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Meal planning to lose weight is a waste of time. Let’s look at the facts: A UCLA research study concluded  that people on special diets did lose weight, but within two years 83% had gained back more weight than lost. Their research concluded people who did not go on a diet, were better off from a weight standpoint than those who did.

I know healthy meal planning sounds like a smart idea. Here’s why it doesn’t work:

It’s too much hassle.

As the facts prove, sooner or later people get tired of looking at charts, diagrams, and planners- and go back to their old habits. Here is meal planning made easy:

DON’T WASTE TIME MEAL PLANNING

Meal planning for weight loss needs to be so simple and so easy that it’s not something that takes any special effort whatsoever. If you put together some special healthy weight loss meal plan- the odds are sooner or later you’ll get tired of the whole concept of custom meal planning, and you’ll stop doing it!

Does that mean we should abandon the healthy weight loss meal or diet plan? No. It just means we need to replace it with easy meal planning- which is no planning at all. No matter if you call it fast meal planning or busy meal planning- you’re still planning!
And planning is still too much work. So don’t plan- just eat healthy!

You don’t need to put any thought or effort into healthy food. Don’t make a new body and life more complicated with manufactured foods. I put as little thought into eating as I can. I never “meal plan.” With a full schedule, two kids and a dog, I can’t plan on what will be happening 2 hours from now. I’m sure your life is the same way. Knowing what’s healthy made weight loss easy. I simply eat what and I like. Every meal is decided on in about three seconds, if that long. It can become that simple for you too.

Permanent weight loss does not take any special meal planning tips. It takes a change in your eating habits. You do not need to pay for a personalized meal plan from a giant weight loss company. Just buy natural food at the grocery store. That’s all you have to do!

It’s not the $50 “meal planning for busy moms” software that’s going to make you lose weight. It’s the changing of your grocery shopping and eating habits that are going to make you [and your family] lose weight. If past food habits caused weight gain, you can’t expect to not change and lose weight.  Keep it simple! Simple is easy. Simple is totally doable. Buy more healthy food and less unhealthy foods, meaning more natural food and less processed food. Buying fruits, vegetables, whole grains, beans, nuts, eggs, skim milk, cheese, chicken, fish, lean meats, and so on- does not take planning. Your life is the same, only simpler and better [and you get to eat more].

Every meal compounds over time to help or hurt you. It might take some time before you’re rewired to make healthy choices all or most of the time. That’s OK. It will become easier. You have to start someplace, so start by shopping more wisely. Buying the same quantity of junk food you always bought is a very bad idea. The next time you go the grocery store, make conscious choices. Don’t buy from past habits. Be very honest about what goes in that grocery cart. Do not kid yourself here. If it goes in the shopping cart, it goes home, and it will be right there tempting you 24/7.

Want to get off to the fastest start possible? Stop buying man made junk and processed food for the first couple months until cleaning up that diet is relearned. Then after the time needed to develop better habits, you won’t have any problem ignoring the junk. If junk food is in the house and still being eaten, all you’re doing is dragging out the process of cleaning up that diet [while progress is sabotaged at the same time].

Don’t even think in terms of a fast or quick meal planning. Don’t plan at all! Just shop wisely. The more natural foods you eat, the faster you’ll lose weight. To succeed at healthy meal planning and weight loss, don’t make life more complex, make it simpler.

Helpful weight loss stories

The first thing I must admit is this: I’d never imagined becoming a real weight loss success story. I failed at losing weight more than ten over 30 years. Sometimes I would succeed at a diet loss plan for a about two days.  A few times I was a “weight loss success story” for about three months.

However, at age fifty, I finally got it down. Now I’m going to explain how to become a natural weight loss success story also. Sorry, no diet herbs or skin patches allowed.

First I share what you need to do, then I share the most important part: How to permanently lose weight.

Step: 1 Get honest. You must honestly see the habits you need to change. If you refuse to see them, you can’t fix them. I know this sounds simple, but you’d be surprised how many of us short change our futures by refusing to take this honest look at what we do each day when it comes to the care of our precious health.

Step 2: Don’t eat processed foods. You never put anything in a car you’re going to get rid of someday besides gas because you know you’d ruin it. Then why would you put things in your ONE AND ONLY body it was never designed to use for fuel?

Step 3: Get moving. What’s the number 1 factor in longevity? Aerobic capacity. Your heart and lungs really need to be challenged. The same goes for your body’s muscles. Your body ages much faster without use. You will rust out long before you will wear out.

Step 4: Take some kind of positive action. You have to get started doing something NOW. It doesn’t really matter what it is. Something is always better than nothing. Nothing is your greatest enemy in life. Nothing will take away everything, faster than anything.

Action is the true key. Taking action will reveal where you need to improve things. It takes one main step to have a personal weight loss success story: Changing unhealthy habits over to healthy ones. Not one other thing works. This is why diet products don’t work and never will: Even if they are for “real” they don’t help you change your habits permanently. They are acting as a weight loss shortcut for you.

Don’t make this more complex than necessary. To succeed, just eat right and get some exercise. I repeat, it all about changing the unhealthy habits that make you gain weight over to healthy habits that are PROVEN to make you lose it.

Here’s my most useful helpful weight loss success tip: You must have a thought in reserve that is more powerful than the unhealthy habit that is tempting you. It doesn’t matter what that thought is, all that matters is that it works when you need it. It could be something as simple as thinking you want to be around to see your grand-babies. Let me repeat, it just has to be a thought [or thoughts] that are powerful enough for you.

Perhaps you can find a motivational weight loss story that had special meaning to you. Other helpful weight loss stories might hold just the thought you need. Honest, sincere and inspirational weight loss stories are all over.

My personal weight loss journey transformed my life and future. As much as I hate to admit it, I got fat and lazy. Now, when most people see my picture, they think it’s fake! They can’t believe a fifty year old can have a body that looks 25. The truth is, I didn’t do one special thing. I repeat, I never thought I’d be considered a motivational weight loss story.

All I did was find some thoughts that were more powerful that my old habits. Then every day, I ate right and exercised. In a few short months, I felt just like I did when I was in my twenties. It really wasn’t hard or complicated. I never went hungry or deprived myself. Step one, I gave up junk food. Then I started a sensible exercise plan.

Successful weight loss is 99% mental. All you need to do is find a motivator that is powerful enough for you- and then take action.