Posts Tagged ‘weight loss’

Visualise to lose weight

Wednesday, September 3rd, 2008

One thing you can do to help yourself lose more weight and to stay focused and motivated is visualization. Your mind is very powerful, and can be used as a great help in losing weight.

Just by meditating and day dreaming, one can really improve there chances of meeting there weight loss goals. You simply need to visualize what you want yourself to look like upon completion of your weight loss goals. This image of yourself is brought into your subconscious, and your body will begin reacting accordingly.

If you force yourself to imagine your body as thinner, or more muscular and toned, through time your brain will learn to accept this as your new body image, and your body will conform to this new idea. One of the most important things regarding visualization is to really believe in it. You have to let go of any weight loss failures you have battled, and keep your mind free of negative images and thoughts of your body.

If you can retrain your mind to imagine yourself at your ideal shape and weight, your brain will work hard to make that visualization become reality. Your mind will aid your body in achieving those goals. It is critical to re-program your brain to make yourself believe you can stay fit and lose weight. If you think of yourself as fat and out of shape, your mind will work to m

Your mind can be a very good weight loss partner, and you can use your new body image as inspiration any time you are having trouble staying on track. Visualize yourself as lean and healthy and your mind will work in conjunction with your body to make it so!

Getting Rid of Bad Nutritional Habits

One thing you must do in conjunction with with your visualization is to break your bad habits and develop good ones. Using visualization is going to be very helpful in this and will boost your willpower. Negative habits are a major factor contributing to people being overweight or out of shape, and once you get in the habit of making poor choices nutritionally, they can be difficult to change. Visualize yourself living a healthy life, and abiding by healthy good habits. Your subconcious will not want to fall back on those bad habits, and you will find you keep making healthy choices in your daily life.

Relaxation

Relaxation is the best thing you can do to turn off the outside wrld and slow down your mind. The best time to focus on relaxation is right before going to sleep, or in the morning upon waking up.

Don’t allow yourself to be disturbed while performing these sessions, and avoide being near a phone or other annoyance. Spend twenty minutes focusing on relaxing and breathing deep. Spend the time learning about your body and what it is feeling, also use this time to decompress from your day. Use this time to visualize the new slimmer you, see yourself doing things with friends, or exercising with your new body. Make these mental scenes as detailed and real as possible.

1. Remember to always set a goal for your ideal weight.

2. You must really want to lose weight

3. Visualize yourself at your ideal weight and with your new body

4. Use positive images of yourself at every opportunity

Use these tips everyday to help you lose weight loss. Utilizing visualization and relaxation can lead to many positive healthy things in your life, and is of the utmost importance.

Weight Loss Tips

Tuesday, September 2nd, 2008

There are all kinds of healthy weight lose tips. All one really needs to do is just go online and do a Google search. Anytime you start a weight loss program, you are ecommended to keep a food diary of what you eat, the calories and amount ½ cup, 1 cup, etc. But also how you felt, our emotions have a lot to do with what we eat and when we eat. Weight loss is a complicated project. What we eat, when we eat, what we think and feel, our relationship with food and even where we eat.

But there is a lot of research and help available for everyone working at weight loss. As to keeping a diary which is really helpful, a study showed that the problem was most women did not keep an accurate diary, usually consuming over 1000 calories more than recorded. Who do we think we are kidding? I always think of the old saying, a moment on the lips is forever on the hips. Cheating on my food journal is only kidding me. My success depends on being honest with myself, yours does too.

One thing that helps is to have some snacks handy really helps. I keep a small box in the car with protein bars, water bottle or diet drink. That helps me to skip that stop and the big double arches or some other fast food place where a gut bomb is calling.

I like to keep a container with vegetables cut up and a nice dip for them. I have always got fresh fruit as well. But life is not all vegetables and fresh fruit. Weight loss needs some taste and nutrition. Anyone could think of a milkshake as a nice cold sweet but ice cream is the kiss of death with weight loss as ice cream packs lots of fats and calories quickly. But have you ever made one with yogurt, some 2 percent milk and fresh fruit or even sugar free chocolate. The yogurt is really good for your health as well.

Many people struggle with portion control. Most people eat off of plates that are closer to platters than plates. The bigger the plate the apt you are to over portion what you are eating. Use a small plate and when you fill it up it makes you feel like you are eating much more, the amount of foods could be the same but your emotional self will feel full with a smaller plate or small bowl. I bought a small set of dishes and bowls. They are really small but I do not feel deprived at all, I enjoy keeping my losing weight plan working.

Also serve from the stove and not from the table, It is just too easy to reach for that second or third helping when it is sitting right in front of you. By the way, when you do have seconds try to make it vegetables and not starches you reach for. Make meat a part of a side dish, not the main part of the meal. These tips will help with your success with weight loss. Remember, some common sense and it is all about balance in ones life. It will take time to get back in shape in you have not been active for a few years.