6 techniques to improve adherence to a diet

In a system, it is often said that food accounts for 80% of the results, 20% and sports results. I would add that the motivation it, account for 100% results. More you will join your diet for a long period of time, and you will get results. Here are some techniques that will help you stay motivated and lose weight.

# 1 - When you start your diet let us know. Contact your neighbors, your friends and family, and explain their goals. This is the crucial first step in any diet if you want to be supported. Once your plan announced, you will have no way to reverse, otherwise you ridicule.

# 2 - Take pictures of all your meals. We often advise people who embark on a diet to keep track of their diet accurately record all of their meals, the type of food in the right amount of food. But it is very easy to underestimate his meals. Worse, it is quite common to omit a dish of guilt.

When taking a picture of all your meals, you solve this problem. More cheat before enter your fork take a photo of your dish, your hand next to the plate to get an idea of ​​the size of the dish. It only takes few seconds. You realize after a few days if you follow it or not your diet. More cheats possible, so much the better. For example here are some of my meals in photo.

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# 3 - Take pictures of you before and after. You must wait for the pictures "after". However, you can take photos "before" today. They are not pleasant to look at, but it is important to have views for you to realize that you really have to lose weight.

To motivate you, print this photo "before" in multiple copies, and the Board up around you, you'll be on the to see every day on the fridge, on the mirror in the bathroom, near your computer screen. You know why you have started a diet, and motivation to be stronger once you have started to lose weight.

If you feel the courage, you can even know this photo to your surroundings, by publishing it on the Internet for example. You will not have to backtrack through.

# 4 - Make your diet with two friends. We often hear the advice of dieting with a friend to be more motivated. One study showed that it was possible to fight against obesity in society by practicing a diet, not a single friend as advised, but a friend of a friend. In this way everyone around you is in direct contact with a person on a diet. And it allows you to change the habits Group easier. You might be the reason why your group of friends in a few years will be athletic, cool right?

# 5 - Rest day a week. It is impossible to perform an intense sport 365 days a year without ever resting. And it is equally impossible to diet 365 days a year. You will need to decompress. Instead of resisting for several weeks and then crack and take all your pounds in three days once pizza, plan one day a week during which you can eat whatever you fancy.

My day of rest is Saturday. During the first month of my diet, I ate burgers and fries at every meal every Saturday, and I lost almost 2 pounds a week. It is against intuitive, but no matter how eating can help you lose weight!

Warning: do not watch the balance after your day of rest. You will take one or two pounds, but they will soon be gone. It is water and glycogen, and not fat.

# 6 - Change your appearance. I made the mistake of not changing clothes. I thought I would do, because at the rate I was losing weight and I would have had to buy new ones every two weeks. An effect which I did not expect was the lack of encouragement in my surroundings. If you do not change your clothes, then you will always look big. And if you seem large, no one will notice your progress and you no compliment.

A good rule to keep in mind is to regularly change your appearance to reflect your progress more closely. Forget your baggie jeans and t-shirts; opt for straighter cuts and vertical patterns. Also made a trip to the hairdresser and make horrible cuts removes this "helmet" of your head. It will not make you lose weight. But what could be more motivating than a deluge of compliments after only a few weeks?