When starting any weight loss or health regime do you:
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Believe it will improve your self-image and perhaps solve other personal problems too?
Think that nothing has worked before and doubt that this will either?
Feel optimistic but slightly overwhelmed by all the things you have to do to make make it work?
Feel enthusiastic and look forward to making changes and reaching your goal?
When you read or listen to information about a particular health or weight loss method and the rules that go with it, do you:
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Get really excited and want to get started on it straight away?
Have a tendency to feel slightly despondent because the information seems conflicting?
Start thinking about how you will manage in different situations such as eating at work and at home with the kids, how you will manage when eating out and how you will weigh foods/count points/calculate fat% etc.?
Immediately start thinking of changes you can easily make and set some time aside to plan how you are going to make them?
When following health and weight loss programmes in the past, have you:
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Been very successful many times but tended to revert back to your normal life style, regain weight, or have your symptoms return?
Stuck to it for a short period and then given up, maybe believing the pro gramme is wrong for you?
Closely followed all the advice with attention to detail but in the long term found it difficult to stick to?
Usually been successful and enjoyed slow and steady health improvements?
What most closely describes what you believe about health and weight loss programmes?
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If I could only find the right programme, I know I could be successful.
I think many programmes don t really work and that no one particular programme can be right for everyone.
Many programmes are complicated and there are often too many changes to make, or I often can t find the time to follow it properly.
It is difficult, but something I have to do from time to time to keep control of my health.
If you picture yourself in your ideal health state, you would:
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Have the energy, vitality, and weight you had when you were in your teens or 20s - looking gorgeous in size 10 clothes.
I find it difficult to imagine myself other than how I am.
I tend to doubt that I can be successful & sometimes worry that I may not like the new me once I’ve implemented all the changes.
Be an improved (healthier) version of who you are now.
How many times have you successfully changed your lifestyle or lost weight, even if you ended up reverting to unhealthy habits again later?
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More than 10 times
Never successfully
Less than 10 times
As and when necessary
If you fail, it is usually because:
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You are not seeing results quickly enough and always tend to go back to old habits.
You don't really like the programme or it just doesn't work well for you.
You become de-motivated because you can't follow the programme 100%.
It is not the right time in your life to tackle a health issue.
When following a health or weight loss programme, do you:
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Encourage others to follow it too, and love trying out new recipes and sharing ideas with all your friends?
Prefer to make up your own recipes and ideas and follow it in your own way?
Prefer to have clear instructions and menu plans to follow and time to prepare food and remedies properly?
Enjoy following suggestions as well as adding your own ideas and recipes too?
