Tips: Making a Plan
- Determine what a healthy, realisitic goal weight is.
- Take on healthy habits slowly, and practice them, to improve your chances of adhering to them for the long term.
- As you lose weight, change your diet and exercise plan to account for a lower resting metabolic rate.
- Think about short term and long term goals.
- Aim to lose one pound per week.
- Calculate your daily calorie allowance and create a calorie deficit.
- Consider the long term sustainability of your chosen diet plan.
- Adjust your outlook on what a diet is…think of it as new way of healthy eating for life.
- Make losing weight a priority and be committed- strive for consistency.
- Realize that losing weight takes effort and time.
- Try a new food or physical activity for 30 days.
- In order to reach your goal, create good habits and stick to them.
- Eat foods from all 6 food groups.
- Follow basic nutritional guidelines.
- Make sure your diet plan includes enough calories to avoid putting your body into starvation mode.
- Don’t rely on a weight loss plan that completely eliminates carbohydrates, or any other major food group.
- Combine calorie reduction and increase activity to lose weight.