Emotions during lifestyle changes

Do you want to lose weight? Then you will most likely need to change some aspects of your lifestyle. When you approach a lifestyle change there are some proven steps that you will go through emotionally. If you have some basic knowledge about how it might feel to make a change there is the possibility that the change will be easier to implement. 

Let's begin with an overview of the process and then I will follow this up with a deeper look into each of these steps.

Psychologists Don Kelley and Daryl Conner have established a cycle they call “The Emotional Cycle of Change.” In it, they identify five stages that people go through as they make major changes in their life:

Stage 1: Uninformed optimism.
Stage 2: Informed pessimism.
Stage 3: Hopeful realism.
Stage 4: Informed optimism.
Stage 5: Completion.

If you take a moment and think about a change that you have made perhaps this pattens rings true with you?

If you want to read more about this until my next post on the subject - here is a link: http://www.mindtools.com/pages/article/kelley-conner-cycle.htm