Weight Loss Online is a minefield for anyone serious about
weight loss. There are snake oil salesmen, peddlers of
poor quality products, and of course those people out to
make a quick buck from a desperate dieter.
What many of these online weight loss "experts" rely on is
the fact that 95% of dieters will buy a diet program, open
the front cover, see it's BIG and involves work and then
give up. Really, how many diet books, exercise video's and
pieces of exercise equipment do you have around your house
... and how many of those have you actually used (and used
consistently).
There are a lot of online weight loss programs all
promising instant weight loss, rapid weight loss and lots
of other wild claims.
I can highly recommend choosing an online weight loss
program because there are some great ones out there. When
you are choosing your weight loss program, bear in mind a
few things.
What is the guarantee of the program you are looking at?
Do they offer you a 5, 7, 14, 30 day guarantee or longer?
The longer the guarantee the more chance you have to test
the program thoroughly to make sure it works. However,
check the fine print of the guarantee. Some of these
programs have a lot of weasel clauses in them designed to
make it difficult for you to return the product and get
your money back. Look for a guarantee that is completely
unconditional and you know you are safe.
If the program is purchased through Clickbank or Paypal
then you know you are safe because Clickbank has an 8 week
money back guarantee which it forces all merchants to
comply with. In fact, you can contact Clickbank direct for
your refund without involving the merchant. Paypal is also
very protective of its customers, and whilst it doesn't
force a guarantee on its merchants, it will investigate
claims about products not being as described.
EBay is another source of diet and weight loss programs.
However, this is an even bigger minefield. Whilst eBay is
an excellent marketplace, it is unfortunately frequented by
scammers and conmen selling pirated and illegal products,
particularly if you are buying supplements or physical
programs. Always check out a sellers feedback and make
sure there is a lot of positives there - and check what
they are for! A lot of sellers will buy 1c or $1 auctions
to get lots of positive feedback in order to lool better as
a seller. Make sure the positive feedback is for the
product you are buying.
Check how long they have been on eBay too. If they are a
new seller then there is more of a chance of them not being
100% honest. However, if they have been there for years
and have lots of positive feedback then you know they are
much more likely to be honest. Ebay is a fantastic
marketplace, but just like a real marketplace, you, as the
buyer, need to have your wits about you.
There are some excellent online weight loss programs that
come highly recommended, so be diligent in your selection
of one and you can find yourself getting rid of that weight
and being your ideal weight.
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Find information of good and quality weight loss programs
like the Macro-Optimazers and the 5 day's RESET program at
http://www.facts.usana.com
Sunday, September 2, 2007
The Power Of A Weight Loss Diary
The use of a food diary cannot be underestimated. It will
help you to become more conscious of your eating habits and
highlight any problem areas you have. You can list what you
have eaten and your motivations for it. You should also
outline any exercise you have taken, or not taken, and
again describe how you were feeling prior to, during and
after the activity. You can also use your diary to set out
a plan for the coming week. You just tell yourself that if
it's in the diary then it has to be done. In this way you
can break up, what may seem like, momentous goals into
small achievable tasks.
This type of diary builds the foundations on which you can
plan any necessary changes. These changes then act as a
guide for setting weight-loss, eating and exercise goals. A
food diary is a great way of tracking your progress. It
gives you the opportunity to look back over the course of
days, weeks and months to see how you have altered your
approach and reached your goals. This is extremely
motivating and reassuring. As you see how well you have
done you are spurred on to even greater action. Likewise,
when you see the times that you slipped-up and read your
comments about how you were feeling at the time you will
find yourself empowered to do something about because you
have full control.
A food diary gives you the opportunity to make a conscious
choice about your eating habits instead of going on
automatic around food. Writing down what you can eat and
can't eat and reviewing your goals for the day sets out a
clear plan and allows you to think twice before you act. A
daily and weekly diary, with goals and strategies, is an
approach used in business and by almost all high-achievers.
They use it because it works.
To begin with you will just right down everything you eat
and drink during the day. You will add your leisure
activities like walking, jogging or just watching
television. After you have performed the task, or even
during it, jot down the way you were feeling and why you
chose to do that activity (even if it's eating). This will
allow you to analyse your motivations.
Once you have a week's full of diary entries look back over
it. You will find definite patterns emerging. Look closely
at those patterns and use them to structure an eating and
exercise plan for the upcoming week. Write an entry each
day of what you will eat and what activity you will perform
to help shed those excess pounds. For example, if you find
that you are eating at certain times during the day because
you are bored then this is an excellent time to pen into
your diary an exercise activity or anything else that will
relieve the boredom! Diligence and persistence is required
to keep and follow your food diary but once you do the
rewards are tremendous. Many people do not realize just how
much they snack or eat due to reasons that have nothing to
do with hunger. Your diary will help you see and deal with
such times. It will also help you to formulate realistic
goals because you have to put the activities and food you
will eat down on paper. At the start you may overload your
diary with activities and realize you need to cut down or
you may find you have extra time on your hands that is
leading to boredom and eating.
Don't forget to mention how you are feeling. Our emotions
truly do rule our behaviour. The more honest you are with
yourself the more you will get out of this process. If you
find that you are eating from stress or emotional issues
then put it into your diary, as one of your activities,
that you need to find techniques and approaches to deal
with these emotions. For example you could check out
hypnosis and other mind programming techniques as they have
a very high success rate at dealing with such emotional
issues.
Keeping a diary can take some getting used to in the
beginning, and to many it may sound like a waste of time,
but it is a proven method for helping reach and maintain a
healthy weight and has been shown to help people reach
goals of all kinds.
----------------------------------------------------
Review of the Weight Loss system that doesn't involve
dieting and was successfully tested on British TV at
http://www.personal-development.info/weight-loss.html
Review of the best Weight Loss Hypnosis system we tested at
http://www.personal-development.info/weight-loss-hypnosis.ht
ml We find out what works so you don't have to!
help you to become more conscious of your eating habits and
highlight any problem areas you have. You can list what you
have eaten and your motivations for it. You should also
outline any exercise you have taken, or not taken, and
again describe how you were feeling prior to, during and
after the activity. You can also use your diary to set out
a plan for the coming week. You just tell yourself that if
it's in the diary then it has to be done. In this way you
can break up, what may seem like, momentous goals into
small achievable tasks.
This type of diary builds the foundations on which you can
plan any necessary changes. These changes then act as a
guide for setting weight-loss, eating and exercise goals. A
food diary is a great way of tracking your progress. It
gives you the opportunity to look back over the course of
days, weeks and months to see how you have altered your
approach and reached your goals. This is extremely
motivating and reassuring. As you see how well you have
done you are spurred on to even greater action. Likewise,
when you see the times that you slipped-up and read your
comments about how you were feeling at the time you will
find yourself empowered to do something about because you
have full control.
A food diary gives you the opportunity to make a conscious
choice about your eating habits instead of going on
automatic around food. Writing down what you can eat and
can't eat and reviewing your goals for the day sets out a
clear plan and allows you to think twice before you act. A
daily and weekly diary, with goals and strategies, is an
approach used in business and by almost all high-achievers.
They use it because it works.
To begin with you will just right down everything you eat
and drink during the day. You will add your leisure
activities like walking, jogging or just watching
television. After you have performed the task, or even
during it, jot down the way you were feeling and why you
chose to do that activity (even if it's eating). This will
allow you to analyse your motivations.
Once you have a week's full of diary entries look back over
it. You will find definite patterns emerging. Look closely
at those patterns and use them to structure an eating and
exercise plan for the upcoming week. Write an entry each
day of what you will eat and what activity you will perform
to help shed those excess pounds. For example, if you find
that you are eating at certain times during the day because
you are bored then this is an excellent time to pen into
your diary an exercise activity or anything else that will
relieve the boredom! Diligence and persistence is required
to keep and follow your food diary but once you do the
rewards are tremendous. Many people do not realize just how
much they snack or eat due to reasons that have nothing to
do with hunger. Your diary will help you see and deal with
such times. It will also help you to formulate realistic
goals because you have to put the activities and food you
will eat down on paper. At the start you may overload your
diary with activities and realize you need to cut down or
you may find you have extra time on your hands that is
leading to boredom and eating.
Don't forget to mention how you are feeling. Our emotions
truly do rule our behaviour. The more honest you are with
yourself the more you will get out of this process. If you
find that you are eating from stress or emotional issues
then put it into your diary, as one of your activities,
that you need to find techniques and approaches to deal
with these emotions. For example you could check out
hypnosis and other mind programming techniques as they have
a very high success rate at dealing with such emotional
issues.
Keeping a diary can take some getting used to in the
beginning, and to many it may sound like a waste of time,
but it is a proven method for helping reach and maintain a
healthy weight and has been shown to help people reach
goals of all kinds.
----------------------------------------------------
Review of the Weight Loss system that doesn't involve
dieting and was successfully tested on British TV at
http://www.personal-development.info/weight-loss.html
Review of the best Weight Loss Hypnosis system we tested at
http://www.personal-development.info/weight-loss-hypnosis.ht
ml We find out what works so you don't have to!
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