7 Ideas To Help You Successfully Lose Weight!

7 Ideas To Help You Successfully Lose Weight!

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Are you tired of not being able to keep the weight off that you have lost? I gained and lost weight so many times I just about gave up. Then I learned to use hypnosis to control my appetite. The other thing that surprised me is that hunger and appetite are not the same thing.

1. Do you need motivation to lose weight? If you're motivated to lose weight, you'll do so. Are you just interested in losing a few pounds for some special event? Are you trying to lose weight after child birth? Are you just tired of feeling sluggish and having your clothes fit too tight? What ever the reason, make a commitment and get started with a plan.

2. Once you have decided on your why for weight loss, set an objective. For example, if you want to lose 30 pounds in 4 months. That means you have to lose about 2 pounds per week to meet your goal. Now determine how you will do it. You have to burn 3500 calories to lose one pound. Losing 2 pounds per week means learning how to eliminate and/or burn 7000 calories per week. So if you cut your calorie intake by 3500 calories per week and exercise enough to burn an additional 3500 calories per week, you'll meet your goal.

There are tools on the internet to help you figure out what your goal should be. The Mayo Clinic Calorie Counter is an easy resource to keep track of your calorie needs. You can go to the website here, http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/calorie-calculator/NU00598

3. You need to learn portion size. Restaurants in the U.S. typically give you 3 or 4 servings on your order. A good rule of thumb is that a serving size for fruits or vegetables is about the size of your fist. For pasta a serving size is about the size of a scoop of ice cream. Go to http://www.webmd.com/diet/control-portion-size to get a complete breakdown. You don't have to weigh your food, but you do have to be aware of portion size.

4. Don't skip meals. That's one of the biggest diet busters for many people. don't skip meals or you'll get too hungry and overeat. It's best to eat 5 or 6 small meals each day to avoid getting overly hungry.

5. Once you learn to control your appetite without effort you'll be on your way to success. I knew I'd have to get control of my cravings for sweets in order to succeed. My kids used to call me the cookie monster. I never met a cookie I didn't like.Throw in a little ice cream and I thought I'd died and gone to heaven. Until I got control of my cravings and poor eating habits, I was not going to succeed. I had lost and gained 25 pounds so many times you could build 2 or 3 people out of that weight.Several years ago I learned self hypnosis to quit smoking. I was stunned at how easy it was to control my appetite.

It suddenly occurred to me that I could do the same thing with my appetite and cravings. Guess what? I had another amazing success. Why didn't I try this years before? If you have never looked into self-hypnosis, you should. It's nothing like you may think. It's simply a method of relaxing and visualizing yourself the way you want to be.It provides effortless appetite control so you don't have to struggle with will power to avoid the cookie jar.

6. Get off the couch and exercise. You do have to get off your butt to lose weight. You don't have to kill yourself to lose weight and keep it off, you just have to get started with some sort of exercise. Find something you like, not something you dread. If you don't really get a buzz out of jogging, don't do it. There are any number of things you can do to exercise. You can learn to roller blade, join a dance club, snow ski, play tennis or any number of other activities. Find something you enjoy and mix it up. You may want to get a Bodybugg and keep track of the calories you burn off with different exercises. Keep track of your calories on their website. Bodybugg allows you to track your progress free for 6 months on their website.

7. The last and perhaps the most important tip of all is to enjoy your life. Learning effortless appetite control with self-hypnosis will bring additional benefits like reducing the stress in your life by learning to relax. Find things that make you happy and do them often. Do not allow stress to contol your life. Your emotions can lead you to overeat. If you're upset, you may overeat for comfort. Learn to live a life without stress.

I hope you've found these 7 Best Weight Loss Tips helpful. It is my sincere desire to offer tips and tools and tips that I learned the hard way in the hope that it will help you.


Copyright (c) 2009 J Bergman Consulting

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The big secret to weight loss is controlling your appetite. Here's the real secret, it isn't about controlling your hunger. Hunger and appetite are two different things. To learn more=>http://www.staythinandfit.com



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