I’ve been there, a big event coming up and not feeling comfortable in my own skin and wanting to lose weight quick. A situation suddenly arises or an event comes up on the calendar and you simply want to lose weight fast.
Yes, you can lose pounds, lose inches and lose fat very fast. There are many solutions available to help you lose weight quickly and without hassle.
The problem is that most of these solutions are short term.
You can get a quick fix, but it’s not a permanent solution. If you constantly go up and down with your weight or if you often gain the weight back after you lose it, you need to consider applying long term fat loss techniques and changing some behaviors so you can achieve the level of health and body that you want.
Long term fat loss gives you results, helps you lose your fat and helps you learn how to eat, live and act in a way that improves your life. With better health you will have more confidence, you will be happier and you will look better.
The new habits you pick up will enable you to make better decisions, stay focused and give you the skills to stay the weight you want. This will set you free.
Do you want to be free…
…from having to watch your weight?
…from fad diets?
If you want to be free, keep reading.
It is good that you want diet results that will last long term. Getting these results begins as soon as you make one simple switch when it comes to your diet. When you make this one change it can not only help your diet, it can also improve the overall quality of your life. It is almost never talked about because everyone wants quick fix instant results. Fast diets work and sometimes events happen where you need to lose weight fast. But health and wellness result from long term solutions and an effective plan taken one day at a time.
While the technique itself is massive, you can sum it up in about one sentence. Change your thinking to change your life. When you apply that concept a new world of possibility opens up to you. With new thoughts come new actions. With new actions come new results. If you want to have long lasting fat loss, you must give yourself new thoughts when it comes to your life, how you act, how you eat and most importantly how you think about all of the above.
Ask yourself tough questions and deal with the answers.
Accept the decisions that you made in the past. Understand that those decisions do not mean you are defeated. Those are decisions you can learn from and with new thoughts, you do not have to repeat those decisions again. Learn to avoid the same dieting pitfalls and bad eating habits you’ve experienced before. Learn to understand yourself. Set new behaviors in motion that will help you act in ways that help you lose weight, live healthy and with joy.
Change may seem hard but it isn’t. You also may not understand why you need to change, or be afraid of it. You may think that you are perfectly fine and that you only want to lose weight. Know that your weight and appearance, unless you have a severe medical condition is a reflection of who you are. Your environment and how you think determine who you are. It has nothing to do with being a good person or not. Many people are good to others but treat themselves horribly and do not know it. This does not mean specifically that you are one of those people. However, understand that by changing your thinking you give yourself the framework to build a new you from the inside out.
Eat healthy
For you to keep weight off, lose fat or stop going up and down in your weight, you need a healthy diet. A healthy diet means incorporating nutritious, whole foods that taste delicious. Your eating healthy also means developing new eating habits that work in your favor and promote vitality and wellness.
Limit your snacks and begin choosing better snack foods to begin with. Move from fried potato chips, to baked chips, maybe even skip chips completely, choosing instead fat-free popcorn or fresh fruit. Junk foods while often appearing in small packages, usually have lots of fat, sugar and calories. Look for smarter options in the grocery store or health oriented alternatives for snacks.
Eating healthy is more than you skipping a few candy bars. You also need to reduce your fat intake if you want to lose weight. By reducing the fats and oils in your foods, you reduce your chances of developing heart disease and give yourself an opportunity to learn what things actually taste like!
Lastly drink plenty of water. Healthy amounts of water in your system is known to help detoxify body, clear your skin, reduce your appetite, improve your heart rate, increase blood circulation and more.
Exercise
By adding a proper amount of physical exercise to your schedule, instead of looking for quick fat loss results you will become healthier and more fit. Exercise and proper eating habits can help you to lose fat fast.
For exercise to provide results, you have to make it a regular part of your life. As a child exercise was not seen as a chore, it was seen as going outside to play. Exercise does not mean strictly going to the gym. For you it can mean, going to play basketball, jogging, baseball, hiking, tossing around a Frisbee or any other physical activity that you enjoy. If you didn’t play as a child, you have something you can catch up on and a valid excuse to have fun.
By incorporating weekly exercise into your life, you help yourself to stay fit, youthful and healthy. Combined with a reduced calorie diet made of nutritious healthy foods, exercise helps to build a better you. Start slowly and with realistic expectations. Over time your skills and confidence will increase, build up your resistance and difficulty with the exercises you choose and go to the next level.
Other popular exercises you can do include low impact aerobic exercise like brisk walking, cycling and swimming. You can also use resistance training to drop fat. Do a variety of exercises to lose weight. Variety keeps your muscles fresh and ready. Aim at exercising your entire body and stay consistent.
Make better choices
A major key in changing your thinking to change your life is better choices. Every grocery store has an aisle with foods only meant to keep you from your goals. Stay away from it! Don’t make any excuses to go down that aisle. This is where making better choices creates huge benefits. You will be rewarded later.
If you are an emotional eater, by not having that certain food you comfort yourself with you begin to break away from that habit. If you eat junk food while lounging at home by not buying junk food you create an opportunity to develop a new eating habit. Smarter grocery shopping is critical for you to lose weight.
Goals
Aside from making the large goal of losing weight and living a healthier life long-term, make yourself a few short-term goals. Goals allow to you keep focus on your objective and they help clarify your mission. Also by giving yourself weekly or monthly goals, you create an environment where you can track your progress, your short-comings and your accomplishments. If you go off course you can easily look back over what you did and get yourself back on track to losing weight. Also these short-term goals when achieved build confidence and help keep you motivated during the time it takes to reach your destination.
Build a supportive environment
Create for yourself a place that helps you stay focused on your objective. It makes no sense watching shows about desserts everyday when you know that desserts are your weakness! Watch something new. If on Fridays your friends always want to go to a place that only serves foods that go against your goals, suggest a new place or meet with them at a different time.
Don’t fall to peer pressure; your health is too important.
Put things in your surroundings that keep you stress-free and calm. Flowers, animals, relaxing music, aromatherapy candles and other things all work to keep you at ease. Enlist a trusted and supportive friend to encourage you and to help keep you committed when you fall short. But remember in the end your health is your responsibility. Having a supportive environment will allow you to make changes in your life much easier than an environment with no support.
Where ever you can adjust the environment to work for you.
Believe in yourself
Lastly, you must believe in yourself. For you to really make the best of this technique, you must believe. It makes all the difference in the world. From time to time revisit your goals. Make adjustments where you need to and learn from your past. Where you make mistakes study so you won’t continue to make them and where you meet your objectives celebrate so you can continue forward.
Visualize
Take the time at least five minutes day and visualize the future you. Imagine exactly what you want to wear, who you are becoming, your new habits and healthy life. This helps to keep you motivated and the better picture you can imagine, the more real it becomes in your mind, the more you want it.
Things you really want you go after and get. Nothing can stop you. Believe in yourself.
Practice, practice and practice more.
If at first you don’t succeed, do it until you do succeed. You did not come with a manual for operation. If you did, it probably was lost somewhere when the doctor opened the box. Some things you will do right the first time, other things take a while to learn to do properly. Practice.
Have patience
Give yourself the opportunity to grow. You did not get here overnight. While reading this may give you the information, it may take a day or so for it to all sink in and for you to take the actions required to get the changes you want to see in your life. Even if you took everything and applied it all as your read it, you still would not see the results until sometime later. Sure, some of the results you may feel immediately but others take time. Have patience with yourself.
Rainbows come only after rain.
The diet tips mentioned will definitely give you long term fat loss and also help you lose weight. They can also give you a renewed sense of life, sense of who you are and enable you to do much more than simply drop a few inches from your waistline or shred pounds of fat. You have most of the tools required to get the results you want already. Change your thinking, change your life and get slimmer, live healthier and happier.
These practices mentioned apply to weight loss but I have found some of the principles useful in many other areas of life. Getting down to a healthy weight was just the start. I know that with dedication and proper action you can lose the weight and change your life! Believe it in your mind and do it. You can.
