Lose weight fast and make it last

You know, we don't really put weight on that fast, but once we have developed significant unsightly bulges we generally want to be rid of them as quickly as possible. It may take months or years to develop a serious pot belly or thunder thighs, but when it's gotta go, it's gotta go now.

We live in the era of immediate gratification and the tricky bit for weight loss is that when we don't get instantaneous results for a few days weight control diet effort, we are sorely tempted to throw our wobbly double chins back and howl to the moon about the injustice of being fat before speed dialing for delivery of an extra large double meat pizza with cheesy crust.

What is fast? Ok, you should not expect to have to spend years taking off the weight that took years to put on, although this is entirely possible. If you give up butter or margarine for example and change nothing else, you will very slowly lose weight. However the vast majority of us want to see a significant fat shifting result within weeks if we are fairly sane and reasonable people and within days if we have reached the desperate and delusional stage.

How slow are you prepared to go? If you insist on losing a significant amount of weight over a period of 10 days or so, you have to be Spartan with your diet and very careful to suppliment your food intake with enough vitamins to ward off lethargy and illness. Quick weight loss diets to investigate include low carb options and those that rely heavily on protein shakes and bars as meal replacements.

These strict diets do work. They are very hard to follow. They are not really long term options for most people who still want to have some sort of positive and anticipatory relationship to mealtimes. If you want to know more about the pros and cons of low carb diets, have a bit of a look at my website where I have written about why a low carb diet is good and conversely (perversely?) why a low carb diet is bad. Nothing is black and white in life and their are decisions about low carbs and liquid meal replacements that only you can make to suit your individual situation.

If you can bear to think of weight loss as a medium term option, you will probably be a happier camper in the long run. Your goal will not be to lose as much weight as possible as quickly as possible, then resume life as you know it. (We both know that it doesn't work that way. If it did, it would have happened by now and you'd not be bothered reading this).

Your goal will be to change your mindset and with it your taste in food - forever.

Change your diet to include around 30-35% protein, 30-40% complex carbs and 30% fat (20% of the fat should be of the unsaturated variety). Protein gives you resilience and complex carbs and unsaturated fats give you energy. Choose foods that you love or can learn to love. Buy the best you can afford - the chance that you will return to the dark side of the dining room table will be much diminished if you eat tasty and interesting fare.

To lose weight is not the biggest problem for a weight control diet (though it does seem like it at the time). The biggy is keeping that weight off. It's hard to think of anything more disheartening and soul destroying than having your weight creep slowly but unrelentingly back on after all your determined dieting efforts.

To lose weight fast and make it last, you are going to have to nurture the mindset that fast is not instantaneous - fast is a matter of months rather than weeks. This will make all the difference and you will succeed with your weight control diet.

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Rosie Peters gives common sense advice, encouragement and tips for weight loss, sensible diet and lifelong fitness. Sometimes it's not what you want to hear, but what you need to know. Visit Rosie at weight-control-diet-advice.com. Rosie's ebook, Weight Loss is Simple may be the inspiration you need.

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