Top 10 Habits of Successful Weight Loss

Every little change can make a big difference!

Weight management is all about making small changes that can give huge impacts. As you incorporate these minor adjustments into your lifestyle, you'll begin to see how they can add up to big calorie saving and weight loss. Here are the top 10 habits that can help you turn your dream of weight loss into reality.

1. Evaluate your eating habits
2. If you fail to plan, plan to fail
3. Always shop with a full belly
4. Eat regular meals
5. Eat your food sitting down at a table, and from a plate
6. Serve food with individual plates, and leave the extras back at the stove
7. Eat slowly, chew every bite and savor the taste of the food
8. Don't eat after dinner
9. If you snack during the day, treat the snack like a mini-meal
10. Start your day with breakfast

Inspirational Story

Lord Buddha and The Brahmin

Lord Buddha was sitting under a banyan tree. One day, a furious Brahmin came to him and started abusing him.

The Brahmin thought that Lord Buddha would reciprocate in the same manner, but to his utter surprise, there was not the slightest change in the expression on his face.

Now, the Brahmin became more furious. He hurled more and more abuses at Buddha. However, Lord Buddha was completely unmoved. Actually there was a look of compassion on his face.. Ultimately the Brahmin was tired of abusing him.

He asked, "I have been abusing you, but why are you not angry at all ?"

Lord Buddha calmly replied, "My dear brother, I have not accepted a single abuse from you.""But you heard all of them, didn't you?" The Brahmin argued half-heartedly.Buddha said, "I do not need the abuses, so why should I even hear them?"

Now the Brahmin was even more puzzled. He could not understand the calm reply from Lord Buddha.

Looking at his disturbed face, Buddha further explained, "All those abuses remain with you.""It cannot be possible. I have hurled all of them at you," the Brahmin persisted.

Buddha calmly repeated his reply, "But I have not accepted even a single abuse from you ! Dear brother, suppose you give some coins to somebody, and if he does not accept them, with whom will those coins remain?"

The Brahmin replied, "If I have given the coins and not needed by someone, then naturally they would remain with me."With a meaningful smile on his face, Buddha said, "Now you are right. The same has happened with your abuses. You came here and hurled abuses at me, but I have not accepted a single abuse from you. Hence, all those abuses remain with you only. So there is no reason to be angry with you."

The Brahmin remained speechless. He was ashamed of his behavior and begged for Buddha's forgiveness.

Lesson to Learn from This Story:Inner calmness and peace are keys to contented life. You know who you are and what you want in life, so don't respond to what person said about you in anger. Control your anger with patience and calmness. That is biggest strength of Wise men.

Never take some one for granted, Hold every person Close to your Heart because you might wake up one day and realize that you have lost a diamond while you were too busy collecting stones.--"My richness consists not in the extent of my possessions; but in the fewness of my wants." J. Brotherton

Quote of The Week

"In one's life, they're going to face challenges. No matter what level we are working at, we will experience challenges. That is the good news! Some people will use those challenges as excuses to not push through their comfort zone and growing pains and they will quit... and they might have been just one person, one presentation away from success and they will never know it. But you can choose to see that challenge and embrace it. See it as your good fortune that it discouraged others with less perseverance and positive attitude and left you the opportunity to seize the moment. Sure, there will be people who are going to give 50 reasons why it'll never work and so forth. And my encouragement would be that, when that happens, you need to say, 'This is exactly why so many people don't succeed in this business.' And recognize in that, 'I'm going to push through this challenge. I'm going to find answers to whatever the challenge of the day is. And find myself on a higher, more successful ground as a result.' You win! You only lose if you quit."

Quote of The Week

Part of business is adversity. Everyone who tries to do a hard thing is going to run into challenges. The wise man has a philosophy that has been very helpful to me. He views business as problem solving. If there were no problems to making money or to building an organization or whatever, then everybody would be doing it. And there would be no opportunity there because everybody would already occupy that space. In order for an opportunity to be real, in order for a business to be real, there have to be obstacles to success in place that keep other people from getting there. So those who climb the mountain and who actually achieve the success aren't people who just accidentally discovered some obstacle-free course to success! They didn't just land on the top of the mountain. They climbed. They probably had some falters and stumbles but always got back up and kept moving forward, upward, regardless of the challenges. It's rather, people who faced obstacle after obstacle and then worked through them who taste the joy of success.

My Weight Management Program after 1 month

2 weeks ago, i have blogged bout my weight management program. And today, it has been 1 month since i started the program. I'm very happy with the result. Although i don't see drastic changes yet, but i'm glad that i'm indeed healthier today than a month ago. Here are the measurements to date. I can see improvements.

Weight: 51.2kg
Body Fat: 31%
Metabolic age: 35

And i have trimmed off 3cm from my waist and 2cm off my hip. :)

A month ago, these're my measurements
Weight: 53kg
Body Fat: 33%
Metabolic age: 36

Not much differences i know, but i'm actually consuming more food than before i started the program. The program encourages us to eat the right amount of nutrition and never ever let ourselves starve. That's the principle. Never ever skip meals!!

Antioxidants Control AGE

Do you know?

Antioxidants can prevent important age accelerator - the formation of AGE (Advanced Glycation End Products), which are created by a process called glycation that damages Protein. Glycation occurs when glucose reacts with proteins resulting the cross-linking of protein as well as the formation of Free Radicals. A huge number of these proteins can lead to outer sign of premature aging, such as wrinkles and brown spots on the skin, and can cause even more destruction inside the body. Heart disease, cataracts, arthritis and even Alzheimer's disease have been associated with the cross-linking of proteins. The universal antioxidants alpha-lipoic acid as well as other antioxidants can control the formation of AGE

Quote of the Week 28th June ~ 4th July

Asking yourself where you want to be in a year, in two years, in ten years, that gives you purpose. Once you have determined your purpose and started moving purposely towards those things with positive thoughts and attitude, there comes your passion