Find Weight Loss Success by Changing Your Outlook

A health-conscious mindset goes a long way when you’re managing behaviors to support healthy weight loss. The fastest way to lose weight is to change your outlook about the entire journey. If you accept the fact that most humans have trouble distinguishing whether they are hungry or thirsty, you'll start each meal by drinking a big glass of water to support your new-found healthy outlook. Too many people become obsessed with diet and exercise strategies and completely ignore getting their mind right for creating a healthy, balanced lifestyle that supports their goal weight. You have control of your environment, so manage when you eat, how much you consume, and what food you have available. If you view eating healthy as your punishment for gaining weight, it is time to adjust your outlook.

Change Your Mindset Not Your Metabolism

Following crash diets is a common occurrence seen in overweight and obese groups. When trying to lose weight it is equally as import to understand how to avoid weight loss regain, such as:

• how your body fights to get fat back
• why you need to find a menu plan and stick with it
• how you can avoid thoughtless food habits
• why you need to throw bad foods in trash
• how natural foods help balance your hormones

Risk factors chronic health conditions are increased with yo-yo dieting. Moreover, weight cycling makes weight maintenance nearly impossible.

Understand Your Body’s Metabolic Adaptation

The prevalence of dieting has increased in recent years along with the number of people categorized as obese. This has caused researchers to question how intentional and unintentional cycles of weight gain and weight loss are affecting metabolic adaptation to episodes of yo-yo dieting. Once an individual loses weight, his or her body tends to reduce the amount of energy expended at rest, during exercise and while performing daily activities. This combination of lower energy expenditure and increased hunger creates a "perfect metabolic storm" of conditions for weight cycling where with weight regain. Researchers are identifying mechanisms by which weight cycling contributes to morbidity including hypertension, visceral fat accumulation, insulin resistance and changes in fatty acid composition. Make eating healthy is your new positive way of living your life.