Can Your Personality Affect Your Weight Loss?

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Isn’t being optimistic one of the key factors when you’re trying to lose weight? After all things can start to come into play if you have a negative mindset at certain times.

If you’re feeling negative you may not want to do any exercise, or you may make the wrong food choices through emotional eating. So does your personality affect how successful you will be in losing weight? Let’s find out if that is the case.

Some research recently published in a publication called, Bio Psycho Social Medicine, says that certain psychological characteristics. May determine your weight loss, 101 participants were psychologically profiled in Japan.

They had counseling in the following areas, in both nutrition and exercise. This took place at the Kansai Medical University Hospital Obesity Clinic, the length of the research lasted six months. They completed psychological questionnaires both before and after the research had finished.

The questionnaire was designed to find out their personality types, those people that developed their self-awareness were far more likely to lose weight than those who didn’t.

Of the people who went through the particular programme, their optimism remained better and over all characteristics remained constant. Here is where it gets interesting though the people that went through the six-month process, and were optimistic to start with, were far less likely to lose weight compared to other people whom were not.

So these people obviously went in with a baseline personality and not too overly optimistic. So what does this actually prove them, in a nutshell it means if you are feeling a bit negative about what you’re doing, say with your diet and exercise.

Then some small behaviour modification will put you right, what the researchers said was the people that are like this care more about what is going off and their health. There is nothing wrong with being optimistic, what we can take away from this is, if you are feeling over optimistic at the start of what you are doing.

Then you may not necessarily go where you want to with your goals.

Here are some tips to keep you more focused long-term and stay optimistic. I think quotes are a great way to gain wisdom and you can almost apply them to anything you do within your life.

• Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment, Buddha

• What we think, we become, Buddha

• When you’re first starting off either being on a diet or exercise programme, start off with a open mind just like the people in the research did, this is what being in the present moment is all about.

• Don’t have to higher expectations it can take time to find the right foods, and combination of exercise which works best for you

• Try meditating I can’t recommend this highly enough if you want to stay in the present moment and keep focused with what you’re doing, another benefit of it is it stops the internal dialogue in your mind from taking over your life

• If you don’t succeed at first don’t give up keep trying we are all different as people somewhat lose weight quicker than others, and it does take time to your body to adjust to eating less food.

Source and references http://www.sciencedaily.com

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