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A Simple Weight Loss Plan: Tips for Weight Loss



Weight loss plans are often complicated and expensive to follow. Some fad diets require you to eat only a few food items that are either hard to find or expensive to buy. With a situation like this, it’s difficult for most people to stick to their weight loss program. If you want a program that works, you must find a simple weight loss plan that needs little effort to follow. You will be more likely to stick with an easy-to-follow diet plan until you reach your weight loss goals.

A simple weight loss plan makes it easy to cut calories because all you have to do is follow a meal plan. There’s no need to count calories or worry that you may not be getting all the nutrients you need. When you have a low-calorie menu in place, it’s easy to follow your meal plan and be confident that you will be able to nourish your body while losing weight.

Tips for a Simple Weight Loss Plan

Before making a weight loss plan, you have to set your goals and decide how much weight you want to lose. Your goal should be realistic. Plan on losing only 1 to 2 pounds per week. This may seem frustrating if you have a lot of weight to lose, but this method will ensure that the weight you lose stays off in the long run.

1. One of the most important parts of a simple weight loss plan is a low-calorie diet menu. For safe and healthy weight loss, women should consume at least 1,200 calories per day while men should eat no less than 1,400 calories a day.

2. Never skip breakfast or any meal for that matter, or else you may overeat on your next meal. For a healthy low-calorie breakfast, have two slices of whole-wheat toast with two tablespoons of peanut butter and a banana.

3. Eat a low calorie lunch. You can have a salad of lettuce, cucumbers and tomatoes with a light vinaigrette dressing, a cup of steamed veggies, black beans, and an ounce of cottage cheese. Have a fresh fruit for dessert.

4. Eat a low-calorie dinner as part of a simple weight loss plan. Try half a cup of brown rice, stir-fry vegetables and grilled fish.

5. Include two light snacks in your simple weight loss plan. You can have a small apple, a banana, grapes, or a handful of dry roasted nuts.

6. Drink plenty of water. Although water is an important part of a weight loss diet plan, most people do not drink enough. Drink at least 10 to 12 glasses of water every day. Water helps your body function properly and aids in weight loss.

7. Exercise. You should have at least 30 minutes of exercise each day. To ensure that you will stick to your exercise regimen, find an activity that you enjoy. You can walk on a treadmill, jog, bike, play sports, or join an aerobics class.

Do cardio workouts as well as strength training exercises.

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Simple Tricks to Help You Lose Weight



No matter what they say, losing weight is not easy. A weight loss program will succeed only if you are 100% committed to your goal and are willing to work hard to get rid of your excess pounds. Fortunately, there are a few simple tricks to lose weight that will make the task easier. With a few simple changes, you can get the ball rolling and start losing weight.

Change What You Eat

You are what you eat. If you continue eating high-calorie, high-fat foods, you will never have that lean and trim body you have always wanted. A few simple changes in the food you eat can help you shed pounds.

* Reduce your consumption of red meat. Burgers and steaks are high in calories and cholesterol. Instead of red meat, build your meals around chicken, lean pork, and fish. The method of preparation also counts. Avoid deep-fried meats or preparation methods that call for creamy, high-calories sauces. Opt for grilling, steaming, or baking.

* Eliminate fried foods. Make healthier choices by grilling, roasting, boiling, or baking to reduce the amount of fat in your foods.

* Keep your kitchen stocked with herbs and spices to boost flavor without adding calories.

* If you must eat fast foods, choose wisely. Have a grilled chicken sandwich and a salad on the side. Watch the dressing, as it could add unwanted calories.

* Start with soup or salad. A fresh salad with vinaigrette dressing or a broth-based soup can help curb your hunger and control portion sizes.

* Have some fruit for dessert instead of cake, cookies or ice cream. The natural sugar in fruits will satisfying your craving for sweets while adding fiber, vitamins and minerals to your diet. In time, you’ll learn to forgo high-calorie desserts and reach for healthier fruits instead.

Change What You Drink

Many people are surprised to learn that calories also lurk in beverages and drinks. Cutting back on liquid calories can make a big difference in your weight loss plan. Here are a few tricks to reduce calories in your drinks and help you lose weight.

* Put a ban on soda. Eight ounces of regular Coca Cola contains approximately 97 calories. If you drink several glasses of soda every day, you could easily rack up 500 calories or more of empty calories.

* Ditch that diet drink. If you think switching to a diet drink is a smart move, think again. Sugar-free drinks may not help you lose weight after all. Apart from the potential health hazard of artificial sweeteners, diet drinks increase your cravings for sweet foods and can make you binge on high-calorie, sugar-laden foods.

* Cut down on alcoholic beverages. They are high in calories and can give you a beer belly. Reduce or eliminate your alcohol consumption.

* Drink water. When you are thirsty, drink plenty of water. It quenches your thirst, helps eliminate toxins and waste products in the body, and contributes to overall health. Best of all, it’s calorie-free.

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Positive Outlook Helps Focus




How you think and handle your emotions and stress is probably the most important factor in your general well-being or happiness. This, in turn, directly impacts your physical health and your abiliting for losing weight. And, when you think about it, even if it wasn’t connected to your health (it is!) would it still not be of primary importance?

Positive Outlook Helps Focus

Positive Outlook Helps Focus

Positive Outlook Helps Focus

It is no simple matter to ‘be happy’ or ‘think positive thoughts,’ or ‘relax and go with the flow.’ I put these in quotes because they sound like cliches, which they are. Still, they are of utmost importance. That is, what you eat, how you breathe and your thoughts all impact each other. That is actually why I chose to mention this subject. Because it is both the most important and hardest to practice when losing weight,

I wanted to set the stage with other, more straightforward things first. After all, it is easier to simply stop eating a certain junk food and start eating something healthy or to start exercising than it is to change your focus in a more positive direction. Yet if you start with better nutrition and more exercise, it becomes a bit easier to get more positive in your outlook.

More and more people are starting to believe in the notion that we create our reality with our thoughts and emotions. The Law of Attraction has become a popular subject since the release of the book and movie, The Secret (there is considerable debate over this, but I recommend you see it/read it if you haven’t already).

Whether we physically create our reality this way is debatable though some interpret quantum physics in a way that supports this. However, it is much more clear and obvious that, at the very least, our thoughts and emotions some say ‘attitude’ largely determine our experience of reality. This includes our well being and happiness. So, it follows that, if we want to feel good and be happy, we do best if we think positive thoughts and feel positive emotions.

The problem is that life, in the form of events, other people, memories, news stories and other sources, often sends things our way that we don’t find pleasing. So we feel angry, sad, nervous or some other negative emotion. This, in turn, sends signals to our body and all its cells and organs that causes stress. What is even worse, is that these signals tend to be self-replicating. That is, negative or stressful states tend to perpetuate themselves, causing more such states in the future. Fortunately, the reverse is also true the more you can feel good or happy, loving, relaxed, euphoric- the more you can feel good in the future. The body, once again, absorbs these messages as well and this has a very healing effect.

One very important aspect to have a positive outlook helps focus and how to do it is:

LIVE IN THE PRESENT!

I was almost going to devote a whole post to this, but I am trying to keep this brief. Living in the present means that you let of regrets of the past and worries about the future. No one, except maybe some meditation masters living on a mountaintop, lives in the present 100%. It is still a worthy goal, though. It is most important, naturally enough, to let go of negative feelings regarding the past or future, but even positive ones can be limiting if they keep you from realizing your potential in the present moment.

A person who is often nostalgic about happy times in the past has a belief that the best of everything is already over. If someone is always looking forward to some future happy outcome, they, too, are missing out. The problem with the future is that it never arrives. When what we think of as the future does occur, there is always a new future to look forward to. It is a fact of quantum physics that time as we believe in it is not real. It is an intellectual construct that makes everyday life easier to manage. It is not real in any fundamental sense. Keep this in mind when you find your mind wandering into the illusions of the past or future.

So the first step in thinking more positively is to set it as a priority in your life. There are many tools to help with this several in this report, especially breathing and the techniques in the following chapter- but the particular techniques you use are secondary to your basic commitment to do this. You simply cannot have well-being if you are not thinking good thoughts. Period

So if having a positive outlook helps focus why not start this right now and change you life?