Lots of  people who have given up on weight loss, they are at wits end and they don't know what to do. They've "tried it all" and they believe it's impossible for them to lose weight. Many of them have lost weight and gained it all back, and more. Some of them have struggled  with losing weight all their lives and have never been successful with it. Maybe you say “I quit!, I'm resolved to the fact that I will be fat for the rest of my life". How saddening that comment is. but I'm happy to tell you all, with a little guidance, is you can do whatever you want and be can be whatever you want it to be. You just have to cahllenge yourself to reach the goals that you’ve made. Try to achieve that and always to motivate yourself.  

I tell you this simply to illustrate the fact that you don't have to give up on weight loss. YOU can lose weight, but you have to be  willing to do what it takes.. and here's what it takes! If we look at people who have been successful at weight loss *and* maintaining that loss, a couple of things are very apparent. These three factors are present in the lives of most of them..

1. They eat enough calories everyday. Very low calorie diets slow your metabolism. It is encouraging your body to hold onto what little food it has. This makes it harder to lose weight and ups the risk of gallstones and gout. You feel hungry and deprived, be more likely to eat and your eating plan won’t last. But you should watch your portion sizes too, when you eat too much, your body has to deal with the excess. Eat too much protein and your body stores it as a glucose for energy – if it’s not used, the glucose will turn into fat. Excess carbs turn into fat too.

2. They do some form of aerobic exercise 5 to 7 days per week. These people aren't exercise wimps! They know how critically important this is to their weight loss / maintenance and they get out and do it! They average 45 minutes per day with the range being 30 to 90 minutes per day. This not only burns lots of calories, but, perhaps more importantly, it elevates their basal metabolic rate. It is also burns your fat too. And when you exercise your brain releases serotonin, which suppresses hunger.

3. They do some type of weight training 2 to  3 days per week. This has a tremendous affect on basal metabolic rate and muscle tone. Success at maintaining a weight loss is much higher in people who have weight trained while they were losing weight versus those who haven't. It makes the muscles the muscles stronger and more compact. It is also can strengthen your bones. Weight training makes the tissues surrounding the joints stable and less injury-prone.

Now, obviously, healthy eating habits are also very important. However, most of these people say that their exercise habits seem to dictate their eating habits. Meaning that if they can be consistent with exercise, their eating habits seem to fall into place.  Daily exercise can put you in a "healthy" frame of mind and helps you to make better food choices. Bottom line; when you are exercising consistently, your eating habits are better.

Major factor in most peoples frustration with weight loss is that they haven't been told the truth about exercise. You see, twenty minutes, three days per week isn't going to cut it for weight loss. If you're serious about weight loss, then you have to get serious about exercise.

• It's all about changing your basal metabolism through exercise.
• It's about looking at exercise as a part of your daily routine, just like brushing your teeth.
• It's about viewing exercise as something you're doing to get healthy and feel great!  
• It's about getting healthy and trying to avoid diseases.
• It's about doing something to make your dreams come true.
• Basically it’s all about changing your lifestyle and your habit forever.