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When Weight Loss Help Really Helps

Prior to starting off on a weight loss program, you can get weight loss help in the form of BMI (Body Mass Index) and BMR (Basal Metabolic Rate) calculators, and height, weight, age and gender co-related charts. These will tell you where you are at present and where you need to go to be at your healthiest and fittest.
This type of help is easy to get. Put in the term into your search engine browser, and you will get numerous results. The other type of weight loss help, the psychological one which motivates you when you are feeling down is the one that is more difficult to find.


How Does Such A Need Arise?
There invariably comes a time when you need help. You have been at it for months, moving from one weight loss program to another. Hoping that this time you will get to look like the picture of the trainer on the DVD cover. Alas, your image in the mirror is far from that!
You look around and everybody appears to look fitter than you. Lunch time discussions revolve around the latest exercise regimens and weight loss programs and the amount of success your colleagues have achieved.
It seems like you are the only one who does not have a success story to narrate. Why is this so? You gradually start feeling like a failure and lose all motivation. This is the time to seek weight loss help.

Why Do Your Efforts Not Work?
Let us examine some typical cases where weight losing efforts are often unsuccessful. The first case is when you are trying to do it alone. It is very hard to keep yourself motivated. Find a partner or a friend who has the same goals as you. Work out your diet program and your exercise schedule together. Weight loss help in the form of a friend motivating you can make a substantial difference to your success rate.
You believe you are sticking to your diet, but are you really doing so? Keeping a journal in which you record whatever you have eaten each day helps a lot.
If you have tried to lose weight using your own methods a number of times but have not succeeded, join a weight loss program. These programs have counselors who work with people who have been battling with a weight problem for long. Much of the weight loss battle is in the mind. These counselors know how to deal with such issues.
Battling food cravings, fighting hunger pangs, staying motivated and resisting temptation, these are the most difficult parts. Most of these are mind games which you play against yourself. Fighting these alone is often too difficult. Diet help through one-in-one sessions will make you feel better about yourself and increase your motivation level.

Where Can You Get Such Help?
You can check out diet forums on the internet. You can if you wish join a group which has started on a specific exercise regimen or diet program at the same time as you. Such groups get-together frequently to discuss progress.  Your group may comprise complete strangers but with a common goal of, "knock off those pounds".
Losing weight is a long and often arduous task. Seek out some weight loss help and your journey will become easier.

Nick Preston
Article Source: EzineArticles.com

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