If you find yourself needing to lose weight, you’re not alone. But saying you want to lose weight and actually watching those pounds disappear are two different things. Let’s be honest – we’re creatures of habit and we don’t make change easy. That’s why you want to use these 4 ways to motivate yourself to lose weight fast.

1. Play the If I Do vs. the If I Don’t Game

Grab a piece of paper. Draw a line down the middle and one side write “If I Do” and on the other side write, “If I don’t.” You’re looking into the future now. What will your life be like a month, a year, five years from now? If you take action and lose the weight or if you don’t take action and lose the weight. Be honest with yourself.
For example, if I do lose the weight in one year, I’ll be able to eat what I want without worrying about getting fat. Or If I don’t lose the weight in five years, I’m likely to be diabetic. This is a great exercise for motivating yourself – just be real!

2. Don’t Let Anything Get in Your Way

If you have decided to lose the weight and look great don’t let anything get in your way. You can achieve your goal when you set your mind to it, but you need to have a plan. For example, you decide you are going to exercise 30 minutes on the stationary bike while watching your favorite television show. Or perhaps you’ve decided you are going to go for a 15-minute walk after work every day. Don’t let excuses stop you from doing what you have set out to do. It’s easy to say put it off. I’m tired, I have company, I must do laundry. Stick to your guns and you’ll see the pounds start to roll off. It’s not unrealistic to lose 5 pounds a week. So, in just a month you can be 20 pounds lighter.

3. Reward Yourself

If any of you have ever trained a dog, you know how important rewards are. They’re important to you too so be sure to set some. For example, if I lose 20 pounds in two months, I will treat myself to a meal at my favorite restaurant.

4. Bet With Yourself

The more extreme you make the bet, the more you have to lose. Go to a friend and tell them, “If I don’t lose 20 pounds in the next two months, I’ll walk your dog for a month.” If you want to motivate yourself even more “Go to your boss and tell him if you don’t lose 20 pounds in the next two months, you’ll work for free for two weeks.
These are four great ways to motivate yourself to get the job done. You can lose that extra weight and you can do it fast.

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Weight loss is a battle many of us find ourselves facing. Whether it’s 10 pounds or 100 pounds, you can do it, and you can enjoy quick weight loss too. Let’s look at some great ways to speed up your weight loss.

One way to speed up your weight loss is to speed up your metabolism. One sure fire way to increase your metabolism is to get active. When you increase your muscle mass you speed up your metabolism. Another way to boost your metabolism is eat small amounts more often.

Rather than three meals a day, go for six small meals a day. Eating foods that are high in protein and foods that are spicy can both improve your metabolism. Give up coffee and start drinking green tea. There are all kinds of evidence that green tea speeds up the metabolism. You should set an alarm to go off every four hours to remind you to eat. Sound ridiculous? Well it’s not. This technique ensures you eat smaller meals throughout the day, an effective metabolism booster.

Finally have a sauna. Being hot can boost the metabolism by 20%. You should always talk to your physician before using a sauna. A very hot bath can help too. While it may not be as effective as a sauna, it still helps.

Losing weight is all about change. You need to change your eating habits, your exercise patterns, and your lifestyle choices. You need to create a plan of action, motivate yourself, and then get going. Throw your body a curve ball and change things up rather than always doing the same thing. With this method you’ll see the fastest weight loss. And remember to make positive choices in your life now that you’ll be able to do for the rest of your life.

Here’s a little secret many don’t know about. Lemon juice speeds up weight loss. It contains citric acid, which slows gastric emptying time so you feel full longer, and eat less. Your diet should be high in protein, complex carbs, and fiber, while it should be low in fat and simple carbs. Most of us have trigger foods we just can’t put down once we start eating them. Storing these foods in the freezer makes it harder to carry out that behavior thereby breaking the cycle.

Finally, you need to incorporate exercise into your weight loss program. Cardio exercises combined with weight training will optimize and tone your muscles while burning the unwanted fat. You can easily lose 3 to 5 pounds a week and those numbers can be much higher if you are truly committed.

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The topic of losing weight can often elicit “groans.” There’s no need you know. In fact, did you know that cardio training can lead to quickly building muscle mass and losing weight. Cardio training can be as simple or as complex as you like. Walking, jogging, and cycling are all good forms of aerobic exercise that can quickly burn body fat. Aerobic exercises are a great choice for the entire body.

There are all kinds of sites promoting the “secret to successful weight loss” online but it’s not as complicated as we might want to make it out to be. If you want to lose weight quickly then you must change the ration between calorie intake and calorie use. You can either increase your exercise or decrease your calories. The best plan of attack is to combine the two. Reduce your calories by no more than 500 and increase your activity with a daily 30 minutes of cardio a day.

When you build muscle, you burn fat. Strength training builds muscle. Squats, lunges, and pushups require no equipment and are very effective. Free weights are also very effective – dumbbells can be purchased for cheap and cans always work too. Don’t make this more expensive or complicated than it must be.

Fat burning aerobic exercise is different than recreational exercise. For example, tennis and golf are recreational exercise and won’t do a thing for your weight loss, or very little. Then again aerobic exercise such as running, walking, and jogging for 30 minutes without stopping will get the heart pumping and the fat melting.

For a while it was thought that low intensity exercises would do the job of burning fat, but that myth quickly dismissed. If you don’t get your heart rate up, you won’t burn fat. When you have a high intensity aerobic workout you will consume around 70% of the body’s energy. This means calories are burnt and that includes fat cells.

Your cardio workout can be as little as 10 to 15 minutes but a 45 to 60-minute workout is the most effective for burning fat. Don’t think for a minute that more is better, because after 60 minutes the amount of weight loss goes down not up.

Cardio training can help you lose weight and build muscles quickly but when it comes to healthy weight loss that you can maintain; you’ll want to ensure you have a healthy lifestyle.
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