5 Compliments You Shouldn’t Give To Someone Who Lost Weight

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When you begin a weight loss journey that involves a significant amount of weight being lost, people along the way will feel entitled to comment on your body as if it were up for public discussion. People will start introducing you to strangers as ‘and he’s lost a ton of weight,’ as if dropping 60 lbs is worthy of a Nobel Prize. Acquaintances will discuss the merits of your disappearing fat within your hearing as if you’re an entrée on a menu with a changed recipe, is it any better? I know I’m an asshole for criticizing people who are, in their minds, only trying to help you but there are better ways. And there are some things that should just be altogether avoided.

1. “You’re wasting away!”

 The last time I checked the dictionary I was pretty sure that ‘wasting away’ was a term used to describe someone who was dying. I don’t have cancer, consumption, or malaria so please don’t tell me I look like I’m in an ICU and expect me to feel buoyed by it.

 2. “You’re looking so great lately!”

By saying this to someone you are blatantly drawing attention to the fact that clearly you were not looking so great before. This might seem motivational to you but it just makes me second-guess my self worth. *Drop the lately or any temporal reference and this is perfectly acceptable. Who doesn’t want to be told they look great?

3. “Have you been losing weight?”

Ummm… If you feel compelled to ask you’re either oblivious or honestly unsure. And both make me feel like crap. Thanks for not paying enough attention to me beforehand to draw a conclusive answer on you’re own. Or, if you really can’t tell that I’ve lost weight then why have I turned down so many slices of cake? Why!?

4. “OMG What's your secret!”

Do I look like Oprah? Do I come off as a beloved international talk show host who now owns their own network? No, I didn’t think so. What makes you think I’m in possession I some mystical weight loss secret? You want to know the secret? Eat less than you want to and exercise more than you want to. Voila! Now get away from me.

5. “Hey, skinny!”

This is the worst, the absolute pits. You think you’re being so cute and I have to blush modestly so you feel good about your compliment. But really I want to throttle you. As someone who has lost a lot of weight but still has a long way to go, I am acutely aware that I am not skinny. Factually I am skinnier than I was but no one would describe me as ‘that skinny guy over there’. What’s makes this ten times worse is when you call me skinny in front of strangers, in public. They look at me like what? This guy? Lady, get your glasses checked. And I have to try and not make eye contact with them. Thanks for that.

At the end of the day, yes, I do want acknowledgement that I’ve lost weight, that I’ve changed my lifestyle. But be subtle, focus on the right words. Remember that the wrong thing is going to send me to the nearest McDonalds to eat my feelings. Or make me starve myself because feeling empty will erase the insult I snatched out of the jaws of your compliment. 

Source:-http://thoughtcatalog.com/j-r-kelly/2013/11/5-compliments-you-shouldnt-give-to-someone-who-lost-weight/

Life After Weight Loss: Why I Still Feel Like A Fat Girl In A Skinny Girl’s Body

I just looked down at my stomach and scoffed. There is a gigantic mirror in my room and I am avoiding eye contact at all costs. I just had a great meal with lots of veggies and some amazing creamy garlic sauce and the first words out of my mouth after I finished was about how fat I felt. This was followed by an insane sense of panic and I was immediately overwhelmed with the amount of days I let pass since I went to the gym.

My battle with weight has been a long and treacherous one and unfortunately, my self esteem and confidence were casualties. I lost the weight and noticed all the pleasant looks I got from men and all the great compliments (?) I got from family and friends like ‘oh wow, you look so much thinner now, good for you’ or ‘you used to be so fat before now just look at you!’ But my favourite has got to be, “Why aren’t you married yet, you’re not fat anymore”. These are just the comments I hear, I don’t even want to know the thoughts running through the heads of the random cackling aunts and uncles that I run into at the grocery store.

My weight loss has been life changing but I still struggle everyday with feelings of inadequacy and just not feeling like it’s been enough. And here I am staring at ‘hot’ girls on the internet not understanding why my body is somehow inferior. Because it isn’t. At all. In any way, shape or form is my body less than the supermodels that adorn the runway or the Instagram models that wear nothing but..well nothing. I don’t blame media entirely because you don’t get rich off of putting regular looking folks infront of a camera to sell toothpaste or fucking lipstick. Ok so we are used to seeing fit, beautiful and perfect looking people at all times, but I’m an educated, conscious and savvy consumer, that stuff doesn’t bother me. It does sometimes.

I must admit that everytime I walk into a drugstore and see the magazines near the cash register with stick thin, bleached blonde, blue eyed white women, I sigh a bit, buy my dark chocolate and hurry on home to hide under the covers from this gigantic mirror. Or just drown out in wine. Whichever works fastest. I hate that I look at women and just see nothing but disappointment when I look back at myself and I know a lot of women feel that way too. We see these things that seem to have it all and ourselves as complete failures. What a jagged, horrible way to talk to yourself isn’t it? To shame yourself because the airbrushed airheads on the cover of some magazine or some website or a tv show just seem to have it altogether. WHY DO WE DO THIS TO OURSELVES? WHY DO I DO IT TO ME?

I’m screaming at myself because at my worst, I am just exactly that, the worst. I knit pick myself down to nothing and I’m just left with an empty vessel of a body and overstrung out mind. How do we get out of the comparison game and love ourselves the way deserve to be loved? There are a few things I do to really understand the beauty inside me and why I deserve the love I owe myself instead of the hate knives I pierce instead:

1. Take care of myself:

I shave my legs everyday (almost), cleanse and moisturize my skin and take care of my nails. This doesn’t mean painting them or getting fake ones, I mean I just keep them looking clean and fresh. I often go make up free and don’t hide behind my glasses too much. If I leave the house, I wear clean and coordinated outfits that make me feel good and comfortable. I’ve invested in great sweat pants and great tank tops or tee’s that fit me beautifully and I replaced the underwear in my drawer regularly. This doesn’t seem like a lot but little things that add to the foundation of a put together external really does help, even on the days you don’t feel like the best version of yourself.

2. Smile/Laugh:

I watch funny movies, play with my dog and joke around with mum and sister. Maybe read some articles that make no sense or go to coffee with a friend. Again, really small things tend to make the difference between a not so great day and a good day.

3. Movement:

Engaging in some sort of physical activity usually does wonders. Going to a gym, a walk outside or taking my little canine for a poo is good for the soul. My mom, because it’s bitterly cold in Toronto, walks back and forth in our living room. Vigorously. It’s really funny (refer to previous point) but she likes it because she feels like she’s contributing positively to her health. It’s kind of an inspiration. Go mom :)

4. Love Yourself:

Oh you know what I’m talking about. Light a few candles, change into that brand new underwear you got yourself on a splurge at VS and really feel yourself. Explore the parts of your body that you normally would condemn and treat them with the respect they deserve. You are your best lover.

5. Disconnect:

We can’t avoid things that we see and we should try our best to co-exist with the rest of the world. But when we feel overwhelmed, tired and sick of things, this is the opportunity we need to take to shut off. Our computers, our phones, the tv and everything else. Comparison is a fault in logic and it is irrational by definition. So close the magazine and open up to yourself. Be alone with yourself and like it damn it!

I’m still learning to be at peace with my body and I don’t think I’ll ever not have an issue with it but I would like to think that if I just string together enough days of comfortable, it’ll lead to a more fulfilling sense of self. At least I hope. 

Source:- http://thoughtcatalog.com/seema-kapoor/2014/11/life-after-weight-loss-why-i-still-feel-like-a-fat-girl-in-a-skinny-girls-body/

No More Chips For Breakfast

After being overweight for most of my life, I went from 391 lbs at my heaviest down to 245 in December of 2010. Around that time I started a Facebook "fan page" to share my story with others and to help keep myself accountable. When I started Sunshine's Journey to 199, it quickly became apparent that there were countless others like me out there, who had lost hope of ever having success with their weight loss. In addition to sharing my workouts and what I was eating, I was sharing personal bits of my story, which my followers received with open and supportive arms. From being left and cheated on by an ex, to being the only person in a hoodie and jeans in the summer when all of your friends were in tank tops and sundresses; people could relate to me and were even inspired by the idea that if I could make a comeback, so could they. During that time I was working at Curves, helping to empower and inspire women, and it was there that my passion for helping others with their healthy living goals was really born and cultivated. It was also then that I met the "man of my dreams"

Forget Counting Calories! Hottest New Diet Trend Is TALKING Yourself Slim

Forget counting calories! Hottest new diet trend is TALKING yourself slim (and you get to eat what you like too)

• Plan is brainchild of diet expert and hypnotherapist John Richardson
• Says that to beat the bulge, you have to address behaviour first
• Suggests that confronting fattening behaviour helps you shed pounds
• Has written a new book called Talk Yourself Slim 

For the majority of us, slimming down means counting calories and maintaining strict control over what foods you eat and when.

But now a diet expert has revealed the secret to losing weight might not be calorie counting after all and says that talking to yourself is what really makes a difference.

Dubbed the 'self-chatter diet', the unusual eating plan claims to help users beat the bulge by eradicating fattening behaviour.

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Slimming solution: According to Richardson, tackling your behaviour is key to sustained weight loss

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Plan: The diet insists on eating when your body needs it and ending bad behaviour through talking

'There are lots of reasons why people are struggle to lose weight but the main reason is that most weight loss systems are based on restrictive diets,' explains the man behind the plan, diet expert and hypnotherapist John Richardson.

'Until obesity is accurately diagnosed and is re-labelled as a behavioural condition - and is therefore treated as such - no solution will ever be found. 

'It's not food that makes us overweight but way in which food is eaten. Beliefs, behaviours and associations are the fundamental reasons for the obesity epidemic.'

Top of Richardson's hit list are eating by the clock, assuming that all three main meals have to be eaten and seeing sugar and fat laden foods are a treat.

'Treating being overweight with restrictive diets is no different to treating a broken leg with a painkiller,' he adds.

'For someone to achieve their ideal weight, the only way is to identify, question, challenge and change the detrimental behaviours responsible.'

To do this, Richardson has devised a system which he dubs the 'self-chatter' diet which involves being aware of bad behaviours - and telling yourself off when you try and do them.

'Self-chatter is your inner-voice and often, this self-talk happens so automatically you are barely aware of it, ' he explains.

'However, what you say to yourself can have a profound effect on the way that you feel and what you can achieve.'

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All natural: Along with talking your way out of bad behaviour, Richardson says natural eating is the way forward

HOW TO TALK YOURSELF SLIM: JOHN'S TOP TIPS

• Drink plenty of water - it's essential for your body.
• Eat a diet that includes a mix of natural foods containing plenty of vitamins and minerals.
• Set your intent: You need to really want to achieve your goal
• Believe that you'll succeed at all times and you will
• Understand that eating when hungry is as important as stopping when satisfied in order to avoid going into famine mode.
• Know that obesity is a chronic behavioural condition and restrictive diets don't work.

In the case of weight loss, that means being aware of the behaviours that lead to weight gain, for instance raiding the fridge at midnight or insisting on a late dinner, and stop yourself before you do it.

'With time and effort, and by following the body’s hunger and satiety signals as opposed to environmental cues, you'll reignite natural instinctive eating habits,' adds Richardson.

'As a consequence, eating smaller portions and consuming less will become a normal practice.'

But while talking to yourself is one thing, even Richardson admits that self-chatter won't do much for you if you still fill up on junk food.

'You need to give your body more fresh, natural food and plenty of water,' he adds.'Eating in moderation, choosing nutritious food and being vigilant about what you eat will all help.'

Don't, he adds, expect the weight to drop off overnight. 'A no effort, easy to achieve weight loss system is still yet to be found and probably never will be,' Richardson explains. 

'Any system that promises a no effort, easy to achieve, solution to being overweight is a manipulative one and not true.

'The only way to lose weight is to take responsibility for it yourself. The road to weight-loss success isn't easy but it's something that everyone can achieve and that is a fact.'

Source:- http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2710500/Hottest-new-diet-trend-TALKING-slim-eat-like-too.html

UPFRONT WITH DALE DUDLEY: GETTING THINNER

AFTER YEARS OF STRUGGLING, THE SCALE IS FINALLY HEADING IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION

ILLUSTRATION BY BENDIK KALTENBORN

My first column for Austin Monthly in January 2005 was titled “My Year in the Gym.” It was a poke at my lifelong resistance to exercise at the expense of gym rats. In it, I mourned my weight increase from 150 pounds in high school to 220 as an adult. In 2008, I followed it up with a column called “Piling on the Pounds,” where I mused in bewilderment that I had added 100 pounds to the skinniest kid to ever walk the halls of Robert E. Lee High in Tyler, Texas. Anyone see where this is headed?

Last summer, I literally washed up on the beach. My wife took a night photo of me near the ocean in Kauai, Hawaii, and the ball of my chin was sticking out of some fat guy’s face. The next day, we decided to take a tour of the island in a plane. Having some flight school under my belt, I asked to sit up front. We weighed in, and I breathed a sigh of relief that I was not over their poundage limit. We were somewhere over Waimea Canyon when I spotted a yellow note the pilot had stuck to the control panel. I saw my wife’s name: “Amanda: 120,” and then my eyes landed on “Dale: 272.”

I don’t get motion sickness, but for the rest of that flight I wanted to throw up all of the nachos I had ever consumed. I couldn’t believe it. The number kept running over and over in my head: TWO SEVENTY-TWO. My inner voice tried its best to soothe my shamed inner child: “Hey, that’s with clothes on!” and “Remember, you’re 6-foot-4!” I made yet another vow that I was going to work out and diet when I returned home.

When we got back to Austin, I watched a documentary about early man and his natural diet. After that, I decided to stick to meat, vegetables and nuts. This was a good excuse for me to stand in front of the fridge and eat as much pepperoni or lunch meat as I wanted—right out of the package. And a “handful” of almonds in the afternoon would be enough to fill all the hands of every man, woman and child who lived in my cave. Plus, exercise made me hungrier. Within a few weeks, I was a big, greasy mess.

My wife and I still made excuses to eat out at restaurants for lunches and dinners on the weekend. I told her that oftentimes I felt like I was having a panic attack after the meal. It was the same feeling I got one afternoon when I lay down with my 2-year-old daughter in an attempt to get her to take a nap. I got an odd sensation in my chest, like I was missing heartbeats—it’s probably because I was actually missing heartbeats. Using a portable blood pressure cuff, I learned that my heart rate was measuring a disco-fast rhythm of 188 beats per minute. I was 272 pounds and 188 bpm! After that, I was diagnosed with atrial fibrillation, A-fib for short. My heart was backfiring and beating faster just to power my fat ass. Further tests revealed a thickening of the artery walls and, of course, high blood pressure. Blood tests introduced the ominous word “pre-diabetes.”

Starting with Dr. McDougall’s cup-of-soup diet in 2001, I had tried at least 10 or more diets. I had burned through three gym memberships and just as many personal trainers. At the most, I would lose 10 or 15 pounds, only to put on more after I quit. I was depressed and disgusted with myself. I went to the Web and started seriously investigating bariatric surgery. I casually mentioned this on the air only to hear from a listener who wrote to tell me he had the surgery and even then gained the weight back. He recommended I research a diet that involved protein supplement meals that was working for him. I did, and with much skepticism headed to the Lewis Family Clinic in Dripping Springs, where he said he went.

That was almost five months ago, and as of this writing I weigh 231 pounds—and I haven’t exercised once. I will soon, but that’s when I hit my ideal weight of 214. I waited until I had lost at least 40 pounds before I dared write about it. A few weeks ago, for the first time in my life, I went into a store to buy a smaller pair of jeans and a belt that would fit. When friends comment on the loss, it’s like dreams I used to have where I was thin again.

The blood pressure medicine is gone, and my cholesterol scores recently were better than my much-younger wife. But the best thing that has happened for me is the knowledge of why I got fat, and what I can do about it. There is more and more data coming out that many of the things we have been sold about fat, bread, pasta, good foods and bad foods is more than likely just bad science that went “viral” decades ago.

The food pyramid should go the way of the ones in Egypt­—as a relic. I’m still eating carbs, just the ones that don’t come in a bag or a box. I still eat meat and other lean proteins. I’ve cut my sugar consumption by 99 percent. That 1 percent is when I cheat. But, hey, I’m only human. I’m not counting calories or taking a pill. I’m rarely hungry because I’m not eating the foods that make me hungry and keep all of us in that vicious cycle of overeating.

                                

I don’t have all the answers, but neither do the trainers, doctors or hucksters on TV. I’m not here to sell you anything other than encouragement—I’m just here bidding a fond farewell to my belly. Oh, and I’m also here to force the art department of Austin Monthly to draw me much thinner than they have in the past.

Source:- http://www.austinmonthly.com/AM/April-2014/Upfront-with-Dale-Dudley-Getting-Thinner/

You Are Getting Thinner

This article on hypnosis and weight loss was published in Oprah Magazine August 2004 issue. Read it now and benefit from some of the same slimming suggestions I give my hypnotherapy clients.

Close your eyes. Imagine your food cravings floating away. Imagine a day of eating only what's good for you. Imagine hypnosis actually helping you lose weight -- because the news is: It does. Harvard Medical School psychotherapist JEAN FAIN gives you ten hypnotic suggestions to try right now.

When I tell people how I make much of my living – as a psychotherapist hypnotizing people slim – they inevitably ask: Does it work? My answer usually brightens their eyes with something between excitement and incredulity.

Most people, including my colleagues at Harvard Medical School, where I teach hypnosis, don’t realize that adding trance to your weight loss efforts can help you lose more weight and keep it off longer.

Hypnosis predates carb and calorie counting by a few centuries, but this age-old attention-focusing technique has yet to be embraced wholeheartedly as an effective weight loss strategy.

Until recently, there has been scant scientific evidence to support the legitimate claims of respected hypnotherapists, and a glut of pie-in-the-sky promises from their problem cousins, stage hypnotists, hasn’t helped.

Even after a persuasive mid-nineties reanalysis of 18 hypnotic studies showed that psychotherapy clients who learned self-hypnosis lost twice as much weight as those who didn’t (and, in one study, kept it off two years after treatment ended), hypnotherapy has remained a well-kept weight loss secret.

Unless hypnosis has happily compelled you or someone you know to buy a new, smaller wardrobe, it may be hard to believe that this mind-over-body approach could help you get a handle on eating.

Seeing is definitely believing.

So see for yourself. You don’t have to be entranced to learn some of the invaluable lessons that hypnosis has to teach about weight loss. The ten mini-concepts that follow contain some of the diet-altering suggestions my weight management clients receive in group and individual hypnotherapy.

1. The answer lies within. Hypnotherapists believe you have everything you need to succeed. You don’t really need another crash diet or the latest appetite suppressant. Slimming is about trusting your innate abilities, as you do when you ride a bicycle. You may not remember how scary it was the first time you tried to bike, but you kept practicing until you could ride automatically, without thought or effort. Losing weight may seem similarly beyond you, but it’s just a matter of finding your balance.

2. Believing is seeing. People tend to achieve what they think they can achieve. That even applies to hypnosis. Subjects tricked into believing they could be hypnotized (for example, as the hypnotist suggested they’d see red, he flipped the switch on a hidden red bulb) demonstrated increased hypnotic responsiveness. The expectation of being helped is essential. Let me suggest that you expect your weight loss plan to work.

3. Accentuate the positive. Negative, or aversive, suggestions, like “Doughnuts will sicken you,” work for a while, but if you want lasting change, you’ll want to think positive. The most popular positive hypnotic suggestion was devised by doctors Herbert Spiegel and David Spiegel, a father-son hypnotherapy team: “For my body, too much food is damaging. I need my body to live. I owe my body respect and protection.” I encourage clients to write their own upbeat mantras. One 50-year-old mother who lost 50-plus pounds repeats daily: “Unnecessary food is a burden on my body. I’m going to shed what I don’t need.”

4. If you imagine it, it will come. Like athletes preparing for competition, visualizing victory readies you for a victorious reality. Imagining a day of healthy eating helps you envision the necessary steps to becoming that healthy eater. Too tough to picture? Find an old photograph of yourself at a comfortable weight and remember what you were doing differently then; imagine resurrecting those routines. Or visualize getting advice form a future older, wiser self after she’s reached her desired weight.

5. Send food cravings flying. Hypnotherapists routinely harness the power of symbolic imagery, inviting subjects to put food cravings on fluffy white clouds or in hot air balloons and send them up, up and away. If McDonald’s golden arches have the power to steer you off your diet, hypnotists understand that a counter-symbol can steer you back. Invite your mind to flip through its Rolodex of images until one emerges as a symbol for casting out cravings. Heave-ho.

6. Two strategies are better than one. When it comes to losing weight and keeping it off, a winning combination is hypnosis and cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT), which helps revamp counterproductive thoughts and behaviors. Clients who learn both lose twice as much weight without falling into the dieter’s lose-some, regain-more trap. You’ve already tried CBT if you’ve ever kept a food diary. Before my clients learn hypnosis, they keep track of everything that passes their lips for a week or two. Raising awareness, every good hypnotherapist knows, is a key baby step toward lasting change.

7. Modify, modify, modify. The late hypnosis innovator Milton Erickson, MD, emphasized the importance of using existing patterns. To alter one client’s lose-regain, lose-regain pattern, Erickson suggested she first gain weight before losing it – a hard sell nowadays unless you’re Charlize Theron. Easier to swallow: Modify your highest-calorie craving. Instead of a pint of ice cream, how about a cup of frozen yogurt?

8. Like it or not, it’s survival of the fattest. No suggestion is powerful enough to override the survival instinct. Much as we like to think it’s survival of the fittest, we’re still programmed, in case of famine, for survival of the fattest. Case in point: a personal trainer on a starvation diet who wanted me to suggest away her gummy bear addiction. I tried to explain that her body believed her life depended on the chewy candies and wouldn’t give them up until she got enough calories from more nutritious foods. No, she insisted, a suggestion was all she needed. I wasn’t surprised when she dropped out.

9. Practice makes perfect. One Pilates class does not produce washboard abs, and one hypnosis session cannot shape up your diet. But silently repeating a positive suggestion 15 to 20 minutes daily can transform your eating, especially when combined with slow, natural breaths, the cornerstone of any behavioral-change program.

10. Congrats – it’s a relapse. When clients find themselves, against their healthiest intentions, overindulging, I congratulate them. Hypnosis views a relapse as an opportunity, not a travesty. If you can learn from a real or imagined relapse – why it happened, how to handle it differently – you’ll be better prepared for life’s inevitable temptations.

Source:- http://www.jeanfain.com/youaregettingthinner.html

                                                    

The Quickest Way to Lose Weight on Your Legs & Bum

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A lean lower body is attractive in almost any clothing.

• Very beautiful legs image by Hunta from Fotolia.com

If your lower body seems heavier than the rest of your body, that’s likely where you store your excess fat. No single exercise or food will specifically burn fat from around your legs and bottom -- your body does not discriminate when using fat for fuel. You must induce all-over weight loss. Once you’re dropping pounds you’ll notice a slimmer lower body. In the meantime, you can build muscle to create a more toned appearance in your problem areas.

Calories

Weight loss depends on eating fewer calories than your body burns each day. This forces your body to use its own fat for energy. Total daily energy expenditure, or TDEE, refers to the calories your body requires to sustain daily activities. While it is best to have your physician calculate this number for you based on age, gender, health, body fat percentage, weight and lifestyle, you can determine a rough estimate on your own. According to Kansas State University, multiplying your weight in pounds by 15 and then 16 will determine the range of calories you need daily. If you weigh 165 pounds, you need between 2,475 and 2,640 calories per day based on this equation. Subtract 500 to 800 calories from your resulting number to determine an amount of calories that will encourage weight loss. Never eat fewer than 1,200 calories per day; not only is this unhealthy, it can slow your metabolism and, as a result, hinder your weight loss. Eating within your determined calorie range will result in noticeable weight loss. If you carry most weight around your legs and bum, you should see a difference within a couple of weeks.

Diet

Knowing how many calories you need to consume to lose weight is helpful but, if your diet is unhealthy, staying within that limit will be tough. Fresh fruits and vegetables, lean meats, skinless poultry, fish, whole grains and legumes will help you build a balanced diet that fits within your goals. Fruits and vegetables are always healthful choices for snacking, and most have fewer than 100 calories per serving. Lean protein sources help balance your nutrition, and grains or legumes make your meals more filling. Sample meals that fit in a calorie-restricted diet include a broccoli and chicken breast stir-fry, salmon over fresh spinach, an egg white omelet with asparagus spears, ground turkey chili with black beans and oatmeal with bananas. Replacing processed junk foods in your home and place of work makes it much easier to eat a low-calorie diet. The healthier your diet is, the easier it will be to drop weight from your legs, bottom and the rest of your body. Also, try to drink a minimum of 64 ounces of water per day.

Exercise

All physical activity burns calories, particularly intense exercise. For example, if you weigh 150 pounds, you burn about 150 calories on a 30-minute walk, but you’ll burn nearly 400 calories on a brisk 30-minute jog. Aim for a minimum of 30 minutes of vigorous exercise, five days a week. To speed up your weight loss, strive for an hour of vigorous exercise five to six days weekly. Weight lifting, skipping rope, running, hill sprints, stair climbing, jumping jacks, spinning, step aerobics and Pilates are examples of exercises to try. Perform weighted exercises for your lower body to increase muscle tissue, which will reduce the appearance of cellulite. Most quality heart rate monitors will tell you roughly how many calories you burn every workout session. Always consult your health-care professional before beginning an exercise routine.

Lifestyle Changes and Temporary Fixes

Following the usual recommendations -- take the stairs instead of the elevator, exercise during television commercials or park farther away from the grocery store -- will speed up the fat loss on your legs and bum. The more you’re moving, the more fat you’re burning. Being more active and controlling calorie intake for the long term will help you keep the weight off. If you want your legs and bum to look smaller right away, you can buy shapewear to change your silhouette temporarily. This will not help you lose fat, but it can make you more confident in social situations.

Source:- http://healthyeating.sfgate.com/quickest-way-lose-weight-legs-bum-7671.html

19 Tips On How To Lose Leg Fat Fast ...

1. GET MOTIVATED

This tip is one tip that is a must. Without doing this, you are not going to lose that fat fast. You see, motivation is the key to #everything, including losing leg fat. If you would really like to succeed, then strong motivation is something you will be in need of.

Think of something that might motivate you 3 times a day - it might be pictures of celebrities with gorgeous legs, a pair of skinny jeans you no longer fit it, the legs of the girl from 2B apartment you wish you had etc. These thoughts are not very pleasant, on the contrary, they kind of make us feel bad, but that's exactly what we need. We need to feel the pain, the lack of something we truly want and only that bad feeling will give us enough strength to achieve our goal - make the perfect #legs happen to us!

Why Diets Fail: 7 Things You Should Know (Part 1)

The research is clear -- diet programs don't work! Professor Steven Hawks of Brigham Young University says, "You would be hard-pressed to review the dietary literature and conclude that you can give people a set of dietary guidelines or restrictions that they will be able to follow in the long term and manage their weight successfully." Dr. Glenn A. Gaesser, in his groundbreaking book Big Fat Lies: The Truth About Your Weight and Your Health concluded that 90 percent of dieters regain all the weight they lose. [1]

Similarly, Professor Traci Mann of UCLA, after conducting a comprehensive analysis of 31 diet studies, concluded that most dieters would have been better off never dieting at all since the majority of them gained all their weight back and more. [2]

Through my research and work with clients, I have learned seven essential insights about people who pursue a weight loss goal. In this three-part series, I discuss those insights and begin answering the question no doubt on many of your minds: What to do instead of diet?

#1: People who try to lose weight often suffer from intense inner and outer criticism.

This is crucial because most people diet in order to feel better about themselves, which almost always means relieving themselves from such criticism. However, dieting in order to reduce self-criticism often fails because the root of the criticism is often deeper and independent of a person's body size or eating habits. Even though the criticism they are most aware of is about their bodies, the fundamental critical attitude almost always shows up in different ways and will resurface with a different focus.

For example, many women disavow their power in the world and in their relationships; in essence, they have learned to be fearful of or antagonistic towards expressing the full measure of their capacities. When this happens, they not only end up criticizing themselves for getting hurt too easily or expressing themselves too strongly, but they also tend to be more critical of their bodies as well. The power they don't use in their outer lives turns against them on the inside! As a result, their inner criticism will not go away by trying to lose weight; it will only go away when the power that fuels it gets used as it is meant to -- in their relationships and in service of their deepest ambitions.

What to do instead of diet? Carefully take account of all the things you criticize yourself about each day. How long have you had this critical attitude? Where did it come from? Think of the first time you were ever criticized. Imagine that you really didn't deserve that criticism. How would you have liked to be treated? What would you say to that person if you could have?

#2: People naturally resist shame and self-hatred, and also subconsciously resist and undermine diets that flow from this motivation.

Another reason not to "listen to" or heed inner criticism about our bodies is that it is invariably mean-spirited, ignorant, and void of wisdom or spiritual perspectives. Thus, it is often far healthier to reject such criticism than accept it and act upon it. In fact, taking a stand against this criticism is an act of power and self-love that not only helps relieve the inner-criticism but can also make it easier to lose weight.

However, people are rarely aware of the fact that it is this very self-love that leads them to resist following through with the diet programs they put themselves on. This is so counter-intuitive to the dieter who wants to lose weight that they will likely even resist what I am saying here and think, "I diet because I care about myself and fail to follow through because of my inadequacy."

I worked with a woman recently who suffered long and hard to lose weight. Some months she did better than others; some years she did better than others. One day she said to me, "I just want to like myself regardless of my weight." Those were some of the sweetest words I ever heard her utter. "What do you like about yourself?" I asked. The time ticked by in silence while we waited. (I am sure some part of her had been waiting far longer.) After a bit I decided to help her by beginning, "I like the purity of your words and desire; I like your simplicity. I like your humanity. I like your spirit. I like how I feel being with you when you talk like this." We both smiled, teary-eyed.

What to do instead of diet? Stop criticizing and shaming yourself for not sticking to your diet plan. Have it out with your critic! Make your critic's words explicit -- say them clearly and out loud and then fight back as intelligently, fiercely, and clearly as you can. This exercise will support your self-love by building a more empowered self. Going further, make a list of other plans, activities, and people you would like to say "no" to and begin practicing immediately.

For example, I once worked with a student of mine on her struggles with diet and body image, in front of her classmates in a psychology course. It was a close-knit group and she felt supported by the other women in the class who also struggled with weight loss. Her name was Sandra and she hated her body and had tried to lose weight for years, failing over and over. Like many women she criticized the way she looked. She was embarrassed to go out, wear certain clothes, order certain foods, or approach men to whom she felt attracted. I modeled the inner criticism she had expressed to me earlier, by saying, "You are fat; you should stay at home, ought to be embarrassed of yourself, and certainly shouldn't think you are worthy of having a partner you are attracted to!" At first she looked wounded and deflated, but when I encouraged her to respond, to fight back, she began to stand up straighter and smile. Just thinking about resisting her inner-criticism make her feel better in addition to the other women in the class who felt similar to Sandra. I asked Sandra where else she was going along with a program or person when she really didn't want to? She said it happened at work and sometimes with her children. Her "homework" was to say "no" to these people more often.

References:

[1] Glenn A. Gaesser, Big Fat Lies: The Truth About Your Weight and Your Health (Carlsbad, CA: Gürze Books, 2002 [1996]), 77.

[2] Traci Mann, A. Janet Tomiyama, Erika Westling, Ann-Marie Lew, Barbra Samuels, and Jason Chatman, "Medicare's search for effective obesity treatments: Diets are not the answer," American Psychologist, 62, no. 3 (2007): 220-233.

This article is by David Bedrick and you can read it here:- http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-bedrick/why-diets-dont-work_b_3705083.html

How To Stop Dieting 101

The Best Choice You Can Make For Your Body & Your Peace Of Mind

If you’ve reached this page, you’re probably sick of dieting.

You’re probably sick of the restrictions, the rules, the constant stress about what to eat and when.

But in our culture, diets and weight loss are sold as an answer to everything. Want to date more? Go on a diet. Tendency to binge? Go on a diet. Family history of diabetes? Go on a diet.

But here are a few facts about dieting that will blow your mind:

• In 95% of cases, people who lose weight gain all of the weight back in 3-5 years (and 83% gain back more weight than they lost.

• Americans spent 60.9 billion dollars on diets and diet products last year. (That’s over $200 for each and every person living here.)

• Weight loss is not a cure for any disease.

Why Stopping Dieting Is The Healthiest Thing You Can Do For Your Body & Mind
Getting Started: How To Heal Your Relationship With Food & Your Body By Letting Go Of Dieting For Good!

• How To Breakup With Dieting — Breaking up is always hard to do, but I try to make it a little easier with this post.

• How Does Health At Every Size Compare To Dieting? (Breaking Down The Desire To Be Thinner — If you only read one post, this one should be it. Learn here how dieting stacks up against the Health At Every Size approach. (You may be shocked by what you read.)

• Are Diets And Disordered Eating Behaviors Really So Different? — Disordered eating in fatter folks is often praised, even if dangerously restrictive. Check it out and see what you think.

• Diet School Dropout — Trust me, you’ve been learning how to diet in diet school long enough. Here’s why dropping out of this kind of school is a great idea.

• Losing Weight To Fit In — Is It Worth It? — Sometimes it may seem like it would be so nice to be thin so you could fit in better. But is trying to lose weight to fit in really worth it? Learn how you can “fit out” and feel great in this post.

• The “I Did It, So You Can Too!” Phenomenon! — Every day, celebs and diet gurus tell us that they lost weight, so we can too! Check out this post if you want to hear the really important stuff that they’re not saying.

• One of my favorite resources on stopping dieting is my book, Stop Dieting Now: 25 Reasons To Stop, 25 Ways To Heal (also available for Kindle and Nook).

All of this may be hard to hear, and even harder to take in. I totally get that. But now that you know the truth, you can start to unravel some of the emotional and physical damage that dieting has caused you.

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If diets don’t work and weight loss is illusory 95% of the time, what do you do?

This is where I can help.

What you’re in need of is a big fat paradigm shift.

There is a wonderful, healing alternative to dieting, and it’s called Health At Every Size. In studies comparing it to typical weight loss methods, participants who used Health At Every Size principles had better overall health (better blood pressure, cholesterol and triglyceride numbers), less stress, and a more positive body image than dieters.

So I want to share with you something that I do in my practice every day — how you can apply Health At Every Size principles to your life so that you can be healthier, less stressed out, and feel great in your body.

Here are 7 of my favorite resources for learning to let go of dieting forever!

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