Your weight loss is directly influenced by the way you think and feel. The more you can remain positive and motivated, the more success you're likely to have. Here are three great ways to stay focused on your success:
Form a support circle. This includes your family, friends, coworkers and your doctor. It's pretty safe to assume that these people want to help, but they might not really know how. So, be patient while they learn the ways that are most helpful to you. One key element of getting the support you need is to be specific...and ask for the help you decide you really need. Think it over. Focus on the behavior that you want the person to exhibit—or to change—rather than asking for kindness, understanding or sensitivity. Make your communication clear, and you're much more likely to get the help you need.
Keep track of your progress. Weigh yourself periodically. And each day write down a day's complete eating and any physical activity you've done. This is both a great way to feel proud of your accomplishments and a helpful means of spotting any potential problems with your weight-loss program, should they arise. Any time you visit your doctor, bring along your daily notes to share with him or her.
Reward yourself early and often. Changing your lifestyle takes motivation, and although feeling better about yourself is the biggest reward of all, sometimes you might need a little something extra to motivate you. So make sure you reward yourself once you reach a goal, whether it be completing a 10-minute walk or losing 10 pounds. Some of the rewards you need are psychological—give yourself a "pat on the back" for a job well done, even if your new lifestyle becomes "second nature" over time. But don't feel shy about rewarding yourself with new clothes or other personal pampering, either—you've earned it!
Part of staying positive is dealing with the negative.
A positive attitude and good motivation will get you started, but it's easy to fall into unrealistic expectations that could derail your efforts.
Here are a couple of "can't win" thought patterns to look out for:
"It's all or nothing." This attitude tempts you to think that foods are either good or bad, healthy or unhealthy. Just one slipup, and you could view yourself as a failure. Instead, expect mistakes as part of weight control. It's better to have them and recover quickly than to have no plan for dealing with them when they occur.
"Nothing but negative." It's easy to make a mountain out of a molehill. Miss one opportunity for increased physical activity, and the thought could pop up that you're "right back where you started," ignoring all the work you've already done. Focus on the good work you have done, and look ahead to more of it.
"Don't worry, be happy." These thinkers have the opposite reaction from the ones above: they're always going to do better next week. This may be optimistic, positive thinking, but it often lacks a plan for making it happen. Plans beat platitudes, every day.
"This is it." Sometimes you may feel like you have found the "right" program, the "right" doctor, or that this is exactly the "right" time for success. Unfortunately, weight control isn't a one-shot effort. Think long-term: seeing your doctor regularly, making physical activity a part of your life, and, rather than just dieting, changing your eating habits for life.
Weight-loss pitfalls can be discouraging, but if you deal with them rather then give up, you'll be a stronger and happier person for it!
There is only one correct way to lose weight and that is by speeding up your metabolism. When you do this you burn more fat every hour, 24 hours a day. Nothing beats that for weight loss.
When you speed up your metabolism you burn real fat, and losing real fat dramatically changes your shape. Because you have burnt off real fat the results will stay and not return because you had a bad day.
Speeding up your metabolism is the only way to shift stubborn fat from your stomach, hips, and thighs. Stubborn fat is controlled by imbalances in your metabolism, eg, toxins, poor organ function, and hormone imbalances, and it is only by correcting these that you will get the fat out of these areas.
To speed up your metabolism there are three key components — food, exercise, and nutrition. Too little food kills your metabolism; that is why most diets fail, and the consequences of too much food are obvious. You must exercise if you are going to lose weight and nothing can compare with exercise to improve and repair your metabolism. Finally, you must have great nutrition to repair past damage and maximise metabolism function.
Compare all these great benefits with what people normally experience — hunger, cravings, tiredness, looking pale, poor results, sticking for three weeks and then quitting, and you will see the next time you want to lose weight pick a plan that maximises your metabolism. It should be the last time you shall ever have to lose weight.
Before you head to the gym or ditch out all the apparently unhealthy foods from your fridge it is worth devoting a few minutes to analyzing what really want. It's not really about numbers and size, but rather ambition and perseverance. These ideas are meant to lead you through the basic phases of setting some objectives. Most importantly be rational and stick to what your body is really capable off rather than listening to all kinds of misconceptions.
- Keep in mind that the recommended weight loss ratio by professionals is 1-2 pounds per week. If you'll be able to keep this in mind you won't fall into extremes exhausting your body on the first day.
- Besides there's no need to lose yourself in numbers and ratios the best way is to survive the weight loss as healthy as possible.
- It is also essential to put down a plan. If you will manage to predict the results from one week to another you'll be more convinced on what you can really achieve.
- Whether you rely on your parameters or you would rather go for suppositions the aim is to set the goals directly and try to follow them logically. Flexible deadlines are the key to weight loss. In many cases if some fails to complete a certain goal for the specified time, he can easily lose the ambition to continue.
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