Losing weight isn't easy for many of us and is a day to day struggle.

To help you in your weight loss quest, we've put some of our best weight loss tips on this page along with links to some very helpful weight loss resources.

Whether you need to read up on all the latest weight loss information, need professional help from the likes of Personal Trainers, Gyms, Dietitians, Weight loss Programs, Yoga and Pilates instruction, or you'd like to buy a treadmill, exercise bike, home gym, or find a whole bunch of healthy recipes, you'll find the links to the information you need right here.

If it's just a bit of moral support you're after, there are also links to the most popular weight loss forums.

Getting Started on your Weight loss Journey

We all know that in order to lose weight, we need to eat less and exercise more, but while this sounds easy it can be very difficult.

If it's difficult for you, you are not alone.

The good news is that there is plenty of information, help and support for you if you are trying to lead a healthier lifestyle and achieve a weight loss goal.

The most common problems a lot of people face when deciding to lose weight are where and how to start, how to get more information and where to get help and support they need to not only achieve weight loss and reach their target weight, but also stay there and not put all the weight back on at a later date.

On the question about where to start, the answer needn't be a difficult one.

If you don't currently exercise regularly, start by walking a small distance every other day and after a few weeks start walking a small distance everyday.

The distance you walk initially needn't be far at all. The important thing here is getting into a routine and establishing a new habit, not what you do and how much of it you do each day.

If you prefer bike riding or swimming or doing yoga, pilates, weight training, kickboxing, spin classes, aerobics, bodypump, or whatever, it doesn't matter as long as you get into the habit of doing something everyday.

Worried about doing it alone? Don't be, there are plenty of other people in the same boat and it shouldn't be difficult for you to find a friend or someone you know who would like to start exercising too.

Having someone to exercise with regularly will help keep you motivated and stick with it. One number one weight loss tip is to find a friend to exercise with.

Build up your exercise intensity slowly

After a little while, what at first was difficult will become gradually easier and eventually easy to do.

When this happens, you can start to exercise longer and harder to burn off even more extra calories, but you must get your body and mind conditioned to regular (daily) exercise first.

The biggest mistake people make when starting to exercise is that they exercise too hard to begin with.

If you work too hard too soon, you stand the risk of injury and quitting prematurely because it's all too hard.

Changing your diet

As well as exercising each day, it is important that you start to eat less calories if you are to successfully lose weight and keep it off.

In order to eat less calories, there are two things you can do; eat smaller portions of the foods you do now, or eat other foods that contain less calories than those you're eating now.

Generally a combination of these strategies works best because A) When we completely change the foods we eat we end up coming back to our favourite foods (this is the main reason diets don't usually work) and B) When we substitute some of the foods we're eating for lower calories foods we retain a balance that we can live with for longer while still enjoying the foods we like and we will bring about weight loss more quickly, which is usually what everybody wants.

Avoiding Excuses

One of the greatest barriers to weight loss success for many people is having excuses for not exercising or changing our diet.

Common excuses for not exercising include; I'm too busy to exercise (I don't have any time), I can't afford to exercise (it's to expensive to hire a personal trainer or join the gym, or do Pilates or Yoga, or buy a treadmill, exercise bike or bicycle, etc, etc, etc), and I don't know how or what to do.

But as they say, "where there's a will, there's a way" and nothing could be truer than when it comes to exercising and dieting.

If you think you are too busy to exercise regularly, for example, combine exercise with other things you do, like catching up with family and friends.

If you can't afford to buy a treadmill, hire a personal trainer, join the local gym, do Pilates or Yoga classes, visit a dietitian, or whatever, fine. Start walking around the block. This doesn't cost a cent.

If you don't know what to do, read books, magazines or visit websites with the information that you need or talk to people who do know.

Join a group of like-minded people

This is another one of our top tips for successfully losing weight.

A group of like-minded people might be on an internet weight loss forum, or they might be a walking club, or cycling club, or a local Weight Watchers meeting group.

You might even consider forming your own little support network and invite others who share the same weight loss goals that you do.

Get some professional help

At some point, it pays to get professional help, even if it is only for a short time.

For example, if you want to learn new ways to spice up your exercise routine, or you want some extra motivation, or you want to exercise with new people, it makes sense to hire a personal trainer or take out a 3 month gym membership, or buy yourself a pack of ten Yoga or Pilates Class vouchers, or join your local swimming pool and take some swimming lessons, or if you want to change your diet, visit a dietitian and get them to help you plan out a new menu plan.

The thing to remember here is that you don't need to pay for these professional services indefinately, just for a short period until you learn what to do for yourself.

Other ways to change your diet might include joining Weight Watchers, doing Jenny Craig, visiting SureSlim or Ultra Lite, or getting your meals prepared and delivered by Lite'N Easy.

Even in these cases, it doesn't need to be forever, it might just be to get yourself out of a weight loss plateau.

Just trying meal replacement shakes, like Celebrity Slim for example, for a little while to get you started might also be an option.

The most important thing about weight loss is, that we are all different and what works for you might not work for me and vice versa.

We need to find what works for us. And what works for us today, may not work for us again in 12 months time.

We just need to keep trying and must always have some momentum towards achieving our weight loss goals.

Of course, for some of us the right way to lose weight may be extreme and may involve things like weight loss surgery, the most popular form of which at the moment is lap-band surgery.

Whatever way is right for you, never give up looking for it and striving towards your ideal weight.

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