I was reading your post and thinking this is me! I think losing weight this time of year is really tough, trying to maintain your current weight is even a challenge during the holidays !! I m a fan of Weight Watchers because you re allowed to eat the things you like to eat...just not so much of them. I find it better to have a taste of junk food than to have to completely avoid it forever !Portion sizes and exercising are the big key factors ! good Luck !
1. Excercise in the mornings, you burn more fat.2. Join Weight Watchers, there brilliant and you can still eat chocolate.3. Have a day off, a day that you stick to your diet but you allow yourself that special treat that you have been craving all week. 4. If you spill up, forget about it, start again, no one is perfect. This worked for me and i lost 30 pounds in 3 months. Good Luck.
Well if you know that you are not going to have the will power to do it then why even ask for help if you are not even going to try and help yourself? Its really not that hard to just tell yourself no .
Yes, I have advice. The first thing you need to do is to come to grips with your weight problem. 180 pounds and 5 4 tall is seriously overweight. I am a male and I m 6 1 tall and my optimal weight is about 185 pounds. Think about that. You weigh almost as much as a taller than average male should weigh.I don t say that to embarrass you or to scoff at you. I have had yo-yo weight problems myself, and can sympathize. But losing weight is 90% mental. You have to somehow get yourself to understand that you are treating yourself all year long, so this Christmas season is not merely once a year - if it was, you wouldn t be 180 pounds. You re obviously overeating all year long. Don t argue. Understand it. If you weren t overeating, you would not weigh 180 pounds.Accept it. Embrace it. You re not a bad person. It s o.k. Just understand it. And ask yourself what you need to do about it? What s the simplest answer?I ll tell you: eat less.How?Educate yourself. Use sites like calorieking.com and look up the calories of all the things you eat. Buy a kitchen scale and weigh things. And learn how many calories they have. It won t take long before you intuitively know by looking at quantities of food how many calories are in them.Buy yourself a Polar watch (http://www.polarusa.com/consumer/aw/defa�� Wear it for 24 straight hours and measure how many calories you burn a day. Then understand that you MUST consume fewer calories than your body burns. Even if it s just 300 calories less - you will go on the road to reduction.O.k. - working out. You don t feel like working out. O.k. So, just commit to a minimal amount. Go for a brisk 15 minute walk every morning. You have 15 minutes. Don t deny it. Put your shoes on and walk hard for 7.5 minutes away from your house, and 7.5 minutes back to your house. When you decide you want to, up it to 30 minutes.The main thing is eating clean. You can t have sugary/salty snacks or treats. You re like a cigarette smoker. I know it s hard to lay off them, but you just have to convince yourself that feeling good is better than eating a cookie or fries or cake.Once you determined with your watch how many calories your body burns (say 2000), commit to only eating 1700 per day. Divide that into 4 to 6 equal portions, and eat that many times a day. Do not eat at restaurants. Make your food at home.Drink a gallon of water a day. Do not drink beverages that have calories, and do not drink soft drinks (even diet).
Well, you have to make exercise a priority. If it means getting up earlier to do it before work then that s what you have to do if you re serious about wanting to be fit.That s what I do because I m exhausted after work and could never work out at night. Drink a lot of water everyday, especially before a meal and again after (especially if you still feel hungry).I buy protein powder in a large bag at Costco, it s relatively inexpensive and you can make your own shakes by adding healthy ingredients, such as fruit (in moderation), natural peanut butter (also in moderation) and the Jello Pudding mix - fat free/sugar free adds some great flavors without many carbs at all.This is much less expensive than protein waters, slimfast etc. and tastes much better.As for the holiday tempting treats - tell yourself when you see them that nothing tastes as good as being fit looks .Good luck to you!
