When you add and take away everything in weight loss, everything someone has told you about losing weight, it all comes down to one thing: changing your lifestyle.
You see, changing your lifestyle is so important to losing weight, not only because you will lose weight, but because you will not get your pounds back on again. Diets don’t work. They never have. Diets are just a temporary weight loss experience. In fact, diets can have a negative psychological impact on your weight loss experience. How do you ask?
Well, let’s assume for a moment that you’ve been on some kind of diet. It worked for you, but all of a sudden, since you’re no longer on a diet, you start gaining weight again. You feel crushed and bad. You start to lose faith in your overall weight loss. This is a common scenario.
That is why renewing your lifestyle is a crucial part of your weight loss and your health as well. Those little everyday things make a big difference.
Let’s take an example of a man who changed just one of his habits and lost 20 pounds in 2 1/2 months:
This guy was eating a lot of candy and sweets. One day, he decided to eat an apple instead of the candy. However, after eating it, he was still hungry. He could easily have had the candy, but he didn’t. Instead, he took another apple. He was still hungry, but did not take the candy. Now, instead of an apple, he took an orange.
By using this simple technique, not only did she throw away the candy and lose weight, she also became much healthier.
And that’s the whole point of losing weight: changing your lifestyle. It won’t be easy at first, but hey, don’t believe when the gurus say you can lose 5 pounds by eating a pill. However, you will lose weight steadily and improve your health.