Spavelous is a proud sponsor of the Dr. Phil Weight Loss Challenge
Dr. Phil unveiled his plan to help America lose weight. Using the 7 steps listed in his new book, The Ultimate Weight Solution: The 7 Keys to Weight Loss Freedom, Dr. Phil will guide 13 people through 10 months of weight loss. Dr. Phil bases his program on 7 keys that you must master to permanently lose weight: When you use Dr. Phil’s 7 keys, you begin to: rid yourself of wrong thinking, heal yourself of emotions standing in the way of a healthy relationship with food, create a no-fail environment, shape your eating behavior into what you need for lifetime weight control, get real about nutritional choices that worked to your detriment, change your priorities to include exercise, and plug into a circle of support for encouragement and accountability. In short, you are changing how you’re living.
Key #1: Right Thinking
Understanding what you really think about yourself and your weight, learning how to have positive thoughts
- Do You Have Faulty Thinking?
- Challenge Your Faulty Thinking
- What’s Your Weight Locus of Control?
- The Challengers’ Internal Dialogues
- Keep an Online Diary
Key #2: Healing Feelings
Deal with emotional eating. The Challengers Work to Gain Emotional Control
Key #3: A No-Fail Environment
This involves removing temptations to eat and rearranging your schedule in order to avoid or minimize triggers to overeat. Change your environment to promote success. Take a Personal Environment Audit. The Challengers Unlock The Door to External Control.
Key #4: In charge of Food and Impulse Eating
This key helps you identify those payoffs, unplug from them, and replace bad habits with healthy behavior.
Key #5: High-Response Cost, High-Yield Nutrition
Choose the right stuff for your body. To lose weight, you must choose foods that support good behavioral control over your eating, that is, high-response cost, high-yield foods, organized into a moderate, balanced, calorie-controlled plan to ensure weight loss.
- What Should You Be Eating?
- A 7-Day Meal Plan
- The Challengers Master Key #5
Key #6: Exercise Right
Prioritize regular exercise into your life most days of the week — walking, jogging, aerobic dance classes, yoga, playing a sport, or lifting weights.
- More About Key #6
- Robert Reames’ Training Tips
- A Sample Exercise Program for Beginners
- Take Dr. Phil’s Exercise Audit
- The Challengers’ Fitness Competition
Key #7: Find Your Support
Surround yourself with supportive, like-minded people who want you to lose weight and succeed at your health and fitness efforts.
- Dr. Phil’s Social Support Audit
- Circle of Support Do’s and Dont’s
- Find a Local Support Group
- The Challengers Struggle to Find Support
Start changing your life today! Read The Ultimate Weight Solution: The 7 Keys to Weight Loss Freedom
and
The Ultimate Weight Solution Food Guide
and master the keys to weight loss success.
