weight loss goals

The truth is this: In order to lose weight you need to have the conviction, motivation, drive and desire to be successful. There is no magic pill or easy diet...it takes hard work and dedication to your weight loss plan, fitness regime and a change in lifestyle.

Start your weight loss program with a journal and dedicate the first four pages to these four words as they relate to your goals for losing weight and becoming healthier:

I bet you didn’t know that eating eggs could help you lose weight. In fact, I didn’t realize it until recently reading and researching the best foods for weight loss. Eating whole eggs is vital because the goodness of eggs is found in both parts: the white and the yolk. At the yellow center of an egg, the yolk contains over 90 percent of an egg’s calcium and iron. The white contains almost half the egg’s protein.

Growing up, I watched my brother eat absolutely everything in sight. Two bowls of cereal and a PB&J in the morning, donuts, pizza, sweets, soda...pretty much everything he could get his hands on. My brother is only a year older than me, so I watched him and even mimicked him. That’s where I first began to realize that things weren’t equal.

A recent study by the American Journal of Preventative Medicine indicates that people who track what they eat lose twice the weight of those who don’t keep a record.  Is this because when you keep a food diary and record food intake you can’t lie to yourself about finishing off the whole bag of potato chips and you are shamed into eating healthier? Or maybe it’s just the simple fact that it is much easier to see where you can make cuts once you are looking at your habits on paper, rather than relying on memory.