1. Your Life Force.Your body functions whether you are awake or not. To function it needs energy. It gets this energy by burning calories. The action of burning calories to keep your body humming along is called your Basal Metabolic Rate (BMR) and approximately 30% of calories consumed by your body are used for this function.

2. Physical Activity. Body movement, hands, arms, legs etc., over and above the automatic life sustaining BMR actions your body makes. These actions burn about 60% of the calories your body takes in.

3. Dietary Thermogenesis. This is the action of burning calories during and immediately after the act of eating which enables the body to eat, digest, use and absorb the food. Approximately 10% of the calories burned by your body are used in this function.

How then does all of this help us to lose weight quickly, given that you need to burn 3,500 calories to burn a pound in weight?

The experts recommend losing no more than 1 to 2 pounds a week. This translates to burning an additional 3,500 to 7,000 calories a week. Breaking it down this eqates to between and 500 and 1,000 calories to lose daily.

It gets even easier to lose the weight if you choose to split this amount into calories you want to burn off with additional activity and calories you want to lose by reducing your intake through better eating.

Within these parameters losing weight does not get much simpler than that. How quickly you can lose weight then is dependant on how committed you are.

Here are 3 strategies for losing weight you can start using today.

1. Exercise – 20 to 30 minutes, 3 to 4 times a week, of aerobic exercise like brisk walking, swimming, jogging or aerobic training, all of which will increase your heart rate. High intensity workouts of a sustained nature like these keep your body burning fat long after finishing the exercise.

2. More Meals – 5 smaller  meals eaten during the day allow your metabolism to burn fat faster that larger less frequent meals do. Smaller, regular meals also allow you to keep hunger pangs and potential binge eating in check.

3. Spicy Food – research has shown spicy food can boost your metabolism by up to 50% for anything up to 3 hours after finishing your meal. Chillies are particularly good at this.

With little effort these strategies can be put into effect and your life can start changing for the better very quickly. You can lose weight quickly but only if you consistently work at it.

These strategies will help you achieve your weight loss goals.

You do not have to be one of the many who are dissatisfied with what they weigh and how they look. Did you know that four out of five American women are unhappy with how they look?

On any given day one in four American men and and 50% of American women will be dieting. Of those who are dieting 95% will regain the weight they lose, plus an extra couple of pounds, within two years of completing their weight loss program. Only 5% manage to lose weight and keep it off. Find out HERE how you can be one of the 5% who not only lost weight, and achieved the slimmer, more attractive body look they desperately wanted, but also managed to keep their trim looks.

There are so many of us who’ve wasted large amounts of money & time trying to get our weight loss motivation back. We’ve littered our past with feeble attempts to shed excess weight chasing our desired body.

I THINK YOU KNOW WHAT I’M TALKING ABOUT…

- the old scales gathering dust on your kitchen shelf

- those great measuring cups so you can measure out the exact amount of food

- dieter’s recipe books & a collection of the weekly weight loss recipes ripped from a magazine & shoved somewhere

- special bands, so old they don’t work

- that fabulous exercise machine you had to have which is now a great place to hang the ironing

The best way to lose weight is through weight loss motivation and it’s awkward looking at all of these points because it reminds one of failure, of hollow weight loss plans & self promises and way too much money wasted with nothing to show for it.

How many of us punish ourselves when we’re unable to carry on, to give up on trying to lose weight?

STOP BEING SO HARD ON YOURSELF… THINK ABOUT THIS INSTEAD.

It wasn’t your time to commit to change.

You weren’t ready to do it & it’s OK to forgive yourself. Trying to achieving anything when you’re not totally committed is really setting yourself up to fail.

SO HOW DO I KNOW WHEN I’M READY?

Are you ready to change your life story, how you’ve always felt about you… then and only then are you really getting motivated to lose weight.

CAN YOU CHANGE & RE-WRITE YOU LIFE STORY?

No the excuses, drop the “shoulds” move past the “if only’s” to this one question:

AM I WILLING OR AM I NOT?

There are many ingredients in the achievement mix but only one that simply cannot be left out… AM I WILLING?

Somehow we find a way to do it if we have the motivation. Your weight loss motivation will return

At times, the odds will be well & truly stacked against you, but with your will, you’ll just get done.

When you’re heart & soul is in it, magic happens and problems can be transformed into opportunities. When you’re really willing, the set-backs have a way of increasing your determination to succeed.

When you’re willing – give it everything you’ve got. However… if you’re not there yet, all is not lost . For those folks who are reading this, that know in their heart that they’re unwilling, consider it a gift.

To be aware of that fact is good news, it means there’s hope.

The first step to get back your weight loss motivation is acknowledgement… without it, nothing changes.

No one will seek help if nothing is wrong. If you have the courage to honest with yourself & admit your resistance, then you are more likely to have the courage to seek assistance.

There are gifted people to support you through this journey.

Many people who’ve been in the same situation as you are have received assistance from the compassionate amongst us who just love to lend a hand to those in need.

You don’t have to know the way or have any answers. You just need the motivation to take the first step!