Weight Loss Help by Jane Thurnell-Read

Being overweight is not good for your health so here are some tips and thoughts that can help you lose weight and keep it off.

Food Diary
Keeping a food diary can help you eat better. Often writing down everything you eat means you end up eating less. Several studies have shown that keeping a food diary helps people to lose weight. A great form of healthy dieting. Here's a simple food log you can use - either print it off as a PDF or download it as an Excel file. Eaten Something You Shouldn't?
Just because you mess up once doesn't mean you should quit! You're only human. Don't let one small slip keep you derailed. (Kim Lyons)

Eat Slower To Eat Less
Wolfing down meals may be enough to nearly double a person's risk of being overweight according to Japanese research suggests.

Dieting
Anything to do with dieting that sounds too good to be true - 99% of the time it is too good to be true. Ditching the on-off diet mentality is a big step towards a happier future. (Amanda Ursell, nutrition columnist for the UK newspaper The Times).

Vitamin C And Weight
A study in 2005 from Arizona State University suggested that when vitamin C levels are low your body burns fat more slowly. Take a vitamin C supplement or eat vitamin C rich food if you want to lose weight.

Dieting Can Slow Your Metabolism
A diet of less than 1000 calories a day can lead the body to adapt to a famine situation and slow down the metabolic rate by as much as 40%.

Fast Weight Loss
Fast weight loss is not always the best weight loss. Losing weight bit by bit means you are more likely to keep it off.

Comfort Eating
If you comfort eat regularly, think what feelings are involved - e.g. boredom, anger, jealousy - get help in dealing with the emotion if you need it.

Can't Fit In Exercise With Work?
Find a colleague and go for a walk at lunchtime together.

Skipping Breakfast?
You may think this will help you lose weight, but your body interprets it as a sign to slow down.

Reality Check
Take a reality check - do you believe that the food you eat that nobody sees or the left-overs that you finish up don't count?

Want To Lose Weight?
Commit yourself to only eat when you're sitting down.

Keep Failing?
Don’t despair if you've been struggling for years to lose weight - you now know lots of ways that don’t work. Think about the ways that you've tried – do they give you any clues about what might work?

Weight Loss Motivation
Get yourself even more motivated to lose weight by finding more reasons to lose weight. Did you know, for example, that there’s a direct link between obesity and some of the common eye conditions that cause blindness?

Losing Weight
Recognise that losing weight and eating more healthily is not going to be completely plain sailing. You will make mistakes, but that doesn’t make you a bad person or that you will fail in the long run.

Sleep And Weight
Being short of sleep increases your appetite. The levels of the hormone leptin, our natural appetite regulator, are reduced when we do not get enough sleep. Sleep more and eat less.

Cut Calories Without Increasing Hunger
Research shows that people get full by the amount of food they eat, not the number of calories  they take in. You can cut calories in your favorite foods by lowering the amount of fat and or increasing the amount of fiber-rich ingredients, such as vegetables or fruit.

Copyright 2009 Jane Thurnell-Read | Healthy Effective Weight Loss Supplements
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