The Slim Habit Blog

I’ll admit it. One of the hardest things I have ever done in my life is trying to lose weight. Not because of lack of motivation or commitment, no, I had PLENTY of that. The problem for me was deciding on the ‘how’. It seems as if everywhere you look, there is a new diet out on the market that promises incredible way to help you lose weight and have a perfect body. The before and after weight lose all look fantastic and are enough to sway just about anyone who is desperate to achieve the body they desire. The choices seem endless and all too often, at least for me anyways, I ended up making the wrong choice. So, how does someone know what is the RIGHT weight loss program for them?

Weight loss tip? The first step in any successful weight loss management is and will always be an exercise program which may include weight strength training. Nothing is a substitute for getting up and getting moving. Check with your doctor, make sure you have no health problems that would prevent you from getting physical, and get to it! Jumping rope, jogging, even brisk walking will start the calories burning and get your program off to a great start. In addition, make sure to add some resistance training to your regimen. For those less experience out there, this means weight lifting. Don’t groan, I know what you’re thinking, but here are the facts. Muscle burns fat. The more muscle you have, the more fat you will burn. Even while you are sitting down watching TV, your muscles will be burning fat. Now, don’t think that just because I am talking about lifting some weights you are going to turn into some bulky bodybuilder. That just doesn’t happen. Your physique will become toned, your muscles will start to show, and your clothes will fit better. All the things you want to have happen.

Now, exercise alone may not be all you need. For some of us, quality weight losing programs are what we need in addition to our exercise routines, but back to the original question, how do we know which one to pick?

When choosing a weight loss plan or product, the key thing to keep in mind is, “Is this something that I could do?” Be sure to learn all the parameters of the program or product and ask yourself this question. Try to picture yourself following the guidelines and outlined and be realistic with yourself. Is this something you will really stick to? Does the cost fit into your budget? Are there any special foods or supplements you will need to purchase? Many people begin weight loss program with the best of intentions, but decide later on that they made the wrong choice. Had they done a little more research beforehand, they likely would have had more success.

How to lose weight is an issue for many people all over the world. The health implications alone are certainly a reason to take some action, but it is the results we see as our bodies’ change that really motivates us to continue and hopefully, eventually succeed. If you take your time, do your research, commit to an exercise regimen as well as a program or product that is right for you, then you too can join the thousands of people every year who have success with a weight loss program.

There is only one really sure way of losing weight permanently and that is to change your behavior. How? By learning new eating and lifestyle habits, - slim habits.

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I have come across so many people who are overweight who have given up on diets and weight loss programs because they ‘just don’t work’. They feel that they should just come to terms with the fact that they are always going to be overweight, it’s in the genes or they have a ‘dysfunctional’ metabolism.

In most cases it has very little to do with genes or a ‘dysfunctional’ metabolism. There is absolutely no reason why anybody should resign themselves to being overweight. It is possible for everybody to lose weight.

In simplistic terms, weight is all about calories consumed versus calories burnt. Burn more calories that you consume and you will lose weight. There are ways of burning calories. The first is through normal every day activity and the other is by taking exercise. How effectively you burn calories is again down to how much exercise you take and also to the health of your muscles, both contribute to making your metabolism more effective. Keeping properly hydrated is also important for better metabolic efficiency. If you have been a serial dieter, then your muscle mass may have been seriously depleted. Resistance exercises are needed to build your muscles back up and make your metabolism more effective.

How many calories you consume is very important. If you reduce your calorie intake too much your body will work against you and prevent you losing weight. If you consume too many calories you will put weight on probably whether you take exercise or not.

One common trait amongst those who have ‘given up’ trying to lose weight is that the majority of people fool themselves about the number of calories they consume. In one instance the person concerned was convinced that she was only consuming 1600 calories a day. She was incredibly proud that of her healthy diet. The reality was that her daily calorie intake was 3500 not 1600. The extra 1900 calories she consumed was due to the fact that her portion sizes were too big and that she was economical with the truth when it came to totalling her calorie intake. She was not destined to be overweight. She had it in her power to lose weight and lose weight permanently. A dose of honesty and new eating and lifestyle habits the answer to her problem.

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How many bad habits do you have? Do you ever think about your habits – good or bad? Most of us don’t give our habits a second thought, which is why we sometimes find ourselves overweight and have no idea how we got there.

Habits are a learned response, something we learn to do by repetition and practice. Habits get hotwired onto our brain and there they stay. We cannot change them or amend them.

Habits are extremely useful because they allow us to do routine or mundane tasks without thinking – we do them automatically. This frees up our brain to think about more important things. Habits make us more efficient. We couldn’t do without them.

However, what our brain does not do is to differentiate between what is a good habit and a bad one. Over time we accumulate good habits and bad ones, but we are never totally aware of our habits because we take little time to make ourselves aware of our habits. We fail to ‘notice’. We have very low levels of self awareness.

If we are to get slim, we have to make ourselves aware of our bad habits. If we do, we are then able to make changes in our life to rid ourselves of our bad habits. How is this done? By learning new habits: learning new habits, habits that supersede, and take preference over the habits that we have hotwired onto our brain, is the only to make successful change. When we learn new eating and lifestyle habits we can make permanent weight loss a reality. Make no mistake though, without change, without learning new habits – slim habits, there can be no permanent weight loss.

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Let’s say you have an injury to your hand, do you put on a Band-Aid or do you go and get expert treatment? If you’ve got any sense, you get the best treatment you can find because you want a positive outcome. So why is it when we need to lose weight, the first thing we do is to go for the weight loss equivalent of a Band-Aid…a diet? It makes very little sense.

It’s a well known fact that diets deliver short-term weight loss. Like a Band-Aid they provide a temporary fix, but do they deliver healthy weight loss? It would be unfair to say that they were unhealthy, but are they good for you?

They deliver a temporary fix and the weight comes back again, people who are overweight have very little alternative, but to go on a series of diets. This is the point where diets start to have an impact on health. Serial dieters are very likely to suffer from both the physical and mental effects of dieting. This manifests itself in many ways, but here are a few examples. Excessive loss of muscle mass and a compromised metabolism: loss of self-confidence and self-esteem.

Is the Slim Habit different? The Slim Habit is certainly no Band-Aid. It gets to the very heart of what successful i.e. permanent weight loss, is all about – change. It is designed to empower, to allow people to take control of their weight rather that their weight controlling them. It has a positive effect on health not a negative one.

The key to permanent weight loss is making successful change. By identifying bad habits and learning new ones, new slim habits, it is possible to change behavior. It is in effect an empowering process of learning. This gives it both structure and long-term effectiveness, key elements in losing weight and managing and maintaining weight loss – in an entirely healthy way. The Slim Habit is the key to healthy weight loss.

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To be healthy, wealthy and wise must be everybody’s dream. What is the most valuable? It has got to be health. Health is something you can’t buy. Sometimes, though we don’t give as much thought to our health as we should.

When we are growing up, most of us don’t give our health any thought whatsoever. When something goes wrong though, we soon sit up and take notice, but by that time it may be too late.

 Diet is somebody else’s concern when we are young, we don’t worry ourselves about it. All we are interested in is getting more of what we like – which is usually candy, cake and cookies washed down with copious quantities of cola. 

When we become teenagers we begin to notice others and make comparisons. This is the first time we become aware of how we look. It’s the first time it becomes an important issue in our lives.

Eating the right food when we are children is vitally important. We don’t normally have too much say in what we eat, but children do try and intimidate their parents into giving them things they want. Sometimes this can result in a very distorted diet – a bad diet.

To be overweight in your early twenties is not a good thing to be. You are probably not aware of what made you overweight and you have very little idea of how you are going to change matters.

The most important thing is to break bad habits and that requires developing an awareness of what they are. Many of the bad habits will have been endorsed by upbringing. To go against this can be a challenge. What has been accepted as a family culture in terms of diet and exercise takes real resolve and determination to change.

To make a real and lasting difference it’s not diets that are needed, but a more fundamental change in behaviour. The only really successful way to do this is to learn new habits, slim habits, that will enable lasting change to take place.

To be able to say goodbye to diets forever is something all dieters thinkof. The Slim Habit makes it all possible.

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