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27 BE INSPRED, FEBRUARY 2014 Personality Traits that Can Affect Your Weight Loss Whether you’re a proactive or reactive person, mood driven or practical, introvert or extrovert, selfcentered or generous, all these traits of your personality have a certain impact on your health. When you’re in a weight loss program, these behavioral diversities play a significant role to make you lean or thick. When you’re impulsive If you are mood driven If you’re an impulsive person and it’s so hard to control your temptation, you’re more likely to gain weight. You can’t stop going to the break room when you’re at work. You at least eat something, and it happens only by your sharp temptation. The results found in a study that, the participants weighed an average of 22 more pounds who scored the highest 10 on an impulsivity test than who had scored below 10 percent. Try to avoid the break when you’re at work, because the elimination of your impulsive nature will help you to lose weight. Your excitable mood can be good or bad for you. When your mood gets boosted; it makes you a big eater. You then call up your friends, group up, and jump on foods. A study has found that, the more excited you are, the more action you will take. But it can be worse if eating is your action when you are in an exciting mood. When you’re proactive You’re a person with a g ɕ