An Honest Solution to Your Weight Loss Troubles

Losing weight is never easy, and any diet or exercise program that you may try will do you no good if you expect them to do it for you. There is only one true way to effectively lose weight, and you must do that yourself. Absent your efforts, anything else you may try is doomed to failure.

Perhaps, like me, you're forgetting the simple things. I know that when I first began to seriously try to lose weight, I got so caught up in looking for the "fast" or "easy" way that I forgot about the numbers, and the numbers are the only thing that really matters.

With that in mind, let's review some of the basics that you may have forgotten.

People in the medical community will tell you that, to lose one pound of body weight, you must burn about 3500 calories. While true, this is only half of the weight loss equation. To be more accurate, you need to say that, to lose one pound of weight, you need to burn 3500 more calories than you sonsume.

This means that, if you want to lose 2 pounds every month until you reach your goal, than you must burn 7000 more calories than you consume every month. Short of some type of medical intervention (liposuction, etc.), there's just no other way. And, when you think about it, every diet, weight loss pill, or exercise program that you've ever tried was designed to help you to either consume fewer calories, or burn more.

For me, I found that all of the diets and pills weren't necessary. I developed a special program that I call the "push away diet". It only has 2 steps, and, if you practice them for a while, it actually becomes a habit.

First, when you sit down for a meal, don't try to live on "leaves and twigs". Eating foods that you really don't like will only serve to make you frustrated, and frustration is the mortal enemy of effective weight loss.

Instead, just take smaller portions of the foods that you already enjoy. You'll need to be somewhat reasonable in your selections, of course, but I have to think that you know the difference between "sort of" and "really" bad foods.

Then, after you've finished with your (smaller) first helping, "push away" from the table. Stating put will only place temptation an arm's length away, so get away! Go watch TV or, better yet, take a walk. Anything to get away from the food that will surely find it's way inside of you if you stay.

The fact is, if you'll combine my push away diet with just a moderate amount of increased physical activity, you will lose weight.


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The author is a contributing editor of the RemedyScribe.com website, where he writes on how to lose weight without dieting.