Do you want to lose weight? There are hundreds of diets you can try. Unfortunately most of these diets don't work. It's estimated that 98 per cent of dieters regain all the weight they've lost and more within two years of stopping their diet.
Want to get off the dieting merry-go-round? Here's how.
1. Stop Dieting: Decide to Eat Well
Firstly decide that you'll stop dieting. Give your body a rest. You'll find that if you make sensible food choices and eliminate junk food from your diet, you will in many cases lose weight automatically. The pounds that you're piling on come directly from the sodas, doughnuts, and other junk you eat.
2. Learn to Manage Your Stress
Stress causes many people to gain weight. This may because you comfort-eat, but it may also be because you're not sleeping enough. Stress disrupts the smooth functioning of your body's systems, and leads to health problems, of which weight gain is probably the least serious.
You can manage your stress, very easily. Amazingly the best way to manage stress is also a way which will help you to get off the dieting merry-go-round: exercise. When you exercise each day you burn off the stress hormones which are coursing through your body. At the end of an exercise session you'll feel much more relaxed and you'll be well on the way to losing weight too.
If you know that stress is a real issue for you, consider yoga. Yoga is a great way to eliminate stress from your life permanently.
3. Set Goals for All Areas of Your Life
Sometimes when we're overweight, we can imagine that if we only could lose weight, all our problems would be solved. This is nonsense of course. You'll still have all the problems that you've had before but you'll skinnier.
Focusing on your weight loss alone can create problems in other areas of your life. Start focusing on your life as a whole and decide to improve your life by setting goals, rather than simply focusing on the weight loss. If you're not sure how to set goals, there are many courses available which will teach you how to set and achieve goals. Take one of these courses. You will change your life and a side benefit will be that you will also lose weight.
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