5 Tips to Losing Weight Permanently
You can losing weight last week, but this week when you become fat again, and then you need weight loss several times. However the losing weight permanently? What happens? you lost your weight so are you gaining it back now?
And why do you gain back your weight? You’ve done everything that the last weight loss product that taught you, literally, you just stopped the plan a week ago, and this diet program promised you the permanent weight loss! You want your money back!
I’m sure you’ve been through this scenario, if not personally then you know someone who they have used the latest diet program which promised weight loss in 3 days with a permanent weight loss to follow , only to backfire : fat back, and one with a vengeance, and it seems it is here to stay.
Well, truth is a permanent weight loss needs something more than following the latest fad diet program. It needs a complete shift in perception, action, diet and life style. But you don’t need to worry : this can be achieved gradually, with a minimum of effort and definitely with fewer sacrifices than the previous heavy diet requested of you.
So if you are after a permanent weight loss, you absolutely need to follow these few easy 5 steps:
1. Reduce fats in your daily food. Reducing fats will help with your goal because high fat foods have more calories than regular food, sometimes the ratio is as much as 2:1
2. Start eating more fruits and vegetables. This one is easy. With each lunch make sure you have sitting next to it a nice plate of fresh vegetables: one cut cucumber, a tomato, a nice green fleshy pepper, maybe a half peeled carrot. If you like, pour a healthy salad dressing on it to enhance the taste. When you get hungry, start munching on an apple, or a banana, or a pear.
3. Before go grocery shopping, eat. Have a sandwich, a healthy snack, or even a regular meal. Whatever you do, don’t go shopping on an empty stomach. You tend to buy much more stuff when you’re out hungry, and the ‘more stuff’ will invariably contain a lot of things that are not healthy for you, a lot of fast food, sweets and alcohol.
4. Start exercising. A permanent weight loss requires a shift in the way you act physically. Start slow, go for a walk every second day. Go to a gym and do Aerobics, or Pilates, or even yoga 3 times a week. Take up swimming. Swimming is not only good for weight loss, but it really strengthens the muscles of your entire body and will really bring out your abs.
5. Shift your thinking. You need to start thinking ‘health’ instead of ‘diet’. When we think of diet, we associate it with pain, with struggle, with difficult choice of foods to go through. Health means looking younger, better, and enjoying life more. Once you have a healthy attitude, everything will come along just nicely.
Start with any of these 5 tips, not necessarily in order, and not even necessary to have them all now. Start small, but start somewhere and do not change. Start with little things, and once your brain and your body becomes accustomed to change and accept it, you will know.
And then make the next small change. Before you know it, you have embarked on a journey of permanent weight loss, which is here to stay permanently.
original article : Warren D. Griffin
Filed Under: Weight Loss
