Set Point Weight Loss Strategies

You may not know this, but your body has a weight where it's comfortable at. This is called it's "set point". Say you lose weight but gain it right back. That's your body's set point at work. Sure you lowered your weight, but you didn't lower your body's set point... the weight it's comfortable at.

Since your body wasn't comfortable at your new weight, it basically made life hard enough for you to slip up and help persuade you to regain that weight so it could feel comfortable again. So understand that in order to lose weight permanently over the long term, you also need to pay attention to your body's set point. I'll get to that shortly.

Usually as a person ages, their set points gradually increase as well. This leads to weight gain. Now, your set point isn't a fixed weight. It changes both up and down depending mostly on your recent diet efforts and your recent exercise efforts.

I will leave diet to another discussion. But there is just 1 main exercise that beats all others when it comes to lowering your body's set point and helping you to maintain any weight loss. That exercise is walking.

Yep. Boring. I know.

However, if you're losing weight or lost weight and you don't want to gain it back, then you better start walking consistently. I mean dedicated walks. Don't even try to say you walk a lot around the house or throughout the day. Unless you're a mail carrier, I doubt you walk enough.

Ideally, and studies have proven this, you should take at least 10,000 steps in a day in order to lose weight or maintain a healthy weight. Most Americans take less than 4,000 steps each day. Pathetic.

Think of walking like this. You have 1,440 minutes in a day. If you can't spare 30 minutes of that to walk for your health, then you need to take a look in the mirror. That 30 minutes represents only 2% of your time each day.

Everyone is busy these days. We can all use that excuse. But it's just that, an excuse. You're health is the most important thing that you have. So don't treat it as the least important thing in your day.

Let me put this to you in terms of dollars. If you were to walk for just 30 minutes a day for at least 5 days every week, you'll probably end up saving over $2,000 a year in health related costs. Maybe not this year, but definitely in future years. It adds up. So invest in yourself now! Consider walking like a retirement account. Now get walking.

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How To Lose Weight Fast With A Few Simple Steps

When most people make a resolution to lose weight they all go through the same phases; at first you are incredibly motivated, you sign up at your local gym, pay hundreds of dollars on diet supplements and weight loss pills. After a week or two you fail to see any results and the motivation begins to dwindle. By the end of the month you're back on the couch eating chips and watching TV. Sounds familiar doesn't it? So what's the best way to lose weight?

The secret to fast weight loss is to not rush into it, but rather to take moderately progressive steps. The first step should always be your diet. We tend to neglect the positive effects of food but it has been scientifically proven that the types of food we consume and also when we consume them will have a tremendous impact on how your body will burn fat.

Here are a few tips you can try to ease the process of changing your diet:

For breakfast instead of using white bread for your toasts, switch to whole wheat. Once it's toasted you will barely notice the difference in taste. Instead of sugary cereal have a bowl of oatmeal. You will feel more energized for the entire morning until lunch.

If you bring your lunch to school or work, you may be limited as to what you can eat. At the least try to include a vegetable and a fruit for the vitamins and proteins.

For dinner always have a green vegetable, whether it's a salad, broccoli, asparagus, it will help the digestion and is full of proteins to help you lose weight fast. If you are used to having dessert after dinner start by cutting back, having it only once every 2 days and eventually eliminate it completely.

By changing your diet habits gradually not only will you begin to notice results fast but you will also become motivated to make the full switch to a healthier diet.

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Weight Loss Motivation - 10 Tips for Sustainability

Weight loss motivation is the bane of all dieter's lives. It comes and goes like the wind. For many of us, keeping hold of it is like trying to control the elements themselves - impossible. That is until you realise that a dieting mindset is the route cause of your loss of motivation!

You may also be hooked into the belief that somewhere there is a 'quick fix' that will see you shed your excess pounds quickly and easily. Worse still you may even believe that it is your fault when the diets don't work. Therefore to create a successful change that leads to healthy eating habits we need to update our mindset to one that motivates.

Think about it for a moment. What is it that a dieting mindset generates the most of? Negativity - a constant focus on food that is labelled by us as 'bad'; the feeling of failure when our motivation and will power wane; the emotions of guilt, shame and self-loathing and of course the constant nagging feeling that we are 'Not Good Enough'. Negativity cannot sustain motivation in the long-term, only positive attitudes and beliefs can do that.

So let me ask you a question, "When did you ever buy a product or service (except for a diet related one) and blame yourself when it did not work?" That's what we have been doing for decades. It really is time to focus on the truth (from over 3 decades of research) that prove diets don't work, for most people, as a long-term solution to weight issues.

The truth is that diets are the cause of much of our weight gain (dieters are 3 times more likely to become obese) and our loss of motivation. Not convinced? Since when did negative thoughts or feelings ever motivate us to do anything? How can we possibly feel motivated in the long-term when we believe it is our fault we can't lose weight and that we are just 'Not Good Enough'?

The answer is you can't sustain motivation based on the foundations of negative belief systems, thoughts and feelings. So where does our motivation truly come from? The reality is that it comes from life and mindset changes that have their basis in the one thing that keeps us happy, joyful and motivated - self-love.

So what are the ten top tips for changing your mindset to one that motivates us to lose weight permanently?

1. Believe that you are perfectly normal and not a failure;

2. Banish guilt and shame from your life - they only lead to more comfort eating;

3. Slowly start to find ways of loving your body image as it is - you can still love it but want to change it. This way when you lose weight you will keep on loving your body and feeding it with the fuel it really needs.

4. Acknowledge that food restricting brings with it craving, binging and overeating - make all food good whilst considering the frequency with which you eat them;

5. Learn the habits with food that people who have never needed to diet use - how to replace comfort eating with comfort loving;

6. Start to eat 'consciously' in touch with your satiety levels and how foods make you feel physically and emotionally;

7. Train yourself to eat smaller portions of more healthily balanced foods - cut down not out;

8. Tell yourself that all food is good and then carefully think about what you really want to eat that is loving and caring for your body;

9. Increase the 'happiness hormones' in your body by taking regular exercise that is fun and enjoyable - you will never stick at it otherwise.

10. Exchange the battle with life and food with a search for loving experiences and actions that 'Feed Your Soul'. The more you fill yourself with love, the less stressed you are and the less you need food as a comforter.

It really is possible to lose weight permanently and find the weight you were born to be when you change a predominantly negative mindset for a positive one. How do I know? Well, I personally have lost over 5 stone and kept it off for several years.

Chrissie Webber is a published author, business coach and leadership trainer. As Managing Director of Life-Shapers Ltd she is developing her online weight-loss motivation company http://www.lifeshapers.co.uk into a franchise of Life Shapers Weight Management Coaches.

Her track record in the area of weight management is firstly a personal one. Following a lifetime of weight issues - at her heaviest, over 21 stone and a massive size 30 - she has personal experience of diets and their devastating effect on size and psyche.

With a background in nursing, psychology and business coaching, coupled with a lifetime of dieting, she developed and successfully used a series of models and tools that enhance weight loss motivation. Now over 5 dress sizes smaller and having sustained her weight loss for several years she has written a book about her motivational journey. Weight Loss, Life Gain - A Motivational Journey to Permanent Weight Loss was published in January 2008 by Accent Press.

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Wii Weight Loss - Yes You Can!

Is there really such a thing as a Wii weight loss program? Unlike other game consoles, the Wii requires that you move your body, arms and legs, to guide the controller where you want it to go. Some of the sports games and a few others really can give you a workout! Depending on the game, and how physical you want to get with it, you can really work up a sweat by playing for a long period of time!

The best Wii games for Wii weight loss are the games that come with the console: Wii Sports and Wii Play. The best game for Wii weigh loss is definitely Boxing. Two players team up, or one player teams up against the computer. To box, you throw punches, using left, right, upper cut and other punches. Your arms get a great workout, and you can even get a little short of breath. Just make sure you play for a longer period of time, at least twenty minutes or more, to get the full effect.

What about other Wii games? Can you get the Wii weight loss effect from playing any other games? The next best game is bowling. To bowl, you move just the way you would when you bowl at the bowling alley, without having to move forward so much, but if you incorporate the forward walking movement, you can really increase the aerobic effect.

How about tennis? The Wii Sports game disk has full court tennis, and Wii Play has table tennis. Just like with boxing, with tennis you can just stand still and flick your wrist to move the racket. But you can also move your body, move your whole arm, and really get into the game by being more physically active. Is it going to be the same effect you would get with a real tennis match? Probably not, but if your goal is to just use the Wii for Wii weight loss, by moving a lot more when you play, you can really enhance the results.

As for other games, such as soccer, football, and racing games, the effect will be a little different, since many of these you can play while just sitting. With the Wii, though, it's really up to you how much you want to play. Just remember to tighten the wrist strap so you don't throw it through your television or a window or a player standing next to you. Shake that thing and stay in shape with Wii weight loss!

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Creative Weight Loss Tips

Snack Throughout the Day
Contrary to popular belief, snacking throughout the day is much more healthy and likely to result in weight loss than starving yourself and eating only a few large meals. It will help keep your energy levels up and you will be less likely to overeat in one sitting.

Avoid Alcohol
This is probably one of the easiest ways to shed pounds, especially if you are only a social drinker. Alcohol (especially beer and wine) is loaded with empty calories and has nearly seven calories in every gram. If you must have a drink, replace your usual ones with nonalcoholic beer or wine - they have nearly half the calories of the regular stuff.

Drink lots of Water
Drinking water can help stave off hunger and help you eat less. In fact, try drinking a glass of water before each meal to help you eat smaller portions. You'll find that you will feel full without stuffing yourself.

Try Cinnamon Gum
It's said that cinnamon flavor is more stimulating and can keep you satisfied longer than fruity or mint gum.

Sleep In!
Getting enough sleep is essential to help the body rejuvenate and revitalize. Sleep depravation can inhibit weight loss more than you think. Make sure you get plenty of sleep each night (7-8 hours).

Energy Pill
While I would certainly not say that taking a supplement (such as the Zantrex energy pill) is always a guaranteed quick-fix, I do think that it can help jump-start weight loss by encouraging a new and improved lifestyle. Using a weight loss supplement to help shed those first few pounds may just be the motivation you need to sustain long-term weight loss.

Don't Shop Hungry!
Do not...and I repeat...do not go food shopping on an empty stomach! It will only result in impulsive buys of junk food, which is not only bad for your health but perhaps your wallet as well.

Join a Gym
If you have trouble getting motivated to exercise at home, join a gym! Most gyms have free exercise classes for members and you're bound to find one you enjoy. See if they offer hip-hop dance, salsa, cycling, yoga, kick-boxing, etc. Many also offer gender specific classes, perfect for individuals who are not comfortable exercising with the other sex.

Buy a Bathing Suit
It may be 30 degrees out, but go out and buy your absolute favorite bathing suit. Buy it in the size that you are hoping to (realistically) be in the summer and use that as motivation to get yourself in shape!

Spot Reducing In Weight Loss Is A Myth

How many fad diets do you have to waste your hard earned cash on before you realize that spot reduction in weight loss is nothing more than a myth. This myth was developed by the diet industry to take money out of your pocket and waste it on a product that will not deliver any results in your weight loss quest? Yes!! You have been lied to!!

If you are only interested in losing a quick twenty pounds off your butt then I suggest you stop reading here because there really is no way to spot reduce. If you want to lose weight in a specific area you need to melt away the body fat in the way an unlit candle melts in the hot sun. If you want to really be serious about your weight loss then read on because the following information is extremely relevant.

To understand why you can not spot reduce let us look at some basic human anatomy. Let us look at how your muscle and your fat develops around your stomach area. If you have spent the last few years wondering where you placed that six pack your abdomen used to have fear not because it is still there. It is under the fat, it is just hiding from sight. In order to see those muscles you need to eliminate the fat deposits that are masking them. The only way to show off those muscles again would be to not only exercise them but eliminate the fat that is hiding them. You could do crunches from dawn till dark and you still will not be able to "spot reduce" your abdomen. It just simply does not work that way. If you want to spot reduce you are wasting your time and more than likely your money.

If your desire is to lose weight because you are unhappy with your butt or your belly or your whatever... that is great! You just need to realize that you have to tune up the entire body package and not focus on one area. The best way to do this is by eating a better diet and performing some form of exercise that will allow you to burn more calories than you consume in the course of the day. Only after you get your diet under control and your attention is focused on exercise will you be able to start targeting a specific area. The muscles you desire to spotlight can only then can be developed for public display after you have lost the weight that hides them from sight.

If you want to lose weight that is great, I wish you the best. I hope you can do it and do it well. My sincere desire is that you save your money and skip the fad diet and the miracle pills. There is no modern miracle pill that will melt away the pounds. If your desire is to lose weight then plan on doing it the only way possible. That way is to eat right and burn more calories. If you want to spend some money on weight loss solutions then get a treadmill or a weight set or just a good pair of walking shoes and then use them.

Weight loss miracle? No, it will be more like a weight loss journey. That journey can begin right here and right now! It is all up to the choices you make and those choices soon become your past and your past is what you must live with, when it comes to weight loss that is!

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Weight Loss As An Added Bonus

The truth is that the astounding weight loss being achieved on the green tea diet is just one of the numerous miracle-like benefits of simply drinking it. The tea diet is also widely recognized as a substance that can protect against many different cancers such as stomach cancer, ovarian cancer, cancer of the colon, oral cancer, prostate cancer, and breast and cervical cancers. Another antioxidant in tea diet is also being studied as a potential cure for cancer. The diet is actually a dietary supplement which is composed of natural ingredients such as green tea.

Due to the popularity of recent findings, green tea has almost become synonymous with weight loss and diet. For instance, instead of drinking coffee and cream which area high in calories, the weight loss programs can not only save you from taking in too much calories but also let you take in several healthful substances like polyphenols and flavonoids. There are a large number of remedial benefits of drinking green tea and research has confirmed that consuming a small amount like just one cup a day can greatly assist in weight reduction and fat burning. The great thing about the weight loss benefit of green tea extracts is that it does not have any adverse side-effects.

With its countless health and weight loss benefits, these dieting supplements are fast replacing ephedra as the leading weight loss product in the market. Although green tea weight loss supplements also contain caffeine this doesn't seem to have the negative effects found in other products with caffeine. People who use these supplements in studies will loose approximately 2 pounds per month. Yes, believe it or not, more and more often you'll find green tea (or green tea extract) included in the compilations of many of the more popular weight loss supplements today.

As opposed to black and oolong tea which undergoes full oxidization, green tea diet is only gently steamed, preserving the natural antioxidants in its original form. A green tea diet is one of the easiest lifestyle changes to make. The tea diet is no different that it not only recommends but requires the use of simple exercises to be completed along with the consumption of the dietary supplements.

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How To Lose 25 Pounds Fast

Let me start by saying that you can lose 25 pounds and even more just by following a healthy lifestyle, exercising more, and keeping a sensible diet. However, I would like to suggest a diet method which can help you to do it faster.

I'm referring to the Calorie Shifting method which has been steadily gaining popularity over the past few years. By using a Calorie Shifting method based diet (and there are currently 2 such diets on the market) you can avoid the biggest hurdle of most diets: the slowing metabolism.

Most diets are basically based on depriving your body of either calories or a specific food group like fat or carbs. Either of these things can lead to an initial weight loss, but can also slow your metabolism down considerably so that you'll see a gradual decline in your weight loss rate, and may even gain it all back when you quit dieting. This is vitally important since I'm sure you won't be satisfied with just losing 25 pounds, you'll want to avoid gaining them back ever again. This is done by constantly shifting your calories to produce a metabolic maintenance state. I know it sounds a bit scientific, but it just works.

The 2 Calorie shifting diets on the market today are called Fat Loss 4 Idiots and Yay Food. You can read a detailed comparison of the 2 on this webpage: Calorie Shifting Diet Review

Each of the 2 diets has its own pros and cons. Fat Loss 4 Idiots has the longer and more proven track record. It can help you to lose 25 lbs fast. However, Yay food can also provide you with the jump start and guidance that you need.

Can you lose 25 pounds in a month with either of these 2 diets? The answer is that it's different for each person. Some may lose 25 pounds in 6 weeks, some may lose 25 lbs in 2 months. A month seems to me to be a little unrealistic, but even if takes twice as long this is still a great weight loss rate.

I personally know of many people who used Fat Loss 4 Idiots with great success. I believe that it can also help you to lose 25 pounds fast.

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How to lose 9 lbs. every 11 days with The Fat Loss 4 Idiots diet.

John Davenport lost over 30 pounds in his twenties after being overweight most of his life. To read more about fast weight loss, click here: How To Lose Weight Fast And Never Gain It Back