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| 7 E-Z WEIGHT-LOSS TIPS |
7 tips for successful weight loss
1. The desire to lose weight must come from the individual. If
you're truly ambivalent about making changes in your lifestyle
or are doing this to please someone else, you're likely to fail.
When making changes, decide what's right for your lifestyle.
Your best friend's diet and exercise plan may be completely
wrong for your habits and interests. The key is to find a system
that works for you.
2. Don't blame yourself if you aren't perfect. If you once fail at
your attempt to curtail your overeating, it doesn't mean you are
a failure at weight control and that you should just give up.
Accept that you made a poor choice, but don't let that poor
choice influence the rest of your plan. The same holds true
with exercise. Skipping a few workouts doesn't mean you can't
get back on track. Weight control does not involve making
perfect choices all the time; rather, it's about attempting to
make good choices more often than poor ones.
3. Avoid surroundings where you know you're tempted to make
poor food choices. Everyone has a time when we're most likely
to overeat, whether it's the morning coffee break or after-work
gathering with friends. Try to plan other activities or
distractions for those times, or plan in advance how you're
going to handle them and stick to it.
4. Surround yourself with people who support your efforts.
Even our good friends can knowingly or unknowingly sabotage
weight-loss attempts. Spend time with those people who will
not pressure you to make poor food choices.
5. Decide on some nonfood rewards for yourself when you
reach interim goals. For examples, at the end of the first week
of healthy eating or after the first 5 pounds lost, buy yourself a
new CD or book.
6. Stock your pantry and refrigerator with healthy foods. Get rid
of the high-calorie, low-nutrition snacks like chips and candy.
But don't forget to have plenty of healthier options available as
well, such as popcorn (hold the butter, try Parmesan cheese
sprinkles), low-fat cheese and yogurt, fruit, instant cocoa
without added sugar, sugar-free popsicles or puddings, or
whatever appeals to you when you're hungry for a snack.
7. Set small goals and focus on these rather than the "big
picture." Decide where you want to be in a week or in a month,
rather than focusing on the total amount of weight you'd like to
lose.
1. The desire to lose weight must come from the individual. If
you're truly ambivalent about making changes in your lifestyle
or are doing this to please someone else, you're likely to fail.
When making changes, decide what's right for your lifestyle.
Your best friend's diet and exercise plan may be completely
wrong for your habits and interests. The key is to find a system
that works for you.
2. Don't blame yourself if you aren't perfect. If you once fail at
your attempt to curtail your overeating, it doesn't mean you are
a failure at weight control and that you should just give up.
Accept that you made a poor choice, but don't let that poor
choice influence the rest of your plan. The same holds true
with exercise. Skipping a few workouts doesn't mean you can't
get back on track. Weight control does not involve making
perfect choices all the time; rather, it's about attempting to
make good choices more often than poor ones.
3. Avoid surroundings where you know you're tempted to make
poor food choices. Everyone has a time when we're most likely
to overeat, whether it's the morning coffee break or after-work
gathering with friends. Try to plan other activities or
distractions for those times, or plan in advance how you're
going to handle them and stick to it.
4. Surround yourself with people who support your efforts.
Even our good friends can knowingly or unknowingly sabotage
weight-loss attempts. Spend time with those people who will
not pressure you to make poor food choices.
5. Decide on some nonfood rewards for yourself when you
reach interim goals. For examples, at the end of the first week
of healthy eating or after the first 5 pounds lost, buy yourself a
new CD or book.
6. Stock your pantry and refrigerator with healthy foods. Get rid
of the high-calorie, low-nutrition snacks like chips and candy.
But don't forget to have plenty of healthier options available as
well, such as popcorn (hold the butter, try Parmesan cheese
sprinkles), low-fat cheese and yogurt, fruit, instant cocoa
without added sugar, sugar-free popsicles or puddings, or
whatever appeals to you when you're hungry for a snack.
7. Set small goals and focus on these rather than the "big
picture." Decide where you want to be in a week or in a month,
rather than focusing on the total amount of weight you'd like to
lose.
