Helpful health for gentle & effective change

* Make a poster of people that are motivator's for you * Are you in "fatitiude" or "ripatude" state of mind? Are you thinking fat thoughts or positive thoughts? How can you change your frame of mind right now, when its hardest to change it, how can you prevent the fatitude attitude coming back?* Food is not the enemy, you just need to learn to deprioritise food. Think of it like water, you need it to survive, you dont have it around for entertainment.* Communicating through cravings, bad moods, stress's, hardships, happiness and success is soooo important! Talk about it all! It's only gonna help ease the problems and make the celebration of success better.* The first 5kg is sooo important! If you can tackle that first mole hill, then the rest of the mountain will bow to you.* Remember you wont always be loosing weight, at some points you will plataue when your body is creating more muscule, dont worry your not becoming the hulk, its healthy.* A biscuit here, a lollie there isn't ok, your body doesnt want to touch your fat, thats its emergency fuel, it DOES NOT WANT TO TOUCH IT so to an extent you do have to starve yourself OF BAD FOOD. Remember not to over eat on the good stuff either.* For at least an hour before after you have been to the gym DONT EAT! You may be crazy hungry, but that is your body trying to tell you it doesnt have the energy to continue, thats your body avoiding the fat reserves. Use these hunger pangs to get involved with house work, personal chores, and homework! That hour will pass in no time, all else fails call someone you havent spoken to in a while. Failing that, reserves specific daily habit for this hour post gym, things like checking emails, posting on the class forums, txting up a storm, pampering, etc.* It is possible to be social without food, its just a matter of being creative with your surrondings and spending time with people who can appreciate your weight loss efforts.* There is more power in holding the cookie and saying "do i really need this" then promising to work it off tomorrow. Challenge yourself, question yourself, argue it out of you, eventually you will be so sick of fighting your own desires that the cookie will be majoily inferior to your power.* DO NOT EVER promise to do more exercise tomorrow to make up for what you missed today, plans can change, things can pop up, its easier to let it go, tell yourself 'there is only now, there is no tomorrow". At the same time, if you do miss a workout for a legitamit reason, dont beat yourself up about it. If this is a regular occurance, buy a workout dvd for at home.* Keeping a food diary is an amazing tool if you are choosing to work soley with food (instead of meal replacents). What is even more powerful, is taking a photograph of everything you eat, physically seeing what you put in today, may be enough to make that chocolate bar less appetising.*It takes the average person 3 days to digest a meal from mouth to.. well... This is unhealthy, it should only take 24 hours. A correct metabolism willl come from eating healthier and maintaing a healthy lifestyle, there are supplements to assist with metabolic rates, but take these as a last resort.