We all know that losing weight is easy; keeping it off is the challenge.
But I have figured out how everyone can become a weight loss success story...permanently. Best of all, it is simple.
Want to know the secret? Make getting healthy automatic.
The secret allows you to take advantage of a fact all of us know about human nature, but rarely apply: we are creatures of habit. Habits are formed when we see an action as easy, fun, or both.
How are good habits formed? By practicing the same things over and over again. It's how you gained weight: you practiced habits that made you gained weight day after day and over time, the excess weight showed up.
To lose the excess weight, you need to practice habits that help you shed pounds, day after day and over time, the excess weight will leave.
Here are some habits you can form to make getting healthy automatic.
Trade in your soft drinks for water. Have a water bottle at your desk with the amount you want to drink during the period you are at work. Make it a game to finish it all before you leave.
Keep fruit that doesn't spoil easily (apples, oranges, pears) at your desk so you will have something to snack on when you get hungry. Helps you avoid the vending machine.
Take a 15 minute walk after every meal.
Prepare your food for the week on the weekend. Separate servings into individual sizes and place in the freezer. That way, you can have something easy to grab for meals during the week.
Those are just a few things to get you started. You are a fit, lean person now so you need to make the process as easy as possible for yourself. The easier you make it, the more you will stick with it. Sticking with it is what makes weight loss permanent.
Kim
Kimberly Taylor is the founder of Take Back Your Temple, a Christ-centered teaching ministry that helps Christian women understand what emotional eating is communicating and respond with wisdom, steadiness, and peace.
After years of struggling with emotional eating and reaching 240 pounds, Kimberly experienced lasting change through Scripture-guided renewal, practical stewardship, and learning to recognize the signals her body had been carrying.
Today, she helps women move from pressure and shame into clarity and steady formation, teaching that emotional eating is often a signal of inner strain rather than a failure of discipline.
Kimberly is the author of The Weight Loss Scriptures, The Anxiety Relief Scriptures, The Weight Loss Prayers, and other faith-based resources that support whole-person restoration.
Her work has been featured in Prevention Magazine, Charisma Magazine, and on CBN’s The 700 Club.