Prepare To Lose Weight Healthy dieting and long term weight loss most
often requires you to change your eating habits and can result in significant
changes to your lifestyle. Before you begin a serious weight loss program you
may need to prepare yourself mentally for the changes that you will have to
make. This is an important first step for most people.

To help you prepare yourself, write down the reasons why you want to lose
weight and how serious you are about losing weight. Confirm in your writing how
committed you are to following your weight loss program. Also write down where
you have to make major changes in your life, including what you eat, where you
eat, and how you eat. Look at your eating habits and decide if there are any
that you can break. Remember, breaking a bad habit and replacing it with a
healthy habit, will work towards a healthy new life style.

It’s important to review the amount of exercise you do now, and how much you
are prepared to do in the future. Exercise should eventually become a part of
your daily routines: Plan to walk to a store if it is close by, or to visit a
friend. Wherever possible walk whenever you can. If the weather is cold, walking
will burn off even MORE calories.

If your children are at school, walk to meet them and encourage them to enjoy
the walk home. Walk your dog, he will love it, and you will benefit as well.
Examine your usual daily activities carefully, and try to work in some exercise
with something you enjoy doing.

Look at the size and style of the clothing you wear now and compare it to what
you want to wear when you have reached your weight loss goal. Write it all down.

Preparing yourself mentally before starting your weight loss program, as well
as visualizing the positive results, will help to keep you motivated.

Set a realistic set of weight loss goals and factor in a self reward system
for when you reach certain goals.

Plan a healthy diet that you know you can live with. A great deal has been
written about crash diets that in almost all cases only work for the short term
if at all, and most people will give up after one-two weeks.

It’s also important to keep a book to record your weekly weight loss. Weigh
yourself prior to starting your diet, and then weigh yourself the same time and
day once weekly.

Your family will also benefit from a healthy diet and lifestyle. Childhood
obesity has become a major problem worldwide. More children are now being
diagnosed with Type 11 Diabetes, as well there is the problem of heart disease
at a much earlier age. If you are worried about your child being over weight,
talk to your Doctor. Tests will confirm or eliminate any medical condition that
may cause the problem. Any changes you make that encourage healthier eating,
will benefit your children.

Remember that the aim of your weight loss program should be a change in your
lifestyle and long term eating habits. Your diet changes must be reasonable or
you will not be happy, and your diet will become hard to maintain. Your new
eating and exercise program should be designed to help you lose pounds and keep
them off, as well as to keep blood pressure and cholesterol low. It should not
be a difficult, tasteless, crash diet approach to weight loss, but a long term
change towards healthy eating for you and your family.

Any extreme reduction in food intake should be discussed with a Doctor or
trained nutritionist.

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