Training your brain to lose weight

Fighting my own self to lose weight has been the most difficult part. You must have also experienced the desire to eat a chocolate or dessert which you know will cause you a week’s dieting. You fall for this temptation when a colleague at your office or a friend offers you high carbohydrate food. You try to resist it but at the end you eat it. The happiness of eating such food will only last till the last bite and afterwards you will start to regret eating that food. You feel guilty about it but you cannot do anything to undo it, as unfortunately life doesn't come with an undo button. I will suggest you to think this sentence in your mind “life doesn't come with an undo button and so does my diet plan” when you find yourself falling for the tempting food.

One technique to make your will power stronger is that changing the files of your brain. You must be thinking I have gone nuts and brain is not a machine which contains files that can be changed.

But in reality our brain has some strongly held believes which can lead us to actions we do in our daily life. To cut the story in short, when you are about to fall asleep remind yourself that eating unhealthy food is the only hurdle to weight loss. When you are about to fall asleep your brain goes in alpha state which is more receptive state of brain for taking notes to add in your strong believes. When you remind yourself the goal of weight loss in that brain state, your brain enters this thought in strongly held believes. By doing this every day before falling asleep will change your brain files and will help you stick to your diet plan more strictly. When someone offers you any unhealthy food, your brain will not only warn you before eating it but will also stop you from eating it.

Adopt a balanced diet instead of starving

The secret behind losing weight is utilizing more than the daily calories you intake. When you utilize more calories than the daily intake, your body starts breaking down the accumulated fats.

There are different ways of losing weight and the most common among them is the starving method which people adopt. They reduce their daily intake of calories by not eating anything or eating very little. Then their body on not getting enough calories for proper functioning starts breaking fats. Well this is what people do to achieve their goal of weight loss but I won’t suggest this to you due to the harms it can cause in the longer run.

I will not suggest starving due to a simple reason; our body needs some very essential proteins and vitamins, on starving fats are broken down to run the normal functions yet fats cannot fulfill the requirements of those essential protein and vitamins. As a result our body grows weaker and our immune system weakens and we are prone to diseases and viral.

A balanced diet is what will help you reduce weight without causing any harm to your body organs. You can reduce your daily calories intake by eating foods containing less calories and carbohydrates instead of starving. Avoid things having lot of oil used during the preparation process. Avoid foods having high carbohydrates like potatoes and rice. Fast food is an enemy of your health so try to avoid burgers, fries, soft drinks etc.

If you follow these tips alone for 2 weeks, I can assure you 1 lbs. weight loss without any work out during these two weeks.

Water o water

Recently I happen to read some articles that suggested that water is no magic potion for losing weight but rather people consuming water before meals consume less food which results in weight loss. That’s what the article said and I agree to it partially. I said partially because there are many other wonders that water can do for you resulting in weight loss and many other benefits are realized.

Drinking enough water say 10 to 16 glasses helps improve your metabolism rate. A good metabolism will definitely help you reduce few pounds. I have often seen people eating like monsters and still manage to have balanced weight and the reason for it is simple; a good metabolism rate.

There is one more important benefit that can be realized by drinking enough water throughout the day, and that is the calories you lose when you pee. Drinking less water than the amount required by your body leads to calories left out in your body because of urinating less often.

Other benefits of drinking water are fresh and glowing skin, healthy kidneys, energetic day and more. 

Will power is the real power

Losing weight is a simple task as long as you are not doing. The day you realize that you are becoming over weight and will soon be included in the obesity division, you find out that losing weight is not as simple as you used to think. It requires determination, hard work and relentless effort. Losing a pound and then not falling for any tempting food is very difficult. I can say this because I can relate to you in this aspect. I was overweight once and losing even a single pound was not an easy job.

But let me tell you the real thing which will drive you all the way to successful weight loss. That real thing is your will. A strong will only can make you win from the fats and tempting foods. My emphasis is on the will power because there is nothing in the world which cannot be achieved by a string will power and the weight losing tips are just merely tools to achieve your goal. I will mention the tips time to time and will also tell you the ways to control your will.