7 Tips For Healthy Weight Loss

You already know that you can lose weight with that new crash or fad diet. Or you can choose to change your diet 100 percent. Now, you and I both know that the all or nothing approach does not last for very long. In fact, most of the time they are not even healthy. The following are some diet and lifestyle tips to help you lose weight in a healthy manner and to keep it off.

1. Learn everything that you can about eating a healthy diet. Ignore the fad diets. Long term success is about healthy lifestyle changes. By eating healthy foods and incorporating an exercise program into your lifestyle you enjoy the benefits of better health and effortless weight loss.

By educating yourself you gain confidence. This confidence will enable you to achieve your weight loss goals.

2. Be real clear about what you are doing. Write down both your goals and your reasons for wanting to lose weight. Include reasons that are not just your target weight.

3. Write down what you eat and review it on a daily basis. At the end of each day you will be able to recognize problem areas. Do not beat yourself up. Simply make a mental note of areas that require work and strive to improve where you experience difficulties. This little technique is very powerful and helps you to establish control in an area of your life that you previously felt helpless.

4. Break your goal down into manageable steps. 30 pounds may seem to be a huge obstacle. 5 pounds per month for 6 months is easier to picture. Even 3 pounds per month over a 10 month period. It may not seem like much but you should consider the direction of your weight loss program. This is a healthy way to lose weight and to keep it off forever.

5. This compliments step 4, make certain that your goal is realistic. Believe it or not, losing weight is not your only goal. As a matter of fact, it should not be your primary goal. Your goals are to alter your diet and exercise habits. When you are successful at achieving this the weight will come off by itself. As the weight begins to come off you will gain confidence and improve your self esteem.

6. Develop a plan for how you intend to achieve your goal. Do not jump into this lightly. This is something, ideally, that you will live with for a very long time. Do your research first. Think about how you are going to do this. Then take very definite steps to implement your changes. These changes will, over time, become new habits. This is how the real work is accomplished.

7. Learn how to avoid trigger eating. A great deal of the eating that we do is when we are not hungry. Often, this is an automatic response to a variety of triggers. Many times these triggers are emotion based. They include such things as stress, anger, being bored or depressed.

This is one of the areas that a food diary comes in handy. Being able to recognize these responses gives us the chance to step back and see what we are doing. With this knowledge in hand we can take the necessary steps to dealing with this problem.

Remember, life does not happen in a straight line. Meaning, when something goes wrong do not panic. Acquiring new habits takes time. When you slip, merely pick yourself up, brush yourself off and proceed forward. Take action and persevere, you will be successful.

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Kathryn Soloff is the mother of 8 children and a natural foods cook for over 30 years. She is co-publisher of http://www.natural-remedy-dot-com.com/fatburnerreviews/herbal_fat_burners.html where she provides additional advice, tips and hard to find information on Weight Loss.