The Role of Psychology

In losing weight, whether it is a few kilograms or hundreds of pounds, a person must be psychologically ready and prepared to lose weight.

Some of the people will come here look at the tips and then go order a large pizza with extra cheese. Before you start thinking about losing weight you need to change the way your mind thinks.

First comes motivation : Why are you losing weight? Because you are overweight, you want to get healthier, you want to make your friends jealous, you want to take your shirt off in a water park, you want to fit in those mini skirts, you want to live longer, or are you just bored with your life and reading this blog to kill some time? You need to have a motivation for losing weight. Without a motivating factor you will not be able to stop yourselves from eating the bar of chocolate in the freezer or that ice cream in the nearby ice cream parlour.

2) Be prepared to change your routine: Again many people will say "Well I love to exercise but I just don't have time". Sure in today's world everyone's lives are busy with school work, hanging out with friends, spending time with kids, watching tv, homework. But exercise takes only 30 minutes of your day! You can miss half hour of tv or spend less time with your friends and exercise for 30minutes. No one is busy enough to not exercise. So change your routine and add exercise to it.

3) Controlling your food "addictions": To control your food make sure you do not buy high calorie food. Many times when people go to buy groceries will buy a chocolate or two to save it as a treat at the end of the week for all the hardwork and workout and what happens? You keep looking at that until you realize that only the wrapper is left and your trea is gone. Although giving yourself treats is a good idea, you should not buy it a week or a month before. When there is no fatty foods in the house where will you find them?

Now you have 3 pyschological factors that you need to get control of to get healthy!