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My next simple natural weight loss tip is Time.

When you are trying to lose weight, it is important to remember that you gained the weight gradually over time; it did not happen overnight. The best way to lose weight is also gradually.

Trying to lose weight too fast is unsafe, and puts a great deal of stress on every system in your body. Drastic weight loss regimens should only be used when there is a medical necessity, and only under a doctor’s supervision.

Besides the physical stress caused by drastic changes in your diet, psychologically, it is harder to maintain a drastic difference, than to make gradual changes.

If you try to go from eating 3000 calories daily to 300, your body will feel like it is starving, and do it’s best to conserve calories, making it harder to lose weight.

If you go from a sedentary life style to triatholons and marathons, your body will rebel, or you may injure yourself.

It is much more effective to make gradual changes, reduce your caloric intake a little at a time; it will be easier to maintain a gradual improvement than a massive change.

Increasing your physical activity a little at a time to increase the calories burned  is healthier and safer then trying to become an Olympic athlete overnight.

That is my next simple natural weight loss tip. Time. It took time to gain the weight, it will take time to lose it.

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I am not a joiner, so joining a gym and working out never appealed to me, but I liked the idea of accelerating weight loss by stepping up my metabolism with a work out. I also did not have space for a home gym or any other elaborate equipment, so I had given up on finding a solution, then a friend showed me a book, 8 Minutes in the Morning: A Simple Way to Shed up to 2 Pounds a Week Guaranteed , and I had found what I was looking for. The book offered an easy workout, with minimal equipment (a set of dumbbells for some of the exercises), and it only took eight minutes a day.

The book also offers tips on diet, as well as how to keep your self motivated. I found it to be very helpful, and still use the workouts most mornings, since it is easy to find eight minutes, and it makes me feel better at the start of my day.

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I was talking about using a measuring cup to become aware of how much food you are really eating. Another useful tool is a food journal or diary.

It’s not something you need to carry with you forever, but if you spend even two weeks writing down everything you eat every day, down to the smallest treat you may not have normally noticed, it becomes easier to see how much you actually consume in a day, and what small changes you can make to help you toward your weight loss goal.

If you record what triggered you to eat, or what made you feel you needed to eat, you can see if you are eating, not out of hunger, but out of habit, or as an attempt to distract yourself from uncomfortable emotions, or situations. Sometimes, it may even be boredom that makes you want to eat. (I know that was sometimes the case with me, I wasn’t really hungry, but I was bored, so I had a snack, or even a meal.)

Becoming aware of anything besides hunger that causes you to eat is a good step to losing weight simply and naturally.

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