All that stands between your determination and your goals are your excuses. This time, don't give up on your goal to get a healthier, more-fit body. Here are a few tips to reach your goals.
Pick the right diet for you and stick to it for the rest of your life. Don't think about it as a diet but as a way of life. If you are overweight, probably you've been eaten too much of the wrong foods for too long. While it's true that you might be overweight due to a disease or the wrong diet, there's a way to fix this. Many people think that what they have been eaten since they were very young is healthy because they are not ill at the present time.
However, some foods contribute with empty calories, in other words, they don't offer the nutrients your body needs, but they do contribute with the necessary calories to keep functioning. These foods with no nutrients must be eliminated from your shelves, refrigerator and shopping lists forever, not during the time of diet. It's a mistake to think that after dieting, you are going to stuff yourself with chips, hamburgers and sweets.
While you can still have unhealthy foods from time to time as a guilty pleasure, they must remain as that, just a guilty pleasure and under no circumstances must be the core of your daily diet. Why? Because those are bad habits and you will gain weight back again, plus they silently damage your health in terms of cholesterol, blood pressure, insulin intake, which can potentially lead to diseases.
Willpower isn't voluntary, but necessary. If this is not your strong suit, you need to drum it up. This can only come from you. You cannot buy or get it from anybody. Every time you are tempted to slack off or quit, or are simply discouraged, you have to shake off what you want at that moment and focus on your long-term goal and think of how that would obstruct it. Then start over with proper attitude which values your goals of good health and an admirable physique over a temptation of having something tasty for 10 seconds in your mouth. Remember that it takes 21 days to create a habit, then everything will be easier. However, it only takes one day to break a habit.
Eat to to keep for being hungry, not to satisfy it. Many people make the mistake of becoming really hungry before eating. This is reason number for overeating and eating the wrong things such as fast foods, over-salted, over-sugared, and processed foods. The solution is to eat often enough to keep you from getting hungry - five or six times a day.
Follow one simple rule every time you eat. Nutritious meals, smaller than the combined volume of your two fists, should be seen as a fuel to whatever activity you are going to do next. That way you can measure how much food you should eat at one sitting. You shouldn't have to waste your time counting calories, just know what type of food and the quantity of it that you have to eat.