subject: Top Tips On Losing Weight The Healthy Way [print this page] If you are like most people, you have spent years of your life trying to take off weight but ultimately losing and regaining the same pounds over and over. Each time you are met with another failure, which makes you feel like it is pointless to even try again. This is not where you give up forever. Rather, this is where you learn to adopt healthy dieting tips that will take the weight off permanently rather than rapidly.
The question to ask yourself is whether you just want to take off some of your excess weight as quickly as possible, or if you really want to take all of it off forever. Forever weight loss strategies are quite different from quick fad diets because they have one critical requirement.
The only rule that you are bound by is that every aspect of your plan must be something that you can realistically do for the rest of your life.
Diets as you know them are gone for good. That thought process where you deprive yourself for a given period of time and then get to go back to your old habits will no longer cut it. Your new diet strategy must eventually become how you simply live your life.
So, your first dieting tip is to think of permanent changes that you can make that will improve the health of your life in some way. You can even take it one small change at a time, adding more as each becomes ingrained in your daily living.
Here are a few more specific tips that may help you start to design your permanent changes.
First, do not try to completely cut your most loved foods out of your life forever. This will only lead to deprivation which in turn will lead to caving and eating tons of those foods. Instead, try to find substitutes that are healthier. For instance, you may replace Chinese take-out with a healthy stir-fry in your own kitchen or a nightly ice cream habit with low calorie sorbet once or twice a week.
You will find that in most cases you are satisfied with the new alternative, but you can still occasionally allow yourself a small portion of the real thing when you really, really want it.
Creativity: With a little smart thinking you can overcome many of the unhealthy dietary habits that are holding you back. Sit down and think seriously about what your main downfalls are and write a list of ways to overcome them one by one. Then take action.
Maybe you can start recording your TV shows and watching them in the morning if you usually snack your way through the evening in front of the TV. This is just one example of how changing up a pattern of behavior can avoid a dieting obstacle.
Think Small: Frequent, smaller sized meals will keep your metabolism up so you burn fat consistently throughout the day. Try to eat every three to four hours in smaller portions and you will likely feel more energetic and satisfied, no matter what you are actually eating.
The best healthy dieting tips here are the first ones about developing a new lifestyle. If you want permanent success rather than short term results, it all comes down to what you do over a period of weeks and months.
