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Doesn’t it feel like wherever you go, there are always those skinny people who seem to be either completely blessed or just know something you don’t? They eat everything and anything they want but still look great, no weight gain or anything without even having to work at it. Instead, you work your butt off!
Watch what you eat, workout for hours on end and still, you either don’t lose the weight, or worse, you continue to gain weight! Wouldn’t you want to look and feel the way those skinny people do? Wouldn’t you want to be able to strut around with a perfect, lean and sexy body?
I can already tell that your answer is a loud YES! Read on to find the best kept secrets to healthy weight loss:
1. Plan – you should always plan your weeks out with your meals and exercise. It doesn’t have to be extremely detailed. Just make sure you set aside time for both. It will help you greatly when it comes time to do them during the week.
2. Exercise – working out is so important to fat and weight loss! But ignore what those “experts” say. You do NOT need to workout for 1 hour each day, 5 days a week. The key to working out is to make sure you are pushing your body and increasing your heart rate. That might mean jogging on the treadmill for 15 minutes, 3 days a week or weight lifting for 30 minutes, 4 days a week. The goal is to break a sweat by increasing your heart rate.
3. Eat more small meals more often – yes, eat more often but make them small meals. When you are working out, your body will need more nutrients to sustain the extra work. Eating small meals 4-6 times a day will help build your metabolism and curb your cravings. But make sure the foods you eat are high in nutrients!
4. Cut yourself some slack – the occasional not-that-great-for-you snack is okay but make sure it is a rare occasion. It’s important to allow yourself a little room in your workout/nutrition routine because it keeps you away from caving in to your cravings completely. But, again, make sure your occasional snacks are very occasional.
5. Stick to it – your workouts and great eating habits should be daily things, to the point where it is deeply part of your life. But if on the occasional day or holiday, you “forget” about the gym, don’t stress. Get back to everything next time through. It’s important to keep your goals and plan in mind always because you will see those results you want even sooner and it will be easier to stay focused.
6. Water is your friend – keep yourself hydrated! During and after your workouts, make sure to drink lots of water. Make sure to drink lots of water throughout a regular day. Water is a great “filter” for your body because it whisks away the toxins in your body. It is a crucial part of healthy eating habits.
Now you know the secrets to weight loss. Pretty simple, right? Make sure to stick to your goals and keep your end result in sight. Pretty soon, you’ll be able to strut around just like those skinny people who also know the secret to fat loss!

 I presume because you are reading this article, that you have managed after hard work and commitment to lose some weight, and you want to keep it that way and you don’t want to slip back and gain it back again.

 Congratulations! We both know how much willpower, work and commitment it takes to make it to this point, now the most important thing is to maintain that weight by using a combination of right diet and exercise and good mental attitude.

 Maintaining weight is very important because experience shows that most dieters regain a third of what they lost within the first year and two-thirds of it in the second year.  It’s important to understand what is needed here; it is really a matter of energy balance!  But know also that the hardest part is now over, because maintaining weight is actually easier, not harder, than losing it. 

 At this point it’s important that your lifestyle is balanced and you want to avoid all unnecessary stress that could cause old habits to surface again.  Success in gaining, losing, or maintaining weight is dependent upon a combination of factors; I always used to say that losing, gaining or maintaining weight is a result of the “freedom from the obsession and compulsion to eat,” not the other way around, but there is more to it.  You also need to establish some important new routines in your life, because the main thing is to keep exercising and burn calories each day.  This is your magic formula from now on:”best approach is to ensure that one’s physical activity level is high enough to balance the number of calories consumed”.

 You know those weight charts? I bet you do, where your weight ranges are shown in the chart and people of the same height may have equal amounts of body fat but different amounts of muscle and bone…  Don’t look at them too much now, go after your own gut feeling and your good friend; the mirror! There are also many weight loss groups and organizations if you feel you need support, remember that this is an intimate personal and difficult struggle, but it’s not one that anyone needs to go through alone.  In this modern world weight loss has become an essential objective for several people, but only a few are succeeding in their task.  You have gone through that already, but know that for many, weight gain or regain is embarrassing, and seeking help is delayed.  If you join a group and your situation is monitored weekly, the purpose of this assessment is to provide an evaluation and recommendations for maintaining a healthy weight based on your individual needs.

 We are all different, groups can be helpful but they are not for everyone.

 One of my students recently said; “I’ve struggled with weight issues for most of my life, and aside from the occasional slice of molten chocolate cake, I finally have it under control.  Now I basically follow a group point system and strive to keep my dry carb intake to a minimum”. 

 For her it’s ok to do it alone, but she is using a weight chart every week.

 Health

 I think everybody agrees nowadays that the key to losing weight is to burn more calories than are consumed, either by increasing physical activity or consuming fewer calories – or preferably both.  Health professionals judge a low-calorie sweetener to be of benefit for weight control. 

 What are the dangers at this point when you are in a situation where the main battle is won, but you look for safe and healthy ways to maintain your situation?

 Usually they are psychological issues. How balanced we are emotionally and how we can see ourselves in a new positive light. It’s very important to be aware of the potential purposes of anger, how anger impacts health, and learn assertive methods of dealing with anger.  Health and fitness experts all know this and the most recent research related to emotional and physical health has found that there are pitfalls and the old feelings might come back from time to time. Feelings of unworthiness fear of rejection, bad self image etc.

 These feelings can be triggers – for bad habits again – so it’s very important to stay alert, that is why I always recommend some kind of group or/and family and friend support.

 Now that you have come this far, make it even better! You probably see now that anything is possible, you only need a positive attitude and you are ready to recreate yourself.

 Visit also my blog where I give every week new tips and strategies for all kinds of weight loss situations.

 Good luck and stay fit!

There’s a fine line between safe and dangerous weight loss. By always keeping your overall health as your top priority, your search for an effective weight loss solution should help you to arrive at one that focuses on whole-body well-being, which is always the method of natural weight loss. You’ll see more and more people choosing natural weight loss nowadays.
If you are considering turning towards the natural side of weight loss than you have no doubt been struggling with different weight loss products and programs for years. If you are ready to commit to long term results and a weight loss program that works, the natural way is waiting for you.
It is true that losing weight the natural way is much more difficult than committing to a fad diet for a few weeks at a time. Natural weight loss means you are making the conscious decision to change your lifestyle and begin living more healthy throughout every aspect of your life. This is the only way to achieve permanent weight loss. Let’s go through the top 10 natural ways to lose weight.
* Walking 30 minutes a day
* Eat smaller, healthier meals but more frequently
* Avoid fast food and junk food as a rule
* Cut down on caffeine as much as you can
* Do not skip breakfast, even just a granola bar is better than nothing
* Intense exercise 1-2 hours per week
* Drink lots of water (8-10 glasses a day)
* Eating hot and spicy foods can increase your metabolism by up to 40% (assuming you don’t have food allergies)
* Increase your fiber intake
* Never skip meals
When you start looking, you’ll surely find countless different variations of these methods above. The best part of this, you’ll never run out of options, which means you’ll never get bored of your weight loss efforts.
Skipping meals is perhaps one of the biggest misconceptions about losing weight and is the worst thing you can do. While fasting and variations of it can have it’s place in a solid weight loss program, consistent calorie restriction will cause you to decrease your metabolism. That’s not good.
You can see how this can be a dangerous cycle to get into and it is far from healthy. On the complete opposite end of the scale, you should actually be eating more frequently, but smaller meals. This will help you to increase your metabolism, thus also increasing your bodies’ ability to burn ever increasing amounts of fat.
Losing weight the natural way may not be as simple and quick as the fad diets and lose weight quick schemes but they are far more successful and quite simply the only healthy way to lose weight. These methods listed above help you keep the weight off while still enjoying the foods and activities you love.
By simply adjusting your schedule and busy lifestyle you can fit in a yoga class once a week and attend the gym for some running or walking through your neighborhood at night. There is no need to run for hours or lift weights until you can’t feel your arms, over working out is not healthy either. Consistency is the key. Find the happy medium that fits you and your life and maintain this routine as long and often as you can. Enjoy the benefits of a new healthy lifestyle and the weight loss you have been waiting for will become more and more apparent.

Which foods are good and what should be avoided in weight loss? This is a popular question especially for women who like to prepare their own foods.  What to use, what not to use, what kind of foods to prepare, how much to eat and when.  I have some very good suggestions following, be prepared to take notes;

First some rules: use less fat and sugar and when preparing food always use vegetable oil.  Minimize all products which contain fat cheese.  For bread, eat only rye bread.  Make all your portions smaller.  Avoid juices and soft drinks; drink only water and fatless milk.  Eat in intervals of three to four hours between meals and eat small portions. Eat lots of vegetables, fruits and berries.  Don’t eat pasta or rise and allow yourself only one feast-meal per week.  Exercise up to five times in a week, an hour or an hour and a half at the time.

This means that it’s very important to avoid all industrial vegetable fats and carbonates.  Instead use butter and other good oils like olive oil.  If you eat cheese, I recommend non -fat cottage cheese.  Potato which is starch should be left out of your diet altogether.

Also leave out all white breads, donuts and cakes. Switch macaronis and pasta to rye and oat pasta, because they contain more fiber. I recommend counting calories in the beginning, because some weight loss programs have too low calorie-content recommendations, and this is dangerous in the long run. Count your normal calorie consumption and try to eat 500 calories less per day.

Here’s a great tip for any weight loser; drink 2 liters water per day and you will be amazed how the feeling of hunger will go away by only drinking water.  You will find that after one week your weight is going down and you don’t have a feeling of hunger.  It is always healthy to drink lots of water, so there’s nothing risky in this method, water will also purify your whole system.

Recognize all calorie bombs even before you eat them!  Losing weight is not about eating less, it is about eating wisely and be knowledgeable about what you put in your mouth. To be able to lose weight intelligently you need to eat enough, otherwise you might lose it from wrong places.

Following the above recommendations will make you lose weight – guaranteed. 

But you need to be strict and persistent with your diet.  If you try to lose weight too fast, it can be dangerous to your health, you don’t want to lose your muscle material when you diet.  I recommend using a good program that is proven to be healthy and consult only people who have experience in this field.  Remember that your diet should consist of enough vegetables, fibers, water and proteins.  When following a proven program, your weight will go down because your adipose tissues are going to be reduced. There are some effective programs on the market that promise fast results but losing muscle and all water from your body is not permanent weight loss, it is yo-yo weight loss, because you will gain it back in few weeks. Go the healthy way and you will be able to lose weight and maintain the results.

There are some main reasons why people fail in their attempt to lose weight. I will list here the most common reasons and how to avoid those pitfalls.

Let’s concentrate first on eating; there is a reason why we eat – the main reason should be only hunger, but there can be also emotional reasons for eating. It is very important to face any emotional eating issues. This may be as simple as identifying alternative activities or as intensive as seeking professional help. Feeling depressed, negative self image, negative response from other people can trigger eating-protection-system which leads to weight gain. You just got to get over this habit, because it will render all your other efforts useless.

If you try to follow a super strict diet and have an “all or nothing” attitude, it will turn to “nothing” in 99% of time. I have always taught my students to be patient and love themselves. Being too hard on oneself is going result in an explosion sooner or later and all that was lost is gained very fast. If you try a diet that rely on one type of food or cut out entire food groups, it’s simply going to be too hard to stick to and also very unhealthy in the long run. Ask anyone who tried the green tea diet or similar programs.

 There is an old proverb: “breakfast is the most important meal of the day”. This is so true, and therefore whatever you do, don’t skip your breakfast! A balanced good breakfast will get your metabolism going and help you from getting too hungry and overeating through the day.

Don’t try to cut down too many calories in the beginning; your body needs to adjust slowly to new changes. Reduce your calorie intake is the key to weight loss, but if you try to cut too many, you won’t lose weight at all thanks to the metabolism’s “starvation” mode. As I have said on my blog and my recommended programs and articles; count your normal daily calorie intake (before diet) and try to reduce it by 500 calories per day.

If you are very strong mentally, you can probably do whatever you like without support, but most of us need some sort of shoulder to lean on from time to time. This is especially true in weight loss. We need a friend to talk to about problems and we need them to support us in our efforts in life. We need to talk to someone about the dilemmas that losing weight brings us. If you think about it, one of your motives is how others look upon you. If you are alone on a deserted island, you would not care about weight loss so much would you? Of course there are other important reasons also, but don’t be alone, talk to people and find someone who listens to you and preferably has gone through the same struggle before.

Keep a food diary and write down what and how much you used to eat and how much you eat now. Make a habit of writing down everything what you have eaten during the day; you will be surprised how much this will affect your overall mission.

People tend to set unrealistic goals for themselves and then they feel bad when they fail meet them. If your body is used to certain amount of sugar a day, don’t cut it all off immediately. Cut it to half first and in one week or two weeks cut it to half again. This way you let your body time to adjust to changes and everything feels more natural and easy. You have to have a goal; you want to lose a certain amount of weight, but don’t try to be too hard on yourself.

Exercise is recommended for every dieter, but if you are not used to exercise, you have to start slow here also. Start simple and increase slowly for best results.

Have one feast meal per week! Eating is also important; it gives us feeling of well being and happiness. So even if you are on a diet, enjoy one feast meal per week for your overall balance. 

I know you are making these fat loss mistakes because I did too! Based on my experience from losing over 80 pounds and finally keeping it off, here are some tips for avoiding these common dieting mistakes.

YOU ARE TRYING TO DO TOO MUCH TOO SOON

Trying to go from Sedentary Slob to Super Dieter on a Monday morning? Not so smart. It is a great way to ensure you will be back to the couch by mid-day Wednesday. You can’t expect to undo years worth of damage overnight.

If you typically eat three meals per day, start slowly by adding a snack – either in the morning or the afternoon, then work your way to six small meals every 2-3 hours. This approach to fat loss is called kaizen, a Japanese philosophy that focuses on continuous improvement throughout all aspects of life. Making a small change once a day or once a week leads to a constant state of improvement.

YOU ARE LOOKING FOR THE QUICK FIX

I was convinced I had a Loch Ness Monster in my colon and that was making me fat! But the colon cleanser I purchased only left me with a very sore butt, some leafy-looking things in the toilet and not a single pound lost.

Now I was convinced that I needed a super-duper-ultra fat burner – one that would melt away the fat while I sat on my butt doing nothing!

After thousands of dollars and lots of false hope, I realized that the only way I was going to achieve the lean body that I desired was to come up with a solid nutrition and exercise plan, and to add supplements that were backed by solid science.

YOU ARE LETTING OTHERS KNOCK YOU OFF-TRACK

My family is full of enablers – they mean well, but they were not sensitive to the fact that I was serious about staying on track with my weight loss diet. “C’mon a little bit won’t hurt” or “you can diet tomorrow” was all it took to convince me to eat. Within 30 minutes I had eaten myself stupid and undone all of the positive progress that I had spent the past week achieving.

Let those around you know how important it is for you to lose weight and what it means to both you, and them, if you do not achieve your goals.

YOU ARE NOT GETTING BACK “ON THE WAGON” IMMEDIATELY AFTER FALLING OFF

I would usually fall off my diet toward the end of any given week. It was at that point that I rationalized that, since I was “off the wagon” I would wait until Monday to get started again!

This probably won’t come as a big shock, but science now has proven that weekends can wreak havoc on your waistline. That was the conclusion of Washington University researchers, who found that even people on strict diet and exercise programs lose weight more slowly than expected because they eat more on weekends.

The verdict: People don’t need a holiday to eat more; they tend to do it every weekend because human lifestyle patterns can be very different.

There were two key takeaways for me from this:

1.The best time to get back “on the wagon” was at your next meal – do not wait until you’ve done more damage. 2. Do not let the weekends be different than any other day – stick with your plan whether it is a Saturday or a Wednesday

YOU ARE TRYING TO BE PERFECT EVERY DAY

Life is not perfect – and your diet plan shouldn’t be either. You can’t expect yourself to follow your program to the letter every second of every day until you reach your goal. If you do, you will ultimately fail. That is why you need to apply the 90/10 rule to your nutrition and exercise.

The 90/10 rule is very simple – if you are following your weight loss diet plan 90% of the time, then you will not be hurt by the 10% of the time that you are not. Your weight loss diet should include a minimum of 5 meals per day, with 6 meals being ideal. Following the 90/10 rule with 6 meals a day (or 42 meals a week) means that you have 4 meals a week where you can go off your program without halting progress, as long as those meals are reasonable.

Same rules apply to exercise. Let’s say your schedule permits you to work out 4 days per week. So in a month, you have 16 workouts – and following the 90/10 rule, you can miss 1 or 2 workouts without derailing yourself. However, you should save your “skips” for times when you really need to skip – like a poor night’s sleep, illness, or hectic travel schedule.

YOU ARE NOT SETTING REALISTIC EXPECTATIONS

It took you your entire life to get to this point, and you expect to reverse all of the damage in 3 weeks? That is what a lot of diet products would like you to believe.

You absolutely MUST set goals, but they MUST be realistic. What is realistic? one to two pounds of fat per week is a reasonable goal. The more you have to lose, the higher you can set your expectation. But if you are approaching double-digits with your expectations, you are setting yourself up for failure.

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With so many diet books, weight loss programs and pills, potions and drinks, you would think that developing an easy weight loss plan took a Master’s degree in Nutrition to figure it out. But it really isn’t like that.
Most of us probably already know how to lose weight, it can just be tough putting it into practice, especially with so many competing messages out there about the right way to do it. So hopefully I can help you out with some easy weight loss tips that will get that weight off so you can feel better, stronger and healthier.
The first thing you need to do is to set a goal for yourself. Losing weight is about taking one step at a time, so set an achievable goal. For example, set a goal of a five pound weight loss in two weeks. Write the goal down. In fact, take an index card and write your goal in big letters and then put the index card someplace you can see it every day. Then mark the two week date on your calendar. Now it’s time to make a plan.
If you are wanting to lose five pounds in two weeks, you need to have a plan of how you will accomplish this. Don’t plan beyond the first two weeks. It is usually easier to lose weight if you take the task in small chunks and taking note of small accomplishments along the way. so for now, just worry about the first two weeks and meeting your weight loss goal for it.
For starters, develop meal plans for at least the upcoming week and be sure to write them down. Also write down the shopping list and then stick to it when you go to the supermarket.
For the next two weeks, stop eating out and start fixing meals at home. Take your lunch to work and include healthy snacks to eat throughout the day. When developing your meal plans, try to count how many calories are in the meals that you are preparing. This will give you an idea of how many calories you are taking in at each meal. Ideally, you should be eating between 1200 and 1500 calories to lose weight.
Also, be certain that you are drinking plenty of water. Water is one of the most important aspects of weight loss. It will help keep your body’s digestive system running smoothly. If you don’t like the taste of plain water, try adding sugar free flavor packets to your water. There are several good ones on the market that contain no calories and will make your water taste delicious.
Now that you know what you are going to eat, it’s time to think about exercise. For starters, take a walk. It doesn’t have to be a mile long walk around the neighborhood. Just take a walk around the block two or three times. If you have a treadmill, try to do fifteen minutes on the treadmill. Now repeat this every day. You will soon discover that you look forward to walking. You may want to include a friend when you walk to make it more enjoyable.
After two weeks, weigh yourself and you will find that you have lost that five pounds, if not more. That’s how simple it is to lose weight. So now all you have to do is repeat this process over and over.
It is important that you do increase the amount of exercise that you get for maximum weight loss. Find something that you really like to do. For instance, if you like to dance, get some good exercise videos that include dance. A lot of cable companies now carry a variety of exercise channels so you can pick and choose which ones you want to use. If you find an exercise that you really find enjoyable, you will be looking forward to it each day.
So hopefully you will find that this is an easy weight loss plan for you to follow. Now that you have put these easy weight loss tips into practice, you can continue to implement them for as long as you need to. Just do try and keep it to two week blocks of time so you can celebrate the small goals along the way.