Five Daily Steps For Successful Weight Loss
If you want to achieve weight loss , then these 5 steps will make losing weiht a reality and not just a hopeful wish. Nobody will ever get results just from wishing, unless there is a magic lamp involved.
Get Your Mind Right
So many people forget the most important element about weight loss, their minds. If your mind isn't focused on your goal, then forget about losing weight. First thing each morning spend a few minutes focusing on why weight loss is your goal? What benefit is there for you? How you will be different in a few months down the line? Imagine these pictures in your mind. Avoid focusing on the difficulty of achieving it. We don't feel a sense of achievement after reaching easy goals. The harder the goal, the greater the sense of achievement.
Stay With Your Calories
Before starting your weight loss plan, you should have evaluated how many calories you were eating a day on average. Try a 10% cut in this number. Stick to this and don't be tempted to cut too many more too quickly. Sure, if you have been sticking to the same amount for a few weeks, and the results are slowing down, then drop them by another 5%. Keep in mind that your body prefers to change itself over certain periods of time. Try to implement too many changes in one go, and your body will fight you. Try to stay above 1500 a day, going below this number is not a healthy option and will result in starvation mode.
Always Eat Breakfast
Never ever miss breakfast. It isn't called breakfast for no reason. During your sleeping hours you have been on a fast. So you are breaking this fast when you have your first morning meal. See what i mean? Break-Fast? So your body is desperate for food first thing in the morning as it has been strved of nutrients for a good number of hours. If you don't provide your body with these calories, then your body will think that there is a problem. Your abilities to burn calories will slow down and losing weight becomes very difficult. Even if you don't feel hungry, get into the habit of eating something. Some bananas or a bowl of cereal will do to begin with.
Drink Lots of Water
We are always being told about drinking enough water. 6 glasses, 12 glasses, 18 glasses? I'm going to avoid getting all scientific on you, but I will say that water makes up 70% of your body. Your body would resemble a dried prune if all the water was taken from your body. Only a reduction of water of around 3% can have a negative effect on you. It's hard to lose weight when you feel like that. Your body needs plenty of water to function effectively. Increae your water intake by half again, and see what effects it has after a few days.
Stick Your Plan Daily
Before you started your diet or weight loss regime, you would have written a plan. I am assuming that you wrote out a plan? The world is run on written plans, that is what creates order and makes the world work (well some of the time at least). If there are no plans to adhere to, then everything would be chaotic. Plans give us steps to follow, like maps. Losing weight is a goal, so it requires a plan, right? A written plan for each week is a must. You would keep a record of your food consumption and amounts of exercise that you are performing. Ithink you understand this. Having things written down make them real, instead of them just floating around in your head, plus it gives you a record of your achievements.
Always keep in mind that other people's opinions stem from their thoughts about themselves, find your own. Just because they don't believe that they can do something, doesn't mean that others can't. Create your own thoughts and beliefs, you are not anybody else, you are you. You choose what you will allow into your mind. Tell yourself many times a day that you will succeed, you will finish what you started, if you follow your plan everyday, you will reach your goals. Don't concern yourself about negative thoughts, accept that they will come. Let these thoughts wander around in your head on their own, if they don't get any attention, they will go away in a huff. If other people have found it difficult to lose weight, well, that's their problem. You can be like them and sit around talking about why you can't lose weight. Or you can be you, an individual with your own goals, thoughts, and beliefs, who takes action on a daily basis in order to lose weight.
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