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If you're reading this, it might be a good idea to prepare yourself for some serious motivation in your weight loss journey. In this section of the site, I'm focusing on the best ways to achieve the size and body shape that you want to be.

With each new year to get started into and for those who have resolved to get back in shape, now is the best time to get started. By now, I mean right now. Not tomorrow, or next week, right now!

So what has to happen to make you get up off your seat and swing into action?

Well, the first thing I'd do would be to switch off the television and make it my co-resolution to watch way less TV than I did before. Not that I personally watch much TV anyway these days.

In fact, I hardly ever bother, to be honest. That's because I've always got more interesting things to do with my life that waste my precious hours stuck in front of that box letting it fill my head with commercials for tasty (but not necessarily healthy) things to eat...

Set Goals

So now that we've set the standards by which we will begin to lose weight and win, let's set some realistic goals. It's no good being vague about this.

You have to set a solid goal and write it out on a piece of paper. In BIG letters and then put it in a place where you'll see it every day. Or several times every day. Like on your fridge, or bathroom mirror. Here's an idea of what to write:

I resolve to lose xx pounds by [date], signed Your Name

Replace the "xx" with a realistic figure of how many pounds you will lose (not how many you want to lose, how many you WILL lose!) and replace the "[date]" with a definite date you intend to have reached your goal.

Say for example, you want to lose 20lbs by May 31. Write that down as your goal and your target date. Or whatever you feel is realistically achievable for you. Then you can start checking out diets and working on an exercise strategy because you are going to do both at the same time.

That's right, you're not just going to get away with eating a simple diet and hoping to lose weight and keep it off. This time you are serious about losing weight. You are, aren't you? Well you gotta do some exercise too!

Work Out What You Are Going to Do

Then go ahead and work out what you're going to do to lose that weight and get in shape. Whether it will be:

Starting a great new diet that is both healthy and nutritionally balanced and in tune with your body's needs
Getting into Intermittent Fasting combined with healthy eating during your "eating window" each day
Going to the gym and working out on a variety of machines for so many minutes each to get your muscles stronger and better toned
Walking each day for a certain amount of time at a good pace. It's great to walk up and down hills if you live in a hilly area, but even flat walking at an elevated pace is so good for you
Swimming 3 times a week and how many lengths of the pool you will swim each time
Running, how many miles you want to build up to each day
Cycling or skating each day (it's a great idea to choose a fun activity, because, well, it's fun!)

You decide what you know that you can do and what you want to build it up to and write it all down as well.

All this writing down is not so much a way of reminding yourself what you have chosen to do in reducing your weight, as a way of setting it down in a way that you must follow it. It gives you a sense of getting something positive done and gives you that first step into what you will do, that without it you may never have gotten off the sofa and still be watching all those commercials!

End if the day, if you are really serious about your own weight loss, you just gotta do it for yourself, cause nobody else is gonna do it for you! Ain't that right!

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