How Can I Lose Weight? How to Fix Whats Been Holding You Back

     Are you asking yourself ' how can I lose weight?'. If so you're probably asking because you've tried diets in the past and they haven't worked for you.

You may even be frustrated but for some reason you can't give up. You know there has to be a way to safely shed pounds and feel comfortable in your own skin right?

Well, you are right. But in order to answer the question - how can I lose weight - you have to uncover why diets haven't worked for you in the past - and then fix those problems.

Most diets don't work because of 3 main problems or obstacles:

#1 They Require Too Much Time

Most diets require you to take time to learn and prepare new recipes. You may even have to shop for food you've never heard of before to prepare these recipes.

But really, in our busy, hectic world, do you really have time to spend an hour chopping vegetables for dinner? That's not to mention the hours it will take to prepare your lunch for the next day.

The extra time required by many diets is what trips people up. They eventually give up because it's not realistic for them to give up so much time preparing food.

So if that's been a problem for you in the past, your next weight loss plan must not require a lot of extra time.

#2 The Food Tastes Awful

Let's face it, eating lettuce with lemon juice and olive oil is not fun. Cabbage soup makes you want to gag after the first day. And rubber-tasting chicken with no sauce on it? Yuck.

We were given taste buds for a reason - because we were not designed to eat food that tastes awful. It's like a lesson in self-torture - how long can you make yourself eat cardboard?

The second reason most diets fail is that the food tastes awful, gross or just plain bland. And it's not realistic to eat that kind of food for long periods of time.

So your next weight loss plan must give you delicious-tasting food that you actually like to eat.

#3 They Set Up A Cycle of Deprivation

This is kind of related to #2. Most diets - because the food tastes awful and because you're usually getting so little of it - set up a sense of deprivation.

And we humans are not good with deprivation. Think about it - tell a child that they can play with every toy but the pink baby doll and what's the one thing they want to play with? Right - the pink baby doll.

When you feel a sense of deprivation - you have a sense that something isn't normal - you're suffering for a while in order to achieve an end.

That's ok for a while. But when you add in a lot of day-to-day stress and a whole lot of hunger - you actually have the recipe for a binge, and weight gain - not weight loss.

When you feel deprived for a time, it sets up a pendulum effect - where you'll eventually swing back into high calorie 'comfort' food to get over the feelings of deprivation.

So if you want to lose weight, you need to feel pampered and satisfied with your food - not deprived and hungry - in order to avoid the pendulum effect.

So How Can I Lose Weight?

If you can find a weight loss plan that gets around the 3 main problems with diets, you can in fact lose weight quite easily.

You need to find a diet or weight loss plan that requires very little time and food prep, gives you great tasting food and makes you feel pampered and satisfied instead of deprived and hungry.

So where do you find a diet like that?

I would suggest that best option is a diet food delivery plan. There are several diet meal delivery services that prepare calorie-controlled, freshly-made meals for you and then ship them to your door. All you do is heat and eat - and the weight comes off.

A diet meal delivery services solves the 3 main diet problems listed above. The food is prepared for you and ready in 5 - 10 minutes. So you don't need to spend hours chopping vegetables.

The meals are delicious tasting as many of these services have been in business for years and have perfected their clients' favorite meals.

And you get enough food (sometimes even snacks and desserts) to feel full and satisfied. Plus many meals are gourmet so you even feel pampered when eating them. (How about Blueberry Pancakes with Maple Syrup & Turkey Sausage for breakfast or Chicken Pizza, Broccoli Florets, Angel Food Cake & Strawberry Cream Sauce for dinner?)

Plus with most plans starting around $18 a day, these plans can actually save you money.

But not all services are created equal. Some focus more on gourmet meals, some focus on comfort foods and some focus on lower carb or even vegetarian meals.

So you do need to do some research and find out which plan is right for you. But if you're asking yourself ' how can I lose weight?' you may find the answer in a diet food delivery service.

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