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Managing Weight Loss with Good Habits
By: Scottsdale Weight Loss Center
Published: November 16, 2010
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It’s not just losing the weight that is difficult; it’s keeping that weight off. Analyzing why a weight loss program is working for us means looking at why we first decided to lose weight. Many medical weight loss programs have us look at ourselves and discover if we are doing it because we want to lose the weight or we think we should lose the weight.
Taking part in a weight loss program because we want to lose that weight is the first step in reforming ourselves into who we would like to be. If we are choosing to take part because we think we should, the road may be a little more difficult because we may be choosing based on guilt or what society deems appropriate.
To be successful in losing weight, we must consider the deciding factors that prevent lapsing into old habits and ensure a lifestyle change we can live with. Knowing the situations that cause us to eat inappropriately will assure the changes we make will be effective toward a long term goal.
Positive reinforcement is a good way to ensure new behaviors will continue. If we work out for an hour in the gym, we are entitled to enjoy time for ourselves such as an hour playing on the computer. Rewards will motivate us to continue with our new lifestyle.
Monitoring our progress is another essential habit to continued success. Keeping a log or journal of daily activities, food intake, and emotional disposition will help us reinforce our new lifestyle change. Once a week, adding our weight to the journal may help identify habits that helped us lose weight and even some that worked against our weight loss goals.
Monitoring and reinforcing positive decisions can reduce temporary lapses into old habits and prevent permanent relapse into unhealthy behaviors that caused us to gain weight.
Nick
Nick's Story
"I wish I would have come here first. We spend all our time reacting to the next great weight loss tip or program. It might work for a while, but does not last and we end up yo-yoing from one fad to the next – as we gain more weight." Read More
Gina
Lost 44.5 lbs
"I had no trouble adhering to the meals and they really helped catapult my progress! The classes were so beneficial to me because they helped change my thinking about how I viewed health, nutrition, and fitness.
I will always have my relationship with Scottsdale Weight Loss Center. They truly helped me change my life forever." Read More
Lauren
Lost 60 lbs
"Dr. Ziltzer and everyone who I have come in contact with at the Scottsdale Weight Loss office have been so encouraging and I look forward to seeing them each week. It is now a year and 2 months later since I started. I am down 60 lbs., which is the average amount a 9-year-old weighs, it is crazy to think I lost a whole person! I feel amazing, I hit my goal weight in November 2021 just before Thanksgiving. Nothing on my body hurts anymore..." Read More
Chuck
Lost 66 lbs
"The best thing I did was call the Scottsdale Weight Loss Center. I have a lot more energy, I'm not hungry, and it feels great.
You can take it from me that this is a program that produces results. The staff is always positive, supportive, and never judgmental.
Your visits always result in positive reinforcement, no matter if you had a good week or a bad week." Read More
Emily
Lost 101 lbs
"Here I am at the lowest I have been since high school weighing in at 155lbs. I have lost 101 lbs, BMI of 39 when I started, to 21.6, and of course at body fat % of 47.1 to 26.5%. I told myself by my 30th birthday I wanted to be confident in the way I look and I owe it all to SWLC. The entire staff is so welcoming and they are rooting for you just as much as you are rooting for yourself...." Read More
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Meet Our Team
Robert Ziltzer, MD, FACP, FAAP, FOMA
Obesity Medicine Certified Physician
Diana Bone, FNP-C
Specializing in Obesity Medicine
Craig Primack, MD, FACP, FAAP, MFOMA
Obesity Medicine Certified Physician
Kristen Ash, FNP-C, FNP-BC
Nurse Practitioner
Alicia Earley, FNP-C
Family Nurse Practitioner
