Diet Weight Loss

Eat To Lose Weight.

Have you ever been eating whatever you want ?  Have you packed on more weight than you’re comfortable with?  Have you tried all the diets and nothing seems to work?  Well I’ve got a simple solution for you.  Eat less to lose weight!  Yep, that’s it eating less.  Portion control weight loss has always sort of been in the background of all weight loss plans.   It’s the back bone of weight loss programs like Jenny Craig and Weight Watchers.  Pre portioned out meals with a good quality of choices in the meals that you eat.  The reason you can eat anything you want is because of the portion sizes.

 Eating less to lose weight doesn’t mean that you go around eating the fatties foods, or binge on foods you know are unhealthy.  It’s about eating small portions of everything you love to eat without sacrificing flavor or meal plans.  You don’t have to go on some special diet where all you are eating is tomatoes and chicken breast boiled.  You don’t have to get rid of your every day eating that’s the great thing about eating less to lose weight.

If you make your own meals every single day you get rid of the temptation to want to order food or to eat out. Start out by making a list of meals that you want to eat every day, Including breakfast, lunch and dinner, plus two small meals as snacks as well.  Make a list then of everything you need to make each thing every day for shopping. Never go to the grocery store hungry or without your list.  Buy fresh and stay away from processed foods such as lunch meat and ready to eat meal in boxes.  They might say they are good for you but most of them contain a huge amount of salt and preservatives.

Cooking from scratch as much as you can is your best bet, you know everything that goes into your meal from start to finish and you can portion control for a few nights even if you make a big pot of something really good like stew or soup freezing the rest in ready to serve containers which can just be popped into the microwave on days you don’t feel like cooking from scratch.  You can try making your own wheat bread in a bread machine and you can also buy a pasta maker and make your own wheat pasta and your own pasta sauce.

Eating less to lose weight is the best way to lose weight and keep weight off once you’ve reached your goal.  Without having to re introduce yourself to foods like most diets would have you do or actually just stop eating some of your favorite foods all together.  Trends come and go when it comes to food, Some stay that dark chocolate has the same benefits as a glass of wine, So have a bit of dark chocolate during the day or even that glass of wine.  Eat good fresh vegetables and fruits and make sure you’re getting complex carbohydrates like wheat bread pasta and rice.  Staying hydrated is important as well, green tea and pure water  all are wonderful ways to do that.

3 Steps to Permanent Weight Loss with Diet

There is not another subject on the planet more confusing than diet weight loss.  There are literally thousands and thousands of books written on the topic and each one disagrees with the next.  But, there is a secret to permanent weight loss and it is simple with diet.The real secret to permanent weight loss is…

The ability to sustain the daily practice of healthy, moderate eating and exercise habits long enough to attain the results you desire, and then continue performing these habits in order to maintain your results for lifelong success!There is it.

I know, it sounds simple but it is not!  We live in a fast food, everything-should-be-easy, bigger-is-better society.  Gluttony and instant gratification are the norm.  I believe there are three obstacles that thwart our ability to practice the healthy, moderate eating and exercise habits necessary to attain the results we desire,they are:

1) Getting most of our pleasure in life through the food we eat

2) Lack of long-term self-discipline in the areas of health and fitness

3) Lack of long-term self-motivation in the areas of health and fitness

Let’s take a closer look at each of these.

OBSTACLE ONE. Most people are so busy day-in and day-out that the food they eat is their greatest pleasure.  This is a true danger that prevents permanent weight loss.  If you’re burning the candle at both ends, rushing from one commitment to the next all day long, when you sit down to eat you want it to be extra good, because you deserve it.

SOLUTION ONE. Find ways to get more pleasure in a day.  Have ten minutes of quiet time everyday reading your favorite book or magazine, spend a few minutes with a friend on the phone, or begin a new hobby that is fun.  It doesn’t take a lot of time; just find other ways to load up on pleasure so that you don’t have to load up on food.

OBSTACLE TWO. Most people do not have the chip in their brains that allows for joyful self-discipline in the areas of health and fitness.  Most of us have to be disciplined to get to work on time, meet deadlines, follow traffic laws, but not to limit food or exercise regularly.  Some rationalize that since they have to be so disciplined in other ways they don’t want to be when it comes to their food and exercise.

SOLUTION TWO. To establish long-term self-discipline you must focus on the joy of the reward you will get at the end of the road, not the challenge of the journey.  So make a list of the top ten rewards you will gain when you lose weight.  You must also ask yourself what it costs you to be overweight.  Does it cost you your self-respect?  Your joy and aliveness in life?  Has it cost you a relationship or a job?  Remembering the rewards and the cost makes practising self-discipline a lot easier.

OBSTACLE THREE. It’s easy to be motivated around January 1st, but what happens to all that motivation around March 1st?  Or the first time a brownie passes by? Believe it or not, most people are not the master of their own motivation. They think just because they want it that it is motivation enough, and it is not.

SOLUTION THREE. You must reinvent your motivation every day.  To do this write the top ten reasons you want to lose weight and keep it off.  Also, make a list of the people who motivate you to want to lose weight and why.

Review these lists, along with the ones you created above, in the morning and in the evening.  Your motivation is ever evolving so what motivated you last week might not be motivating next week.

So revise your lists regularly.When you overcome these obstacles you will lose weight because over time, you will find other ways to get pleasure in your life, you will practice positive self-discipline and learn to live on less food and love it, and you will reinvent the motivation everyday to keep it all going.