How to worry less and lose more weight. First remember that worry can take away your happiness. When you’re not happy, you’re likely to be in a bad mood and eat more. Instead of worrying about the goals you missed today, focus on the things that make you feel grateful today. Here are some tips and strategies to help you worry less, be more grateful, and lose more weight.

When you are grateful, you become less worried and stressed. Here is my own example. I hope you already know that, whenever possible, I share with you and others how to relentlessly improve and achieve our daily goals. One of my daily goals is relentless weight loss. Well you can imagine my surprise that I had gained 7 pounds last week. This worried me, because I had actually lost weight over the holidays.

The first thing I did was do a quick 72-hour food audit to find out what change or pattern in my eating habit had helped me gain more weight than I wanted. I found that in the last 2 weeks I had been eating more servings of my healthy food options like oatmeal and brown rice. Instead of getting mad at myself for stumbling, I decided to be thankful for my journey so far and focus on the future. This approach made me worry less about how I was going to lose weight or what my fellow managers would say when I told them I had gained some weight.

I shared my struggles with others and focused on reducing my portion size by about a third of my previous portion size. This is actually the second weight loss tip and strategy; taking action. I didn’t wallow in self-pity or look for someone to blame. In fact, she was thankful that she hadn’t gained too much weight. The other action I took was to double my portion of vegetables and fruits. I also told myself that considering we’re dealing with the pandemic, dealing with weight gain wasn’t that important in the scheme of things.

This made me worry less about myself and more about the plight of others, whether admitted with COVID19 or those with loved ones or friends. This part of the process of living in thanksgiving. I worried less about myself and more about more important things like people being safe and getting the COVID vaccine. The funny thing was that when I thought more about others, I became more grateful, worried less, and slept more. You know what happened? I started losing weight again. I am back on the path of relentless weight loss and improvement. I’ll keep you informed. Today, I focus on gratitude. It is the glue that keeps my challenging life intact. Being grateful instead of anxious makes me more successful at losing weight and other things I do. You too can do the same, if you remain committed to seeing the positive side of life. This is part of the process of relentlessly mastering and improving the salt.