Quick weight loss tips

Tip #1: One Step at a Time:
Prepare for success by setting a realistic weight loss goal. Losing just 5% of your starting weight is a tangible goal and can help you begin to:

1. Lower blood pressure and reduce risk for having a stroke
2. Reduce the risk of developing diabetes; or for those already affected losing weight helps to improve insulin function and lower blood sugar levels
3. Reduce cholesterol count

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If you want to lose weight, you know what you need to do. You need to eat less and exercise more. Simple. And yet you don't do it.

The truth is, most of us aspiring skinny people don't need another diet or a new fitness regime. We need a mental regime. We need to figure out how to fuel the willpower and put mind over flab.
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It might be January, but according to registered dietitian Jayson Hunter, now is the time for women that want to look great in a sexy, little mini-skirt to start thinking about warmer weather. Quick weight loss is possible. But it still never happens overnight. Women wanting to lose a dress size fast can use Hunter’s weight loss tips for safe and healthy weight loss. Read more...

Tosca Reno, best selling author of The Eat Clean Diet Book Series and Celebrity Fitness Expert offers her Top 5 Strategic Tips for becoming a leaner person.

Recently CNN Health.com reported that over 100 million Americans make New Year Resolutions with losing weight and saving money as the top 2 on their list. Additionally, about 4 out of 5 Americans don’t stick with their resolutions. Bottom line: Resolutions are easy to make, easy to break. If a person wants to stick with them, they have to develop a strategic plan.
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1. Rearrange your Refrigerator. I now keep all produce, fresh veggies and yogurt on the most predominant shelves. Everything else goes in the drawers, like breads and the husband's junk food! This way, when I'm hungry I see the good stuff first. I also found that by doing this food doesn't go bad as quickly. I haven't thrown a bag of lettuce out in a LONG time.
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New Year's resolutions are on our minds this week, and weight loss is at the top of the list for many.

Weight loss is no easy task. Even talk show queen Oprah Winfrey - who can get serious assistance on anything she wants - admits she finds it difficult to control her weight. She now weighs 200 pounds, up from 160 in 2006, according to an article in the January issue of O magazine.
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For Pam Anderson, the real secret behind her weight loss wasn't learning to eat right or exercise more.
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It was learning to love herself.

“I think a lot of people need to start there,” Anderson said. “Do I really love myself and if not, why, and how can I start doing that?”
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Here's some advice on finding other ways to burn off calories, from the book, "How to Lose 9,000 lbs. (or less)."
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1. "First, if you're going to lose weight, you've got to decide in your mind to do it. It's all mental."

2. "Calories matter. Count your calories and make sure you don't drink your calories. Make sure in the process you stick to a good calorie count, about 2,200 a day for men and 1,750-1,800 for women."
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"The most successful results occur when our goals are gently incorporated into our existing lives," says Espel. "The challenging piece should come in later, once new behavior patterns have been established. In other words, just get off the couch and do something, at least 2-3 times a week initially for whatever length and intensity you can reasonably manage. Most people do too much too soon and end up too sore, injured, or discouraged, and are back at square one before they've left the starting block."
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