人们用来减肥有许多知名策略。您可以尝试设定目标重量并经常检查量表以评估进度。您可以选择一个重要的开始日期，例如元旦，也可以根据您的饮食计划切割某些食物。您甚至可以在非常特殊的场合中保存“作弊餐”，例如生日和周年纪念日。
For Kimberley Webb, however, rejecting every one of those tactics has paid off in a major way. Her weight loss wasn’t always so easy, though.
She first started trying to lose weight about a decade ago while in her late teens. She tried different diets and approaches to dropping the pounds, but always ended up yo-yoing back to her original weight — give or take. Then, after giving birth to her first daughter about three years ago, she downloaded the MyFitnessPal app in an attempt to reverse her pregnancy weight gain.
At that point, she was 250 pounds and struggling to maintain her energy levels while taking care of her new baby. Using the app helped her count calories, and even though she didn’t use it consistently, she lost 35 pounds in six months. Then she and her husband decided to have another baby. During that pregnancy, Webb’s mother died on Christmas Day, sending Webb into a spiral of depression and anxiety, which was worsened by postpartum depression just four months later.
By the time she returned to her job as a gym receptionist, she had gained 20 more pounds. Fortunately, she had also gained a new sense of resolve about what needed to change, and her work environment played a large role in that mind shift.
“Working in a gym means I had no excuse about not being able to get to my workout,” she says with a laugh. “I also knew I had to be consistent about tracking my food and be aware of what I was really eating.”
While Webb understood she needed to focus on fueling her body with smart food choices, she didn’t place unrealistic restrictions on what she could eat. She eats carbs every day, for example, and says she eats healthy about 80 percent of the time.
她建议：“您需要在好与坏之间找到平衡。”“但是我不称它们为'作弊餐'，因为这意味着内gui和羞耻。我只是保持在卡路里范围内保持一致。”
Other tactics that have helped? Not setting a big “diet starting day” like New Year’s or a birthday, and instead choosing a mid-week day to lessen the pressure of such an important day. She also pushed herself by signing up for a 10K when she was still 200 pounds — even though she used to hate running. Unsurprisingly, it’s now her passion.
Webb has also found success by taking power away from the scale. She has a weight goal, but doesn’t see that as her only endpoint. Instead, she relies more how she’s feeling and less on the number she might see on the scale.
她说：“我的饮食方式以及跑步和举重都有一整天的能量。”“我的孩子睡觉时我睡觉。我比以往任何时候都更快乐，健康，更自信。我开始穿着较小的牛仔裤。我的头感觉更清晰。这些是我成功使用的措施。”
Best of all, her approach is so sustainable and realistic that she’s committed to this lifestyle for the long run. Not only has she lost nearly 50 pounds in eight months, but she’s experienced significant changes in her emotional health and everyday energy levels as well. It hasn’t always been easy getting to this point, but even those past challenges are part of the reward, Webb believes.
“I’m at such a great place now,” she says. “I can climb trees with my kids without tiring out after five minutes, and I can take them out for ice cream without feeling guilty about having some. Once you tackle the mental game of setting goals and meeting them in a way that works for you, it’s amazing.”
