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Weight Loss Milestones: Celebrate Your Successes
If you have more than just a few pounds to lose, it’s not going to happen overnight — even though that what we might want! It took a while to put on the extra weight, so it shouldn’t come as a huge surprise that it takes time to take it back off. Discouraging, right? You need motivation! One way to stay motivated is to set different little mini-goals or weight loss milestones. Don’t forget that each time you reach a milestone you should celebrate your success and how far you’ve come on your weight loss journey. Milestone Setting Varies for Each Person Where you set your weight loss milestones is…
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Motivational Tools To Help with Your Weight Loss Goals
Losing weight is hard work. We can all use a little extra help. This post discusses four different weight loss tools you may want to have on hand. These aren’t all electronic tools — some are low-tech tools that actually don’t cost any money. Either way, each of these tools can help keep you on track and — more importantly — keep you motivated to keep going. Motivation is key, particularly on those days when you’re craving high-calorie foods or don’t want to head outside to exercise. Use these tools to help you reach your weight loss goals. Food and Exercise Journal One of the simplest, yet most effective weight…
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Keeping It Real – Here’s to Steady Weight Loss
Real talk. Let’s talk about real weight loss. What I’m talking about is losing weight in a way and at a rate that’s sustainable. Yes, you can go on one of those miracle liquid diets for 48 hours and lose a few pounds. But it isn’t something you’d want to (or should) be sticking with for the long run. Plus chances are that as soon as you go back to eating normally, you’ll get the weight right back. Let’s think about a case for slow and steady weight loss. You (and I) didn’t put those 30 extra pounds on overnight. Don’t expect to take them off in a matter of…
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6 Ways to Stick to Your Weight Loss Goals
[disclosure] Setting weight loss goals is great, but the hard part is sticking to the plan and reaching your final goal. This entire concept is new for me because I have been a lifelong thin person who never really had to think about her weight and I now want to lose a few pounds – not just tone up. Most of my weight gain is mostly due to the anti-rejection meds and not being able to work out after my transplant. Now that fall is here, the weather is a little less oppressive (Houston) so exercise may be a bit easier. Maybe you want to reset after a fun…
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Make Your Walks Count: How to Improve Your Burn
[disclosure] It’s easy to allow your walk for exercise session become a leisurely stroll around the neighborhood. I’ve been there. But if you’re going to utilize walking as a form of exercise, know that there are some ways to increase your fat burn. How Fast Should You Walk to Burn Fat? It makes sense that to burn fat and ultimately lose weight, you must get your body into fat-burning mode. But just exactly how do you tell your body to burn stored fat instead of pulling from available sugars? By warming up first! First, the Warm Up To wake up your muscles and let them know you’re in this for…
