Planning for Your Weight Loss Results

Do you want to achieve effective "weight loss results"? Then it's vital that you learn some of the best methods to use to keep you on track with your weight loss goals. It's easy to neglect the things that could be having a big influence on your making headway in your dieting efforts. Let's have a look at the most common reasons that cause dieting failures for some of us and even weight gain in others. By learning effective methods you can be sure they don't hold back your weight loss results. 

Plan for Success

The first and foremost reason why people either will gain weight or not lose weight is because they simply don't have a good plan in place. It's an absolute must that you know what you will be eating during the day if you want to see the greatest success with your weight loss results. If you come up with a plan and follow it, you will know how many calories you are taking in, how many calories you are burning and can adjust based on your daily calorie intake needs. If you have no plan then you're gambling with your dieting success and chances are you will fail.

Factoring In Personal Preferences 

Another reason for failure is to disregarding your personal preferences. Try to avoid a diet plan that you can't stand. If you do this, you're positioning yourself for failure and disappointment right from the start. While you will have to make some adjustments and will have to give up eating all you want, when you want, find a diet plan you can stick to and maybe even enjoy.

Count All Your Calories

Another big problem some people have is neglecting to factor in and count all the calories they consume each day. Have you said, 'Oh, I ate a little of that, but it doesn't count'? Well, yes, it does. If you want to have successful weight loss results then everything you eat counts. This includes those sugary, high fat beverages you may drink each day. If you aren't including all the calories you consume then you won't see effective results and will question why you aren't losing weight. You must find your recommended daily calorie intake needed for you to lose weight and follow it. You may slip up from time to time and don't beat yourself up for it, just get back on plan as soon as possible.

Increase Exercise and Activity

Last but certainly not least, make sure that you increase your activity levels. Either by a daily exercise routine to simply taking daily walks; don't ignore your physical activity. Increased activity will help you increase your metabolism which can help with your weight loss results. Exercise also helps you to really change the way you look and feel as well as lose weight. An exercise plan of some sort is vital and needed to complete a successful weight loss plan not to mention for your overall health.

Dieting doesn't have to be as gruelling as some people make it out to be. Just invest in a little time first to do some research in finding the right plan for you and stick to it. You can achieve successful "weight loss results". Plan on it!

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Quick Weight Loss Program Adds Weight Rapidly

Who does not want a slim and healthy body? It is not an unusual expectation. Many people have won the battle of building a fit body along with inner health. This is not true for all who have tried to get a fit body, because lots of hard work is required to achieve it. It did not come just by omitting a meal or walking a mile for few days.

People are impatient. They seek immediate solution. People begin to understand the beauty of a fit body after they lose it. So they want to get it back quick by losing weight quick. Losing weight is a slow process. Naturally they have a visual impression of not getting a good look back overnight; they do not adhere to a weight loss program for long. This is the main cause of their failure.

A Quick weight loss diet may sometime become too demanding because it loses weight by low carbohydrate. It only works as long as one stick to the diet plan. When they leave the plan and get back to old diet plan, they gain more weight. Thus, the result of a quick weight loss diet is weight gain because one will not be able to stick to quick weight loss diet for the rest of your life.

It is now scientifically proven that quick weight loss diet does not put any effect on losing excess fat. It is water that one will lose with any rapid weight loss program. That is one gets proof of weight loss by losing water which can be gained again easily. Again losing water make a person dehydrated. Dehydration is not good for anyone. One need to lose extra fat, not water. So do not be a fool by eye-catching commercials and do not go for quick weight loss program.

Slimming soap is another quick weight loss product. These soaps are known to contain Chinese herbs and seaweed which help cut down extra fat by emulsifying during baths. Scientific studies have proved that any soap or product can not emulsify the subcutaneous fat by just applying over the skin. These soaps may improve the skin to look good, better even excellent, but the soaps do not help one emulsify your excess body fat. So these soaps can not lose your weight. Thus, taking this quick weight loss program with a normal diet will help one gain weight only.

Another quick weight loss product is that suppresses the hunger and increases the metabolic rate. It seems quite right for a program of losing weight, but it has some unpleasant side effects. Moreover, being not able to eat by suppressing hunger center does not make us feel better. It fills the mind with dissatisfaction of eating behavior. One cannot live with this feeling happily.

My father is an obese and diabetic patient. He needed to control his diet habit for losing weight and controlling diabetes. He first tried with some drug that decreased his appetite.

He did it with the doctor's advice, of course. With the pill/drug, he was not happy at all. His appetite decreased so much that he could not tolerate any food in front of him. He began to suffer mentally that he can not eat anymore like a normal person. Then he stopped taking the pill and started controlling diet by his own will and determination. Now he takes controlled diet and lives with a peaceful mind that he can eat when he wants. His appetite is intact, but he is dieting on choice.

Finally, the thing is "No pain, no gain". If any person truly want to have a fit and healthy body, by losing weight, then one should try slowly. One should not fall for quick weight loss programs. If one find any program too good to be true, then they are. So always avoid them.

Dr. Md. Mazharul Islam
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Weight Loss Shakes - The Best and Worst Weight Loss Shakes

Weight loss shakes can be the best tool to help you lose those unwanted pounds. If you have been trying to lose weight for the longest and you have not been able to stick to any diet for more that a couple of days, weight loss shakes can be the key to your success.

The problem with most diet plans is that they require a lot of extra effort and preparation which is very hard to do when you have a busy lifestyle. Preparing 3 or 6 meals a day (depending on the diet plan you are following) is extremely hard. I can barely manage to prepare one and that is on a good day. Most often we end up giving up on the diet not because we couldn't handle the foods or we were too hungry, but because it is 8:30PM we just put the kids to bed, we haven't really had any time to cook anything, and we are starving.

So here is where weight loss shakes come into place. It is a lot easier to open a can or whip up a smoothie than it is to go to the store, get the ingredients, cook the meal and hope that we like it. Meal replacement shakes or weight loss shakes are super convenient and they actually help you change your eating habits. They are a lot easier to stick with and that is the key to losing weight.

Now, have you ever been to a health food store or the diet section of your regular grocery store looking for one of these shakes? If you haven't you are in for a real treat. There are dozens of products out there that have the same claims: "easy to use", 'nutritious", "filling", "satisfying", "will help you lose weight". So which one are you going to choose? Here are a couple of the ones that I recommend and a couple of the ones that I would stay away from:

1. Slim Fast: Run the other way! There is nothing to Slim Fast that a cup of chocolate milk cannot cover, plus the tin taste is very prominent. Ok, maybe it has a couple more vitamins, but seriously, you drink a cup of chocolate milk plus a multivitamin and you have surpassed Slim Fast nutritional value. If you don't believe me go to the store and look at the first four ingredients: Fat Free Milk, Water, Sugar, and Cocoa.
2.  Right Size Smoothies: I have heard these smoothies advertised on the radio like crazy. I finally went to the store and looked at their ingredient list hoping to see some decent ingredients... and I was disappointed again. Right Size smoothies have not one but two kinds of artificial sweeteners, Sucralose (generic for Splenda) and Acesulfame K. If a product has anything other than a natural sweetener, I pass. There have been way too many studies to prove that artificial sweeteners have no rightful place in anyone's diet.
3. Medifast Shakes: Medifast has become one of the most popular diet plans lately mainly because they make it super easy for you to follow their plan. I will not take credit away from them, they have helped so many people to lose weight and I hope they help many more. However, their shakes don't really contain enough nutrients to be meal replacement shakes and they have Acesulfame K.
4. Vega Complete Whole Food Health Optimizer: Now we are talking! These shakes are amazing. I couldn't believe it when I saw them. They are all natural and all vegan too. Don't get me wrong I am NOT vegan but the quality of this product is amazing. The only reason I didn't choose them as my very best shake is because most of us are not looking for a vegan product, due to the quality of the protein. I usually look for something with whey protein which is a lot better in terms of body absorption and usage than any vegetarian protein.
5. Shakeology: This is the best of the weight loss shakes that I have tried so far. It is all natural, it has whey protein (which is the only ingredient that prevents the whole shake from being vegan) and it has a ton, and I mean a TON of great nutrients. Probiotics, digestive enzymes, antioxidants, supergreens... If you can think of something healthy, it is probably in Shakeology. And, they don't even advertise it as a weight loss product but as a complete, nutritious, healthy meal.

Weight loss shakes have become so popular that you can find them everywhere. However, make sure you do your own research before actually purchasing any product that you are going to consume.

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