Losing Weight In Time For Summer

Being overweight in the summer heat is no fun. And exposing a fat stomach or fat thighs isn't exactly pleasant when everyone else around you is wearing a gnat-sized bikini. In fact, for people carrying excess weight, summer can be an unpleasant trial involving countless opportunities for embarrassment and discomfort. So let's take a look at how you can reduce some of your fat and make next summer a happier experience. But first, a warning.

2 Month Summer Diet Plan

You can't lose much weight in a week or two. You need about two to three months to make a significant impact on your body shape. Remember, the human body is interested in survival, not cosmetic appearances. The best way to improve your body shape is to adopt healthy eating, choose the right foods for hormone balancing, balance sugar levels, and release inflammation. In two months, you can lose between 10 - 20 lbs on our program, and because we work on creating healthy choices and resetting the body, you have far less chance of weight regain.

You Need A Motive

No one likes to change their habits. So if you want to change your eating and exercise habits, you need a strong motive - something to keep you on track when dieting boredom sets in. Whatever motive you choose, it must be something more powerful than the urge to eat tasty high-calorie foods in front of the TV!

A Good Motive For Weight Loss

Anything that commits you in advance to achieving your weight loss goal makes a great motive. So be bold.

Be Positive About Short Term Sacrifices

Whether you're trying to lose weight for the summer, save money or pass exams, an important piece of the motivational jigsaw is your ability to be positive about making short term sacrifices. The choice is fairly simple: you can focus on the "deprivation" involved in giving up certain foods or focusing on the benefits you will get by not eating these foods. Sadly, many dieters focus on feeling deprived. After a while, they see their diet as a burden, a bore, an evil necessity. This is why so many of them quit. They can't "see" the benefits that weight loss will bring them. If you want to improve your body shape for the summer, you must avoid this trap and appreciate the longer-term benefits you will receive by making short-term adjustments to your lifestyle.

The Good News About Improving Your Diet

Many of our tastes, food cravings, and general attitudes to food are strongly influenced by what we eat and drink. I know countless mothers with families who have reported astonishing changes in their personal and family eating habits after less than three weeks of improved eating. The point is that the average modern diet is loaded with sugar, fat, and sodium, which condition us to want more of these items. But if you can break out of this dependence on junk ingredients for even 2-3 weeks, you'll notice a huge difference in your tastes. This brings me to healthy eating.

Think Healthy Eating, Not Weight Loss

In my experience, one of the most effective weight loss strategies is to focus on healthy eating. I'm not saying you shouldn't stand on your weighing scales; don't measure progress exclusively by what the scales say. Be aware that it's just as important to enjoy your food and feel good about your eating habits change. And any diet you hate is guaranteed to fail, no matter how much weight you lose, because as soon as you achieve your goal, you will revert to your old eating habits and regain every pound lost.

See Yourself As You Want To Be

If your goal is a waistline you can proudly display in the sun, then don't wait until it happens to "see" it. Visualize it from the moment you start dieting. Visualize yourself walking along a beach or lying next to the pool with a perfectly flat stomach. Whatever your ambition for your weight or body, get used to visualizing it in the greatest possible detail because "seeing it" is the first step to making it come true. As they say, one picture is worth a thousand words.

Feeling Discouraged? Just Visualize The Benefits!

If you have a lot of weight to lose (100 pounds+), you may not think that losing 26 pounds in three months is particularly worthwhile. If so, ask yourself this question. What's the alternative? No matter what method you choose, you won't lose weight any faster, so it's only a question of when you start and how long it will take. I can answer the last question right now. Losing 100 pounds takes about a year - typically a little longer to allow for disasters along the way. Fifteen months would be a more realistic time span to reduce weight by this amount. This is nothing. Just visualize yourself walking down the street 100 pounds lighter, and tell me that eating healthily for 15 months is too high a price to pay for such a wonderful prospect.

Your First Priority - Get Support

If you really want to lose weight for the summer, your priority is to find support. Losing weight on your own is perfectly possible, providing things go well and your scales keep saying nice things. But when difficulties arise, as they surely will, having the support of real people can make all the difference between success and failure. If you experience difficulty finding support, join our Facebook Group, or contact us for one on one coaching, it's great fun and very inspirational.