Seven Steps to Successful Weight Loss
These are seven simple steps that will guide you in your efforts to lose weight.
1. Choose a Starting Point
Imagine a friend, who has not seen you for a while and wants to visit you but does not know the way to your home. The first question you will ask to him is: Where are you right now?
Unless you know where he is standing now, you would not be able to guide him to the right way.
This is similar to losing body fat.
Before you plan to reduce your weight, it is important to know where you stand at present. Your present weight, waist size, your bodys fat percentage; every thing needs to be known before you can think of moving ahead with a fat loss plan.
2. Set a Goal
Close your eyes and see yourself with a perfect body.
Take a piece of paper and write down everything that you need to do to get that perfect body. Everything you write will be your goal.
Do not write down anything vague. Be precise and set goals which you will be able to achieve. It is as easy as setting up a holiday where you make hotel and airline bookings and choose the places you want to visit.
Once you are done with the setting of your goals, fix a timeframe in which you need to achieve them. Again, be realistic. Do not set the timeframe that you cannot achieve.
Set small targets. For example, aim to reduce 1 or 2 pounds per week. Mind you, if a body looses more weight than 2 pounds per week, the chances are high that you will regain all of it or even more in the coming future.
3. Make the plans
Frame a strategy that can help you achieve your goals within the set timeframe. Get started with your current eating habits.
Write down the food items you eat and their calorie, fat, protein and carbs measure.
Also note down any causes that make you eat even if you are not hungry. Examples of those can be fatigue or stress. Fighting hard with these causes will help stop you from eating excessively. You also need to control the emotional eating that let your weight go out of your hand.
Also prepare a chart for your workout as well. Include the time of your workout, its duration, exercises you do among other things.
4. Make small changes in your habits
In order to see better results, make sure you try new things. Bring some alterations in your eating plans, modify the workout plan and keep trying other things as well. If you made changes that are helping you to eat less, stick with it.
Follow a constructive and step by step approach; do not rush things. Change or remove a food item from your diet every week or increase the workout duration. Making these small changes will definitely help.
5. Stick to the changes that work for you
Do not stick to any plan that is hard to follow. Instead, try and improvise slightly to get things right.
Do not feel bad if you miss out on a plan for a day. Try to re-gather your will power and do it the next day. Your disappointment may again lead to emotional eating and whitewash all your plans.
6. Maintain a progress report
Like the good old school days, maintain a progress report. See how you are doing and where you are heading. Keeping a track of your progress might work in your favor. It will make you aware of the mistakes you are doing and the areas you need to improve upon.
Even if the progress is not very good, there is no reason to loose hope. Some people tend to cheat on their plans if they are not able to reduce the pounds they aimed for. Please do not quit or cheat. Rather, notice your mistake and try not to repeat them.
7. You can do it, I know you can.
If you cannot help yourself, nobody can. Keep motivating yourself. Do not allow yourself to go off the hook. Yeah, I am doing well, I can improve! These words should keep ringing like Christmas bells in your years. Make sure you keep repeating steps 4, 5 and 6 until you reach your goals.
Also, you must not follow plans that are:
* Are Difficult to follow
* Have too many rules
* Contradicting and confusing
* Unreal
* De-motivating
Keeping all these things in mind and make sure you give your 100 % percent effort. Good Luck!
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