Losing Weight and Feeling Great

Are you struggling with how to lose weight successfully?  Do you try to be good each day, only to turn to snacks at night…and the diet goes out the window?  Or even more frustrating…you do everything you’re supposed to and the weight stays the same on the scales?

Lose Weight Successfully (Keep it Off)

Losing weight is partly in the mind — you have to be committed to your new eating plan.  And by the way, “diet” should perhaps be banned from the vocabulary.  Why?

Because when you finish losing the weight, you “go off the diet”.  But unless you’ve changed your eating habits in the meanwhile, you’ll likely go back to bad habits.  I’ll bet you’re familiar with what happens next — you gain the weight back and then some!

But if you’ve exchanged your old bad habits for nwe good ones, you are far more likely to keep the weight off.  And incidentally, that’s one reason for a slow weight loss — it gives you the time to develop new habits.

Supplements or Pills?

How to lose weight successfully — can it include supplements?  It’s a mixed answer.

Some supplementation is probably appropriate if you’re taking it for health benefits more than weight loss (even if it has somewhat of a weight loss component).  An example is a green tea extract; good for its antioxidant properties, and with a mild thermogenic effect.

On the other hand, other weight loss supplements…the answer isn’t conclusive.  Some people are helped by the supplements, others aren’t.  However one thing is universally true — no supplement will work all by itself, without following a sensible eating program.  (And exercise as well.)

A Healthy Diet to Lose Weight

Yes, you can lose weight with a fad diet.  But the question of the day is…will you keep that weight off?  Or will you need the latest fad again in a few weeks or months?

A healthy diet to lose weight is one that you can follow for life.  One that has the amounts of proteins, fats and carbohydrates for your body metabolism.

How to lose weight successfully — how to keep the weight off — depends on your commitment to change.  If you keep following your old habits, the weight will just come back.

I was most amused by my first encounter with loose leaf green tea.  The only tea I had ever made was in a teabag, so when I opened my order of the "real thing" I eyed it with uncertainty.

OK, so I have the loose leaf tea and I have a tea ball.  I stuffed the tea ball full, boiled up some water, poured it in a cup and dunked the ball.  (Sounds like some sort of weird NBA game, doesn’t it?)

Now I should have known that the tea leaves would unfurl and expand when put into the hot water, but did I take that into consideration when I stuffed that tea ball full of the leaf?  (If you guessed, "no", you guessed right.)

So, one tea ball ready to explode and some very strong green tea were awaiting me.  I sipped with trepidation, then smiled.  I like!

Since that first venture, I’ve made many other cups using loose lead green tea, and fortunately I’ve gotten better at it.  I have to say that it is better than the tea bags (although some bags are quite good), with a subtle taste and aroma not in the grocery-store offerings.

If you’d like to try some excellent-quality loose leaf green tea from China, check out www.amazing-green-tea.com — Julian will take good care of you, and the teas are wonderful.  This is where I get my own loose leaf.  (Tell Julian that Gail says "hi!".)

Or, you can just check my website and learn more about green tea and losing weight.