Weight Loss

Healthy Weight Loss

Many of us who are struggling to lose weight are familiar with the many weight loss plans and diets that are available. In fact, we may be all too familiar. There are just so many that it can become confusing trying to decide what route we should take to lose those unwanted pounds.

As it is with anything in life, some of these weight loss plans and diets are good, whereas others are just designed to lose you money, the money you pay for those plans. Fad Diets have been around and probably always will be. Some diet plans to lose weight to remember: spinach and egg diet, grapefruit diet, juicing diets, low carb diet, raw food diet, zone diet, low salt diet, cabbage soup diet, vegetarian or vegan diet, GI diet, detox diet, dairy free diet and on and on it goes.

A major problem for many of us needing or wanting to lose weight is our lack of patience. We want it to happen over night and with the least amount of effort. People want it NOW, fast and easy. Well, it takes time to gain weight and if you want to be healthy it will take time to lose weight. First, before starting any weight loss plan, talk with your family doctor concerning your health issues and a good plan. Good Weight Loss Plans include a full range program of healthy nutrition, nutritional counseling or mentoring; a personal plan suited for your health needs and life style, exercise program and life skills coaching.

There are many different reasons why people gain excess weight. From eating too much to not having enough physical activity in their daily routine. However, very few people actually gain weight due to a physical reason, rather more often it is because of life experiences and habits built up where food becomes the drug of choice. To achieve long term results it is important to take a look at the whole picture. Find out why you are eating and develop a plan. For example, I ate M n Ms when under stress. Yes that was my drug of choice and the bigger the sack of M n Ms, my friends observed the more stress I was feeling. It became a kind of joke but it was not all that funny. I ate to hide my feelings and to put a barrier between me and other people. Can you relate to that? Perhaps, or your issues might be totally different.

To be successful at the weight loss game you must have a plan in place. If not you are like a ship without a captain. And the plan you choose must be a solid healthy plan AND a way to work through what drives you to food. Both need to be in balance to lose weight. You can do it and the hard work you will do is more than worth the rewards you will receive in health and no longer having your past life control todays behavior. Best of health to you.

Tana Hamiter – Goes Green Mentor

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