Thinking About Weight Loss

• Before you begin anything, you need to take a hard look at your past and current eating habits. There is truth to the old adage "you are what you eat." You cannot regularly consume junk without eventually looking and feeling like junk. When you get tired of looking at the excess weight you carry around, then you will realize that only you have complete control over how long that excess weight stays with you.
  
  

Eating to Lose

• Once you decide to cut back on junk and give your body the right kinds of fuel, it's time to consider the plethora of options available. You do not have to sacrifice taste and comfort to reach your weight loss goals. You also don't have to make sweeping revisions in your habits over night. Pick a bad food habit, and replace it with a good food habit. Stop eating fried chicken and fat-laden cheeseburgers and start eating roasted, skinless chicken breasts and grilled turkey burgers. Switch from sugar and chemical-filled sodas to iced tea and water. Simple, small changes, over time, are more effective than trying to change every bad habit in 24 hours.
  
  

Moving the Weight Off

• Movement goes hand in hand with eating, when it comes to losing weight. In order to burn away excess fat, you have to move. The simplest activity, walking, can be combined with the food choices, to help you create a healthy lifestyle that will allow you to lose the excess baggage and maintain a fit, healthy physique in the process. Another important key in burning fat is to build up lean muscle. A pound of fat is, of course, equal to pound of muscle; however, a pound of fat takes up substantially more volume than a pound of muscle. Whether you join a gym, or work out at home using exercise DVDs, the important thing is to move.
  
  

Avoiding The Pitfalls

• Every weight loss plan has setbacks, even a healthy plan. The most important thing to remember is that you can choose to educate yourself. You can choose what you consume, and how you move throughout your life. You know the results of how you've been living which made you unhealthy. You now can choose what to change in order to get the results you want.