SALT LAKE CITY (ABC 4 News) Trying to loose weight? It can be tough and overwhelming, but following five guidelines you can succeed at your weight loss.
Eat less and exercise more. We know the formula for weight loss. If you arent getting skinny, whats the problem?
Its more than what you do at the gym, you need a plan! Here are the five tips from Health.com.
1) Be very specific on what you will and what you will not eat.
2) Create an ok to eat plan: The best way to guarantee you make the right choices is if you create an if then plan. Studies suggest that coming up with back up plans make you three times more likely to reach your diet goals.
3) Track your success: to stay clear about that gap between where you want to go and where you are now, monitor your progress.
4) Be a realistic optimist. Losing weight isnt easy. Believing you will succeed is key, but believing you will succeed easily is a recipe for failure.
5) Strengthen your will power. The capacity of self-control is like a muscle. It varies in strength from person to person and moment to moment. Keep working at it. It will get easier.
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