If I'm So Smart, Why Can't I Lose Weight

Why Can't I Lose Weight Easily?

By Patrick F Walsh

That's a question I often ask myself, and if you really want to learn how to lose weight easily, please continue to read.

Eat A Balanced Diet

People say, "Why can't I lose weight easily?", but even more importantly than that, you should ask how CAN I lose weight easily. For that question, I do have an answer. Less sugar and fewer sweets for starters. Watch the portion size on your meals. Try five to six smaller meals per day, as opposed to three big ones. This will keep your metabolism up high all day, making it easier for your body to burn fat. The idea is to burn up your daily calories, plus calories that are stored in your fat.

Detoxifying Your Body

Detoxifying your body could be the most important step in losing weight easily. Hydration is such an important factor, I suggest drinking lots and lots of water. Drinking water helps flush the toxins from your body. In addition, I highly recommend fiber supplements and body wraps as another way to relieve yourself from the harmful daily impurities you encounter.

Exercise : Daily!

If you want to lose weight easily, make daily exercise part of your lifestyle. Strive for thirty minutes of aerobic exercise per day. This could be a brisk walk, swimming , or a bike ride. Anything to get your heart pumping is good. In addition, I also recommend some weight lifting a couple times per week. Building muscle is important, because muscle helps burn fat.

Follow these instructions I've outlined for you, and you won't be asking yourself "Why cant I lose weight easily?" --ever again. Instead you'll be asking yourself "Why didn't I do it sooner?"! Now stop reading and start making yourself look great and feel even better.

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Pat Walsh is a highly respected author in the fields of weight loss and nutrition.

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How To Lose Weight The Right Way, Ten Top Tips To Lose Weight

It is a well documented fact that diets do not work, this is because dieters do not know how lose weight the right way. Over 90% of dieters fail to lose weight permanently. You do want to keep the weight off permanently, right? The restrictions that go with all diets are too much of a burden for you to follow long term, and for those few who manage to stick it out long term and lose weight, what happens when they finally come off the diet? The weight comes back, surely but surely. So if you want to lose weight permanently, you must make permanent changes to your lifestyle, so that when the weight does come off, it stays off.

So what changes can be made? You should be looking for multiple small changes to your eating habits, changes that are easy to make and and easy to keep to. A good rule of thumb is to ask yourself if you will be able to keep to the change for the rest of your life. If you answer yourself "no" then it's probably better not to make the change in the first place, since any gains will be offset once you come away from the change. Try using skimmed milk, sugar substitutes, low-cal soda, in fact there are low-calorie alternatives for many of todays popular foods. Drink more water, eat more fresh fruit and veg. You know this stuff, it's not rocket science, but it does need a commitment from you. Maybe today is the day?

No weight loss program can be succesful without exercise. Even the fad diets all state that their measures will be ineffective without exercise. The "E" word can be pretty scary for many people, because it drums up images of leotards, gymnasiums and lots of sweat. Exercise doesn't have to be like this, there is only one rule when it comes to exercise; whatever it is, do it EVERY day without fail, (or at least five days a week). So it could be something as simple as walking or cycling. In the long run, fifteen minute's walk every day is more effective than a two-hour workout in the gym. For most of us the gym workouts will stop at some point in the future - let's face it, we don't need much of an excuse not to go to the gym today, do we? By contrast, a walk is something that we can do every day, without having to give it up.

The equation for weight loss is as simple as it ever was: burn more energy than you consume. This can be done through modification of diet or an increase in energy burn - preferably both. In short, eat less and move more.

Loking at the points discussed do far, the top ten tips to lose weight are based on these principles. If you are looking to lose weight fast, this list is not for you. Yes, it is possible to lose weight fast, but it is highly probable that you will put it all back on as quickly as you lost it. This is a long term plan, and it will take six to twelve months to have significant permanent effect. This can be quite a demoralizing thought, but remember; a pound lost using this system is a pound lost for good.

1. Forget fad diets they don't work

2. Make a decision to exercise every day. Start tomorrow. Walk, cycle, swim - anything is OK

3. Look for small changes you can make to your daily energy consumption.

4. Stop eating fried food. Broil, Steam, Bake, Roast, Boil, Microwave but DON'T fry!

5. Set a time in the evening - say six 0' clock. Make a rule NEVER to eat after that time.

6. Get at least 8 hours' sleep each night. If you are tired during the day you will turn to high energy candiy bars, cakes and cookies to boost your flagging body.

7. Eat breakfast. Yes, you've heard it before - never mind the reasons why, the statistical fact is that almost all people who lose weight permanently eat breakfast. So just DO IT!

8. DON'T cut out carbohydrates. Your body and brain need carbs (NOT from sugar!) so eat them, preferably with fiber, eg wholemeal bread and pasta, potatoes with the skin on.

9. Cut out fat. This is the most significant change you can make. Fat has a huge calorific value, so do your utmost to find alternatives. Yes, your body needs fat, but don't worry, no matter how hard you try to eliminate it, thanks to today's processed food environment you will always eat a degree of fat.

10. Don't be impatient, you want to lose weight permanently, not lose weight fast. This is a long term program.

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