There are hundreds of weight loss methods. And every year we hear about better ones. But how to determine which one is better for you? After all, everyone knows that weight loss is a purely personal matter.

Suffering about figure is the most painful suffering. It puts its grim imprint on everything that surrounds us. And we already see the world very differently, in sad and dark shades. These sufferings are unbearable, they are literally poisoning our lives. They are like an evil sorcerer, turning all good into bad.

Fearing to gain weight, we cannot eat happily, we even cannot look at food happily. All tasty is bad! All tasteless is useful! Sitting at a festive table is in general a torture. Abundance of festive dishes means end for figure. However, there are women who eat everything and gain no weight! They manage to stay forever slender and beautiful, regardless of calories and amount of food! But, alas, these are elected ones.

As a result, our life becomes entirely dependent on food. But the most important thing - permanent presence of psychological discomfort becomes an integral part of our psychological problems. And this is a dead end! Therefore, by the way, any weight loss program always begins with assistance of psychologist. And then psychological training is required during the whole set of procedures aimed at weight loss.

Effective weight loss starts with head

According to statistics, only slimming methods that include psychological adjustment of excess weight, give the most efficient, sustainable and safe results. Without them the process of weight loss will remind pendulum - this time you lose kilograms, then gain them again.

Stages of psychological weight adjustment:

• Formulation of calm attitude to food
• Work to reduce sense of hunger
• Cultivation of sense of disgust for unwholesome food
• Formation of new tastes
• Education of habit of compliance with diet
• Refrain from habit of constantly chewing something, so-called “cow’s instinct”
• Development of desire for more physically and emotionally active way of life, rich with pleasant bright events
• Education of love for yourself with any weight
• Awareness of a meaningful life goal

At first glance it might seem that all of above mentioned is not mandatory. This is confusing. Avoid it immediately! I know: The best method does not give anticipated result, if consciousness resists to what is happening. We seem to be making huge efforts to lose weight, and brain at this time gives conflicting signals to all organs and we cannot control our body! Correct mental attitude means 90% success!

Individual test-analysis

Before you make a choice in favor of a certain way, it is necessary to analyze the following: build, disposition, habits, heredity, etc., etc.

1. Given your gender, age, weight, height, determine your weight target. Then be sure to compare it with personal feelings of excessive weight and correct this figure. And also add information on trends and changes in weight over the past year, 3 years, 5 years.

2. Examine general condition of your body. What chronic ailments do you have? Do you have food allergy? How your thyroid gland works? How are your nerves? How do you react to problems, stress, conflicts? Check also your excitability: how do you sleep, if you drink coffee after 8 PM? How fast your nails and hair grow? How quickly wounds and cuts on skin heal?

3. Determine hormonal background in your body. What hormones did you take and how long for? How many times you were pregnant? How many births did you have? Do you have PMS, menstrual cycle disorders? What is condition of your skin: dryness, fatness, blackheads, acne, pigment spots? You may even have to pass tests for hormones and visit endocrinologist.

4. Look objectively at your dietary discipline, or admit that you do not have any discipline. Answer honestly, choosing one of three options: no, sometimes, often. Do you overeat? Have you abused eating of carbohydrates (sweets, flour, alcohol)? Do you allow yourself a wrong diet (snacks, lack of breakfast, preponderance of evening meal)? And also fix some data on your diet: how many times a day do you eat, what are intervals between meals, and when you have the last meal?

5. Realize your habitual way of life. First, what it is in common: active or passive, sedentary or in motion? How much physical work and sports you do? How often do you change rhythm of daily life? Are you an owl or lark? How many hours a day you devote to dream? And on weekends?

Choosing the best weight loss method

This simple, but comprehensive testing is quite sufficient to reveal the reasons for excess weight. And knowing the cause, you can properly identify and the best way.

1. Calculated number of extra kilos, and information on dynamics of weight gain over the years will help you understanding the degree of neglect of the problem and, hence, the degree of your body habitualness to have extra weight. This will help you determining how strong a set of efforts should be to cope with the problem. You will prepare yourself for this since very beginning. And you also will not have illusions about early weight loss and immediately set realistic deadlines for yourself.

2. Analysis of the overall state of organism is needed to understand its health in general. If the level of ailment is significantly higher, first of all you will have to take care of health, and then extra kilograms. Incidentally, it is possible that in the process of healing kilograms will leave by themselves.

3. Presence of hormonal disorders show that extra kilograms are caused by improper metabolism. Here you can not do without medical care of endocrinologist. Please note that, according to the latest researches, not only hereditary, but non-resistance to stresses influence work of thyroid gland. Therefore, in addition to medication, engage in auto-training.

4. If your dietary discipline leaves much to be desired, it is possible that simple correction, without any diets, can help you reaching normal weight.

5. Having identified minuses of your lifestyle, you’ll see that your extra kilos are caused not by abundance of food, calories and volume, but by lack of rest or motion. And, maybe, by absence of all this together. The conclusion is clear - fill your life with leisure, sports and events. This is a way to lose weight and maintain good shape regularly.

Surely, sparing yourself is easier than changing. But, understand, finally, once and for all: suffering about figure is irrelevant. So drop this stupid deal! Switch on your mind - and you will get excellent results.