Weight Loss Isn’t Rocket Science, Here are the Facts!

Food that you eat plays a dominate role when it comes to your body composition, and fitness professional say that 80%-85% of your size is due to what you put in your mouth. With a blizzard of food choices swirling about, how do you know what you should eat, when you should eat it and how much of it you should eat?

Confused and mystified!
So what should you do then, to control eating habits and ensure your weight loss success. The problem with diets is that they usually crash your metabolism and offer only short term weight loss solutions before rebounding and packing-on more added pounds than ever.

When you pull-back your food intake and put your body into starvation mode you only encourage it to hold on to what little calories you do consume. While point system diet plans help you learn portion control, and many people lose weight on these programs, I have yet to find anyone who counts points for any meaningful length of time.

It just isn’t practical.
What is needed is lifestyle change in which you make healthy choices when it comes to your routine eating habits. This means you must identify and severly reduce or eliminate empty calories from your diet, such as sugar-based products. You must learn to control emotional eating, and adopt balanced nutritious meals. When it comes to eating, your new goal is fat loss.

Healthy diets needs to be well balanced with the proper amount of nutrients, vitamins and minerals. The RDA’s recommendation for daily intake is a good place to make sure you are hitting those nutrient targets.

How drop 10 pounds in 3 easy steps!
Sounds too good to be true, but these 3 habits will slim you down fast. How long have you struggled to drop weight, only to be left discouraged time and time again? Popular diets promise stunning results in no time flat, but they never seem to deliver the results you want. Exercise fads come and go but one thing remains the same—you have weight to lose and no idea how you are going to accomplish it.

Before you brush off the idea that you can easily drop 10 pounds as another weight loss ‘gimmick’ or fitness ‘fluff’— please, please, please keep reading! The ideas presented here will promote substantial weight loss…if you follow them. So read on and see how your weight loss dreams can easily come true!

1. Eat In:
Studies show that eating out leads to one thing—overeating! While your favorite restaurant in Santa Monica may have the tastiest pasta dish, did you know that the serving size dished up for you by your friendly server is more than twice what you would naturally eat at home? Not to mention the appetizer, side dishes and dessert…

The fact is that in order to lose weight you need to eat fewer calories—a feat that is not easily done while dining out. Take the next 30 days off from eating outside of your home, and watch how pounds effortlessly begin to disappear.

2. Use Smaller Plates:
Since you will be spending the next 30 days dining at home, use smaller plates to ensure that you do in fact cut down on portion size. Most of us were diligently taught by our parents to “Clean your plate!” While this is an important lesson for children— as adults we have taken it too far—and cleaning our plate has morphed into stuffing ourselves beyond recognition.

They say you can’t teach an old dog new tricks (and no, you aren’t old, but work with me here…) So the fact stands that we will always, like good children, clean our plates…but there is nothing stopping you from simply using a smaller plate. This cuts down on your portion size which leads to big time weight loss.

3. No More Junk:
I hate to be the bearer of bad news…but…if you are serious about losing weight and keeping it off for good you need to give up junk food. Processed sweets, fried morsels, salty snacks, sweet sodas, and sugary candy—it all has to go. The pastry that you like to pass off as breakfast…gone. The vending machine delight that holds you over until lunch…gone. The soda pop that accompanies your lunch…gone. The candy bar eaten on your commute home to Santa Monica…gone. You get the idea. All your nutrient-deprived guilty indulgences have to go…

But wait! There’s good news — if you take this tip to heart you really will see your desired weight loss. And do you want in on a little secret? As you begin to eliminate junk food from your diet you will find that not only are you losing weight, but you also feel healthier and more energetic than ever before.