10 Top Weight Loss Tips
Positive Steps to Losing Weight. Best Tips for Weight Loss.

1. Find a Reason
   If you don't know why you need to lose weight do you think you will have a chance to succeed? Your reason will be different to mine, but you do need to clearly know why you want to lose weight. Perhaps you want to look good for your husband or wife. Perhaps you want to live to see your children grow up. Perhaps your heart has told you already that carrying too much weight will lead to an early death. Find a reason and you have a chance of success.
   
   
2. Don't lie to yourself
   Don't kid yourself that your not fat so you don't need to lose weight, or you don't eat much so it must be a genetic problem. If you didn't need to lose weight, you wouldn't be reading this webpage right now. If your fat, your fat and that's it. Only you can do something about it, so don't lie to yourself. Do something right now that will take you further down the road to weight loss success. One thing you can do is keep reading this webpage. :)
   
   
3. Write down your goals.
   You need to commit yourself to reaching attainable goals. Write it down, show it to someone who will give you encouragement, absolutely commit yourself to attaining that goal. It's also good to write down a date for when you want to be that slim figue that you desire. Go on, go get that pen and write down your goal now. How serious are you?.
   
   
4. Make a plan.
   Sit down and write a rough plan on how you are going to cut down on those calories. Think about the foods you now eat, which ones need to be cut completely from your eating habits and which food will be best to eat to attain the weight loss goal you have set for yourself. Write in an exercise guide. What days will you go for a walk, will you walk in the mornings or evening, what other exercises could you do to help burn those calories?
   
   
5. Get a set of scales
   If you don't know what you weigh now, how can you know what you need to lose? Scales never lie so you can look at a set of scales as your best friend. The scales will tell you exactly how you are going, use them each week to see your progress. Buy a good set and get to love using them.
   
   
6. Take a before picture.
   Strip down to your underwear and get someone close to you take that before shot. Print it out, post it on a blog, show others why you are ashamed of yourself. If your too ashamed to do it, then you really need to get it done. There is no better motivation to lose weight than detesting the sight of yourself. The upside is the feeling of pure pride you will have after taking off 10, 20 or 50 kilos. Bet you want your photo taken then! (That's me on the right and it hurts to see that.)
   
   
7. Eating the right foods.
   Make a list of foods you like to eat and learn how many calories they contain. You may be surprised to find that the types of foods you eat are the cause of your weight problem. We hear all the time people saying they don't eat much but put on weight easily. Rubbish, yes, rubbish, and you probably eat too much of that too. Go back and read tip #2, then learn to count calories before putting things in your mouth.
   
   
8. Tell others you are losing weight
   The more people that know you are on a weight loss program, the more help and encouragement you will receive. Your true friends will be more understanding and not put temptation under your nose. Tell them of your plans and goals and let them know of your successes, no matter how small. Share your life with them, they will be so pleased that you are doing something so positive for yourself.
   
   
9. Plan Ahead
   If you are going to go somewhere that would normally include eating, then plan so that you eat sensibly and keep within your calorie intake targets. For example, you may be going out for dinner, eat sparingly during the day and if the food is rich in calories, leave some on the plate. Perhaps you go to the movies and have a large box of popcorn, buy a small bag of popcorn in advance to take with you. There will never be a problem with overeating if you plan in advance.
   
   
10. Buy an outfit right now
    Go out and purchase a good outfit that you would like to wear when you reach your goal weight. It doesn't matter if you can't get it over your thunder thighs right now, it's for the day you step on those scales and see that you have reached your goal. That is the day to put your outfit on and reward yourself for all the hard work. Just close your eyes for a minute and picture yourself, how you will look, how you will feel.

Dont make promises, make a start. Do it now!