Losing Weight - Why We Do It

By Author: Maria Tillinghous
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Fashion icons like Angelina Jolie make popular, designer items and many trends, leaving people craving smaller, more lean figures of their own to fit in size zero gowns. The conclusion of this is that they must get active and lose weight in order to fit in these smart designer dresses. Women nowadays see being thin as a vessel to belonging in today`s society and in their own friendship groups. Dropping dress sizes and crash weight loss is very risky and needs to be correctly managed from day one because of the danger of extreme dieting with future health problems.

Making yourself milestones and thinking about why and what you want to diet for, can help you to focus and rely on your motivation when the going gets tough. Building goals to aspire to and documenting your achievements on a monthly basis is very useful. In this way you can be successful in achieving your short term goals, which adds to your long term overall actual weight loss. For example, by losing a few pounds each week you could over the course of a couple of months, shed a stone and a half and by breaking down the enormity of the dieting task in this way-to ...
... more manageable, your goals will be easier to reach.

An exercise regime is not required but it can help by speeding up the weight loss process, resulting in a healthier approach, if your exercising off the body fat and keeping your muscles and organs working. So if you enjoy hiking or dog walking, start doing this for a little bit a day, or take up new activities such as swimming, playing football or even playing badminton. If you're not the exercise type or are self conscious of exercising in public then try working out at home on a treadmill.

Dieting doesn't mean you will be living the next quarter of a year torturing oneself with dieting and working out. The most difficult part of weight loss is sticking to it and to go the distance, surveys show that 4 out of 5 people fail before reaching their goals and end up putting the weight they lost back on within weeks. Remember weight loss can be a great experience if you want it to be. Meeting your weekly goals can give you a sense of achievement so treat yourself to something like a new sexy lingerie to further add to your confidence, and if your exceeding your milestones an occasional naughty snack won't hurt and will actually help you persevere with dieting. This will all help you in keeping to your milestones and helping you complete your plan and achieve your goals to a better life and an improved figure.

Primarily we pursue active lifestyles to look good and feel confident. The majority of people lose weight in the spring time and this is for several reasons. Firstly, after the Christmas period they may have put on a few extra pounds that they want to lose but mainly because they want to prepare themselves for their summer holidays where they will be lying on the beach, in a bikini, or a pair of swim shorts. The fear of lots of people seeing you in a vulnerable state will make you want to look the best you can, so weight loss and leading an active lifestyle play a major part in this.

After the hard work, the thought of fitting into the gown or items that you couldn't previously can help to increase your self esteem and make a greater you, this is why we lose weight and do it.