Saturday, August 29, 2009

Weight Loss Secrets: Get Your Head In The Game

By Jerry Horn

Weight loss is never easy, especially if you have a lot to lose or medical issues currently put limitations on physical activities. Instead of giving up or assuming it will never happen for you, why not take baby steps until you get where you really want to be?

Setting goals are another important part as well. When you have goals their is something you have your sight on. Not only that, but there is more of a reason to stay committed as well.

Whatever you may have heard about it being impossible to lose weight fast and keep it off long term, rapid weight loss is entirely possible. The secret is you have to get your head just as much in the game as your body is.

Losing weight involves the reduction and burning of the calories that you eat. Most opt to search for a miracle diet that does not involve either, but in reality these two components are essential. Another important part, involves having support.

Therefore, if you want to lose weight quickly you have to be prepared to deal with the emotional aspects. You have to be willing to think through impulse eating or urges to binge. What is really beneath the self-destructive behaviors? What thought patterns often lead to late night snacking or other problem behaviors?

Those of us who want to impress someone next week at a class meeting, a wedding or other event must be aware that a fast weight loss diet is not the best thing possible, as it is unhealthy.

Most of the weight loss diets are conceived to determine a massive weight loss, encouraging people to continue this approach. But those who do this will lose mostly water and muscle mass. The water will be replaced in no time when you'll start eating salted products or fast food.

If you loose weight quickly, meaning more than 1-2 kg per week, you'll loose much of muscle mass along with fat. This is very harmful because muscles are an active tissue, as their functions are essential for a healthy metabolism. By loosing muscle mass, you'll get a slower metabolism and you'll have to eat increasingly less food in order to lose weight. If you still continue to lose weight too fast in the next days, the body will "think" that he's threaten and will try to survive, developing deposits of fat.

Because you want to eat more, your mind will make you believe that you're even hungrier; thus, the weight loss diet will become harder to follow.

Again, finding the right program for you is essential to help you to shed pounds. Diet programs are a combination of the things discussed. Many of them will work to customize the programs according to you. Finding something that fits your lifestyle will increase your chances for success.

Some people like going by point systems, while other like tracking calories. In some cases people do not like the idea of having to keep track of all of the calories that they eat. This is the reason that other options are available such as points. Which way you choose is up to you, but look for the best program which will work for you.

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