“Kaizen” for Weight Loss

The Kaizen method was developed in Japan as an effective way of
achieving huge improvements in business. In it’s simplest form,
it just means implementing small improvements one after the
other. Each tiny step in the right direction builds to a
significant improvement over time but without the business
having to handle the chaos of a massive transformation.

The method works, because businesses are run by people and it is
in the nature of people, in general, to feel uncomfortable with
sudden massive change.

And what works for the transformation of a business works for
the transformation of a person too!

Diets fail, exercise programs fail for most people – we know
that. They fail because they demand you take huge steps to
transform your life.

Nevertheless you give it your best shot, because you want the
end result. You go from eating fast food and fries with
everything to wall-to-wall lettuce and cucumber. You give up
spending your evenings on the couch in front of the TV and work
out on the equipment at the gym 5 nights a week instead.

You’re highly motivated when you start. But soon your enthusiasm
wanes and you slide back to how things were. Making huge changes
overnight is just too difficult.

The “kaizen” way of losing weight, on the other hand, means
making a single small change at a time. You just keep going with
it until it feels quite natural. Then you add another and
another and another. Don’t you think it would be easier to
transform your body and your life permanently like that?

If the “make-sudden-mega-changes-in-your-lifestyle” diet and
exercise programs you’ve tried in the past have never actually
worked for you on a permanent basis, then why not try a
different approach?

This time write down a whole list of all the changes you want to
make. Break those changes down into tiny achievable pieces then
put them in place one step at a time – the “kaizen” way. It just
has to be the easiest way of achieving a new shape.

Copyright 2005, Janice Elizabeth Small

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