5 Simple Eating Habits for Anyone to Lose Weight

By Noah Michael

Weight loss and weight gain are all about the little things we do, or don't do, every day. It is very hard not to gain weight if you work a desk job or lead a sedentary lifestyle. When you combine this daily inactivity with unhealthy eating habits it is virtually impossible not to go up in size. However, if you can learn some simple, daily good habits, you can improve your health dramatically.

1. Drink water instead of soda. Soft drinks are dead calories, they have no nutritional content and if you are in the habit of drinking sodas, they really add up fast. If you have a bottle of water instead of a soda just once a day you cut out enough calories to lose a pound every three weeks.

2. Eat often. One of the disorienting thing about starting up a healthy lifestyle is that you may actually be eating a lot more, or at least a lot more often. You should eat a small portion of food every 3 hours. This is a challenge for those who've become accustomed to working through lunch then coming home famished and wolfing down a big meal. The human body was built for survival and at any sign of lack of food or starvation means the body will hold onto its fat stores as if life itself hung in the balance, because, well, it did. Because of this, skipping meals will make it harder to lose weight. You need to fool your body into thinking starvation is the furthest

3. Never leave home without your veggies. There aren't always a lot of healthy eating options when you're out and about and since you should never go more than a few hours without eating, you should always bring a bag or container of vegetables. There is no reason anyone can't bring along a bag or carrot sticks. If you can substitute a serving of vegetables for a bag of chips or a candy bar just once a day then you will eliminate enough calories to lose another pound every three weeks.

4. Eat lots of chicken and fish. Learn to love it. Chicken and fish are both very low calorie and very high protein. If you can make chicken and fish the staples of your dinnertime fare you will lose an astonishing amount of calories over time. These lean meats are so low in calorie to begin with that most preparation methods and side-dishes still result in a fairly low calorie meal. Contrastingly if you prepare a meal with beef as the main course, every dash of olive oil and extra dinner roll is that much more likely to send your daily calories over the limit.

5. If you eat out, you can still make some healthy choices. Anyone who has been on a diet knows the dread of needing to eat at a fast-food or sit-down restaraunt due to a social event or even just because of a lack of other options. The dieter may end up feeling obligated to order something calorically ruinous. The slope is very slippery considering the mind-game most dieters are engaged in, trying to deny themselves their favorite foods. A birthday dinner with friends has surely been the end of many a promising diet. However, these days you really have a lot of options. We live in an age where Carls Jr. will wrap your burger or chicken sandwich in lettuce instead of bread and cheese. If you choose to eat at an establishment where the menu is not printed on the wall, you should absolutely not hesitate to ask how your meal is prepared. Even some minor adjustments to your meal (hold the cheese, please) can make a big difference in the long run.

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The Most Powerful Tool for Fat Loss

By Chaney Weiner

We are so conditioned by the TV, media, and the fitness industry to view losing fat as a process that involves eating right and exercising. In addition we are overloaded with information coming from all different directions all promising that a particular person has the “answers” in the form of the “best” exercise program or the “best” diet. What we don’t see too often on TV or in the media or in the fitness industry for that matter is the most important tool for losing fat permanently and for creating the body of your dreams, the role of the mind, and most importantly the sub conscious mind.

Why don’t you see too much written in magazines or in the media on the importance of the subconscious mind in fat loss? I read where some writers were stating that the role of the mind and motivation in fat loss is not “tangible and that the readers won’t get it. How can one expect to lose fat if one neglects the most important part of the fat loss process because one may “not get it”? Training and programming you mind for fat loss is no different than training your body. You have to work your “mental muscles” in the same way that you work your bodies’ muscles.

Additionally and most importantly is having the right information in the right order and applying that information is what yields the right results. If it was all about having the right diet and exercise program then everyone would have the body of their dreams. All the information about how to lose fat and achieve the body of your dreams is out there. What isn’t out there is how to train your mind for fat loss success in addition to your nutrition and your exercise program and the right order in which to go about it.

The first step in training your sub conscious mind for fat loss success is to create a detailed and powerful vision of how you want to look and to hold that image in your mind. Once you have that image then you need to create the feelings and emotions behind how you feel in your “ideal” body. Once you develop this habit of how you want to look on a daily basis and have the “feeling” behind it, it makes the nutrition and exercise process that much easier.

Remember that your sub conscious mind is responsible for approximately 96-98% of your actions and behaviors and is the power center. It is your brain’s software and can be programmed for success. Thus it is the most powerful tool for anything you do in life and fat loss is no exception. No matter what your situation is or was it can be changed and each of us has 100% control over that.

The best exercise programs and nutritional programs in the world are useless if one has not properly conditioned their sub conscious mind for permanent fat loss. We have always been taught to have will power and persistence, which is what most TV ads and the media conditions us to believe and it is the power of the mind that paves the way for permanent fat loss 100% of the time. We need to believe it first before we see it!!!

Chaney Weiner is a performance enhancement specialist and motivational coach. He has created a unique system of training that incorporates fitness training along with reprogramming the mind for success that helps both men and women change their bodies to look, feel, and perform better faster than ever before. Visit http://www.achievingbodiesfitness.com to receive your free copy of “The 24 Best Motivational Fat Loss Tips”