Weight Loss Tips

That might sound like a strange title, but you'd be surprised how many people haven't a clue what weight loss tips are when they're right in front of their face!

How many of you read a magazine that tells you how to do this or that great diet so you can X amount of pounds in so many days, or weeks?

And how many of you actually feel all fired up and ready to put it through its paces?

And how many of you actually get past the all fired up stage only to break open a Snickers bar and go back to the TV?

Hum, plenty of you, I bet!

Well, the whole reason for having weight loss tips is so that you can plan your mode of attack in order to lose some of those excess pounds for real, not just sitting there munching on a packet of Hobnobs and thinking about where the next cream cake is coming from.

If I sound just a tiny bit cynical here, its because I am just like the people I just described. Yep, I'd rather munch my way through a whole jumbo pack of Ben & Jerrys chocolate ice cream than get out the lettuce and carrots and make like Bugs Bunny!

Screw that!

But before I started to head towards the beached whale look for this summer, I decided that something had to be done. I wasn't giving up the sweet stuff, no way! So there had to be a better way.

There is.

I'll describe some of the things any lazy person can do and actually lose weight! No miracle needed! Simply common sense stuff that anyone can do, even me!

Read on...

Here is the first of my simple and actually enjoyable weight loss tips that any chocoholic like me can do and lose some weight.

Ok, exercise is a dirty word in my house, so I don't do any here - I go outside in the fresh air. Remember that? Its that clean stuff you breath from time to time that doesn't smell of the burning electrical insides of a TV!

I have a secret weapon here that maybe you don't have but you can get one too if you want, or try my alternative if you can't. Want to know what my secret weapon is? I'll tell you:

My dogs.

I have two little Yorkshire terriers (I bet you thought I was gonna say great big Dobermans!). These little guys still need to go for walkies even though they are so small and its surprising how much stamina they have for such small bundles of fur!

The trick to achieving weight loss by walking your dogs is not to have ten or even twenty minute walks around a few blocks. I found out some priceless information when I was last talking to my doctor (who is also a nutritionist) last month.

Well, when you are exercising (lifting the TV remote and channel hopping doesn't count) most people believe our bodies burn off excess calories and lose weight. The harder they exercise, they believe the more weight they will lose.

Guess what?

Not necessarily! Our bodies actually work on time rather than level of strenuous-ness. Here is one of the most priceless weight loss tips you'll ever get put in simple layman's terms that I can understand too!

In the first 20 minutes of exercise that gets the heart rate moving enough so that we break out into a sweat, the body produces adrenelin and insulin to break down the excess sugar in our blood. That makes the body need more sugars in the blood to replace what is taken. but during that time the body does not break down any of the fat stored in the fat cells to replace it, so there is zero weight loss gained in the first 20 minutes of exercise.

In the next ten minutes of however, the body then starts to take some of the fat to break it down into the sugars the blood needs to feed the muscles, so in a 30 minute period of exercise, only the last 10 minutes is productive in creating any weight loss.

So when I'm walking my dogs up and down the hilly streets in my area, which is much better exercise than walking along the flat, and I'm out for an hour doing that, then I get 40 minutes worth of weight losing exercise and all I did was enjoy walking the dogs!

Better still is when I see these lunatic joggers go speeding past me then collapse in a heap after 20 minutes hard running, guess who burned off more fat?

Yep, me!

Well, ok, I don't actually lose much weight doing that because I balance it out with a nice piece of chocolate cake when I get home, but at least it means I don't put on any more weight. Very important, that!

Here is the second of my incredible good weight loss tips:

Turn off the TV!

Yep, if you have the television turned on then it is a magnet for your attention and saps all the motivation out of you. Don't believe me? Try it!

Walk into a room with a television on and maybe a good program that you like to watch... ok that's cheating a little but its the truth of the matter. How hard is it to stop your self sitting down in a chair and watching it "just for 5 minutes to see if its any good..." too late!

Without that major distraction in any room in your house you stand a much better chance of

Not sitting down
Not eating (watching a TV ad for snacks is fatal)
Starting any exercise routine you like
Feeling motivated to lose weight

...then you have a much better chance of achieving your goal. TV saps your mind and spirit because it sucks you in to its clever programming and makes you want to watch it! Yes it does!

Why do you think that is? Advertisements!

Advertisements are what pay for those television programs and the advertising people do it because they know it will attract potentially millions of people to watch the show, into which are interlaced their ads in commercial breaks and also within the programs themselves (even though they deny that).

It makes the manufacturers of the products that are advertised in that way millions of dollars, which is why television is there. No other reason, no matter what anyone tells you. Its not for entertainment, its so advertisers can sell you stuff!

Of course there are other great places to get an absolute ton of great weight loss tips. Try Weight Loss Success Principles for starters for a great insight into the basic principles of successful weight loss. Its a fact sheet that can be of real use to those looking at the different methods of shedding a few pounds here and there.,

When you're done over there, try this fascinating place for watching your diet by staying low carb and really doing your general health some positive good while you're losing some of that extra flab.

Of course you don't want to be without some handy tips when it comes to some of the stuff that you can actually get involved with, so here is a good weight loss products review site that tells it how it is and will give you a pretty good idea on what's what.

Now I know plenty of people are always looking for easy weight loss information that they can simply assimilate into their daily routine and make their life easy while still fighting the flab. That's where the simple weight loss tips types of web pages come in so useful for those people who simply do not have the time or energy to put into rigorous work outs and training exercises.

Lastly, and good things always come in threes didn't you know, there is a great place to learn how to make exercising less boring to really put you into the weight loss driving seat! There's nothing quite as demoralizing as doing boring, repetitive reps in a sterile gym someplace, so if you can find some cool ways to make it more interesting, then surely this is a good thing to help you get more motivated to succeed?

Now here is the third of my great weight loss tips:

Think Yourself Thin!

Yes, you can actually do that when you set your mind into the right way of thinking and then you really can think yourself thin!

The article that link above links to is a particularly good one and I don't think its worth repeating the same stuff here, as I wrote it anyway! Its in my very special weight loss tips blog and you can read all about how to think yourself thin in that article!