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Losing Weight: Seeing Results with Weight Loss and Exercisingby Wendy HearnAre you seeing and achieving the results you want? I often hear people say they've been following a diet and exercising, yet their weight doesn't always appear to be reducing. When I'm working with people who want to lose weight and become fitter, one of the reasons I've found to account for this is that their approach is sporadic. They may start a strict diet, give up after a couple of weeks, then start another, perhaps a different one. A certain event, maybe Christmas or a holiday often sets this cycle off again and afterwards they stop the diet. These typical examples reveal how being sporadic in your approach to your health leads to you being half-hearted. Do you join a gym and then give it up or are you still paying for it, yet not even going? Are you eating meals regularly? Are your eating habits irregular? Do you skip meals sometimes, mostly breakfast? The way to achieve the results that you're looking for is to be consistent. Being consistent means choosing a regular exercise and eating plan and committing to it. This needs to fit in totally with your life and needs to be continued, even after you've started seeing some results. Developing a regular exercise and eating plan, and following it consistently will allow you to lead a healthier life. Being healthy is something which needs to be approached consistently and when you're being sporadic in your approach you're unlikely to achieve the results you want. Many people are haphazard in their approach, particularly with regard to weight loss. If you've been sporadic you're very normal but there are ways that you can change to make you more consistent. Look at the reasons you're being sporadic and deal with them. Perhaps you need to write some of this down to enable you to explore more fully what's going on. There are a number of ways that you can become more consistent with your weight loss. One way is to make it an integral part of every day and not something that has to be fitted in if you have time. You can make a plan for your eating and exercise. Look at all parts of this plan to schedule the time you need to devote to it in your life. If there are times when you're being sporadic, don't give yourself a hard time; instead, celebrate the time that you achieve consistency. This will help you to build momentum, which will in turn enable you to feel more motivated to continue. I've found that being sporadic often occurs when you may be taking on too much. Perhaps, when you first started exercising you committed to doing too much and too often. This becomes difficult to maintain and may lead to you giving up. I would suggest that you commit to an eating and exercising plan that is achievable on a consistent basis. For instance, decide to exercise once a week and stick at it, rather than committing to six times a week initially and then giving up. You can always build on this weekly exercising once it has become a consistent habit. Being consistent in your actions will bring you consistent results. What do you need to be doing on a regular basis to achieve weight loss and health for yourself?
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Wendy works with people who want to successfully lose weight.
