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Organize Your Mind for Weight Loss Success

Flex your strongest weight loss muscle—your brain! Find out why a clearer, more organized mind can lead to a healthier, slimmer body
By Alyssa Wells fitbie
 

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When it comes to weight loss, we focus a lot on the body—foods that will boost your fat burn and workouts for your six-pack. And while those things can help you slim down, a crucial, first step on the road to lasting weight loss is often missed: Conditioning your mind for change, says Margaret Moore, CEO of Wellcoaches and co-author of Organize Your Mind Organize Your Life. To drop weight (and keep it off), you need to improve your ability to control cravings, deal with distractions, manage stress, and creatively problem solve so an office happy hour stocked with hors devours doesn’t toss you off the wagon. (Search: Best ways to manage stress) In short, embarking on a diet shakes up your life and, unless you’re fully armed, you’ll abandon ship. In Organize Your Mind Organize Your Life, Moore and her co-author Paul Hammerness, MD, assistant professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, outline a six-part strategy for getting your brain in order to deal with any obstacle life throws your way. We asked Moore to apply these strategies to weight loss so you can see how a clearer mind will help you meet your healthy goals.

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