What are the best fat loss diets? Is it a nutritionist, an exercise guru or diet pills? Either way, there are countless of options that are on the internet for us. So where do you start?
The best place to start is look inside you. Look deep down inside and see the heart and soul of who you are. If you are filled with love, compassion, and a good self-image, knowing you have to do something to lose weight will not be such a hard task. In fact, it will be really easy. Then you will know exactly what to do to diet and lose weight.
Diets fail for many reasons, mainly because the dieter is looking for a quick fix. A quick solution that will drop a dress size in a week, get you to the beach in one weekend, or to the pool in the summer. Don’t fall for these over hyped lies. Losing weight is not easy, but it is doable. The key is finding and following a motivation system that works for you.
Motivation is the absolute key to success. Always. There is no getting around this. Motivation comes in different forms. It can come from yourself, from your family, and it can also come from a work colleague. Just know in what form your motivation will take you.
The day I decided to do something about my weight, I was on the hunt for a weight loss program. But it wasn’t hard to find. There are so many sites out there offering the latest craze diet, exercise, fat loss program, pills, you name it. I ended up trying a few different things that worked for me. Some of the pills made me jittery and nervous. Others made me feel sick and altogether made my weight loss a chronic process that I couldn’t seem to get through.
But one thing I learned was that no matter how much I ate, how many reps of exercise I did, or how much weight I lost it couldn’t come from one single thing. My body wanted to burn fat. It wanted to burn energy. It wanted a healthy nutrition, but the pounds were just not coming off!
So I asked myself, “What are your favorite foods? Where do you get your regular, wholesome meals made from fresh ingredients? Do you enjoy cooking? What are your favorite meals? Do you have a family that supports the changes you are trying to make in your life? If you do, cookouts and picnics can be great fun for you. If you don’t have your own barbecue (who does?) or picnic ( tobesity prone people don’t do them) or meal stand, then the grilled cheese and tomato Pizza stands and stores like that are great. You can pass on the pecan biscuits and consider yourself setting yourself up for failure. Or you can say, “I’m on a diet, and I’m not going to let anybody else tell me what I can or cannot eat.”
They time and time again I read articles on how many of us are out there looking for that quick fix to our weight loss problems.. follows Dr. Phil and Oprah and Their on the rise: Here it is.. the Diet. Regards, meantime I’m on the Weight Loss Watchers..:-) And I was on track! But then they mentioned that they have a new program, again, next month and again next year. A little more structure was needed.
So I asked my husband who happens to also be on the Weight Loss Watcherschers programme, if he knew about it. He specializes in cooking for the family and so was bound to know about it. He had taken a Water 30 guideline course and loves it.
The push was on! But first I had to accept the fact that only I would control my weight. Best of all, I didn’t have to do it alone. I would let him know when I was going to be starting and also he would give me an idea of what I was doing when I would be away. One of the most difficult aspects to losing weight is accepting that in order to be successful you need other people to help you! It took me some time, some soreness, and several times before I had the strength to accept this. But in the end I needed my husband’s support. He is a great guy and came through for me!
I couldn’t even begin to tell you the minute however how I began to accept the challenge of losing weight. The support, the knowledge, and the knowledge that others are going through the same thing as me. It is now a part of who I am. In the back of my mind I have imagined and acted upon all of the times when I thought I was wrong just to help me get through it.