Things You Must Do Every Day To Lose Weight

If you want to lose weight, then these 5 steps will make weight loss a reality and not just a hopeful wish. Nobody will ever get results just from wishing, unless there is a magic lamp involved.

Get Your Head Right

So many people forget the most important element about weight loss, their minds. If your mind isn't focused on your goal, then forget about losing weight. Every morning spend 5 minutes thinking about why you want to lose weight? What's in it for you? How great will you look and feel in 6 months or a year? Picture these images in your head. Do not think about whether you can do it or how hard it will be. Remember that we never feel proud of ourselves when we do things that are easy. The harder the goal, the greater the sense of achievement.

Stick To Your Calories

Before starting your weight loss plan, you should have evaluated how many calories you were eating a day on average. You would have cut this number by 10%. Stick to this and don't be tempted to cut too many more too quickly. Sure, if you have been sticking to the same amount for a few weeks, and the results are slowing down, then drop them by another 5%. Remember that your body likes to change in stages, and not overnight. Try to implement too many changes in one go, and your body will fight you. Never go below 1500 calories a day, not only is this unhealthy, it can start the dreaded starvation mode.

Always Eat Breakfast

Never ever miss breakfast. There is a reason why it's called breakfast. You have been fasting during the night (not getting any nutrients). So you are breaking this fast when you have your first morning meal. Get it, break--fast? Anyway, your body is crying out for nutrition in the morning because it has had no calories from anything to 10-15 hours. If you don't provide your body with these calories, then your body will think that there is a problem. So it will slow down your metabolism and bang goes your weight loss. Even if you don't feel hungry, get into the habit of eating something. Some bananas or a bowl of cereal will do to begin with.

Drink Lots of Water

We are always being told about drinking enough water. 8 glasses, 10 glasses, 20 glasses? I'm not going to get into numbers here, but I will tell you that 70% of your body is actually water. If all this water was removed from your body, you would look like a big potato skin. Just a 5% shortage of water would leave you tired, unable to focus, and irritable. It's hard to lose weight when you feel like that. Your body needs plenty of water to function effectively. So whatever you are drinking at the moment, increase it by 50%, and see how you feel after a week.

Stick Your Plan Daily

Before you started your diet or weight loss regime, you would have written a plan. You did write a plan didn't you? The world is run on written plans, that is what creates order and makes the world work (well some of the time at least). If there are no plans to adhere to, then everything would be chaotic. Plans give us steps to follow, like maps. Weight loss is a goal, so it requires a plan, right? You would have written a daily plan every week. You would write down what times you will be eating, what you will be eating, when you will exercise, what exercises you would be doing, and how long for. I'm sure you get the picture. Having things written down make them real, instead of them just floating around in your head, plus it gives you a record of your achievements.

Add do these 5 things daily and your chances to lose weight will increase greatly

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To Lose Fat You Must Follow These Five Commandments

With so many choices available in diet plans on the market, how do you choose the right one? You can increase your chance of picking a suitable plan if you look for these five commandments of successful weight loss.

Satiety

Satiety is feeling full, gratified. Most diet programs leave people feeling unsatisfied - which has a host of other effects. When you feel hungry, you increase the likelihood that you will binge the next time you eat. Hunger can also lead to depression, anger, and headaches.

A diet can tackle satiety in several ways - like eating every 3-4 hours. This is a component of most diet plans available today for a very good reason - eating smaller, more frequent meals has been proven to help burn fat and keep your metabolism revved up.

Calorie Deficit

For fat loss to occur, you must burn more calories than you take in. There are several components to creating a calorie "deficit", and using them all together will be the most effective. Plus, you won't be starving yourself like you usually do when you diet. Achieving satiety at the same time as creating a calorie deficit is difficult but not impossible.

How do you create this calorie deficit? It is a combination of watching your intake along with the right types of exercise, which burn calories during and after activity, as long as 36 hours after completion!

Besides eating every 3-4 hours, your diet needs to be rich in 4 components known to make you feel "fuller" but also contribute to fat burning - protein, fats, fiber and water.

Portion Control

One of the most difficult aspects of any fat loss program is getting your portion sizes under control. To achieve fat loss you must create a calorie deficit, and one of the ways to do this is through controlling your food portions - but how do you do this while not feeling hungry?

Consuming a lean protein along with healthy fats and fiber at each meal, and eating each meal 3-4 hours apart BEFORE you have a chance to feel hungry again, will cover the satiety aspect. You will also notice that you will feel fuller with less food, so you will be controlling your portions without really focusing on it.

Regularity

You must include fiber-rich foods in your diet (beans, peas, apples, grapefruit). A major advantage of fiber is the effect on weight control. Studies have shown that the majority of obese people have diets miserably low in fiber. Since fiber-rich foods are filling and usually low in fat, you'll feel more satisfied with less food and lose weight more easily.

It is recommended that between 20 and 30 grams of fiber be consumed daily and at least eight glasses of water to aid the movement of food through the digestive tract.

Hydration

Dehydration inhibits fat loss. Most people don't get enough water on a daily basis, never mind for training / fat loss. When you don't have enough water, your bowels will also slow down.

Here are a few tips for getting more water into your daily intake:

1. Never let yourself get thirsty - drink enough that you do not feel dehydrated.
2. If exercising, consume one ounce of water for every ounce of body weight lost during exercise. So if you weigh one pound less after exercising, you should drink 16 ounces of water.
3. If you are a goal-oriented person, get a half-gallon jug of water and carry it around with you - your goal is to drink it all by the end of the day

About the Author

Matt is a fat loss expert and creator of The Burrito Diet, the diet plan that helped him lose 80 pounds in only 8 months and maintain his 10% body fat level for over 3 years. Matt conquered his life-long struggle with his weight by harnessing the power of the burrito - find out more about his inspiring story at http://burritodiet.com