3 Steps For A Successful Diet Plan For Weight Loss

Remember this when trying to lose weight, if you leave out any one part of the plan you are destined for failure. The first part is obvious, it's the motivation you have to figure out what it is that will keep you on track and stop you from giving up. It has to become a burning desire, something positive that you can reinforce over and over again otherwise you will simply quit. There are small things you can do to help reinforce your desire to lose weight, put pictures on the fridge door or the mirror in your bathroom of the old you, write out on paper your reasons for wanting to lose weight and carry it around with you, every time before you eat read it to your self. Staying on a diet plan isn’t always easy but it is your motivation that will carry you through so make sure you reinforce it every chance you get.

The second part to a successful diet plan for weight loss is your diet (what you eat) accounts for about seventy percent of your diet plan. It is very important to eat a healthy diet and not go under 1000 calories otherwise it could have serious side effects on your health. And now that we live in a fast food nation where people are eating out a lot more and when they cook at home they are cooking out of a box, it is even more important to start looking at what you are putting into your body. Most of the foods that we consume are void of any nutrients and are just empty calories. So it is important to remember your diet is the most important thing you can do for weight loss and your over all health.

You should be eating a diet that is filled with fruits, vegetables, nuts, lean meats, berries, calcium and good carbohydrates (whole grains). I watched a tv show on obesity the other day and their was actually a guy on the show dying of malnutrition, he weighed over 600 pounds! You would think, how in the world can somebody that big be dying of malnutrition? The answer is most people who are way over weight hardly eat anything with any nutritional value, they fill their face with heavily fried foods, lots of fats and sugars because their bodies have become addicted to them. Finding a reasonable, healthy diet plan may be daunting task with the sheer number of weight loss programs out their. One of the most sensible realistic diet and exercise plans I have ever came across is one of the New York Times bestsellers ( The Abs Diet, by David Zinczenko). It is the most sound approach to eating a healthy diet and losing weight I have ever read and I have read a ton of diet books.

Now the other thirty percent of weight loss can be accounted for with exercise and nutrition supplements (we all can use an extra boost sometimes). It is extremely important to get some daily exercise not only for losing weight or maintaining weight loss but to keep us healthy as well. You do not have to go to a gym to get good quality exercise. One of the easiest ways to do it is do a little more each day, park farther away the next time you go somewhere, take your dog for a walk, go to the beach swimming more often, play a game outside with your kids, just get moving! Make all your meals and use fresh ingredients (better yet plant a garden) the energy it takes to make your own meals versus buying them will be well spent. There are tons of little ways to get some good quality exercise in everyday life and that is the point, everyday find a way to move a little more.

Sometimes we all need a little boost and diet and nutrition supplements are a great way to give you a little extra bounce in your step or a little more energy. Staying motivated can be hard to do and diet supplements are just a little extra way of saying (you can do it) because they work!