How to Lose Weight in 5 Easy Steps
Do you find yourself trying one diet after another? Are you losing weight then putting it on, in an endless roller coaster? Do you feel that you can never lose weight no matter how hard you try? If so I have an alternative for you. Stop spinning your wheels on endless diets and take these 5 easy steps today. Yes, you really can lose weight if you follow these 5 easy steps. 1. Motivate yourself: the biggest part of losing weight is really motivating yourself to get up and do it. Obviously you have tried to do this by going on diets but now it is time to stop clutching at straws and decide to take real action. Once you do this you need to act now, not tomorrow or next week but today itself. 2. Educate yourself: before you do anything the very first action you need to do is to educate yourself. The biggest mistake dieters make is to jump into a weight loss program without even knowing a single thing about nutrition and exercise. How can you educate yourself? Do not go out and buy any expensive books on losing weight. Just look up the information on Google. There are many websites about basic nutrition. Just look up "healthy eating" on Google and you will find a number of websites with a wealth of information on nutrition and exercise. 3. Make a plan: Once you are armed with information now is the time to make a plan for reducing weight. a. First make realistic goals for losing x amount of pounds per week or in a month. b. Decide on the methods you will need to take to achieve your goals. 4. Change your eating habits: your next action step will be to change your eating habits. This will be a little hard at first but will pay off later. Here are some things you can do today: a. Cut out junk food snacks like chips, candy, cookies and anything that has an excess of refined sugar. These foods are low in nutrition and high in calories. Really bad weight gainers. b. Replace the junk food snacks with fruits, vegetables and protein snacks. c. Replace sodas and sweetened drinks with water. This action alone will reduce calories and fill you up. d. Eat more fiber by eating whole grain foods instead of refined ones, like white bread and white rice. This will not only aid your digestive system but also fill you up and help you to eat less. 5. Create an exercise routine: there are various ways to exercise and how you do this will depend on your conditioning and physical well being. Some of us, including myself have various problems, like arthritis, which can prevent you from doing vigorous workouts. But this should not deter you from taking passive exercise like walking or even static bike exercise. Remember any exercise is good for burning fat and losing weight. The important thing to remember is to exercise on a regular basis. Passive exercises like walking or jogging should be done on a daily basis. If you are doing vigorous exercise on a bowflex or at a gym you may only have to do it 3 times per week.
