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Last reviewed: 04.07.2025

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When you are in a cheerful company or guests come to you - you really want to eat what you have been abstaining from for so long and at the same time achieve weight loss. Do not make such a mistake. Choose the optimal diet so that you can follow it always and everywhere.
Weight loss and correct behavior
Your goal is to radically change the principle of digestion and metabolism in the body. Try to refuse a tempting and fluffy cake, it will not bring much benefit. There is also an excellent rule: do not tell anyone that you are on a diet, you can be specially tempted with various delicacies, just so that you break the diet.
To be firm in your convictions, remember why you started all this, do not stop there. You don’t want to start over after a breakdown. If you are very unhappy with your weight, even a small weight loss will please you.
Even if a person, on the contrary, is going to gain weight, he will be happy with any increase in nutrition. Do not stop trying, because then you may feel guilty: was it all in vain? Such a feeling is often much harder to endure than any kind of physical ailments.
How to Lose Weight Properly in Normal Conditions
If your weight is more or less stable and drops slowly, watch your waist. And to avoid getting upset in vain, don't weigh yourself often.
Who can run a marathon: the fastest and most agile or the most enduring and resilient? If you haven't noticed any significant changes in your weight this week, that's okay. Next week, everything will definitely be much better, give your body time to adjust to the new diet.
Write on products
To make your diet more varied, decorate the food packages with motivational inscriptions. Write, for example, “don’t eat me”, “don’t get into it – it will kill you”, “my character is stronger”, etc.
If you want to gain weight, write the opposite: “eat me”, “I love sausages”, etc.
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Meet a person who also has a problem with excess weight, tries to fight it. Help such a person. This is a great method, because, losing weight, you will learn new motivating things, show your example or see examples of other people losing weight.
Don't limit yourself to water and other unsweetened liquids, you won't lose much weight from water, but you won't gain weight either. Drink plenty of water, as much as you want.
Water helps your stomach to be full, you feel less hungry. Water removes salts and saturates your cells with liquid, rejuvenating them. Water also helps to remove under-oxidized elements of food, removes them.
The habit of constantly eating, or food addiction
It's nice to eat, no matter how you look at it. To make weight loss harmonious, don't give up all the foods prohibited by the diet at once. Replace your favorite foods with those that fit your diet.
When you are on a diet and trying to lose weight, the thought of food can be obsessive. Try to prioritize, do something distracting when you get home: take a shower, talk to your loved one, read something, draw, watch movies.
This will help distract you from food for a long time. When you feel hungry, eat some low-fat fish or some salad to fill you up.
On the way to losing weight
With any diet, an active lifestyle, preferably sports, will be a huge plus for you. People change their appearance much faster thanks to physical activity. Completely change your eating habits, then your metabolism will speed up, and your weight will decrease.
The main thing is not to get carried away by new fashionable diets that are not tested. Consult a nutritionist before starting a diet.