1. Realize the importance of your decision of loosing weight and understand how it will change your life. Even if you plan to lose few pounds, it will improve you general state of health mentally and physically. Though stop only dreaming and thinking about it, start to act actually. You will not get model body at once, but you will start to see changes and feel better for sure. Stick to this plan and losing 25 pound in 6 weeks will look like piece of cake.
2. Keep track of what you eat and how much you eat. Make a journal where you will write down all you food intake and calories. There, you can enter your weight loss goals and any activities you do. You can also keep a notebook journal of all your information.
3. Start with easy workouts and don’t get yourself exhausted. Anything can be good for the beginning: walking in park, doing yoga, riding bike, or roller-skating. Your target for the start will be to burn at least 500 calories through the workouts.
4. Eat about six (small) meals each day. Eating more often, but fewer calories, will boost your metabolism and still lower your intake.
5. Try to make your daily food intake around the number 1200-1500 calories. You do not need to go hungry with this amount of food. It may help to think in terms of eating 200-250 calories per meal. You have to understand how little our body really needs to stay healthy and not hungry. All the rest is overeating, extra calories that you don’t need. Eat small plates and don’t eat when you are not really hungry.
6. Forget about scales for the first 2 weeks, as you will not see any obvious changes in the beginning of diet and this might make you very disappointed and turn you off.
7. Completely eliminate chips, candy and soda, and high calorie foods. Choose to eat fruit for snacks and substitute water for beverages.
8. Realize the calorie content of your favorite foods. If these foods are too high in calories, find foods you like that are lower in calories and eat them instead. Don’t compromise.
9. Don’t pay attention to what others are saying. Be yourself and lose weight because YOU want to loose it not because it’s some popular tendency.

 Tips

• Do what you can to reduce additional calories. Don’t use mayonnaise or butter. Don’t buy snacks when you doing groceries.
• Scale only once per week at the same time.
• Drink water instead of any other liquid.
• Keep motivated and don’t give up no matter what.

 

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