Need To Lose Weight?

Your not alone, a great majority of us need to lose weight. It’s a proven fact that the statistics for obesity just keep rising and diet as we may, for most people it is very hard to keep the weight off. Why is losing weight and keeping it off such a problem for some people to handle?

Wouldn’t you think that if I starved myself for 3 days (a very foolish and dangerous thing to do) just to lose 10 pounds, that the weight I lost would never come back! I made a real huge effort…so how come the weight I lost came back the very next day once I started eating again?

Well for one thing it would be a very foolish and dangerous idea for me not to eat for 3 days, and the weight that I would have over the 3 day period would likely just be water loss. I have heard of foolish diets such as this where the person actually gains back more weight than they had lost.

If you need to lose weight, in order to lose the weight and keep it off here’s a few weight loss rules to follow.

Rule # 1: Never starve yourself to lose weight. Long term weight loss just doesn’t happen that way and all the weight you lost by starving yourself will be back and more of it, once you start eating and drinking again.

Rule # 2: DO NOT skip any of your meals. Skipping meals will only lead to you being so hungry that you do not make healthy food choices. Sugared pop, chocolate bars, donuts, chips, and the like should not be replacements for proper meals.

Rule # 3: Develop an exercise program that works for you if you need to lose weight. Not everyone can lift weights, or go running and sometimes people can’t even walk to lose weight if they have health conditions, so find out what works for you by talking to your doctor. Even sitting in a chair and doing exercise is possible. What I like to do to get rid of fat is crank up the music and dance. It helps to lose weight and release some stress to boot.

Rule # 4: Reduce your portions of food and if you decide you are hungry after eating a smaller portion, wait for more than 10 minutes before you help yourself to more food. Generally you will find that you will not be as hungry as you thought you were.

Rule # 5: Invest in a bathroom scale, there’s nothing more motivating to help lose the weight than to be able to visually see it coming off. Don’t become obsessed with the bathroom scale if you need to lose weight, but learn to use it as a motivator to lose more weight. If you see you haven’t lost any weight in the past week use it for some tough love to get back on track. Find out what you can do to adjust your diet plan so that the next time you get on the scale you will have lost weight.

To Your Weight Loss Success!