3 Simple Behavior Change Techniques That Will Help You to Lose Weight

How 60 seconds every morning can become a game-changer for your results

Rike Aprea
3 min readJul 9, 2020
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Obesity is the root cause of many chronic conditions, including heart disease, diabetes, back pain, liver disease — just to name a few.

Even the severity of COVID-19 seems to be correlated to being overweight: According to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), obesity is one of the major risk factors for severe COVID-19 cases. A high BMI is associated with a higher risk of acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS), which complicates the treatment of COVID-19.

However, many people struggle when trying to lose weight. Mostly because diets only work short-term and sustainable weight loss requires sustainable efforts and patience.

Here’re three behavior change techniques that can help you to kickstart your weight-loss journey.

3 reasons why

Write down three reasons why you want to lose weight. They can be as trivial as “I want to look great at my high-school reunion” to “I want to decrease my chances of developing type 2 diabetes”. However, try to come up with things that you are passionate about…

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Rike Aprea

Personal Trainer, Coach, Nutrition Nerd, Certified Weight Loss- and Behavior Change-Specialist. www.kaizenupyourlife.com