Take a Chance and Make a Change for Life

Failed diets and out of control weight gain may lead you to believe that losing weight is difficult. Nonetheless, making lifestyle changes can certainly help you lose those stubborn and unwanted pounds, but it can also promote good health, improve life quality, increase happiness, and extend your life expectancy. The advantages will be worth your efforts. Moreover, you will be able to keep the weight off and can stop following those ridiculous weight loss diets that do not work. The idea that exercising will magically burn fat away isn’t true, despite the fact exercise is necessary, clinical studies have shown that the best method of weight loss is a transformation in your lifestyle. Safe weight loss of one to two pound per week is considered sustainable.

Tips for Managing Your New Lifestyle

As documented in credible studies, the only effective way to lose weight and keep it off is to make positive changes to your lifestyle. Here's how and why it works:

• Watch Food Intake - Calories do not have to be counted at all. All you have to do is focus on exhausting more energy than you consume. That way, you don't necessarily have to count all your calories, especially if you eat healthy, lean foods. Eating lots of fresh produce and whole grains along with low-fat proteins is ideal.
• Practical Exercise Routine - Exercise in a smart way. You do not have to go overboard when it comes to exercising. Mild or moderate is all that is required. Weight loss programs do not require gym memberships or expensive home exercise equipment. If you walk every day, it adds up to success without seemingly endless repetitions.
• Need Productive Support - It is far easier to shed fat when you have positive influences around you at all times. However, if you are hanging out with people who eat junk food constantly and don't take good care of themselves, then you are more likely to fail at achieving your goals.
• Develop Good Sleep Habits - If you don't get enough sleep, then your body doesn't produce the right hormones to help regulate your appetite. That's why people tend to make poor food choices. When you are tired, a lack of chemical messengers is also key in regulating your metabolism. Nonetheless, sleeping well will provide you with more energy every day.
• Monitor Your Progress - If you do not like the idea of keeping a food journal, consider working with a weight loss specialist to develop a personalized menu plan that will hold you accountable for the amount and type of food you choose to eat.

In the end, it will be worth all the effort. A healthy attitude will allow you to appreciate how you feel as well as your overall fitness for living the life you want to live.

Food Is Not a Reward and Exercise Is Not a Punishment

If you attitude about losing weight is to stick your head in the sand, you are going to be disappointed by the lack of results. To effectively lose weight and keep it off, you have to be stronger than your excuses. Half the battle in finding weight loss success is telling yourself you can change by replacing your negative self-talk with a positive attitude that supports the changes you want to make. If you think being healthy and working out are types of punishment, you need to change your attitude. Attaining your goal weight is but one of your rewards for living a healthy lifestyle, no matter how easy or hard your journey seems. If you think food is a reward and exercise is your punishment, you will need to change your mindset. A healthy attitude is to see both as important ways of caring for your body to produce the fuel needed for you accomplish all the tasks for daily living.