How to lose weight - First Stage

This is in continuation to my earlier Post on How to lose weight.

I have reached my first milestone date: 15th March 2010. Also I am pleased that I have achieved my first goal of X + 15 Kilos ( losing 3 kilos in a month). There were various paths to achieve it but nothing was more accurate than "Knowing Myself" which lead to success (by understanding facts about me)

Let me share how I reached the goal. I did following simple things :-

• Counting/measuring amount of food I eat during my meals. Though it sounds childish but it proved out to be really effective. Generally when a person is over-weight he does not realize that he is over-eating. This can be due to various reasons like watching television while eating or gossiping while eating or by doing things which gives one pleasure. So while doing these pleasurable things a person does not realize over-eating. Though, for sure, this realization comes after over-eating : )

I consciously observed how much I eat. Not thinking to control my eating but just making a conscious note on how much I eat. For example if I eat following for my lunch/dinner

* 3 chapatis (rotis) / Plateful of rice

* One sweat dish

* 2 vegetables

* Some fruit

* Others like : pickle

Now what I did was to make an effort to have my eating consistent. (Remember not reducing anything in my diet). So if my standard diet is 3 rotis (chapattis) then I make sure I don’t eat 4th or even a bite extra. This helped me control my over-eating.

• The second important thing I did was to say NO to following things

a. Fried Food

b. Sweets

Again for doing this I have to keep facts in mind. Specially keep in mind environment dependencies. So even if you are able to achieve 80% control; it is great effort.

• Walk where you can avoid luxuries. For example I stay on 4th Floor. And generally everyone is tired after work so I used to take an elevator rather than stairs. After 15/2/2010 for 95% of times I took stairs rather than elevator. After following this strictly I found I was covering at least 10 trips every day.

With following just three above simple things & "knowing myself" i was able to meet my first goal. I hope people who read it can actually feel that reducing weight is achievable.

Now my next target is reducing my weight to X+10 Kilos in next 2 months.

Things to focus on

• Keep following the above mentioned things.
• Don’t be complacent
• Be concentrated on the final goal
• Take step by step approach.

Will write again when I reach next milestone {X+12 kilos or 15/5/X whichever comes sooner :)}