7 Best Kept Secrets For Weight Loss

You’ve seen those amazing before and after photos. Weight loss transformations are inspiring. It’s life-changing for the person losing weight and reassurance that you can do the same. You may feel it takes big changes to achieve these same results. In reality, it’s implementing the small changes, which lead to major weight loss transformation success.

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Here are some of the best-kept secrets relating to weight loss transformation:

1. Have an end goal.

Knowing your long-term goal is the first step. What do you desire? Desire, according to health expert Laticia “Action” Jackson is one of the key ingredients for health and weight loss. She explains in her book, Changing the Norm, “Whatever you desire, it has to be motivating enough to cause you to create and take the necessary steps to reach your destination.” When you have an end goal of why you want to lose weight, it helps you stick to your goals for the long term.

Having visual reminders around you is the second step. Post a picture of when you looked your best on your fridge to keep you on track. A short-term goal such as wanting to look good for an upcoming reunion helps, but thinking of your goal for the longer term such as looking your best for life events, in general, is even better.

2. Exercise by itself is ineffective for weight loss.

Exercise helps you lose weight. But if you want to keep off the weight, you have to pair exercise with proper nutrition. Exercise alone leads to a modest decrease in total body equating to less than 3%.

In some instances, only exercising to lose weight can cause more hunger and offset the improvements you have made. Exercise is a component of weight loss, but without proper nutrition is an ineffective plan.

3. Eating fat is vital to weight loss.

The right kind of fat can help you lose and keep off weight. “The fats you want as part of your regular nutritional plan are unsaturated fats, which include monounsaturated and polyunsaturated fats,” Laticia “Action” Jackson, a health and fitness expert, writes in her latest book Changing the Norm.

Trans fat and fat found in highly processed meats and desserts railroad weight loss. Good fat, found in monounsaturated fatty acids, can help you lose weight. Healthy fats are also in olive oil, nuts, avocados and salmon. Eating healthy fats helps your body burn more calories and you will feel fuller for a longer period.