Is weight loss on your New Year’s Resolution – again ?

Losing weight is among the most common New Year resolution and probably the most broken. Here's how to stick to your goal...

It’s that time of the year when people fret over the time wasted not doing something they had decided to and promptly put it on the list for the next year! Was one of your resolutions for this year weight-loss? Is it now at the top of next year’s ‘To-do’ list? Well, you’re not alone! According to surveys conducted every year-losing weight is among the most common New Year resolution across the globe.

The two main reasons why it gets conveniently pushed into the next year’s list, year after year are that people are either “too busy” or just plain lazy to make the much needed changes in their life. Others who do venture to make the changes are disappointed at not seeing “quick results” and soon give up sometimes as early as February or March.

This year make it a resolution to not break or give up on your resolution list. Here are some tips to help you on a successful weight loss journey in 2013:

  • Make a lifestyle change: your weight at present is a result of the kind of lifestyle you’ve been following till now. Make up your mind to change it. Take charge of your life now so that you can enjoy the benefits of good health later on in life.
  • Aim at attaining good health: look at it at ‘gaining health’ instead of looking at it as ‘losing weight’.
  • Join a gym: Pay for the whole year in advance. It may cost a bomb, but it will be worth it especially when getting “back in shape” doesn’t seem motivating enough to make that trip to the gym-the money that you already paid up will! If gymming isn’t your ‘cup of green tea’, then look around for an aerobics class, or even dance lessons. The idea is to get your body to move-so find any physical activity that you enjoy and watch the fat melt.
  • Meet a qualified dietitian: not the types in the fancy weight loss clinics who put you on fad diets to show you quick results, but the

Comments:

  1. Hari Shenoy says:

    Do check out a nutraceutial start-up, Nutrova that has a dietary fibre product that helps with weight loss.

    Full disclosure – the start-up is run by a close friend.

    For more details – http://www.nutrova.com/functional-fibre

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.

Similar Story

How much sugar you should consume every day?

All you sweet fans, here's what you might want to follow in life! Even without direct sugar intake, your food has sufficient sugar to get you going.

Think of sugar and it brings sweet memories to everyone’s mind. Sweet memories of chocolates, payasams, laddus, cakes, milkshakes and all the lovely treats that are ‘oh so sweet’! Can you imagine a day without eating sugar? Not unless you are a diabetic. A day without sugar is something unimaginable for most of us. Imagine drinking that cherished cup of tea or coffee without sugar! Well, thankfully most of us don’t have to eliminate sugar all together, but what we need to do is keep a watch on the amount we consume every day. Back in 2009 the American Heart…

Similar Story

Eat and live healthy this Diwali

Flooded with sweet boxes on Diwali? Worried on how to deal with those extra sweet boxes? Here are some tips.

Diwali always brings back fond childhood memories of buying new clothes, bursting crackers and the house filled with the yummy aromas of various sweets and savouries being made at home. Preparations for Diwali would start a week or two in advanceand the goodies stored in boxes for eating and distributing among friends and families during the festival. The more we gave the more sweets and other goodies that we got back in return. Though this happened just once a year, by the end of the festive season we got to the point of having an overload of sweets. These days,…