Yesterday I entered two very nice medical assistants into our program who are roomates. They are excited about "starting" our program. They asked however if they can "start" in several weeks. The physician they work for, a wonderfully talented, prominent and charismatic physician will be starting the program with them, but the physician is traveling for two weeks and they wanted to coincide their efforts. I strongly recommended to the medical assitants that their efforts should begin immediately.
I often have patients ask me, when entered into the program on a Thursday/Friday whether they can "start" on Monday. Why? Thoughts about shopping for the compatible food sources, clearing the house of tempting high-caloric snacks etc. However, I think that subconsciously many people equate "dieting" with punishment, sacrifice and deprivation. It is not fun, burdensome and a nasty chore...and like most nasty chores, we would love to delay it as much as possible and then "end" it as soon as possible.
From a mindset standpoint, we need to adjust our thinking to NOT think of losing weight as a nasty chore but rather as a great thing to expedite our way to happiness and health. Looking younger, feeling better, higher self esteem, lessening our chances for life-threatening diseases...all of these are a GREAT outcome and anything that gets us there is a wonderful thing.
So, although there needs to be a "start" for these efforts, this start should be yesterday, not some date in the future. End? No such thing...we need to achieve a permanent life-style change that will maintain this healthy and happy weight. We need to rid ourselves of the concept of "diet" that starts at a time not to ruin our weekend plans and "end" when we have achieved our goals.
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