The Best Day To Start A Diet

I was recently talking to a lady who I met in the gym she was telling me about how it was a new week and she was going to get herself back on track and lose the weight she wanted to.

Firstly it is great that the lady was in the gym on a Monday and a bit fired up to start her week on the front foot with some healthy eating and quality exercise.

She was making the NORMAL decision to start things off on a Monday (again). It's the beginning of the week. The best place to start don't you think?

Well maybe not.

Let me explain why Monday is probably not the best day to start a new diet.

My experience tells me that by Friday night the lady in question may be tired and starving and could go back to her old habits whatever that means for her.

Starting on a Monday is easy, especially if you have had your fill over the weekend you are ready to have a little break. Your body and mind needs it. The trouble is, everyone lives for the weekend.

We have our routines. They are hard wired.

How many times have you started a diet on a Monday only for it to gone wrong by the weekend?

We are all the same on that front, myself included.

But of course being human, we don't tend to try a different approach when the one we are using doesn't work, we just try it again and again. We are supposed to be intelligent but I often doubt it.

That's often called the definition of insanity "doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results".

So with that said, a change of approach would be sensible.

My advice would be to:

1. Start the diet on a Friday.

2. Plan nice healthy recipes for the Friday and Saturday.

3. Plan your meals. Try new recipes on a weekend when you would normally eat badly.

This strategy just changes the way you come at the issue of having no willpower when it comes to weekends. This would help set you up for the following week and ensure you had some good results after sticking to a diet for 7 days in a row.

Then rinse and repeat.

When the results start to come, people often perk up a bit and find some motivation to get through the weekends a bit easier.

How To Lose Weight Naturally - Restore Body Balance

More than 50% Americans are overweight. Every year people in the USA alone spend billions of dollars on weight loss pills, diet programs and health supplements. Yet the obesity epidemic is on the rise like never before. Most people put themselves through so many difficulties when it is possible to lose weight naturally without needing to suffer unnecessarily. You can lose weight and get slim without skipping meals, taking weight loss pills or any expensive supplements.

When it comes to natural weight loss, one of the most important things you should focus on is healthy, balanced eating. Think of your body like your home. If you have a well-organized kitchen, ventilated rooms where fresh air and sunlight are able to enter easily, and if everything else is running smoothly in the house, you will feel a sense of peace and harmony. You will be able to enjoy your stay in the house, be able to invite guests and enjoy delicious meals with them. The same is the case with the body.

When all major organs and systems of the human body are working properly and are in balance, we will feel good and happy. Our digestive systems will work properly, our adrenal glands will be able to protect us and our bodies will detoxify themselves efficiently and automatically. Having systemic imbalance like adrenal dysfunction or hormonal imbalances in the body can lead to weight problems. If you are able to restore the body to its natural state of balance then you can easily lose the excess weight you had gained.

Most of us are totally focused on how many calories we take in and how many we burn. We try to reduce weight loss to a simple mathematical formula where you have to burn more calories than you take in. However the reality is not so simple. The above mindset assumes that 1,000 calories of junk food is equal to 1000 calories of healthy and nutritious food, which is not the case. We are sending drastically different messages to our bodies when we consume healthy food versus the same amount of junk food. The junk food will not only load your bodies with calories, it can also disturb its natural balance.

Suppose a person consumes 1,200 calories a day which is mostly comprised of junk, unhealthy food while another person consumes the same amount of calories per day but in the form of healthy, balanced, nutritious food. Also imagine that both people are doing almost an equal amount of exercises daily. Who do you think will have better health and lesser weight problems among the two? So you see, weight loss is not just about burning more calories than you put in. It is also about healthy, balanced eating so that you can avoid systemic imbalances in the body which can lead to gaining weight. Make it a lifelong habit to eat healthy, balanced diet if you want to enjoy slimmer waist and fitter body.

How to Get Your Weight Loss Back on Track Fast

Getting back on track quickly and efficiently is super important.

Important because you DO NOT want a missed Monday to turn into a missed week... a missed month.

And not only to get back on track, but then stay on track.

One thing you CAN do to help yourself maintain focus and not get led into making bad food choices is this...

Create an environment where it's harder or nearly impossible to make bad choices.

You want to make it easy to eat right and train.

I fell onto this years ago when I'd do a nutrition coaching session.

My new client and I would go over the 100 BEST Foods You Can Eat list, and over their individualized grocery list.

I would tell them "The key to this is to go to the store and buy everything you need for the upcoming week, and nothing else."

"Because if you go to the store and make great choices and also buy things NOT on the list you're going to eat those too."

"So don't buy it!"

That's the beauty of the "Don't Buy it" Diet.

It's super-simple.

If you buy it you'll eat it, and if you don't it makes it harder to get to.

This helps you break the habit of going for those bad food choices, when you have more control over your environment.

So the bottom line is if you've got junk food in the house you're going to eat it.

So, if you don't want to eat it, you've got to get it out of your house.

Otherwise accept the fact you're going to eat it eventually.

That's how even the best diets go bad.

Bad choices, that were too easy to make.

So help yourself stay on track this week. Go home and clean out the pantry and refrigerator of any junk food you know isn't moving you to your goals.

(This will be harder when you live with other people but it is possible to section off an area just for you.)

This requires some will power initially but it makes your day a lot easier down the road.

And then only buy healthy foods that are going to help you toward your goals.

You can do the same thing with the people you're around.

The more like-minded people you surround yourself with, the better you'll do with staying on track.

And you'll also quickly realize no one is perfect and we all struggle with staying on track with our healthy habits one way or another.

When you work with a healthy fitness minded group of people, you'll also have people that can help you get when you want to move faster.

They've made the same mistakes you've made (and a lot more). And they can also help you recover from those mistakes more quickly.

When you realize were all the same, we struggle, we fail, we get back up and give it our best shot again and again and again.

Your environment really can make or break you.

Set it up right today and you can insure your success.