sport n entertaiment

by K Vaze

Created on: December 04, 2008

Losing weight is not rocket science, but still it seems harder to accomplish than building one for most of us. Why losing weight becomes such a challenge? .Is it your lifestyle? , Is your will power letting you down? Or have you caught the obesity epidemic which is becoming far too common? More often than not the reasons are combination of all these factors, and some times more pathological reasons like hormonal imbalance.

Today life is on fast track. We don't have seconds to spare, most wish there were 48 hours in a day. People are overworked, stressed and tired to do anything at the end of the day. We can't change our routines and lifestyle at the height of our careers, we just think oh maybe not this week, or this year, may be when I have more time on my hands, or maybe when my kids grow up, and so on. It usually just doesn't happen until you finally retire, and by that time you have already done the damage. It takes more time to repair the damage than it would have to prevent it in the first place. So what should we do to lose weight and keep it off in today's busy lifestyles and fast food culture? Here are some pointers.

Start now and be done with the excuses

If you are like me you are thinking, yeah, I should lose some weight, improve my lifestyle, and start exercising and so on. But when the time comes to act, we begin by saying, "oh I can't start right now because!" we come up with many different reasons every time. Well my advice is, stop making excuses and start right now, no matter what you are doing, or where you are, whether you are reading this in front of computer, or at work or at library. Don't leave it on some future date. Decide that your next meal will be a healthy one.

Stick with it and don't give up.

Know for a fact that there is no speed dieting, it takes time and commitment. Most of the time what happens is we start dieting, work on it for few weeks and expect our body to respond right away with lost pounds, but actually what happens is your body resists to change at first, then slowly it adjusts to your new eating habits and it takes time, may be few weeks or months for some but it does change and you do lose weight on healthy diet if you stick with it. And if you are a veteran dieter, been there done that kind of person, don't give up, keep trying and just start over again with new enthusiasm.

Maintain a food diary.

I know many of you have heard or tried this before, but it really worked for me. When I wrote down everything I ate during the