I want to lose 20 pounds before Christmas. Observing my recent weight gain, I thought, what changed? I was doing so well. I must regain my motivation to lose weight again. Easily done, here's how to do it.
Suddenly, it occured to me that I gained back the 10 pounds I had lost last year at Christmas time and then gained another 10 pounds. If you followed this blog you might remember my "Lose 10 pounds in a month" weight loss program that I laid out last year.
In that program I had lost 6 pounds the first week. Then gained back 2 pounds on the first weekend. The next week I lost another 3 pounds and had no rebound weight gain.
Long story short I reached my goal and lost 10 pounds in a month (actually more). So this year I'm going to try for 20 pounds b4 Christmas. "A-Ha" I just took the first step to successful weight loss program. That is to set a reasonable goal.
Now I need to make a weight loss plan. Here's what to do.
- Start a journal. At the top state your goal and date it. That means I want to be 20 pounds lighter by Christmas day. Next I weighed and measured myself. Uh-Oh not looking too good. But that's great. Secondary goal is to improve my weight and measurement numbers in 2 months.
- Make a meal plan. For me that is easy, I've done this before. So my plan is to have 2 nutritional shakes a day as a meal replacement for breakfast and lunch and have a light dinner. One thing I observed that caused my weight gain was indiscriminate eating during the day. Ohhh! I just identified an area where I can improve my diet. That leads to part 3.
- Identify areas where you can improve your diet. Okay, stopping indiscriminate eating is my biggest area for
improvement. Intead of eating whenever I'm a little hungry I'm going to take Total Control as an appetite controller, that will curb my urge to snack. I'm going to drink 2 meal replacement nutritional shake mixes a day and take more vitamins and herbal enhancers. That will give me the nutrition I need to sustain my health while dieting.
Actually I plan on doing a lot of things to improve my diet. I'll lay those out as we go along. You will learn about detoxifying the body, what herbs and vitamins you need to promote weight loss and more. We will be discussing which weight loss tips are good and why they work.
- Most importantly we are going to review what you need to know about weight loss. Losing weight really comes down to two things knowledge and motivation. Sure I know a lot, or do I? Stay tuned and find out. This website is chock full of weight management info and it gets updated regularly but now I am going to spell it out for you. Kind of a fortification for my motivation and yours.
Here is the weight loss plan I'm going to use, the Herbalife ShapeWorks weight loss program. It includes a meal plan, progress chart, journal and success tips. Read this guide to get total control of your diet. Feel free to copy and print this packet for your own program.
