Monday, June 23, 2008

How to Successfully Lose Weight

In this article I will be writing about the ways in which people can successfully lose weight. These tips work and can be of benefit to any person who is not happy with their current weight.

1. How many of times in the past have you attempted to lose weight? 2. How many times have you succeeded? 3. Did you manage to keep the weight off?

The majority of people will have answered these questions as follows, Q1, lots, Q2, once or twice, Q3, no.

What can we learn from these answers?

Well it is quite simple, these diets have not worked. What we really need is a weight loss program that not only helps us to lose weight but what also enables us to keep the weight off.

The only real way to achieve this is by having a change of lifestyle, not for one week, not for one month, not for three months, not for one year, but instead for the rest of our lives.

If you are serious about losing weight you will not only be willing to do this but you will want this change of lifestyle.

This lifestyle change is in fact better than any diet. You can still eat fatty type foods such as take out foods, as long as it is part of a balanced diet.

We need to ensure that we stick to recommended daily amounts of fat and calories. Simple changes can have a big affect, changes such as drinking water instead of fizzy drink, drinking semi-skilled milk instead of full fat milk and cutting out snacks between meals.

This is not a diet where you check your weight each week hoping that you have lost the odd pound. Most people who do this usually go back to their old un-healthy eating habits once they have reached their target weight - what a waste of time and what a waste of all of that hard work.

You will lose weight but do not check after a week or a month, check after six months, after all this is a lifestyle change, a change for the better.

by Steve Hill

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