Weight Loss Tips
81. Get Ready to Achieve Your Goal. It sounds strange, but if you still view yourself as a fat person, you’ll stand a risk of regressing back to your old ways. Prepare your mind to be a new, thinner, healthier version of yourself.
82. Get At-Home Exercise Equipment. Taking away any excuse for not working out is key. Rain or shine you’ve got to get moving.
83. Link Losing Weight to a Different Long-Term Project. Accomplishing two big goals will help keep your mind distracted from cravings, and will allow you stay motivated on two different levels.
84. Be Present During Mealtime. Be sure you sit down and enjoy your food. Try turning off the TV and really concentrating on how things taste.
85. Get Rid of the Artificial. Manmade chemicals might make things taste better, but they’re typically not good for the body. Sticking to natural foods and flavorings is best.
86. Consult with Your Doctor Before Starting Any Diet Program. This advice is often given as a disclaimer, but it really should be followed, especially if you have a lot of weight to lose.
87. Know That There’s No Secret Formula. The key to losing weight isn’t held under lock and key anywhere, so don’t be lured in by a program promising you the secret that no one else knows about.
88. Get a Fitness Gadget. The Fitbit is one such gadget that can track the steps you take, and can graph out your progress online, even turning it into less mundane things like climbing Mt. Everest.
89. Go Ape! You don’t see monkeys going on diets. They eat when they’re hungry, stop when they’re full, and they know how to relax. Take a page from their notebook and devolve a bit.
90. Avoid Seasonal Mood Swings. If you live in a climate where it’s cold and gray for many months, you have to watch out for things like Seasonal Affective Disorder. Stay positive during these months and be aware of mood changes.
91. Cut Out Movies. Movies are great now and then, but they can encourage us to spend 2+ hours parked in front of the TV, or at the theater with a big tub of popcorn and a soda.
92. Stop Eating When You Feel 80% Full. This is a way to make sure that you don’t push yourself past the point of being full. By the time the full signal hits, you’ll have already stopped eating. Perfect!
93. Give Yourself a Non-Food Reward. Come up with some things that you love doing, or having, and set milestones on your way to your goal weight. It’s rewarding good behavior without using food as the reward.
94. Make a Workout Mixtape. OK, so nobody uses tapes anymore, so make it an MP3 playlist of your favorite workout songs. Only listen to them when you’re working out, and it will be a way to make your workouts special.
95. Take Saunas. There’s debate as to whether these can help you lose weight, but there’s one thing that no one argues about: they feel great! They can relax sore muscles after a workout as well.
Sauna is similar to mild exercise, it burns about 300 calories per average session. Regular sauna treatments combined with a healthy diet and moderate exercise will help you lose weight and stay fit and healthy.
96. Look as Good as You Can. You don’t have to wait until you lose the pounds before looking your best. Part of the feel good process is to look your best, and you can start doing that right now.
97. Equip Yourself. Need hiking boots to go hiking? Need a pedometer to count your steps? Don’t miss out on activities because you’re not well-equipped.
98. Get a Series of Colonics. This will not only help your colon work better going forward, but can also help to clean out some of the accumulation over the years.
99. Get Objective Feedback. If you’ve gotten accustomed to seeing a fat person in the mirror, you might be a bit hard on yourself when you start showing real results. Let others be your eyes and let their compliments trump your negative view.
100. Do It For You. Many people have many reasons for wanting to lose weight. But one that gets overlooked is just doing it for you. There’s really no better reason than that, and all other reasons come back to you anyway.
