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Weight loss programs and diets? How to lose weight easily!
What is the best and easist way to lose weight
and show a weight loss? You are about to learn two simple secrets
that will guarantee easy weight loss.
The first big secret:
The most powerful factor in weight loss
Have you ever noticed this:
People who have shed a lot of loose weight through successful
dieting and exercise always want to encourage everyone else to lose
weight. “If you want to lose weight,” they say,
“I will show you how I did it.”
But even though they tell this to all the overweight people they
know, the “fatties” will always ignore the
advice — unless one factor is present. And this is the
biggest secret to weight loss. If this factor is present, any
overweight person can lose weight easily.
What is this secret? It is motivation.
What is motivation?
Motivation is the answer you give when someone says
“Why do you want to lose weight?” Do you have a strong
reason?
If you desperately want to lose weight before your upcoming
wedding, that is a powerful motivator. If your doctor has told you
to lose weight or you will be dead in 12 months, that is a powerful
motivator too.
If you want to lose 10 kilos before your wedding, or you are a
jockey who needs to lose a couple of kilograms to ride in a big
race, or you are an overweight actor who has landed a film role to
play a skinnier person, you too have a powerful motivating
factor.
Whatever your reason, it must be a strong
motivation for you to lose weight. Without it, you are not
yet ready to lose weight. It's as simple as that. That's why not
everyone who goes to weight-loss clinics or tries hypnosis loses weight. They are too content
with their life as it is. Motivation is missing.
Of course the motivation could simply be to lose weight so you
will look better and find it easier to move around. Overweight
adults often diet to lose weight to look more attractive or to get
slimmer for their wedding, or to stop wrinkles.
Overweight teens
can feel shunned until they determine to lose weight. If your
motivation is strong enough, you will find it much easier
to lose weight.
“Think thin”
So, find a strong reason why you want to be
thinner — you must be thinking more of the thinner, better
looking, healthier, leaner, lovelier you than of how nice that
cream bun looks. If you can imagine that cream bun sitting on your
hips or tummy when you look in the mirror, it will help you decide
whether you want to eat it and be about the size of a cream bun
fatter, or ignore it and look a cream bun thinner.
So the first big secret to losing weight is motivation. If you
have a powerful reason to lose weight, you will. It's as simple as
that!
Got motivation? Then read on for two easy weight-loss plans that
will work for the rest of your life. (There are other tips in our
Teen Topics section that may also help
desperate adults: Easy ways to lose weight for
overweight teens.)
One plan below lets you eat what you are already eating and
slowly lose weight. This may be enough if you want to lose 10
kilograms before you get married in 12 months time. The other shows
how breaking up your meals better and choosing good foods can help
you lose weight more quickly.
Another big secret:
Plan No.1: The “non-diet” diet
If you are overweight and find it difficult to stick to
weight-loss programs, try this “non-diet” diet. We have
never heard of a failure with this diet for those who genuinely
make it part of their eating routine. It is natural, painless, and
sensible.
The 10 per cent diet doesn't require a change
in what you eat, just a slight change in how much you
eat. It will help you steadily lose weight for as long as you
like.
In the Bible, the practice of tithing (giving 10 per cent) was
accepted as a responsibility toward God since the time of Abraham.
The Hebrews gave 10 per cent of their livestock, grain, and fruits
to the priests. Many Christians today follow this principle by
giving 10 per cent of their income to the church.
Tithing helps others while instilling self-control, charity, and
thoughtfulness in the giver.
Avoid that last bite
The 10 per cent diet works in a similar way. It
means you eat about 10 per cent less than you normally would. Take
nine bites and leave the tenth. Cook nine spoonfuls instead of 10.
Mentally divide your meal into 10 parts and give the tenth part to
your dog (if one part looks bigger than the other nine, make sure
the bigger one goes to the dog!)
It doesn't seem much, but after 10 days you will have eaten only
nine days of your normal food intake. If you are getting married in
10 months' time, by the time your wedding arrives you will have
eaten only nine months' supply of food and will have saved a whole
month of food bills and will fit better into your wedding outfit.
If you make sure you do even simple exercise (such as walking
briskly or bike riding for 30 minutes) and cut down on foods loaded
with fat or sugar, it may contribute another 10 per cent or more
weight loss.
This easy way to lose weight makes you think before you eat. You
don't cut down so much that you still feel hungry, yet you continue
to eat what you eat now — if you want to. You can lose weight
even more easily if you replace high-fat/high-sugar foods with
low-fat/ low-sugar foods.
Simply buy less, cook less, and eat less. You will feel better
while you save money and watch that excess weight slip off to
reveal the real thinner, lovelier you!
Plan No.2:
The Eat More Meals Diet
To lose weight more quickly, you can follow the Eat More Meals
Diet.
The Eat More Meals Diet changes your pattern of
eating to give you healthier eating habits without leaving you
hungry. It is designed to get you into the habit of eating for
health instead of for
pleasure.
You need to get out of your regular routine of having 3 big
meals a day (with constant in-between snacks), or skipping meals to
try to lose weight. Instead, plan 4 meals a day of better food that
is filling enough to prevent you from wanting to snack.
It works like this. For the next 10 days, plan 4 meals a day
made up from the following foods. Eat two or three of the items in
each meal, but over the day try to get a variety — so you
will be getting a good mixture of vitamins, fibre, protein, dairy,
and nuts.
- Salad or cooked vegetables
- skinless chicken or chicken slices
- skinless turkey slices
- ham
- fish
- fruit
- baked beans
- cheese
- milk
- frozen yogurt
- nuts.
Cross out anything from that list that you can't stand.
Drinks should include lots of water, but you can also have diet
drinks, coffee and tea as long as you use an absolute minimum of
sugar and honey as sweeteners — if you have to use
them.
The idea is to get you through the day with healthy foods that
stop you from feeling hungry. Leave at least two-and-a-half hours
between each meal.
Example
Four meals (some are really snacks to fill you until the next
meal):
1. Ham or tuna salad (lots of lettuce and
tomato, plus maybe cucumber, celery, and onions), and a couple of
handfuls of peanuts. 2. A pear, an orange, and a
plum, with some cashews. 3. Turkey slices and
cheese slices (as many as you need to feel satisfied).
4. Grilled, steamed or baked piece of fish (no
batter or crumbs), plus a salad made of beans, lettuce, celery,
tomatoes.
Try to get some nuts in at least two meals each day, with just
one other item accompanying it (grapes, cottage cheese, salad,
etc.). Vary some of the items you put in your garden salad or
cooked vegetables so that each tastes a little different.
And get out of the habit of thinking you always need cereal for
breakfast (or ham and eggs or sausages or whatever). Try a
different breakfast, like a bowl of mixed vegetables and a frozen
yogurt, or chicken and fresh fruit. Once or twice in the 10 days
you could have a sandwich with one of the other items, or have a
bowl of unsugared cereal.
Stagger your 4 meals across your day, but make sure you have the
4 meals, even if you don't eat much at one and eat more at
another.
Weigh yourself early on the first morning, before you have
anything to eat or drink, then again every three days, and again at
the end of the 10 days. After 10 days, spend the next 2 or 3 days
having something different (if you want to). You should now be
getting an idea of what satisfies you and how much you need to keep
going without feeling hungry.
You will need to impose a sensible limit on portions. You just
need to feel satisfied, not full. Remember, to lose weight you have
to eat for health, not for
pleasure.
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