You have to focus yourself so you can beat the pain heading in your direction. Commitment is what is required and you will be requiring all the assistance you can in order to drop a few pounds.
Eventually the big day arrives - you begin your exercise plan - yet almost immediately you've had enough again. All that planning for so little an increase in fitness.
What gives?
The solution , you might have guessed, is that a certain something got your attention. Something you see as being more important than your health. Maybe it was a meal out or a school reunion and it's as though you never started.
Lots of individuals will try to time the beginning of an exercise program to get around situations where temptations such as this could arise. People aim to begin an diet regime in conjunction with a relation or over a vacation period to try and make it easier for them. The evidence would suggest it's a great idea, for most people it's a long way from the truth.
The reason for this is an easy one - you may behave yourself for a while but when one of the multitude of hurdles you face each day crops up, you're not prepared to deal with it and so we use it an an excuse to go back to eating junk and quitting running (or both).
Far more use on day one of your diet to have a slight set back, and then to keep fighting. These ocassional set backs will surely help to get you ready and get you used to coping with the crap you will experience and means you can make it through the winter an even more focused dieter.
Relish the hiccups as a challenge. Feel the pride of each one you beat and you will grow ever more of a winner. All of a sudden you'll find hiccups have become positive things not things to be fearful of.
And here's a further surprising point to making a success of weight loss - and one that I have only just experienced for myself by mistake.
Consider how many diets or exercise programs have you started and stopped during your life? How many times have you given up? When you gave up, besides feeling a tiny bit depressed for a while what happened? Not very much. Your hunsband or wife didn't start ignoring you. You company didn't close down. The sun still rose the next day.
In other words you're used to quitting, and you're aware that nothing nasty will happen .
But what if it did happen? Consider if failure couldn't happen? Let's say that a doctor said to you that you had to lose 50lb in the next 9 months or you'll die? Or that your spouse says they won't tie the knot unless you lose that weight?
If you consider the situation in that light, it soon gets wonderfully easy to stick to your diet.
My goal has been to lose weight, then once I've lost the weight to find a spouse. Now I find that half way to the finale of my diet I have come into contact with a beautiful lady plus I am finding it reasonably simple to stay disciplined on my diet because I want to make them respect what I'm doing.
What exactly could you put in place to make certain winning is the only option for you? Could you plan a photo shoot? Or else tell everyone what you're doing.
Whatever is needed to almost totally eliminate the chance of you giving up. Take action on it. It'll be the best gift you've ever given yourself.
While we all have the best of intentions to take the necessary steps to look and feel our absolute best so we can truly shine this holiday season, many fall into some unknowing traps that actually hinder our weight loss goals.
The most common and devastating trap - your diet!
So allow me to ask, what is your diet strategy?
"Eat less, weigh less, right?"
Yes and no.
In order to achieve successful fat loss results, a caloric deficit must be created. You manage this by taking in slightly less calories than what you burn - be it daily activities, workouts or your basal metabolic rate.
I am not one to focus on or preach numbers, but when you are just getting started it is important to take an inventory of what is actually going into your body.
This can be as simple as keeping a basic food log for 5 to 7 days. Nothing fancy, just a running list of what you eat and drink and an estimate of how much.
A common response to seeing what everything we do eat is to cut back....most often it is cutting back too much.
Let's get into what happens when you do NOT eat enough. Reducing your calories by too much will actually backfire on your attempts to lose weight and feel your best this holiday season.
Ten Step Process of Following a Low Calorie "Diet"
1. You decide you want to lose weight, so you lower your calories.
2. Your body weight falls.
3. Your body tries to regain the original weight by becoming VERY energy efficient as it begins to SLOW metabolic processes.
4. Your body senses a loss of body weight and perceives the current low calorie diet as Starvation.
5. Sensing Starvation from low calories, your body begins to .... - slow your metabolic rate...again - hold on to fat stores for survival - learn how to function on fewer calories
6. Your Body now begins to look for alternative sources of fuel for energy
7. Your body adapts to your energy needs by burning lean muscle for fuel....any loss of lean muscle will slow your metabolism even more.
8. You now become Tired, Lethargic, and find it extremely difficult to stay motivated.
9. To make matters worse, you now begin to Crave foods high in sugar and fat - - - your body is tricking you into increasing your calorie intake.
10. You spend a great deal of time teaching your body how to survive on low calories so that any increase in calories will be stored as fat.
Result => It is nearly impossible to keep this lifestyle up for a long period of time.
Who can stand the fatigue, the lack of energy, the mood swings? Who has the willpower to fight the hunger and extreme cravings day after day?
We are only human and will soon revert back to our old eating and lifestyle habits - but this time with a huge feeling of failure.
Once you begin to increase your calories, you quickly regain what you have lost and are likely to gain an extra 5 to 10 lbs. on top of that.
In order to achieve your fat loss goals, you must eat, you must eat often, and you must eat supportive foods.
Food is not your enemy.
Food is the facilitator of a healthy metabolism. By eating the right types of foods - unprocessed, whole foods - -at the right times -- every 3 to 4 hours- - you have the power to completely reshape your body.
Once you have these key eating strategies in place- food becomes your fat loss friend.
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Holly Rigsby has sinced written about articles on various topics from Fitness, Pregnancy Problems and Lose Weight. Holly Rigsby, CPT, Americas #1 Fat Loss Expert for Busy Moms. As the author of Fit Yummy Mummy- Burn Your Baby Fat & Get Your Body Back