Weight Loss for Women

Weight Loss Tips For Women

Struggling To Lose Weight? Don't Worry, It's Not Your Fault

Let's start off by saying that it's not your fault why you are stuggling to lose weight. Weight loss for women is a lot harder today than it was a couple of decades or so ago.

You see, us women have much busier lifestyles and commitments than what our mothers and grandmothers did. Most women work, run the household and look after children. While the generations before us did not work. Their time was spent as a mother and housekeeper. So we have much more pressure and stress in today's society and this has an effect on our diet.

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In addition to the change in lifestyle, our diet has changed considerably. We now have fast food chains such as MacDonalds and the like. We have many more restaurants and 'Take-Away' shops in the form of Chinese buffets, Indian delicacies and Italian gourmet. Our mothers and grandmothers did not experience, or were tempted, by any of these exotic and very fattening foods!

So in order to help women of all ages what I would like to do here is to give some weight loss tips for women.

Weight loss tips to help overcome the many challenges and mental barriers that women are faced with on a daily basis in today's society.

Taking Control Of Your Life

It's not just about weight loss for women any more. It's about taking control of our lives again. We get sucked up being a wife, a mother, a housekeeper, going to work. We have forgotten how to be a 'me', how to set aside some time for us and how to set aside some time to look after ourselves and have a healthy body and a body that we are pleased to look at in the mirror every morning.

With weight gain many women have lost their confidence and self-esteem. Stress and depression play a large role in women today and one way of coping with stress and depression is... comfort eating. This is by far the most fatal activity we can do to kill our weight loss endeavours. But it happens and it happens with nearly all of us.

What we need to do is break this cycle. Break the mental barriers that are preventing us from losing weight. We need to take control of our habits. Break old habits and employ new ones.

Healthy Weight Loss Goals

OK, now that we know we need to change our old habits and mental attitudes to help us lose our unwanted weight, we need to know what goals to focus on. These goals not only make you slimmer, but are also very important health-wise - both physically and mentaly.

Ideal Weight:

You need to know what your ideal weight is for your height.

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Your BMI:

Your BMI is a better indicator for weight loss for women than your actual weight is. A healthy BMI is between 20-25. Anything above or below this is said by the health experts to be a health risk as you are either to thin or to fat which causes health risks.


Height	feet	metres
	inches		cm
	Imperial		Metric
Weight	stone	kg
	pounds
	Imperial		Metric

Your body mass index
What this means
Your maximum healthy weight (Based on a BMI of 25)			stone pounds
			kg

If you want to manually calculate your BMI then do the following:

Measure your height in metres. Multiply your height by itself;
Your weight in kilograms?
Divide the height by the weight squared.

Your Waist Measurement:

Another important indicator to a healthy heart and to good health in general is your waist measurement.

Did you know that people who are 'pear shape' i.e. the women who carry weight around their hips and thighs are less likely to develop diabetes and heart disease to those who are 'apple shape'. Apple shaped women carry their excess weight mainly around their waist and this is a health indicator for heart disease and diabetes.

A waist measurement of more than 80cm (32in) for women and 94cm (37in) for men indicates that there is an increased risk.

A circumference measurement of more than 88cm (35in) for women and 102cm (40in) for men is particularly worrying.

So you need to get your tummy down to less than 32" girls!

Your New 'To-Do' List

Food:

You need to find a diet to suit you and your lifestyle. It's no good following a diet if you are not enjoying it or it's too dificult to maintain. Actually, I should not say the word diet. You need to adopt new healthy eating habits to last you a lifetime.

You do need to focus on metabolism boosting factors which specifically help women to lose weight. Metabolsim boosters such as certain foods, exercise and water intake.

Exercise:

You also need to do some form of exercise. It is a known fact that exercise has many benefits for your health, not only just to lose weight. If you are suffering from stress or depression, then exercise is one of the cure methods to adopt as when you exercise you release endorphins which give you that 'feel good factor'. If you feel good, then you are more than likely to stick to your new healthy eating regime.

Definately do some cardio in the form of walking, swimming or running (or join a gym). But also focus on weights or toning exercises to sculpture your body to get rid of those hips, thighs, bum and tummy areas which us women are so prone to.

Other:

Log your calorie/food intake. Write down what you eat each day. This helps control what you put in your mouth - and on your hips.
Setting your goals. Work out, from the above charts, what your weight, BMI and waist measurements are.
Focus on why you want to lose weight. A wedding, a special birthday (40th, 50th) a holiday?
Put an image in your mind of you being slim and how it will make you feel.

By being slim you will more than likely regain your confidence and self-esteem and that is worth the weight in gold all by itself. Weight loss for women is still doable, but I think it's more about your frame of mind and getting some 'you' time than anything else. If you can get that right then the weight loss will follow.

Remember this phrase when you are about to put your hand in the biscuit tin:

"Nothing tastes nicer than how being slim feels!"

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