There can be no hope for a project that begins with the expressed intention:

“I WANT to LOSE…10 pounds”,

“I NEED to LOSE…20 pounds”, or

“My GOAL is to LOSE…100 pounds”

Even though they are all noble and achievable goals, what the mind hears is “I’m gonna LOSE”; and 99 times out of a hundred that is exactly what happens.

You LOSE; your wasteline GAINS…following your instructions exactly.

Most of us veteran dieters are already on our 5th, 10th or 55th attempt to achieve that ideal weight.

But no matter the activity or your skill level, if you keep repeating mentally and verbally that you want to LOSE…YOU WILL!

It doesn’t matter if the activity is golf, grade point average, or baking a cake. A desire to LOSE soon becomes a reality.

Weight control is a mental activity as much as a physical one.

In fact, all human activity involves the mind first, whether it is to achieve that ideal weight or to put a person on the moon.

First the idea is born…then the mind and body go to work to make the idea a reality. Over the last half century we have seen innumerable “impossibilities” become realities and become parts of our daily lives:

How about the digital watch you are currently using; or

Fed Ex—overnight delivery anywhere in the world; or

Microwave cooking?

The list goes on and on.

They all began as an idea; and you can be sure that none of the minds behind these seeming “miracles” ever pursued their dreams with an “I will LOSE attitude.

The challenges became stepping stones, learning experiences, and eventual progress toward the goal.

It’s been the WINNERS not the LOSERS who have made the biggest difference in the world; and in their own personal lives.

Back to the original premise of this article: If you started your any diet program to LOSE, you already have.

You probably can find, somewhere in your house, a chart that lists your current weight in the UPPER left hand corner, with your goal weight listed in the BOTTOM right hand corner.

That chart literally screams out at you, “If you LOSE enough, you will get DOWN to your goal”. LOSE…DOWN…LOSE…DOWN–hardly an inspiring rally cry.

It’s not completely our fault. There are over twenty-nine million diet and diet related pages on the Internet. Most of those pages probably revolve around this “LOSE…DOWN” idea.

Everything from the “first stop” cabbage soup diet to the star-studded commercials for Jenny Craig, Weight Watchers, or NutriSystem; all proclaim LOSING as a desirable goal.

Forget LOSING. We “going on ANOTHER diet” (another one that is almost definitely destined to fail), why not simply IMPROVE your current eating habits?

Instead of SACRIFICING your favorite foods, how about listing all the foods you ENJOY, and then picking from that long list the foods most likely to help you ACHIEVE your WEIGHT GOAL?

And finally, are you more likely to continue an activity that is pleasant, positive, and produces almost instant results; or would you prefer an endless horizon of tofu and cabbage soup?

But where to find such a list of healthy foods that you truly enjoy? And how to build a diet around them?

Here’s a couple of links that have helped us along the way. See for yourself at: Lose Weight At Home and Lose Weight Guaranteed

Many people are searching for that perfect way to jump start their weight loss results. Choosing the right diet plan is made much more difficult by the sheer number of different diets you can choose from. low carb diets are among the most popular choices. They are a great way to get the numbers on the scale moving down in a shorter amount of time. Before starting any weight loss program, you should be in good health. Before you start, you should know how the diet works, what you should not eat, and what you should.

Knowing how low carb diets work is important if you’re going to be successful with this kind of diet. Since our bodies can convert excess carbohydrates into fat, and store that fat for future use, eating too many carbs can lead to unwanted weight gain. If you eat less carbs, your body will start burning some of the fat it has stored, and you will start to lose weight. You’ll probably find that you start to lose weight right away, and that you lose it quickly, at least at first.

low carb diets are really pretty simple. The main thing is that you need to avoid certain foods. The foods you should avoid are the simple carbs, which include refined sugars, refined flours and grains, and white potatoes. So white rice, white bread, and other refined flour products are out, but you can eat whole grain products like brown rice and whole wheat bread. You also need to eliminate refined sugars, which might be difficult if you have a sweet tooth. This means sugared soft drinks, candy, and desserts are off limits, but you can have naturally occurring sugars like those in fruit and fruit juices.

In addition to knowing what not to eat, you need to know what foods to eat. So when you’re reducing your carbs, you should increase your protein consumption. You will help to build up your muscle, while you are using up your fat stores. If you add some strength exercise into your exercise routines, it will help you to burn more fat and build more muscle. Since muscle tissue burns more calories than fat tissue, this will provide an extra boost to your weight loss efforts. Get your additional protein by eating more dairy products, lean meats, fish, nuts, seeds, and beans. These foods will give you the necessary energy that you will need to get through each day of your diet.By increasing your proteins, you’ll be sure that your body gets enough calories and you’ll have plenty of energy. You won’t feel hungry or deprived, and soon, the weight will start to come off, which will help your motivation to stay on the diet.Your body will be able to function at its normal speed, if not better than it did before.

At first reading, Strip That Fat seemed like a pretty silly name. Now, two months into the program we realize that it is totally appropriate for a process that does exactly what it says.

Working together, and we can’t recommend the “buddy system” highly enough, my friend and I have rid ourselves of nearly 8 kgs of problem fat.

My friend started out merely overweight. I, on the other hand, fit into the “morbidly obese” category. Between the two of us we had, at the beginning, a total of 125 kgs to “strip”.

We knew from our past attempts(many, many, experiences) that we never lasted long enough on any of the highly restrictive (low carb, no carb, low fat, no fat, cabbage soup only, etc) diets to achieve any significant or lasting results.

Determined to someday achieve our rather ambitious weight goals, we kept looking and looking for the “magic diet plan”.

We tried the teas, the pills, the Atkins, the South, North, East and West-sides, even the colon assaulting powders–all to no avail. If you can imagine a 230 kg  yo-yo…that’s been us for years. Somehow we always missed, or chose to ignore, the fine print on the sales page of every new diet plan. You know what we’re talking about: the line that reads “These teas, pills, and/or potions are effective when used with a program of eating less and exercising more.”

Regardless of any carb, fat, fruit, or cabbage soup intake, EATING LESS…AND EXERCISING MORE will have a desired effect on a weight problem. Of course, we knew that; and so do you.

So why keep searching for the quick fix? In our case at least, it was a combination of laziness, impatience and frustration. You can fill in your own motivations; but the bottom line is that after all those unsuccessful attempts, each January first when we vowed to make this our year to achieve a healthy weight, we found that we were heavier than the previous January… when we had made the exact same vow. Sound familiar?

So, we’re excited. For the first time in years, our January resolution (yep, same one) will be starting at a much IMPROVED level. And we are getting there by EATING MORE (often) and EXERCISING (within our comfort level). We are two months “in” instead of the usual “two weeks and out”. And the results are beginning to show.

Just try explaining to an ultra thin teen-ager that you’re not “on a diet”–just a simple and pleasant “lifestyle change”; that we’re not “working” as much as “learning”; and that we haven’t “lost” a thing. Bottom line is that we have “gained” so very much.

Click the following links for a couple of “resources” that helped us to get inspired:

Strip That Fat and Smart Diet

The race to fitness is on and a lot of people are getting into the band wagon. Some people do it to achieve a sexy body, some people just do it because they are embarrassed with the body they have now, while others do it simply to remain fit and heatlthy. As such, many fitness programs are out in the internet, in gyms, spas and fitness centers all over. Some are too expensive to afford that one may even lose weight just by trying to work out the money needed to pursue these fitness programs.

One may not have to go to the gym or the spa or any fitness center and spend much just to slim down to obtain that longed for sexy body. There are many books available in the bookstore which offer weight loss programs which are convenient and for free, of course the books are not though. These weight loss programs, or diet plans are gaining immense popularity with so much publicity, testimonials and reviews that one may be confused which exactly to follow. So before choosing which weight loss plan to follow, try reading these summaries about the most popular diet programs out today.
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If you wear a size 14 and you blow a bundle on designer size 8 dresses as motivation, you will probably end up feeling guilty, frustrated, and angry if you are not slinking around in it a month later.

In reality, you will do much better setting smaller, achievable targets for yourself. If you must try the new-clothes strategy, go down a size at a time, and do not buy anything you have to take out a second mortgage to pay for.

Because, if you continue to remorse on losing weight fast, you will end up incorporating fad diets or those that offer quick weight loss.

For most people who are not aware of this fact, there are no such things as quick weight loss diets and there is no nippy weight loss for people who want to be slimmer than what their body can provide.

The problem with most people is that they tend to opt for nippy fixes wherein fact these things are not effective at all.
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You’re not alone if you’re trying to find the best way to lose weight as fast as they can. With an estimated 64% of the population classified as overweight in the United States alone, losing weight is more important than ever before.

Not only is maintaining a healthy weight important to look and feel your best, but it also helps ward off disease and premature signs of aging. While you may be tempted to look for a fast way to lose weight, you should focus on choosing a plan that is easy to follow and stick with for a long period of time.

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