5 Little Tips that can Help You Lose Weight

Written by Renee Kennedy


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4. Dinner. Maybe your hardest time of day is when you sit down to have a big meal. While you're cooking, eat a healthy snack - like a piece of fruit or a few low calorie crackers. Cook only what you will eat (no leftovers). If you make more than you're supposed to eat, serve fromrepparttar stove, and put leftovers away before you sit down to eat. In other words, do not have extra food sitting in front of you onrepparttar 115706 table. Do you know that a meat serving should be only as big as a deck of cards?

5. Exercise. Exercise MUST be a part of your daily routines: When you're shopping, park your car far away fromrepparttar 115707 store. Plan for this and do it EVERY time - especially inrepparttar 115708 cold weather! (The colder it is,repparttar 115709 more calories you will burn.) Takerepparttar 115710 stairs instead ofrepparttar 115711 elevator. Play a game of hide-and-seek with your kids. When you takerepparttar 115712 dog for a walk, make it a brisk walk. Can you find some way to sneak in some exercise everyday? Look carefully at your routines and plan something that you don't mind doing. If you like it, chances are you will continue to do it.

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The Best Kept Secret of Weight Loss

Written by Terri Main


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2. Remember you are in this forrepparttar long haul. The writer torepparttar 115705 Hebrews said to "Run with patiencerepparttar 115706 race which is set before you." I know he is talking aboutrepparttar 115707 race of life and spiritual growth. Butrepparttar 115708 same applies here. Keep your eye onrepparttar 115709 goal. It's really a matter of averages more than anything else. If you were to weigh yourself three times today, you would probably get three different weights. Your later afternoon and evening weights would probably be more thanrepparttar 115710 morning weights. Likewise, throughoutrepparttar 115711 week, your weight may fluctuate by a pound or two a day. The same thing goes forrepparttar 115712 end of a week. You might do everything "Right" and still not lose simply because of this 1-2 pound fluctuation. But look at your over all trend forrepparttar 115713 month orrepparttar 115714 year. Are you generally going down or going up? Ifrepparttar 115715 trend is down, don't get too upset aboutrepparttar 115716 weeks you don't lose weight unless it is a really significant weight gain or it persists for several weeks. Remember, there will come a time when you reach an equilibrium and you will need to readjust your diet and exercise routines to continue losing weight, but that's for another article.

3. This is not a competition. Everybody loses weight at different rates. Just as we all put on weight differently. We even overeat for different reasons. I don't get that hungry, but there are foods I like and when I'm eating them I tend to eat too much of them. Also I tend to eat when I'm bored. My sister, though, is just hungry constantly and will eat just about anything when she is hungry.

Just because you and a friend begin a weight-loss effort atrepparttar 115717 same time doesn't mean that you will lose atrepparttar 115718 same rate. It doesn't mean you are failing if she lost 5 poundsrepparttar 115719 first week and you lost 2. Encourage each other and rejoice in each other's successes, but don't expect to loserepparttar 115720 weight atrepparttar 115721 same rate. If you do want to take a bit of competitive comfort and you are losing weight more slowly, you can by realizing thatrepparttar 115722 research shows that when you loserepparttar 115723 weight more slowly, you are likely to keep it off. But, it's better if you just compare yourself to your own process and support others onrepparttar 115724 journey and don't try to race then torepparttar 115725 finish line.

4. Don't let weight-loss consume your life. Have other interests and pursue them. When I'm writing my novel, I'm not thinking about eating. Nor when I'm working on my web sites or doing Bible study or, strangely enough, exercising. I've discovered that I am beginning to {{{shudder}}} enjoyrepparttar 115726 exercise for itself and how it makes me feel after I finish as well asrepparttar 115727 social aspects regardless ofrepparttar 115728 weight-loss factors.

5. Be sure in your mind why you want to loserepparttar 115729 weight. Is that reason important enough? And is it your reason or somebody else's? You have to loserepparttar 115730 weight because you want to do so for some reason that is significant for you. You can't loserepparttar 115731 weight because someone else thinks you should unless you believe it as well. While it is beyondrepparttar 115732 scope of this article to outline allrepparttar 115733 health risks which go along with being overweight, it might be good to review those for yourself. Just run a search on obesity and you'll find plenty of good reasons to loserepparttar 115734 weight. But until you internalize those and pursue them for yourself, you'll not haverepparttar 115735 patience to stick with it. We dorepparttar 115736 things which are important to us regardless ofrepparttar 115737 difficulty.

No, I'll never be able to sell weight loss on an infomercial, because I would have to tellrepparttar 115738 truth. Andrepparttar 115739 truth is that weight-loss simply takes time. It's not popular or commercial but it's true. The good news is it's time worth spending.



Terri Main is an instructor at Reedley College, Reedley California, and web master of The Get Real Weight Loss Web Site (http://www.getrealdiet.com). She has a master's degree in psychology and applies sound psychological principles and learning theory to create what she calls a "sensible approach to weight loss."


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