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How to Lose Weight with a Successful Weight Loss Diet Programme

10 Ways to Lose Weight    by Beth Campbell

Here are some ways to lose weight that should help you achieve your weight loss goals. Some are very simple but you might not have thought of them. Others are a little more challenging, but worth the effort.

1. Make the decision to lose weight.
At first this may seem like a silly statement, but to be successful at anything, you have to make the decision that it is something important to you. If you really want to lose weight, then you need to make up your mind that you are going to do so and be determined in your pursuit of success.

2. Avoid the all or nothing mentality.

Let me give you an example. Have you even been on a diet and then you gave in to the craving for a cookie? Then after you ate the cookie, you decided that since you had already ruined your diet, that you would just eat whole bag of cookies.

That is what is meant by all or nothing mentality. Realize that, as in most other endeavors, you are not going to be perfect at sticking to your diet, but do not let one slip send you into an eating binge. If you fall off the diet wagon, get right back on and put the rest of those cookies back in the cabinet.

3. Research diet plans and choose one that fits your goals and lifestyle. 

Do not choose a diet just because it is the latest fad or because your friends are doing it or a popular celebrity is endorsing it. Make sure that the plan is one that you believe you can stick to based on your weight loss goal, your food tastes and your lifestyle.

4. Find time to exercise even if it is only a few minutes a day.

Even if you do not have time to go to a gym and do a planned program, try to find ways that you can integrate exercise into your everyday routine such as taking the stairs instead of the elevator or parking further away so that you have to walk further to your car.

5. Keep a food diary.

This does not have to be a time consuming affair where you write down your feeling while you were eating, etc. Just taking a few minute to write down what you eat and then reading over that list at the end of the day can be a real eye opener. You may not realize just how many calories you are eating per day until you see it in writing.

6. Find a partner for support.

Finding a diet or work out partner will help keep you motivated. Most people do much better at achieving goals if they have the support of someone else.

7. Take a before weight loss photo.

You may not want to do this because if you are overweight, you are probably avoiding cameras, but at a later point when you have lost some weight, it will help you to see what you have achieved.

8. Set short term goals.

If you focus on losing 50 pounds, you can easily get discouraged, so focus on achieving smaller goals such as 5 pounds. If you keep reaching your small goals, before you know it, you will have reached your long term goals.

9. Reward yourself for success (but not with food).

Give yourself a reward for reaching a short term goal. For example, you can go to a movie you want to see, buy a new outfit, or get a massage. Just do not use food as a reward.

10. Do not let other people discourage you.

If you tell other people that you are trying to lose weight, some of them will probably be less than supportive or want to tell you about their failed efforts and make you feel like you will fail also. Realize that there are other people that just do not like to see anyone achieve success or that are just negative people in general and do not let those people get you down.

These are ways to lose weight that are effective but not dependent on any particular diet plan, so no matter what you are doing to try to achieve your weight loss goals, these ways to lose weight should help you to achieve them.
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About the Author:
Beth Campbell holds a Masters degree in Counseling and writes about a variety of subjects. Having lost 122 pounds, her favorite subjects are weight loss and fitness. Learn her amazing secret to losing weight and see her before and after photos. Beth also gives free diet tips at her Ways to Lose Weight Squidoo Lens.

The Body Mass Index (BMI) is used by doctors and nurses as a guide to the healthy weight range for your height. A BMI score is calculated using your height and weight. A BMI score may not be accurate for people with a high muscle mass, but it does serve as a guide for the average person. If you know your height and weight, try this BMI calculator to help set a target for your weight loss.

Visit the BDA WeightWise website for information on the health risks of being overweight and health benefits of losing weight.

Diet and Weight Loss Advice

If you add one of these  50 tips for maintaining weight  to your daily routine once a week, in one year you will have developed some very healthy habits!  Here are the first 5 to get you working towards your weight loss target:

• Eliminate one tablespoon of fat a day and you will lose 10 pounds in a year.
• Limit alcohol consumption -- each serving contains 100 to 150 calories.
• Eat fruit at least twice a day.
• Keep a food diary about your food choices, indicating how hungry you are each time you eat. Pay particular attention to your level of hunger when you snack.
• Perform aerobic exercise a minimum of 30 minutes three times a week. Log this on your food diary. Gradually increase the length and frequency of your workouts

If you want a quick way to lose fat, switch from starchy carbohydrates like bread, pasta, and rice to more fibrous, leafy ones like vegetables. Simple carbohydrates like table sugar and fruit are converted more rapidly for a quick energy boost. They create a quick boost of energy followed by a rapid
decline, almost like a "crash". Complex carbohydrates take longer to break down and offer a more sustained supply of energy for the body. So complex carbohydrates should be your main choice for energy for that precise reason.

Quite understandably – and quite rightly, in fact – diet pills used to have a bad reputation. It’s easy to see why – the diet pills of the sixties, seventies and eighties were barbiturates – street name ‘speed’. That’s what they did – they sped you up, increasing energy to an often frenetic level while cutting your appetite. An overdose could be fatal, and even a mild overuse of these diet pills could keep you ‘going’ for days and days – hardly the effect anyone was going for! But yes, they did make people lose weight, sometimes quite a lot of weight. All too often, though, any benefit that patients got from their weight loss was more than counterbalanced by other health problems that the diet pills themselves brought about.   Read about a new diet pill for weight loss and better health and learn about the new generation of natural diet pills.

In my experience it takes a combination of three things in order to have any weight loss success. I have to eat right and exercise and use common sense in my approach to losing weight. Add jogging to your weight loss rules  and add exercise into your normal exercise program. Jogging has always been a great way to get in shape. It can be a very satisfying way to get going in an exercise program. You can run alone or with other people and it will help strengthen your cardiovascular system. You can burn more calories by jogging in a shorter period of time and best of all it does not cost a lot to get started.

Affirmations are a mainstay of New Age philosophy. In fact, Louse Hay’s book “You can Heal your Life”, which has many affirmations that purportedly have allowed people to transform their lives through affirmations and visualization, gives us a powerful tool in the quest for weight loss. Affirmations for weight loss, whether you believe in them or not, really seem to work. Affirmations are are simple statements that you repeat to yourself, out loud, looking in a mirror if possible. They are present tense statements starting with “I” – for example, “I lose weight quickly and effortlessly”. Over time, they tend to ‘come true’ with amazing frequency.

For some reason, some people enter a healthy lifestyle regimen under the impression that if they work out and burn 700 calories, this entitles them to eat an extra 700 calories during one of their meals. This reasoning is way off target. There are 3 reasons why you may be having problems losing weight. The whole idea behind diet and exercise is to reduce your caloric intake while not starving and wearing yourself down. If you cut 500 calories from your diet and burn another 700 while working out, then you burn 1,200 calories a day. This is to your advantage so don't go and regain the 700 calories you busted your butt to lose.
 

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