Why mental health matters when starting a diet
Starting a new diet often focuses on food choices alone, but mental wellbeing plays a key role in long term success. In this video, Aimee McCarthy explains how understanding motivation, habits and emotional triggers can help people maintain healthier behaviours and achieve sustainable weight management.
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Transcript
Well, we often, you know, start out with really, really good intentions. So, you know, you might have joined the gym, you might have started a diet plan or a healthy eating plan, and you might do really, really well for the first week. But what often happens after, you know, a short amount of time is it's really difficult to sustain.
And that can be because there's barriers to, psychological barriers to you doing that. For example, you might not want to get up early anymore in the morning and go to the gym. You might see the chocolate bar because something, you know, life happens, things kind of come up.
So again, psychologically we can think about, well, how are you going to achieve that? What are the things that are getting in the way of you doing that? And starting off with smaller goals as well, rather than setting yourself, often people set themselves really unrealistic expectations, unrealistic goals.
So it's about how do you set yourself a goal that's achievable. And again, together we can do that.
