| Losing weight tip # 1: Use the buddy system. If | | | | hard work is paying off if you don't document |
| you are trying to lose weight and your doing | | | | your success it will be much harder to realize it |
| everything all by yourself chances are, you will | | | | down the road and much easier to slip back into |
| never have the same success you would in a | | | | that old lifestyle and put the weight back on. |
| group setting. By joining an online support group | | | | Losing weight tip # 4: Let your mission be known. |
| you will have the opportunity to meet people in | | | | Quiet diets never work, casual ideas about |
| your same situation with your same goals, | | | | exercising never get results. Make your plans and |
| attitude, drive and will to lose weight. The key to | | | | let them be known. Tell your friends, your family, |
| a support group is that you don't feel alone. You | | | | your dog that you are on a mission. By going |
| can share your stories, help others achieve their | | | | public with your desire to lose weight you will now |
| goals and get that extra support and coaching | | | | be held accountable for your actions and you will |
| that you need to meet your own goals. | | | | also find support in the places you least expect it. |
| Losing weight tip # 2: Change your lifestyle not | | | | Losing weight tip # 5: Set realistic goals. I'm sure |
| just your diet. When it comes to weight loss we | | | | somewhere on some TV show somebody lost 25 |
| seem to focus so much on diet and exercise and | | | | pounds in a week. But is this really realistic for |
| spend little time looking at our lifestyle. Diets are | | | | you? A big key to losing weight is to set realistic |
| temporary, exercise can easily be avoided, but if | | | | goals if your goals are not in line with your ability |
| you make an effort to change your lifestyle and | | | | you are setting yourself up for failure and to be |
| outlook on the world you are putting yourself in a | | | | even more depressed than you are now. Set |
| position for long-term success. People that view | | | | realistic goals not goals that are unattainable and |
| their lifestyle as a healthy lifestyle are far more | | | | not goals that are so easy you can meet them in |
| likely to lose weight than those that think of | | | | your sleep. Like a pedometer on your car your |
| themselves as a person on a diet. | | | | goals need to accelerate as your weight loss does |
| Losing weight tip # 3: Document your success. I | | | | and stay in line with your current abilities. |
| know it's hard to think of yourself as fat and in | | | | Losing weight tip # 6 Have faith in yourself. It is |
| many ways looking at a real picture of yourself is | | | | great to have a mentor when losing weight, it's |
| even harder than looking in the mirror but there is | | | | fantastic to have somebody you can look up to |
| no better motivation than to start your new | | | | that at the end of the day when you visualize |
| lifestyle off with a set of "before pictures." You | | | | that perfect person in your head visualize |
| don't have to share these pictures with anybody | | | | yourself. If you don't have faith in yourself no one |
| but yourself but trust me they are a valuable tool | | | | else will. Whether it's during exercise or in the |
| in measuring your success and motivating you for | | | | shower or just before you go to bed; visualize |
| the work ahead. As your weight loss progresses | | | | yourself meeting all of your goals and being the |
| update your file of photos to show that your | | | | you that you always dreamed of. |