Saturday, May 28, 2011

MamaBlogger365 - The Secret to Sustaining Change and Preventing Relapse by Julie Donley, RN

Lots of us seek to make changes in our lives so that we can be our best, both as women and mothers. It's hard to break old habits and change our lifestyle but MamaBlogger365 contributor Julie Donley, RN, success expert and author of Does Change have to be so H.A.R.D.?, offers her tips for sticking with changes we've made -- whether they're related to diet, exercise, family life, etc. -- with the goal of re-framing our lives.

“I don’t understand; I use [a diet system] to lose weight and am generally very successful, however, as soon as I come off the diet and starting eating regularly, I gain the weight right back. This has happened three times now. What am I doing wrong?”

This is the sad the story of relapse. You keep doing the same things over and over again expecting different results. Certain actions will bring about certain results and no matter how hard you ‘wish’ things would turn out different, you produce the same outcome yet again: you are back to your old habits -- smoking, eating, gambling, drinking, screaming... (Read more)

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