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If you want to achieve weight loss , then these 5 steps will make losing weiht a reality and not just a hopeful wish. Success is not based on wishes.

Get Your Mind Right

So many people forget the most important element about weight loss, their minds. If your mind isn't focused on your goal, then forget about losing weight. Spend a few minutes each morning on the reasons why losing weight is important to you? What's in it for you? How you will be different in a few months down the line? Picture these images in your head. Avoid focusing on the difficulty of achieving it. Remember that we never feel proud of ourselves when we do things that are easy. The more difficult your goal is, the more pride you will take in achieving it.

Stay With Your Calories

Before starting your weight loss plan, you should have evaluated how many calories you were eating a day on average. Try a 10% cut in this number. Try not to reduce too many, too fast. If after a period of time your results are less obvious, just make another 5% reduction. Keep in mind that your body prefers to change itself over certain periods of time. Don't try to change too many things too quickly, your body won't like this. Never go below 1500 calories a day, not only is this unhealthy, it can start the dreaded starvation mode.

Always Eat Breakfast

Never ever miss breakfast. There is a reason why it's called breakfast. You have been fasting during the night (not getting any nutrients). So you are breaking this fast when you have your first morning meal. See what i mean? Break-Fast? So your body is desperate for food first thing in the morning as it has been strved of nutrients for a good number of hours. If your body stops getting those calories, it will start to think that there is something wrong. Your abilities to burn calories will slow down and losing weight becomes very difficult. Start getting into the habit of eating some food, even if you are not that hungry. Some bananas or a bowl of cereal will do to begin with.

Drink Lots of Water

We are always being told about drinking enough water. 8 glasses, 10 glasses, 20 glasses? I'm going to avoid getting all scientific on you, but I will say that water makes up 70% of your body. Your body would resemble a dried prune if all the water was taken from your body. Only a reduction of water of around 3% can have a negative effect on you. Weight loss is harder when you are in that mindset. Plenty of water is required to allow your body to work properly. So whatever you are drinking at the moment, increase it by 50%, and see how you feel after a week.

Stick Your Plan Daily

Before you started your diet or weight loss regime, you would have written a plan. You did write a plan didn't you? The world is run on written plans, that is what creates order and makes the world work (well some of the time at least). If there was no plan to follow, you wouldn't be able to reach your goal. Plans give us steps to follow, like maps. Losing weight is a goal, so it requires a plan, right? A written plan for each week is a must. You would write down what times you will be eating, what you will be eating, when you will exercise, what exercises you would be doing, and how long for. I'm sure you get the picture. Having things written down make them real, instead of them just floating around in your head, plus it gives you a record of your achievements.

Remember that what other people are telling you comes from their beliefs about themselves, and has nothing to do with you. Just because they don't believe that they can do something, doesn't mean that others can't. Create your own thoughts and beliefs, you are not anybody else, you are you. You have the option as to what you let into your head. Each day spend time telling yourself that this is your time, you will reach your goals, and you will do this by sticking to your plan no matter what. Be positive, accept that you will get negative thoughts now and again, but so what. Let these thoughts wander around in your head on their own, if they don't get any attention, they will go away in a huff. If other people have found it difficult to lose weight, well, that's their problem. If you want to be like others, and sit around discussing why weight loss is too hard, it's up to you. Or you can be you, an individual with your own goals, thoughts, and beliefs, who takes action on a daily basis in order to lose weight.

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