Wellness Tips to Help You Succeed with Weight Loss Diets

     Many weight loss diets actually set up dieters for failure by emphasizing deprivation and cutting down on food rather than making healthy lifestyle changes that make you feel good about yourself. They make things even worse by using improbable before and after photos to demonstrate how much weight you can lose under their diet  and then you feel bad when you fail to achieve the same results as their model. Here are some tips that can help you meet your weight loss objectives, no matter what diet that you go with:

Become aware of your emotional eating habits and take steps to deal with them. Many people use food to cope with stress or for comfort when confronted with problems. By learning how to identify the emotional triggers that cause overeating, you can greatly boost your weight loss efforts. One of the ways you can avoid overeating is to develop healthier strategies when faced with stress such as reaching out to others, taking a walk or finding a fun activity to do.

Find ways to add healthier foods in your diet. All good weight loss diets will recommend that you eat more fresh fruits and vegetables. If you don t like eating fruits and vegetables on their own, you can add them to your regular foods. For example, you can add berries or sliced bananas to your cereal or put more vegetables in your sandwiches while cutting down on meat or cheese.
You can indulge as long as you add other healthy foods. There s nothing wrong with having the occasional scoop of ice cream or plate of potato chips. But you can make them healthier by adding fruits to the ice cream, for example, or cutting up some carrot or celery sticks to consume with your chips so that you ll eat less of them.

Drink more water. You might be surprised how many calories that can of soda or bottle of beer has. You can reduce your calorie intake by replacing these drinks with clean water. Drinking water can also ease hunger pangs as well as helping your food break down more easily.

If you can t find time for a regular exercise program, find ways to include more physical activity to your daily routine. If there s no room in your schedule for trips to the gym or even workouts at home, you can still burn those calories by taking the stairs rather than the elevator as well as parking your car farther from the building and walking the increased distance. Keep in mind that 10-minute bursts of exercise can be just as effective as one 30-minute session.

Get enough sleep. With our lives becoming more frenzied, we often find ourselves getting less sleep as we spend more time surfing the net or watching TV. But sleep deprivation can impair your judgment and make it more difficult to make healthy food choices. Getting six to eight hours of quality sleep a night can greatly increase the chances of being successful with weight loss diets.

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