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Easy and Fast Weight Loss TipsSometimes the smallest and easiest things can make a big difference. For instance putting down the fork after every bite will force eating slower and cause the feeling of fullness with less food. Drink water instead of soda and add a little lemon for flavor. Water has no calories, no carbonation, and is a necessary element to your body. Try to walk faster when walking. Concentrate on your stride and pace even if it is just going to the car after work. Take up a sport or an active hobby. Practice moderation when eating. Get a take out box or ask for half sized portions. Don't finish your plate. If a mistake is made just keep on going. Don't let little slips foul up the program. Gradually changing behavior and habits consistently helps not only to lose weight but mantain ideal weight. Tips for Overcoming a Weight Loss Plateau Keep enforcing new lifestyle and diet changes. Gradual changes take time to show optimum results. Increase the number of times a week scheduled for exercise. For instance if walking 45 minutes 4 times a week try upping it to 5 days. Increase the intensity of the workout. Concentrating on walking a faster pace, adding a hill, and improving walking exercise techniques can all help intensity and burn more calories. Increase the duration of the workout. Reassess the diet plan. Is there room in it for an increase in protein, or reduction in saturated fats. Add a little diversity to the exercise routine. Change running and walking routes adding hills or add another activity in the mix. For example, swimming, weight lifting, or even adding a stretch routine in the evening. Tips for Maintaining Weight Loss After ideal weight is maintained it is important not to go back to original patterns and habits. Everything must be done continue the healthy lifestyle patterns that have been adapted. If the weight loss was fast the chances of relapse are greater. Great care must be taken to continue eating the recommended number of calories and exercise the recommended amount of time to maintain ideal weight. If activity is decreased calorie intake can be decreased accordingly. Continue to keep a journal to help identify remerging patterns or trends. For example if eating when depressed a journal can be used to identify with that redeveloping pattern at an early stage. |
LOSS DIARY TIPS Keeping a Weight Loss Diary A personal weight loss journal will help to record improvements, weaknesses, exercise, food eaten, and emotional peaks from your program. Playing a very important role, this diary can be a form of support and help to analyze what program method is or isn't working. The first tip to keeping a successful journal is to find a method of recording that you like. Whether it is on the computer, a small notebook that you carry with you, or an already formatted and specialized Weight Loss Diary it is important to pick one and be dedicated to the project. Successful weight loss is best attained by a gradual lifestyle change in order to lose weight and maintain ideal weight and emotional stand points. This diary will help you determine healthy and unhealthy patterns in your lifestyle that can worked on or rewarded. Recording Tips Try to make your diary entries at the same times every day. For example after lunch and before bed. If possible making entries more than once a day will help keep accuracy. Chart planned weight loss program including intended exercises, goals, diet changes including calories and types of foods and any other things that are important during this program. Record what is done. Be honest. If it was planned to exercise 45 minutes and it was actually only 15 minutes write it down as 15 minutes. This will help accurately show improvements, plateaus, and backward slides. All food and beverages should be included in the diary. Also keep track of what time the food was eaten and why. Was it because of feeling confident, hungry, bored, lonely, or upset. When recording exercise include time exercised, type of activity, and any improvements and downfalls in the workout. Be sure to record any signs of improvement of injury as well as the overall feeling after exercise (tired, refreshed, discouraged, or confident). |
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