10 Amazing tips to lose weight – Honestly!

Have you been waiting for the right time in your life to really buckle down and lose those extra pounds? Well that time is right now!
Read on to discover our 10 amazing fat loss tips that regular folk, just like you, have used time and time to lose that flab and look absolutely fabulous at the right time.
It’s never been easier – just read and follow along for a healthier, happier life!

Lose weight for the right reasons
Before you even look at a diet plan or anything closely resembling an exercise schedule, ask yourself why you want to lose weight?
If you want to improve your health, look and feel better – great!
If you want to be able to play with your kids more, that’s even super. However, if the reasons are for attempting to get your ex back, look better than your next door neighbour or because your partner says you should – then yeah Houston, we have a problem!
The best motivation to lose weight is to do it for yourself – nobody else. Health reasons should be foremost, because being overweight can cause irreversible health issues that will last a lifetime!

Choose a weight loss program carefully
You must be realistic when you choose how you intend losing weight. Your lifestyle may not suit every type of program or diet on the market, and choosing one that you cannot adjust to or cope with is setting yourself up for failure. Look at your current eating habits, level of physical activity, work schedule, family and social life.

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Think realistically about how much change each of those areas can withstand. For example, if you do no exercise at all, you’re going to struggle with a weight loss program that requires intense exercise from the get-go.
If you eat out regularly, you’ll need a diet that allows you a wider choice of food types to accommodate that. Counting calories can be time consuming, so if you have a busy schedule, you may want a diet that either lays it all out for you, or gives you more flexibility. Try not to be sucked in by the promise of losing a certain number of pounds in a specific time period – everyone loses weight at a different rate, and the only way to guarantee you will lose any weight is by following instructions to the letter.

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Set realistic goals
These fat loss tips cannot be repeated enough.
Setting goals that are nearly impossible to reach just sets you up for failure, disappointment and misery.
Break your goal up into smaller, more achievable steps. Rome wasn’t built in a day and the journey of a 1000 miles starts with the first step so, set Monthly or weekly goals that are easier to achieve.
Make sure that your goals represent a healthy weight loss – which most often means gradual weight loss leading to a healthy weight for your age, gender, height and body type.

Write it all down
Whether you call it a food diary or a success journal, get into the habit of recording your eating habits – and preferably start doing this before you go on a weight loss program. Writing your goals down forces your mind to commit to whatever you’re aiming to achieve!
Record what you eat, when you eat – and why you eat.
Why you eat will help you identify what triggers the unhealthy eating habits that may have led to where you are right now. Boredom, loneliness, anger, frustration and stress can often lead to unhealthy snacks and comfort food, even though we know it’s not good for us.

Use your diary or journal to record your goals, and your progress.

Program for success, but expect some bad days

Forget about all the diets you’ve been on in the past!
Program yourself for success on this one, but accept that there will be challenges ahead. Nobody is perfect, and you will have a day or two where it just gets too much for you. You may skip a workout, or find yourself unable to resist the donuts your colleague brought to work. It’s okay to slip up! It is NOT okay to give up. One bad day, one poor decision or even a string of them, does not mean you have failed. It just means you had a bad day. Tomorrow does not have to be the same, so just get started right away.

Get support
Whether it’s friends, family or an online group, make sure you have the right people to support and encourage you – especially on those bad days. There are thousands of people in online chat groups who share their experiences with different diets and weight loss programs, and have been through the same difficulties you may be facing. Read their stories, chat to them, and learn from their mistakes.

Exercise
Whether you like it or not, some form of physical activity must be included in a healthy lifestyle.
Not only does it help you lose weight, but it will help you maintain the weight loss.
Of course, the health benefits are a big factor – even if you’re thin, exercise is good for you. You will find that the usual recommendation is between 30 and 45 minutes of exercise three times a week. Recent research indicates that those thirty minutes can be broken up into three 10 minutes sessions, with the same results. 10 minutes is often easier to fit into a busy schedule, and the exercise you do will keep your metabolism elevated throughout the day. Your exercise program should involve activities that you enjoy doing.

If you don’t enjoy the exercise routine, you’re going to find any excuse not to do it, or be miserable doing it.
One of the three factors most likely to lead to successful weight loss is having home exercise equipment, or perhaps following exercise programs on youtube!

Eating
Whether you are following a specific diet plan, counting calories, or just cutting down on the ‘bad’ food, there are a couple of things that can help you.

Eat slowly. It takes 20 minutes from the time you start eating, for your brain to register feelings of fullness. If you gulp your food down in less time, you won’t know you’re too full until it’s too late. Stop eating when you feel satisfied – not full.

Watch those portions – especially when you are eating out. Eat half the meal and take the rest home in a take out box. At home, use smaller plates – a great way to make sure you don’t serve too much, but your plate will still look nice and full.

Go easy on the salt, limit high fat foods, replace red meat with lean poultry and fish, and drink lots of water. Don’t skip meals, especially breakfast, as that’s the meal that wakes up your metabolism and gets it going for the rest of the day.

Chart your progress
Keeping track of your progress, including any slow or stalled loss periods, will let you see what helps you to succeed, what causes problems, and when to celebrate. Don’t compare yourself to anyone else, even if they are following the exact same plan as you. Everyone loses weight at a different rate, due to metabolism, muscle tone and body type differences.

If your progress has stalled, particularly towards the end of your diet, you may have hit a plateau. The best way to overcome this is to change something. Exercise in the mornings instead of the evenings, swop carbs for proteins and vice versa in a few meals, or even take a few days break altogether. A plateau means your body has settled into a routine, and often all it needs is a little jolt to get it working at losing weight again.

Weight loss tips – Going forward!

Maintain, maintain, maintain!
It is common knowledge that, once you’ve lost weight chances of going back to your old habits are pretty high, depending on your initial motivation to lose the flab. This is also due to, in part, to the the diet being so radical it’s impossible to continue in real life, or the weight loss program failed to explain how the dietary changes made to lose weight can be adapted to maintain your new weight.

After your ‘diet’ is finished, you should have a better idea of what to eat, when to eat, and how to eat it. You should be feeling the benefits of regular exercise, and in fact be able to do more exercise because you are now fitter and stronger. Adapting your weight loss program to a weight loss maintenance program and a new healthy lifestyle should be a priority.

Although these tips may seem like common sense, old hat or just another repetition, what makes them work is that they’re tried and tested methods that have stood the test of time. Most of us know when we’re eating the wrong food or not exercising enough, but that isn’t always enough.
You have to take action in order to change your life, and there is no shortcut. A weight loss program can help you get the weight off, but you have to keep it off.
It is not easy to lose weight, and no-one takes kindly to change, but if you want to improve your health and well-being, you are going to have to put some effort into becoming healthy.
The results will, however, definitely be worth it!

Rooting for ya!