Chosing The Wrong Diet Plans, and Failing Time After Time? Here Are 6 Tips to Choosign the Right Weight Loss Plan For You!
You’ve tried those ‘lose-weight-quick’ programs, you’ve taken the so called ‘magic fat melting pills’, and you’ve eaten nothing but grapefruits (or whatever the latest craze is now) for days on end, and you’re no better off than before you started, if not worse. The problem is, isn’t your desire, it’s determining what is the right weight loss plan that fits your unique lifestyle.
With the literally millions of different weight loss plans, pills, programs and supplements on the market today, where do you even begin? Heck even the so called ‘fitness experts’ get confused with all the contradictory advice out there. At the end of the day though, it’s actually quite simple. Start by figuring out what your goals are, both long term and short. Then, match those goals up against a weight loss plan that is sensible, realistic, and fits into your lifestyle.
Here are 6 sure-fire tips that you can use to find the right weight loss plan that you’ll stick too, and have life changing results:
1. Don’t overreach. You have to be realistic in your goals. Of course you need to challenge yourself, but the goal has to be attainable. Example: If you’re a 43 year old female that currently weighs 178 pounds, don’t set your long term goal to be 115 pounds if you haven’t been at that weight since you were 15 years old! Remember, 2 pounds per week is a fairly aggressive, but reasonable and safe goal.
Truth the tell, you should forget all about thinking in terms of pounds, and shift your thinking to your BMI, or body mass index. BMI is a number calculated by your height and weight and determines your relative body fat percentage. The ideal BMI range, according to the National Institutes of Health, is between 19 and 24.9. If you land between the range of 25 and 29.9, you’re considered overweight; and anything 30 or above is obese.
You don’t have to be a math whiz to determine your own BMI, just pull out a handy calculator and we’ll walk through it. See the formula for more guidance. Lets say you are 64 inches tall, and weigh 150 pounds. You’d simply take your height squared (64 X64) which is 4096, then divide that into your weight (150 / 4096) which is .0366, then multiply that times 703 (.0366 X 703) giving you a BMI of 25.7. Of course, if you use the metric system, the formula is slightly different, see the attached image.
2. Determine why you want to lose weight! This is more important than you think. But I’ll give you a tip, if you decide you want to lose weight for health and qualify of life reasons, that carries far more motivation in the long run than merely for vanity reasons.
You’ll definitely be heading in the right direction of you chose a weight loss plan that incorporates both clean eating and exercise. You will feel better, have much more energy, and begin leading a more active and engaged lifestyle.
3. Change up your outlook! Don’t think about how much you are going to lose this week, rather, think of how much you are going to do! Instead of “my goal this week is to lose one pound”, try “my goal this week is to walk 9 miles”! You would be surprised how much more motivational that is. How much weight you lose from week to week is largely out of your control, but what you do, it completely within your control.
4. Start out one-day-at-a-time. Only worry about today, today, and you can worry about tomorrow, tomorrow. Your short term weight loss plans shouldn’t be for all the glory. When you are coming off a sedentary lifestyle, your best exercise plan for the week should be based on finding three different one-mile routes that you can walk the following week.
5. Be self-confident. Remember, Rome wasn’t built in a day, and neither is your body. You’ll set yourself up for failure if you have an ‘all or nothing’ outlook on your weight loss plan. Each week, objectively evaluate your own progress, but don’t beat yourself up if you fall short on your goals — but do take note of what you accomplished! The goal shouldn’t be having a perfect record, the goals should be consistency — that’s what makes a weight loss plan successful.
6. If you can’t count it, it ain’t a goal. In other words, don’t set a goal of “I’m going to be more positive this week”. You can’t measure that, or determine how close you came to achieving it. Set your goals to be something you can count, or measure. Like, how many minutes of exercise you’ll do today, or how many racquetball games you’ll get in!
Nobody can lose your weight, and there is no magic weight loss pill. But the good news is, you can lose weight! Set your goals, make them realistic, and stick to them! Find a weight loss plan that matches your goals, and make sure it is all encompassing (nutrition as well as fitness and exercise). You do that, and you will be well on your way to permanent and life-changing weight loss!
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