How to Organise Your Weight Loss Plan

Five Tips for Your Own Weight Loss Plan

1. Tip-Think about You

How often is your urge to lose weight so great that you are willing to succumb to a weight-loss-plan in which you feel deprived, do not like the food, or have no time to prepare the low calorie foods that are required?

Before you start, it is important to think about yourself. Do you do well on an externally planned food plan or do you start get bored and eat to rebel? If you like a food plan, do you need one with a lot of variety. Alternatively, does too much variety make you feel overwhelmed? What kinds of foods are important for you to have so you will not feel deprived? In addition, if some foods are too tempting can you have them only when you go out?
If you consider aspects the aspects of food that are important to you and your life style you will be less likely to sabotage yourself. Create a plan that has the type of structure that works for you, types of food you like and the amount of food you need so you are not feeling hungry and deprived.

2. Tip-Get to Know Yourself

Do you know when you are hungry? Do you know when you are full? Are you an emotional eater? Do you know what you are feeling when you are eating?
Many people eat unconsciously. They do not know what it feels like to be hungry or full. Some people eat emotionally and are not aware of what they feel. Others may know what they feel intellectually but cannot tolerate experiencing the feeling. These people often eat to numb out.

It may be a process to get to know you and what will be a good weight-loss-plan. You may need to use a diary and experiment to see what it feels like to be hungry. In terms of fullness, it can be complicated. When one has eaten enough food, it takes twenty minutes for all the food to get to the stomach. It is the development of judgment of when one is getting slightly full that twenty minutes later that you will actually feel full.

3.Tip- Develop Coping Mechanisms

When you begin to listen to your internal cues, it is important for you to distinguish when you are eating to cope with emotions as well as what emotions you are feeling. When you feel like eating and know you are not hungry try to take a pause to see if you can figure out what your feeling.To cope with uncomfortable feelings come up with some ideas to sooth yourself that are not self-destructive. Also, see if you can get further in touch with your feelings by, writing, walking, and/or talking with someone.

4. Tip-Exercise

When you start weight loss plan, are you determined to exercise? Do you start out with good intensions only to find out you are battling yourself to stay on track? It is certainly helpful and good for you to exercise along with a good food plan for weight loss. However, if it is not right for you, exercise like food can easily stop being part of a routine. Like creating your own food plan, no particular exercise plan is right for everyone.
Choose activities you will enjoy. If you have fun doing the exercises you have selected, you are more likely to keep doing them.

Keep your expectations appropriate to your fitness level. If it has been a while since you exercised be realistic in your ideas.
Some people get easily bored with the same activity. If might be useful to do a variety of exercises, activities or sports. Think about what works best for you

5. Evaluate your Plan Often

People do get tired of weight-loss-plans. Deprivation and boredom can occur and people start to sabotage themselves. Also your needs may change. You may feel you have lost enough weight and want to include some other foods. In addition, if you know you will be able to change your plan at any time you may feel less trapped which can help you to continue being motivated and feeling successful.