Successful weight loss without a good weight loss program is nearly impossible. To lose body fat fast you need a good weight loss program with a balance of diet, exercise and good advice. To help you I have put together 10 tips which will maximize your success.

Your weight and level of fitness is directly correlated to the amount and type of food you eat and the amount of exercise you do. I should also add it reflects your attitude towards your body and how efficient your metabolism. You can change every one of these factors so let’s look at some practical tips to losing body fat fast.

Start by reducing your carbohydrate intake. More than any single factor in your diet, carbohydrates contribute to weight gain. The worst carbs are those high on the glycemic index (GI). The higher the GI the faster they are digested in your stomach and the faster your body stores them away as fat. The pancreas reacts to high carbohydrate levels in the blood by releasing insulin. This insulin converts the sugars in the bllod inot glycogen initially or straight into fat if your liver is full of glycogen. The insulin response is so quick that your blood sugar levels drop so fast that within an hour of eating you are hungry again, and you want more sugar for energy. This created a vicious cycle.

Low GI food such as wholemeal pasta, brown rice and full grain breads help control the appetite because they are digested more slowly and they don’t create the insulin response of high GI foods. You feel fuller after meals and you don’t crave top ups between meals. You have to keep your carb intake to less that one sixth of your caloric intake daily you will definitely see body fat loss. Lose the high GI carbohydrates from your diet and replace them with healthy low GI carbs.

Try to reduce the amount of saturated fats you eat but don’t get paranoid about it. Saturate fats such as animal fats are implicated in heart disease and especially stay away from trans fats, the type used to cook fries, chips, and fast foods. They will kill you, clog up your arteries and predispose you to cancers such as bowel cancer. On the fat issue, there has been a campaign for years to reduce our fat intake in the belief we will get thin if we do. This philosophy has been a spectacular failure. One gram of fat contains 10 calories and 1 gram of carbohydrate or protien contains 4 calories, but fat and carbohydrates are metabolised by the body differently and fat doesn’t make you fat. Carbs do! Low fat processed foods are full of sugar.

Eat more vegetables, particularly veggies full of fiber like carrots. They are high in fiber, have low caloric values and leave you feeling full after a meal. They are low GI and contain loads of good antioxidants and natural statins which lower your cholesterol naturally and healthily.

The more fiber the better. Most people do not consume enough fiber in their diet. Soluble fiber protects your heart and insoluble fiber protects your digestive tract. Fiber makes you feel fuller sooner and reduces the tendency to overeat. The recommended amount of fiber is 25 grams a day but in undeveloped countries people eat three and four times this amount and diseases such as bowel cancer are rare. Fiber is king.

Introduce your new diet and weight loss program steadily rather than rapidly. You gained weight over a long time frame and you should aim to remove it steadily rather than dramatically. Lose weight too fast and you end up with folds of skin everywhere like a Sha Pei dog, plus your energy levels will go through the floor. Your metabolism will crash and you will certainly do yourself more harm than good. The ideal is a long term sustainable lifestyle “sea change” which will bring you to your goals over a sensible time frame.

Your goal should be a healthy lifestyle and a new healthy you. This means not just diet but also attitude. If you are going to lose weight, the gtoal is to attractive at the end of the process, not thin, unhealthy and unattractive. Try for fresh, slim and attractiove with a real appreciation of yourself and your own value as a person. We are looking for long term goals hers, not just the next six weeks.

Don’t be desperate to lose weight. It might be very important that you lose weight but if you become desperate it all just becomes hard work. Allow yourself to enjoy the journey. Link your new lifestyle to positive emotions and the weight loss will be a bonus. It may take a little longer, but it will ensure that you’ll never have to lose weight again.

Your weight loss will vary week to week depending on the diet you are on and, if you are a women, on the time of the month. Hormones play a part here. As you get further into your exercise program you will build up muscle which weighs more than fat. You might be disappointed to find you only lost 2 pounds one week but also realize your waist measurement dropped two inches. This is why it is important to take a long term view. You are travelling in the right direction. Stick with the program and you will arrive at your destination.

Eat. Starvation diets don’t work. When we starve ourselves our survival mechanisms kick in the the stressor known as starvation makes the body go into self-preservation mode. Your body then stores every calorie it sees and you become lethargic as your metabolism slows down and weight loss becomes impossible. Food is your friend; just make sure it’s the right kind of food.

And eating breakfast is the best meal to start the day with! A high GI breakfast of porridge and whole grain toast, protein like an egg and bacon and tea or coffee and not fruit juice sets you up for the day. Fruit juice has too much sugar in it and is a bad start to the day. A good breakfast will sustain you until lunch and you will be protected against the mid-morning snack attack that you are prone to when you start the day without breakfast. No breakfast and I promise you will fall off the diet by 11 AM that day.

Find a good weight loss program. The importance of this cannot be overstated. We all need help and there is so much out there. The program must include a good balanced diet, which shows you the foods to eat and the ones to avoid. Exercise should be included and a food planner included is such a bonus. It makes shopping for your new diet a snip.

Find the program that works for you and then work it. One day the mirror will reflect the power of that decision. The most powerful action you can take is to make a decision today that there is no option for you but success. Fail to make a decision and … well look in the mirror and see what not making a decision has done for you so far.