a part of your customary lifestyle. You no longer think about making healthy choices 24-7 as those decisions have become second-nature. Your medical weight loss program has prepared you for ongoing weight management so you can continue to live well for the long term.

As you work towards losing weight, the change might be tough at first, but in the end it’s worth it. With the help of medical weight loss, you will change your life for the healthier, one day at a time.