I Have to Lose This Weight! But Do You Have the Self Control to Do It? Useful Information to Take Into Consideration

June 24th, 2009 | admin | Weight Loss Articles

Does this sound familiar? That is what some of us saying for years, after every winter you gain at least 2 kilo’s, needless to say you never manage to lose that weight. Why? Because you bluff yourself, you think you are on a diet but in the meantime you put more food in your mouth.

Think about it – You are busy cooking, what are you doing, taste the food every now and then to make sure the taste is perfect, You go to the Gym, after Gym you bumped into my friend. Hi do you have time for a cuppa. The chocolate cake looks divine, you will have a slice just today. This happens at least three times a week. Friends came over for supper, she brought you a beautiful box of home made chocolates (why not flowers I don’t now) well needless to say that box of chocolates talked to you until it was finish. You are at a kitchen tea, staring at all the lovely pastries and cakes, you thought I shouldn’t but just this ones, and so the pattern of bad eating and no self control goes on and on. Every Monday you start with good intentions, that does not last even two days. It is really tough.

What are you doing to yourself: First you putting on more and more weight and secondly you are harming your health. To lose weight you must be motivated, your mindset must be right. I find the best way to get me in the mood is to go shopping for clothes. You just give yourself on look in those mirrors and your mind is set. For some reasons the mirrors in the change rooms shows everything in detail, maybe it is the light. You look disgusting to yourself, enough to do the trick.

Let’s look at some weight loss tips-

* Like I said, set your mind, you are tired of trying on your clothes and nothing fits, so it is now or never.
* Start you first day with a detox- make a Leek soup, just cut Leeks up add water to cover and cook until soft, drain water and drink as many cups for the day as you like, eat the leeks in between. You will not get hungry.
* Eat normal but cut out all sauces, sugars, cheeses, full cream milk, creams, eggs, red meat, canned food and tomato sauce (tomato sauce contains sugar). Fat intake should only be 15%-20% that is all your body needs, Reduce your portions. Have 4 – 5 smaller meals. Eat high fibre multigrain bread. Go easy on salt, bring it down to half of what you normal use. Instead of frying food, bake it, baking is far healthier and requires less oil of fat. Buy always low fat products. What I find works best is to stick to steamed vegetables, because your portions can be bigger.
* Cut or reduce alcohol intake, sodas etc. rather just drink water, a bit boring but spice it up with fresh herbs, I make a jug in the morning with some mint, lavender or any other fresh herbs, or make herbal tea and drink it cold as a drink. Water flush out toxins. Start your day with a glass of water. Eat tomatoes and watermelon to increase your water intake, it contains 90 -95% water with no calories.
* Eat intelligently, the differents between man and beast is that we are driven by intelligence while beasts are driven by instinct. Don’t just eat something because you feel like eating it. Ask yourself whether your body really needs it. Control that sweet tooth. Remember those sweet things, especially chocolates and other confectionary is going to add on somewhere.
* Snack on raw veggies, go easy on tea and coffee, having a cup of coffee with cream and 2 teaspoons of sugar is the same as eating a slice of chocolate cake.
* Eat only when you hungry. Some of us have the tendency to eat whenever we see food, this can cause the whole weeks diet to be wasted by just on day’s overindulgent. Make a list of what you have consumed in a day, include all the tasting while you were cooking, you will be amazed of what you can cut out.
* They say that you can lose weight when you drink a cup of black coffee before a work out, apparently the caffeine in the coffee makes the body rely more on fat for fuel during the work out, but don’t drink coffee in excess, as it tends to desensitize your body to the fat burning effect of caffeine.
* The bible said that the faith is dead without the works and the works is dead without the faith, so is it with a diet, it is dead without exercise and exercise is dead without diet. Like we go to Gym and after Gym for coffee and cake, it just doesn’t go together your exercise is in vain. You will not lose weight.
* You don’t need to kill yourself exercising to compliment your diet. There are simple ways to exercise- walking, walk for about 10 to 15 minutes with a bit faster pase as normal. If you got a sitting down job, get up every half an hour, walk up and down the stairs in the office, park your car as far as you can from the entrance of a shopping mall or office, this way you do more walking, but remember to walk fast. (this will also prevent you from getting an old age walk when you a become older). Pull in you stomach all the time, practising this will give you amazing results. Also practice breathing, breathing exercise leads to weight loss. Take time of if possible to work in the garden. Turn on music and dance. Pretend you are a pop star, go made, I love this, it not only helps you to burn calories but also reduce stress. What is also nice is to organize a few friends to dance with you. I did belly dancing and still do some of the movements when I get up to stretch and even when I sit down typing I move my shoulders all the time.

I am motivated what about you?

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