Follow these 5 Simple Steps to Losing Weight

Do you have a few extra pounds you need to lose? If so, you need to know that not only will you lose weight to look better, but in losing weight you will reduce stress on your heart, reduce the chance of heart disease, cancer, diabetes, and you will feel better physically and mentally.


Here are 5 Simple Steps to Losing Weight:

1. Know What You Want
2. Know Where You Are
3. Track Your Results
4. Make Course Corrections
5. Hold Yourself Accountable

Now all your extra weight will effortlessly melt off. Yeah right! A simple list of 5 items is not going to do it, so read, below, explanations of the 5 items and where the challenge occurs when applied to losing weight.

1. Know What You Want

This one is dead simple. Most people that want to experience the pleasing results in losing weight have an idea of how many pounds they would like to lose or how they would like their body to look. We can safely say if your body started looking the way you wanted it, you would know, even if you didn't have it completely mapped out and detailed.

2. Know Where You Are

This is almost always overlooked and is the number one reason for the up and down Yo Yo effect we experience with losing weight. We are unhappy with how our body feels and how it looks and it is painful to zoom in and get an accurate picture of where we are. Unfortunately, we have to know where we are to be able to accurately judge the results we are getting.

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3. Track Your Results

This is conceptually simple. If we have no clue as to what we are doing, how do we know what is working? It might be a simple to do, but is also simple not to do. In the end, most people never track their results.

4. Make Course Corrections

We love to do this one. We have it hands down. It is like step 1 of knowing what you want. We try the new food diet, the super sit up machine, and the cardio hip hop power energy yoga fat burner class. We might be great at switching it up, but without knowing where we are starting from and a history of tracked results, we have no clue as to what we should change or even which direction we should go.

5. Being held Accountable

Why do we resist accountability, our secret weapon to weight loss? Because it works! If you know someone is going to be watching, you would follow through or at least feel very uncomfortable not following through. Accountability when used wisely is the ultimate turbo booster to losing weight. Since you are going to be accountable anyway, you might as well get something out of it.