Proven Results:
A Healthy Weight Loss Plan

Making a healthy weight loss plan

There are a couple of ways to go about losing weight. One way is for you to say, "I want to lose weight. I want to be skinny."

OK. Fine. You want to be skinny.

But look--how does that help you? You want this to be as easy as possible, right. So how about making a healthy weight loss plan that actually helps you lose weight?

To make your trip the easiest you need to know the answers to these questions:

What is my goal weight?

Decide what you want to weigh. If you don't know, then find the weight that would give you a body mass index of 25 (look on the BMI chart) and put that down.

If that number seems too low it is probably that you are used to seeing so many fat people. The numbers on the BMI chart are actually pretty good. But if you want to pick a higher number go ahead.

How much weight am I going to lose?

This is simply sitting down with a piece of paper and a pencil and adding it all up. Put down what you weigh now and subtract your goal weight from that. That is how much weight you are going to lose.

What size will I be?

What will your new clothes size be? Put down what you are shooting for--waist size, dress size, whatever.

If you have a 56 inch waist and you would love to have a 52 inch waist, put it down. If you have a 56 inch waist and want to have a 32 inch waist, fine.

Maybe you are a dress size 18 and you want to be a size 14, or 12 or a size 4. OK. It's your goal--nobody else's. Write it down.

How long will it take?

A pound or two per week is best. Fifty pounds is 50 weeks. That's a year. One hundred pounds is two years. Two hundred pounds is… well, you get the idea.

Being in too big a hurry will really hurt your results. Getting the weight off for good is much better than losing weight fast and gaining it back. Anyway, time goes by fast--a year or two is not really all that long.

Break out the calendar. Set a date. Mark it with a big X. That's your date. Write it down.

What can I actually do?

Here's where you put down what you can do. Not what you can't do. Or what you won't do. Not what you would never do no matter what. Don't try to fool yourself.

Can you drink some water? Fine. Put it down. No water? OK. It will be harder--but you are being truthful.

More sleep? Great.

How about exercise? No exercise? OK. Then no exercise. But you'll have to be more strict on all the other things.

Just be sure to make your list of what you can do and what you will do. These are all the elements of your healthy weight loss plan.

Keep your list

You need to keep this list in your notebook and add to it. You are going to pick up a lot of things. You can add to the list as you go along.

When you review it regularly you can remind yourself of some of the successful things you might have forgotten and dropped out along the way. And you can get back on track.

See, you now have the answers to some very important questions.

• You know what you want to weigh.
• And how much weight you have to lose to get there.
• You know what size you want to be--what you will be happy with.
• And you know the things that are going to be part of the changes you are making that are going to get you there.

So, are you willing to follow a healthy weight loss plan to reach your goal weight?

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