Health and Fitness

So another year has come and gone and you have failed to reach your goal. The pounds keep adding up and its finally time to make a change in your life and really dedicate yourself to a healthy lifestyle. For many people, actually dedicating themselves to making a change in their lives, is a very difficult thing. It is something that needs time to adapt to, but after several weeks of a new weight loss routine, it gets much easier.

The two most important factors of losing weight and keeping it off is: a)staying active and b)watching what you eat.

For those people that have a job where they are constantly moving all day, the first part is already taken care of. All they need to do is educate themselves on what to eat, how much to eat and when to eat it. Eating more often, but small portions is a very…

It has been scientifically researched and the results are in.?There is one single measure that researchers have discovered which correlates to weight loss success.?If you watch this one measurement you can tell whether someone will be successful in their fat loss program.

What is the one single best predictor of dieting success??Writing.

I’m not talking about writing fiction stories or writing articles for newspapers.?If that were the case you’d never see an overweight newspaper editor!?I’m talking about writing in a journal.?Not just any journal, but a diet journal (or you can call it a weight loss journal – you can even call it a diary if you want to!).

Researchers have found out that of all the things they can quantify and measure about dieters, the one thing that they can say with great certainty is this – people who write down their daily food and exercise amounts succeed at losing weight at…

Weight can only come off when you create a daily calorie deficit- and it does not matter how you create one. However, losing weight is like learning how to swim. No one can tell you how, you have to jump in the water and learn on your own. Yes, it can be difficult while you’re learning. But once you do learn, it becomes easy and then you know how for the rest of your life.

That’s why only 5% of people succeed at permanent weight loss, instead of taking the time and learning how it works, they buy products that prevent them ever discovering how to do it themselves.

Let me give you a personal example of what finally made losing weight and getting fit easy for me: Everything I read about weight loss and fitness said I should lift weights three days a week, and do aerobics three days a week.…

There might be someone in your neighborhood, among your relatives, friends or colleagues, who might have lost a lot of pounds and surprised everyone. Or you might have come across such a story in a newspaper, magazine or TV.

Can you think of any such weight loss success stories?

Some of us might become jealous of such people who are able to shed pounds and reach their dream weight. But you need not be jealous of such achievers.

On the contrary, you should be happy that they succeeded.

Do you why you should by happy?

You should be happy because they have made the task easier for you. They have worked hard, faced obstacles and failures and came out on top. In doing so, they have made clear what methods work and which methods do not work for losing weight.

Now your task is to simply copy their methods and habits. You don’t have to go…