3 Tips For Weight Loss

Losing weight can be incredibly frustrating, especially when you try and try and nothing seems to work! Here are 3 tips for losing weight and keeping it off for good!

Of course, a healthy diet and regular exercise is never an option.  But there are a few tweaks you can do to help you get those pounds off and keep them off!

These tips are simple, but powerful!

Tip 1:
Replace breads, pastas, cereals and rice with fruits and vegetables. Anything negative you have heard about low carbing is probably misconstrued information.  Your body really does see simple, refined carbs as fat making fuel!  What it needs and wants are high quality complex carbs that you find in fruits and veggies.

Don’t forget all the micronutrients that these natural wonders supply to your body!  Not only will they help you lose weight, but they keep your skin glowing and your immune system stoked!  Once you are closer to your goal weight, you can add complex carbs back to your diet, such as whole grains and brown rice without seeing much damage (but go slow and watch how your body reacts!).  Personally, I cannot eat much fruit if I want to see any pounds come off.  I seem to be very sensitive to the sugar in fruit.  You need to test how much fruit you can tolerate before you see the scale get stuck.

We were simply not meant to consume white, refined flour products.  Often, these white carbs are combined with fat and sugar to create a metabolic nightmare!  Just steer clear of them if you are serious about weight loss, and you’ll see much better results. Not only that, but consuming simple carbs will make you hungrier.  Eating these kinds of foods will only make you crave them more.  It’s much easier to stick to a weight loss plan when you are not starving!

As a general rule, eat at least 10 servings of vegetables (and some fruit) a day!

Tip 2:
Drink lots of water – purified is best.  The benefits of water for weight loss is being disputed these days, but I have always seen much better results when I keep my water intake high.

If you want to flush that fat as quickly as possible, 16 glasses is the optimum amount per day.

Water flushes out harmful toxins, boosts your metabolism, and keeps you hydrated. Drinking a lot of water makes it difficult for the fat to “stick” to your body. Just remember, though, that drinking water won’t fix the damage done by a pig-out!

Tip 3:
Resistance training will help you retain muscle mass, and help keep your metabolism running on high!

Dieting can often lead to muscle loss.  To keep your metabolism humming, you need plenty of muscle tissue to burn off excess calories.  Weight training will keep your muscle mass intact

Often times, people wanting to lose weight will concentrate on aerobic exercise and forget about the benefits of weight training in their fat loss strategy.  Women do NOT need to worry about bulking up.  Hormonally, we are incapable of building big muscles.  You will become firm, toned and defined with resistance training, and that is great when you want to keep those pesky fat cells at bay!

Resistance training also boosts your metabolism like no other form of exercise, and often for a period of 24 hours or more. This means that your body will burn fat even while you sleep.  Just remember that you always need a day between weight training sessions to let your body repair and rebuild from your workout.

Implementing these tips for losing weight will get you dropping those extra pounds and becoming a slimmer you. Remember, each step you take, no matter how small, will make a difference.  Many small steps make a giant leap!  You can do this!

The ONE Key To Weight Loss Success

There is one key to real and lasting weight loss success.  Do you know what it is?  If you don’t, there is a good chance that you are struggling to lose some pounds, and are totally frustrated about the results you are (or, more accurately, aren’t) getting.

The diet debate still rages on. The 2 camps, “Diets don’t work!” and “All diets work, and then you gain it all back!” battle it out. Unfortunately that leaves those wanting to shed some extra pounds right in the middle, scratching their heads in confusion. What are you supposed to do???

This, in my opinion, is THE one essential key to successful weight loss…  And without it, you may as well not even THINK about dieting, because failure is virtually guaranteed.  I doesn’t matter which diet program you choose, weight loss will evade you.

Here is that ONE thing:

You MUST cultivate the “loser” mindset.  If you don’t get “it” mentally first, you will NOT lose the weight.

This loser mindset is the unshakeable, steeled-jaw determination that you want to lose weight more than almost anything else in the world.  This simple yet crucial piece of the puzzle will make losing weight possible.  Not having it will make it completely impossible.

• Do you want to be slim more than you want that piece of cake?
• Do you want that amazing feeling of fitting in those jeans more than you want that combo meal?
• Do you want to put on that bathing suit and feel proud more than you want to have that third sugary latte?

You need to honestly ask yourself if you are really willing to do what it takes, for however long it takes, to get the pounds off.

What will you decide?  Are you ready to live the life of the thin, healthy person you truly are?  Close your eyes, take a deep breath, and say, “Yes!” to the new, slimmer YOU!

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Another Secret To Successful Weight Loss

When it comes to weight loss, the biggest hurdle that most people face is just getting started! And… they really don’t have a clue where to start. What needs to be done is not much of a secret, per say, but it IS essential, and an often-missed ingredient of a weight loss plan.

To get going on reaching your weight loss goal, you need to set some short-term goals. Goals should be used in the same way as milestones are used on roadways. Just as a highway without a milestone, you will have no idea of when (if ever) you will get to your destination without them. Without these small fat loss goals, you will have no idea of how much work you need to do to shed all pounds you want to! Make sure to write down your goals. This will cement them in your psyche.

To set those short-term weight loss goals effectively, ask yourself:

1. How much weight I want to lose?

2. When can I expect to lose my first 10 pounds?

3. How often will I exercise?

4. If I see myself not reaching my first short-term goal, what can I do to get on track?

Write your answers to these questions on your paper too. Put the list of your goals and solutions in a place where you will see them often, like on the bathroom mirror or on the fridge to see when temptation strikes.

Setting goals is a great tool, but isn’t enough. In order to make the goals achievable, you must set REALISTIC goals. If you have a goal of losing fifty pounds within a couple of weeks or a month, that is just not going to happen. Setting unrealistic goals is useless, and will only frustrate you.

Ideally, no matter what you do, you should aim to lose no more than 1-2 pounds per week. Create your goals accordingly. If you want to lose fifty pounds, it will take you at least six months to achieve that loss.

Set small and achievable goals for yourself so that when you achieve them, you will feel more confident to move forward. This is one of the biggest “secrets” of successful weight loss! Set those short-terms goals, and set yourself up for weight loss success.