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It might sound strange in the context of weight loss but it is a fact that mind plays a very important role in achieving any of human goals. Going by that maxim, it becomes evident that to lose weight, the mind needs to be tuned to receive the ‘auto suggest’ messages. ‘Auto suggesting’ is telling the mind constantly to remember one’s goal and make the brain work subconsciously towards achieving the same.

Taking the weight loss goal further, try using this technique and observe for yourself when the results unfold. Keep repeating your ideal weight to your subconscious mind over and over again as you doze off, because this is the time when the mind is very receptive to suggestions: Saying, for instance, ‘120 pounds, 120 pounds, 120 pounds’. Similarly affirm to yourself in your woken state: something like ‘120 pounds is my ideal weight and I pray sincerely for achieving this’ or something in these lines. By doing this, your mind would be inured to accept your goal weight subconsciously and work and force you compulsively to do whatever it takes to accomplish the desired result.

Now weather this technique works or not is a matter to be left to time. People who have used this technique have indulged in fattening food intermittently without any ramification, of course continuing with the routine eating habits and required exercises. Once your mind is trained, you need not bother yourself with what needs to be done to maintain your ideal goal. Mind will take care of your goal and do its best to ensure the right result. Even if you are skeptical about this technique, using it will make you lose nothing. So why not give it a genuine try and test it out thoroughly?

The whole purpose of conditioning your subconscious is to bring your conscious self to accept that you already are what you want to become. When this idea is well established, the subconscious becomes compulsive and accordingly guides you intuitively to the right food, exercise and whatever it takes to accomplish your goal. This is bound to happen as this is the law of nature. Mind will always act in correspondence to the seed sown as thought.

However a word of caution: If you need to lose too much pounds, the subconscious mind may not be able to decide all at once what your ideal weight goal should be. In such cases, do not set up resistance or an argument in the subconscious. Instead, target for a weight loss goal that is believable and achievable at that time. What is important to note here is that that information that is easy to believe is more likely to fetch faster and greater results.

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There are many habits that you can adopt to keep your body metabolism high. High metabolism means burning more calories and thus achieving a faster and easier weight loss. There have been instances where people have lost weight by slightly changing their daily habits, like taking few kilometers of walk or switching to diet soda.

Here are some simple habits that can help you immensely in your war against weight.

Move as much as possible

Each movement of the body results in burning calories and thus making simple body movements a habit contributes in a big way in burning calories. Tapping feet, swinging your legs, doing simple neck and stretching exercises, changing positions and postures, using restrooms in a different floor, parking in the farthest corner, while talking on the phone standing up and moving from side to side, pacing up and down, clenching and releasing your muscles etc. are some very easy to adopt routines that can fetch you great results. At the end of the day, make sure to use every possible opportunity to move, as it is a proven fact that an active person losses about 50% more calories than an inactive person.

Eat lesser but often

Metabolism burns more energy if smaller and frequent meals are taken instead of larger meals taken with longer time gaps. The digestion process requires energy usage and frequent meals would mean continuity of the process and thus more energy consumption.

Eating good fat

Eating ‘healthy’ fats help you augment your body’s calorie burning capabilities. Incorporating fats like flaxseed oil, hempseed oil, olive oil, avocados, salmon, albacore tuna, nuts and seeds etc in your meals do a great deal in enhancing your body capability to burn calories. These fats are a must for our bodies to work efficiently besides being good to eat.

Drink water as cold as possible

Your body requires certain level of temperature to be maintained. If you consume cold water instead of any hot beverage, your body would use more calories to raise the cold water to match your body temperature, thus burning those extra calories.

Exercise with weights

Exercising with weight tones up muscle tissues that are metabolically active even when the body is resting. The amount of calories burned by these active muscle tissues can make a huge difference in the long run.

Use spices

Metabolism is affected enormously by eating many of the hot spices. Cinnamon for example is very effective in keeping the blood sugar under check and increases metabolism. Cayenne, crushed red pepper or wasabi are other spices that are good for this purpose.

Eat more proteins

Consuming more protein requires more calories to digest the same, as protein digestion is a complex chemical process. As proteins prolong digestion time, it keeps the tummy full for a longer period and does not instigate you to eat further. In the process it also keeps your blood sugar under check. Hence it is a great idea to include more of protein in your meals.

Aren’t these very simple things yet contributing in a big way to lift your metabolism and burn more calories?

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Are you surprised at the weighing scale needle going upwards even after all your sincere efforts to check your flab? Weight gain can frustrate you to no end, especially despite you adhering to a lifestyle that includes healthy eating and compulsory exercises.

There are many factors that may result in your gaining weight despite being calorie conscious and a regular exerciser. Michelle May, MD, author of “Am I Hungry? What to Do When Diets Don’t Work?” writes, “Weight gain is so complicated; there are so many factors that can impact your weight. It is more likely a combination of things more than just one factor,” The five factors presented below do play a big role in adding up to your weight when it is least expected by you.

“Lack of Sleep” is one such factor, as it leads to tiredness. When tired, your body will not be able to deal with stress efficiently and it may induce you to go in for food thus resulting in unnecessary quantity of calorie intake. Symptoms like fatigue, low energy levels, drowsiness, and getting irritable etc indicate the deficiency in sleep. Usually it is recommended to have at least eight hours of sleep.

Today’s lifestyle and individual expectations lead to unwarranted “Stress”, another factor that contributes to your weight gain. To cope up with stress, "Our bodies store fuel, slow down metabolism, and dump out chemicals [cortisol, leptin, and other hormones] which are more likely to cause … obesity in the abdominal region" explains May.

Many people restore to food intake for coping with stress, which is more like self-medication, which does no good. There are many relaxation techniques and exercises that help in getting rid of stress also indirectly helping in burning calories.

Some of the “medication” which are prescribed for treating depression, mood swing disorder, epilepsy, migraines, blood pressure, diabetes etc. are known to have weight gain as a side-effect. However for the sake of overall health many a times gaining a few pounds is still worth it.

Some “medical conditions” like hypothyroidism, a thyroid hormone deficiency resulting in low metabolism and appetite loss is most commonly known to induce weight gain. The symptoms of hypothyroidism are feeling fatigued and lethargic, hoarse voice, over sleep, immediate reaction to cold, body parts swelling or headaches. Similarly another condition “Cushing’s syndrome” is a disorder that causes excess cortisol hormone leading to weight gain. Look for the symptoms and see a doctor immediately to have this factor eliminated.

In women “menopause” is another reason that naturally slows down metabolism and induce weight gain. It triggers other factors like hunger, depression and lack of sleep that will all add up to further weight gain. During menopause, women lose estrogen, a hormone that usually pulls the weight to the lower body i.e. hips an thighs. When this goes down the weight starts accumulating in the mid section. This however is avoidable with changing your exercising habits to gain a lean body mass, achieving high metabolism and calorie burning.

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