3 Steps towards Weight-loss

Are you looking to live a healthy life and feel better? Are you ready to change your lifestyle and the way you see the world?

After you've decided to change your lifestyle for the better, you'll realize that a few areas of your life will need a bit of reorganizing and reworking.

No dramatic changes are needed though and not every minute of your time has to be spent working out.

For losing and managing your weight there are 3 vital concepts known as 3D, which works to create a healthy lifestyle:

1) Determination

2) Diet

3) Daily Exercise

These 3Ds have equivalent significance for weight loss and weight management.

Determination

We all have dreams, but to make dreams come into existence takes an awful lot of determination, dedication, self-discipline, and effort. Similarly, you ought to have a positive resolution to continue a new lifestyle or task to achieve it.

Clearly define all the reasons you want to lose weight and write them down. It will help you stay committed and motivated to reach your weight loss goals. Focusing only on outcome goals can derail your motivation.

Instead, you should set process goals or what actions you will take to reach your desired outcome. An example of a process goal is exercising daily for half-hour.

Losing weight is hard, so celebrate all your successes to keep yourself motivated. Give yourself some credit when you accomplish a goal. Social media or weight loss sites with community pages are great places to share your successes and get support. When you feel pride in yourself, you will increase your motivation.

Diet

Monitoring your calorie intake, following a healthy, balanced diet, and limiting your consumption of sugary beverages is only one part of the weight-loss equation. Here are some simple lifestyle habits that will help you lose weight and promote long-term weight management.

There is no better tool for weight management than a simple food diary. Maintaining a consistent food journal will reveal your unhealthy eating habits, such as the foods that get you started on a binge.

Learn all you can about nutrition and diet. Understanding the reasons behind healthy food choices can help make it easier to make the right decisions.

Here are a few tips:

• Eat a high protein breakfast.

• Avoid sugary drinks and fruit juice.

• Drink water before meals.

• Choose weight-loss-friendly foods.

• Eat soluble fiber.vEat slowly.

Daily Exercise

Physical activity is an important part of losing weight. Not only does it help you burn calories, but it also improves your well-being. The best kind is exercise you enjoy and can stick to.

Aiming to lose 0.2 to 0.5 kg per week is a healthy weight loss goal. Losing half kg of weight generally requires that you burn about 3500 calories.

Choose your favorite activity and see how much exercise you'll need per day to lose around half kg of body fat. For example, a 68 kg person would need to perform these activities (for these lengths of time) every day to lose a pound of body fat:

• Running - 20 minutes per day

• Walking - 45 mins per day

• Vigorous swimming - 20 minutes per day

• Biking - 30 mins each day

• Intense aerobics classes - 30 mins per day