What is the Best Way to Lose Weight?

     The best way to lose weight is the way that will fit into your lifestyle in the most natural fashion. What ultimately works for one person is usually a bit different from what works for someone else, since we all have our own preferences, likes and dislikes, and daily commitments and responsibilities.

Habit Analysis

The first step to determining a weight loss strategy that will work for you is to analyze your unhealthy habits. You are essentially looking for areas of life in which you need to improve in order to lose weight. For example, here are some common habits which would have to be changed in order to bring about sustainable weight loss:

* Eating fast food for breakfast or lunch most days.

* Skipping meals.

* Waiting too long between meals.

* Eating meals and/or snacks at night.

* Remaining too sedentary.

Most people tackle big weight loss goals by swearing off their favorite foods or creating complicated workout programs. This often leads to failure because it simply is not sustainable. Do yourself a favor and come up with more realistic ways to combat your unhealthy habits.

For instance, just finding a good diet program that provides a very detailed approved foods list would solve many of the food related habits on the above list. You would eliminate fast food because you can't stick with your food list and could use a program with an automatic diet generator or otherwise plan out your meals ahead of time so you don't skip meals, wait too long between meals, or find yourself snacking on unhealthy foods at night.

Go online and find a good food list. Yes, losing weight could be that simple!

Making Changes

Once you know what your unhealthy habits are, determine the easiest way to turn them around. If trying to do it all at once is overwhelming or feels impossible, pick one unhealthy habit and work toward replacing it with a habit more in line with your weight loss goals. You can either take one huge leap of faith and start a new and improved lifestyle right away, or you can take baby steps that eventually accumulate to that new and improved lifestyle. However you get there depends on your current situation, capabilities, and personality.

What's important is that you just start making the change toward a healthier life, one way or another. Keep doing what you're doing right now and you'll get more of the same. Try something different and different results will come your way.

For many people, the best way to lose weight is a slow, gradual process. This makes the lifestyle change easier to deal with and allows you to get used to one small change before you pile on another. For instance, consider a woman who is obese and has problems with her knees because of her weight. She decides to start taking a short walk every day and follow a diet that automatically generates her meal plans for her.

She may start out unable to walk very far due to her weight, but she is consistent with her daily walks and her diet plan and the weight starts to come off. She gradually begins walking further and further until she is at goal weight and more energetic than ever.

Want that to happen to you? It can! Make your analysis and start making changes today.

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