There are more than a few tips to safe and simple weight loss - and I am not
about to tell you this is the BEST. Certainly, pills or machines
bought off of a infomercial aren't going to do it. Also, be careful of
anyone promising that you can lose MORE than 2 pounds in one week. Even if they
are "guaranteeing" your success - the diet or program is risky and your
weight loss is unlikely to be permanent. How many times do you want to PAY to lose
weight? Pay for a trainer, or a coach - but the plan to lose weight, one of the
hardest personal acheivements in our day and age, should be FREE.

Listed below are the 3 basics needed to lose weight. All plans work around these
core principles.

1. Decide on your goal so you can make a plan!

Yes, everyone talks about goal setting...because it WORKS! If you
want to lose a dress size, or a 100 pounds; what you WANT is your goal.
Decide and WRITE it DOWN or email it to yourself, EVERY DAY. It makes
a huge difference to help you keep your focus on it.

2. Cut your calories

Even if you have been working out for hundred years...if you still have
weight you want to lose, it is about What you are eating. So you have
to ask yourself, what are you doing now to keep you from your goal?
Take stock of your food intake every day. What are you willing to trim out,
to reach that goal you decided on earlier?

I found for me, it was much easier to plan my daily and weekly meals out. My family was
completely behind me and it was great to share it with them.

Keep in mind that an inch of fat around your belly equals approximately 6-8 pounds
of fat; to lose weight safely you want to limit your weight loss to a maximum of
two pounds a week, or a daily caloric reduction of 1000 calories from a combination
of cutting calories and burning calories.

3. Increase your exercise

The final step is to increase your exercise. To get that daily reduction of calories
between 500-1000 (equaling 1-2 pounds of fat loss a week) you can enjoy some
concentrated interval training that will really help to increase your metabolism
without increasing your workout time. When I was working on my degrees, the science said
that to burn fat, one must perform, Long, Slow Distance. The SCIENCE has changed and
research points to shorter and more intense workouts that create an increase in heart
rate (which means an increase in metabolism, which means more calories burned in shorter
workout time!)

Ok...you now have the core principles of weight loss before you:

Remember,

DECIDE (and write it down daily),
Reduce your calories and
Increase your Exercise.

Weight loss, especially for the obese isn't easy. If it were, we wouldn't be obese.
However, it can be made simple, and you are not alone in your battle. Good Luck!

Erin Carraway is the creator of Obesity Free for Life.com - a website with the lofty goal of becoming the Best obesity Information site on the Web, dedicated to enhancing the lives of the overweight and the obese. Obese for nearly her entire adult life, she is now a proponent of safe, permanent weight loss with proper education, through The Power of Ones. Learn more about safely losing massive amounts of weight at
http://www.obesityfreeforlife.com