Samantha Michaels - 17 Day Diet : The Ultimate Step by Step Cheat Sheet on How to Lose Weight & Sustain It Now

The last phase of your 17-day weight loss program is the weight loss sustenance. Rebound weight gain is one of the most prevalent problems experienced by people struggling with weight issues today. After 13 days of learning and exercising discipline, you are now on your way to maintaining your success in the long run. Surely you dont want to put all your efforts into waste and be just another yo-yo dieter.

Just remember that losing weight is one thing and that maintaining a healthy weight is a different thing altogether. In the last phase of this program, you will learn different motivation techniques that will help you stay on track for good.

Once you have already attained weight loss, it becomes easier for you to loosen your hold on self discipline. In fact, this is the reason why some people gained back the weight they lost. There are a lot of reason why people lose track of their goal upon achieving weight loss, and they are as follows:

• Goal achieved!

Some people that the goal of losing weight stops at the very moment that they have achieved the ideal weight. This is absolutely wrong. Remember that weight loss is a life-long process that should be a part of your lifestyle as much as possible. Once you stop this process, it would not be long enough before you find yourself going back to your old ways.

• I earned it!

While it is true that there are a lot of work involved in losing weight, remember that your reward is the weight loss and not the right to eat without thinking.

• I did it once and I can do it all over again!

Some people become boastful once they have achieved weight loss. Since they have lost weight once, they become too confident that losing weight is easy that they can do it over and over again.

Remember that none of these excuses is acceptable! To make the reminder more potent, you can assume that you will gain 1 lb each time you use an excuse to loosen your discipline. You know what? You can actually gain more than that if you continue to use these excuses to justify your lack of discipline.

*Shortcut Cheat Tip # 14: Remember the formula: 1 excuse = 1 lb.

Can you count the number of times that your willpower became weak enough to fail you on your weight loss attempts? While willpower is extremely needed in every weight loss program, remember that willpower is sometimes inadequate due to a lot of temptation lingering on the sideline.

Oftentimes, when your willpower would fail you, you cant help but put all the blame in yourself. Do not let this haunt you for the rest of your life! Remember that no one is perfect and that everyone makes a slip once in a while. The point is that you should not always rely wholly on willpower to help you maintain a healthy weight for life.

Here are some of the things that you can do to actually help yourself and your willpower to overcome any temptation that will come your way:

1. Avoid the temptation at all cost

Who says you have to face the temptation so you could test your willpower? Remember that sometimes what it takes to test your willpower is your ability to avoid the temptations at all cost. You dont have to make it hard for yourself and face those temptations. Get rid of the temptations altogether by doing these tips:

• Store only healthy food in the fridge
• Do not go to fast food restaurant
• Throw all the junk foods
• Have a grocery list and follow it strictly
• Avoid impulse buying, make sure to bring enough money for what you need
• Have someone to restrain and accompany you at the same time

1. Take the fight or flight approach

The fight or flight mode is your remedy when youre already faced with the temptation. The rule is simple: If you can fight the temptation, then you can stay strong and fight it. If you cant fight it, leave.

*Shortcut Cheat Tip # 15: Do not rely on willpower alone. It is bound to fail you once in a while.

One of the skills that you need to perfect is the art of listening to your body. More often than not, people who suffer from binge eating do not know how to listen to their body. They eat when their bored and not because they are hungry, all because they wasnt able to tell the difference between the two.

Here are some of the tips that you can follow in order to have a better grasp of your body:

• Take the time to ponder

One of the best ways to tell the difference between being bored and being hungry is to think for a few minutes. Take a minute or two to assess whether you have all the signs of real hunger. Does your stomach rumble? Do you feel weak? If these are not on your list, you are just probably bored.

• Distract yourself

Try doing other things for a minute or two, if the feeling of hunger does not go away, then you are certainly hungry.

• Keep note of the time

Keeping note of the time of your meals can help you a lot in determining whether you are hungry or bored. If your last meal was 10 minutes ago, you are just certainly bored.

*Shortcut Cheat Tip # 16: Listen for your stomach growl. If you dont hear it, you are probably just imagining that youre hungry.

Day 17 of your weight loss program would be all about getting the proper mindset. After all the time that you have spent working hard to achieve weight loss, it can now be easier for you to accept the fact that weight loss is just the side effect of healthy and proper lifestyle.

Just continue having the discipline and youre good to go!

17 Day Diet Reloaded:

The Ultimate Step by Step Cheat

Sheet on How to Lose Weight &

Sustain It Now

Getting on your way to weight loss is a challenging task. In fact, a lot of people have given up even before they can accomplish half of their goal. These people fail not because they lack the will power; they failed because they just dont know the proper way of doing it. This is the reason why we are now introducing to you this book your ultimate guide on cleansing your system, getting your metabolism going and shedding off excess fats for good.

For this to succeed, the first thing that you have to do is to set some points straight. Before anything else, you need to know the reason why you accepted the weight loss challenge in the first place. Knowing the reason behind your drive to lose weight is essential in the setting of your goal. Remember that your goal is the backbone of your plan, so it must be clearly laid out as early as possible.

Aside from an unclear goal, a faulty time frame is another reason why people fall short of their weight loss attempts. People like to see the results of their work at once, and they feel discouraged when this does not happen. This is only natural since some people lack the luxury of time (or the patience) to wait for weight loss to come. This lack of patience urges people to bite into the fast weight loss fads which only seem to make weight gain worse the moment it bounced back. If you have heard and tried these yo-yo diets, youd know exactly how these fast weight loss fads make the cycle of weight loss-weight gain far more depressing for people who have been trapped in it.