It may surprise you that it’s not that extra snack you couldn’t resist that that undermines your weight loss targets. The core of a successful diet is introducing a few healthy habits to your lifestyle, which you can stick to.

These are some very useful tips for being able to start smoothly and lose weight quickly in a healthy way.

How to lose weight the right way? Tip 1: plan your dinner well in advance

Planning is one of the keys to success regarding weight loss. Because it means that you have the right food available at the right moment and you don’t eat the wrong things due to a lack of choices. This way, you also avoid bad last-minute alternatives fast food such as takeout pizza.

The simple habit of planning your dinner in advance, or at least doing so most days of the week, makes sure that no matter what happens during the day, you know what you will eat in the evening. That will really help you lose weight well. Preparing a few healthy meals and storing them in the freezer will help you out on those evenings where you just don’t have the time. For example, making soup and freezing it will offer you a better alternative. Combine it with some grilled chicken or fish and a bowl of salad for a quick and easy yet nutritious meal.

How to lose weight the right way? Tip 2: when eating your own lunch away from home, prepare it the previous evening

Buying lunch means chances are you will be eating double the amount of calories than when you prepare it yourself. This is because you’ll most likely end up with (industrially) prepared food which is packed with sugars and fats. These typically induce that afternoon cravings as well!

A balanced lunch that contains slow sugars (complex carbohydrates) for energy, lean protein to make you feel satiated, and some salad or vegetables, will allow you to make it through the afternoon. A balanced lunch will make your blood sugar levels fluctuate less, which spells the end of afternoon cravings. Another advantage of preparing your lunch the evening beforehand is that you can use any of the leftovers from dinner. This way you waste less and you already know how tasty your such will be. The lunchbox above by the way, contains another one of my secret weapons for healthy weight loss. I’ll reveal what that is in what follows.

How to lose weight the right way? Tip 3: make sure you always have veggies in your home

Each of us should eat more salad and vegetables; You knew that didn’t you? But it is sometimes difficult to plan this perfectly without seeing some of it go bad before you’ve eaten it. The extent to which you can easily buy fresh vegetables and salad on the same day of course depends somewhat on where you live. But nowadays there are also possibilities to order these items online, through a subscription system, and have them delivered at your home every week. This system offers two benefits. You don’t have to plan in shopping for fresh produce and you can easily make them part of dinner every day.

How to lose weight the right way? Tip 4: be strict with yourself for a few days each week

Enjoying tasty food is simply a real pleasure in life. I therefore understand perfectly well that you don’t want to make a trade-off between pleasure and health every time you eat. Sometimes you also eat too much; among other reasons, because some 15 minutes go by between the moment you are satiated and the time this signal reaches your brain and is processed by it. It is unfortunately much easier to spontaneously eat too much than too little.

The simplest way for striking a practical balance between the number of calories you eat and those you burn is enforcing a reasonably strict eating schedule on weekdays for example, and allowing yourself some more freedom in the weekend. This way, you don’t become frustrated because you are never allowed to let go a little. You must find your own balance in this matter, because, like we said before in this article about the best diet in the world: it only works if you can stick to it.

How to lose weight the right way? Tip 5: KEEP MOVING

In an ideal world, you would have a lot of time for sports and you would also enjoy doing it. Real everyday life often keeps you so busy you can’t find the time for exercise, and even when you do you’re too tired to enjoy it.
Furthermore, you may lead a fairly sedentary life at your work. Our metabolism has evolved over many thousands of years to what it is now. For most of that time, people did not practice sedentary professions, because these were rare until somewhere in the 20th century.

This leads to an imbalance between what your body interprets as its needs regarding fat accumulation and the reality of it. You can fight this with a number of limited adjustments. Small trips on foot or by bike instead of by car. Taking the stairs instead of the elevator if it is only 2 or 3 floors, etc… You can also buy a pedometer and set a daily goal for yourself. In other words, if you have no time or you’re not in the mood for participating in intense sports, start incorporating simple and easy tasks.

How to lose weight the right way? Tip 6: feeling less hungry makes it way easier

“I’m a real organic guy when it comes to eating. No garbage or poison on our table at home. Despite this, I weighed just shy of 100 kilos (for a height of 1,75 m) a little more than 2 years ago. I then decided, not just for my own sake, but also for my wife and our 3 wonderful kids, that I had to do something about this. You can read my story – and actually the SkinnyLove story – here on the website. What I want to tell you here is that I have lost 20 kilos within a year and that I feel better than ever before. Do you also want to lose weight well? And you want it to happen at a good pace? Then combine the tips from this article with a SkinnyLove cure.”

Alain Indria, creator of SkinnyLove, lost 20 kilos in 1 year

“Before I forget it. A little while ago I mentioned that I have another secret weapon for weight loss, which was part of the lunchbox in the picture. It’s the crackers. These are Pain des Fleurs crackers. You can read everything about them by clicking on the name Pain des Fleurs.”

LOSING WEIGHT WELL HAS TO DO WITH GRADUALLY CHANGING SMALL THINGS IN YOUR DAILY LIFE WHICH GUIDE YOU IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION.

The right way how to lose weight well is not by going on ‘crash diets’ or suddenly doing sport to an extreme degree. Your body loves gradual change regarding food and physical activity. Someone who hasn’t practiced any sports for years should not, for example, suddenly start walking lots of kilometres every day. Not only because the enormous difference in effort will exhaust and demotivate you, but you also face a real risk of hurting yourself and thus, rather quickly, being taken out of action again for weeks.

The same reasoning applies to people who suddenly start starving themselves. A diet that forces you to eat an extremely low amount of calories every day, or that definitively banishes a whole bunch of food products from your life, will possibly also lead to a deficit of the nutrients and vitamins that your body needs.

Energy need and weight loss

Your body uses food as a source of energy. It stores a surplus of energy as body fat. This means that if you eat more than what your body needs to carry out daily activities and maintain itself, you gain weight. In order to lose weight, you must force your body to use the accumulated fat reserves.

The most efficient way of doing this is reducing the number of calories that you eat and/or increasing the number of calories you burn by means of activity. That is why every expert on this subject will go on about diet and exercise if you talk about losing weight.

Small adjustments do help

Small changes can lead to a large difference in weight in due time. One extra cookie per week can lead to 2 extra kilos per year. Avoid that extra cookie every week and you lose that weight over that same year. It is, for example, also easier to substitute whole milk in your daily breakfast with skimmed or semi-skimmed milk than to stick to a diet that imposes all kinds of strict rules.

You must think in terms of permanent adjustments to your eating habits if you want to lose weight well. People usually aim at weight loss within a period of weeks. But the real target should be set within a period of months and years. Actually for the rest of your life.

Increase your level of physical activity

Someone who is going to move or exercise more, without changing anything to his or her eating habits, will almost certainly lose weight well. Even if you hate fitness or the gym, even light activity – such as a peaceful walk of 20 minutes – will help…. if you do it daily. Every time – you read this correctly: EVERY TIME – you move more than usually WITHOUT EATING EXTRA, you burn calories and fat reserves. Find an activity that you enjoy doing. Something feasible with regard to time, distance and costs. Because only in this way can you make it a permanent part of your routine. Try, for example, if only in the weekend, to park a little further away than usual from the places you go to and to cover the last 10 minutes on foot. Because this on its own is already 20 minutes of movement both ways. Go walking or cycling in the park. EVERY EXTRA STEP HELPS. Take the stairs as often as possible instead of the elevator. If you use public transportation, get out 1 stop earlier and walk the last part. You could even place a home trainer in your living room and peacefully cycle for 20 minutes on it while you watch TV.

Reduce your caloric intake

What is the actual definition of overweight? Doctors apply the BMI. The BMI is a number that is calculated as follows: you divide your weight in kilograms by the square of your height. If you weigh, for example, 62 kilos and you are 1,60 meters tall, your BMI is 24,2 (62 divided by the product of 1,6 x 1,6).

We have built in a useful BMI calculator on our own website. A BMI between 18,5 and 25 is healthy. If your BMI is over 25, you are overweight. If your BMI is over 30, you are obese. Over 40, morbidly obese.

The conclusion from the BMI calculation is simple. If it’s over 25, you’d better lose weight, if only with regard to your health. It is very difficult to decrease your amount of body fat if you eat too much, eat cake, have candy often and/or consume sweet snacks. BUT this doesn’t mean that you should never be allowed to do this again. Forget that extreme approach because no one sticks to it for long.

What you must develop is the habit of considering eating the ‘wrong’ things as a special indulgence instead of as a trivial habit. Therefore don’t go on a crash diet (anything below 1500 calories per day), because this will weaken you, make you feel bad and you will not be able to sustain it. These quick-fix diets lead to the well known yo-yo effect. Quick weight loss, after which you gain the weight again just as quickly, thus ending up in an unpleasant and unhealthy vicious cycle. There is no ‘shortcut’ that leads to healthy and permanent, reasonable loss of weight.

How to lose weight the right way: real tips & tricks

Reducing your food intake by 300-500 calories per week will lead to a systematic weight loss of about 500 grams per week. This is a super realistic approach. Because we’re only talking about 70 calories per day! Remember that chocolate chip cookie mentioned earlier. Such a cookie typically contains between 49 and 200 calories, depending on its size. On average, this is 125 calories for 1 cookie. Another example: a small bit of chocolate candy contains 28 calories. If you eat 3 per day now and reduce this to 1 per day, you have already almost reached your 500 calories reduction per week. It can be that simple.

If you’re now thinking “Yeah, but what is 500 grams per week?”, well…. this is cumulatively more than 20 kilos in a year! Fatty substances contain the most calories of all foods (protein, carbohydrates). A good way of losing weight is thus reducing fatty foods and substituting them with complex carbohydrates.

Read on, because I’ll give you some more easy real tips & tricks on how to lose weight healthily:

• Replace carbonated drinks or fruit juices with still water
• Replace whole milk by half-skimmed or skimmed milk
• Make your own sandwiches for lunch and use very little margarine or butter. Sandwiches that you buy away from home almost always contain more butter or margarine than what you would make.
• Don’t put sugar in your coffee or tea (if needed, add some stevia)
• Don’t have a second serving during your meal. First wait for 15 minutes after your first serving in order to decide if you really want it, because that is how long it takes before your brain can correctly interpret the signal that you are already satiated
• Stop unhealthy and calorie-rich snacks between the meals (candy, cookies, crisps, etc.). Do you want to eat something in between? Buy pumpkin seeds and nibble on them
• Reduce your alcohol consumption. A gin tonic contains 200 calories, a typical beer 113, a heavier beer such as Westmalle trippel 245 and a glass of cava, for example, 77 calories
• Replace your bread with Pain des Fleurs crackers

Last tip on how to lose weight the right way

And finally one more thing. Do not skip any meals. This helps in the very short run, but once the next meal time arrives you are simply hungrier and it becomes extra difficult to eat reasonably. There is a great risk that you will eat too much during the next meal.

Does this help you in your quest on how to lose weight the right way? Read more about SkinnyLove and try it, if only once.

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Run a search in Google for “best diet” and you about 17 million results. You might therefore think that nobody knows what the best diet is. Nevertheless, scientists have researched this topic and have reached a clear conclusion.

In this post I explain what the very best diet is and how SkinnyLove helps you if you decide to go for it. Read more.

”I, that is Alain Indria, was practically born in the very first diet shop in Belgium, founded by my mother in Antwerp in 1972. What strikes me is that those 17.000.000 results you find in Google rarely agree with each other.

Some tell you that you should follow a ‘low-fat’ diet. Others prescribe eating as few carbs possible. With a number of them, you will get the impression that sugar or gluten are a kind of demons who, while you sleep at night, secretly take in your clothes so that they don’t fit you well any longer. Counting calories is one more of such maddening advice. You have certainly also received it already. The most spectacular, if I may call it this, are diets that assume you can choose not to eat anything the whole day long. And just have a light meal in the evening. And, despite this, not go to bed with a rumbling stomach. Read further and you will also understand why I find these approaches to be ludicrous. 

Look, I don’t want to get smart with you. Each one of these diets will well have its strong and its weak points. But the truth is actually simple.”

The best diet is one you can stick to. Not for a week or a month, but for the rest of your life.

SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH ON THE BEST DIET

The University of Toronto examined 59 different scientific studies with regard to weight loss in 2014. They reached the clear conclusion that the best diet is one that people can sustain in the long term.

Even more, an earlier study of the JAMA (Journal of the American Medican Association) indicates that people who went on the Atkins, Ornish, Weight Watchers, or Zone diets for a full year all lost about the same amount of weight. Only little weight, by the way, because they did not strictly adhere to their strict diet.

Just between you and me, I have also tried out all of these diets myself already. And I too could not stick to them. I am saying this to you in all candor.

The part of the group studied that indeed abided by its diet lost significantly more weight. No matter what their diet was. The scientists conclude again that it is not so much the choice of your diet that determines whether you will lose weight, but whether you stick with it or not. How do you choose such a diet? I will soon explain. So read on.

IN THE END THE BEST DIET REVOLVES AROUND CALORIES. BUT WHAT DO YOU DO WITH THIS KNOWLEDGE?

If we put all talk aside, the truth is very simple. If you burn more calories daily than what you eat, you lose weight. If you, however, take in more calories through your food and drink than the amount you burn, you become heavier. Everything else is unrealistic. Only a consistent behavior, a regular lifestyle, leads to a healthy weight in the long term.

And then, with many diets, you go through the notorious yo-yo effect. “I admit that earlier on, this was earlier easier said than done for me too. But now, I find it really easy.”

WHY IS THERE A YO-YO EFFECT WITH MOST DIETS?

“You know just as well as I do that more than half of the people who have followed a diet, afterwards later on gained more weight than the amount they had lost. This is confirmed in a scientific review of the University of California Los Angeles. How does this occur?

Because people abandon their diet as soon as they have reached their original target.

If a diet prescribes that you must eat in a given way, which you cannot sustain for the rest of your life, this diet is completely useless. Your new diet must become your new normal. That best diet becomes your new lifestyle. The goal, therefore, is not finding the best diet that will ensure weight loss as quickly as possible. Because you’ll most often gain the weight again afterwards. The goal is to discover an acceptable way of living and eating that will lead – and keep – you at the right weight. OK, that’s clear. But does this ideal best diet exist? Read along and discover it.”

WHICH TYPE OF DIET CAN YOU REALLY STICK TO IN THE LONG TERM?

That is the key question, right? And the answer varies for every person. You don’t eat exactly the same as your partner, your brother, your sister, or your best friend. But a long-term diet must conform to a number of criteria:

1. It is a healthy diet

You might now think “duh!” But this means that the best diet does not simply banish certain food groups or that you will live on meal substitutes for the rest of your life. Your best diet doesn’t only solve your issues with regard to weight, but is also healthy for you. Because losing weight and becoming unhealthy serves no point, right?

2. It is about reasonable adjustments in your eating pattern

Your best diet will not be based on quickly and radically changing your eating habits. If you, for example, start with eating 1 cookie less per day, you take a real step, which is perfectly sustainable, in the right direction.

3. It is easy to stick to

Your best diet is not one that continuously burdens you with commandments and prohibitions. It gives you the tools, the reflexes – even the willpower – to pick the right thing and ignore the wrong one. It makes it easy to leave ‘bad food’ aside and still not experience any hunger nor an irresistible craving for the ‘wrong things’.

In the following paragraph, I reveal to you that this healthy, reasonable and sustainable best diet really exists and that you too can apply it much easier than you always thought.

THE BEST DIET IS AN EASY DIET. BUT WELL ONE THAT REALLY WORKS

“Whoever knows me knows that I have lost 20 kilos within 1 year (and almost 25 kilos within 18 months). When I started off, my weight was just shy of 100 kilos. I give you my word that I was not hungry for even a single day during these 18 months. Literally not once! Not only that, but a bunch of bad eating habits have melted away like snow does under the sun. My appetite for the ‘wrong things’ has gradually simply disappeared. And, certainly not unimportant, I feel great! More flexible and more energetic than ever before. Furthermore, because I have a fantastic partner and 3 super kids for whom I want to be there for a long time, I have regularly had my blood checked. My doctor simply confirms that what I feel is also noticeable in my blood. I will now explain how I have lost 25 kilos and –above all- how this can help you too.”

HOW HAVE I DONE THIS?

SkinnyLove has given me the courage and the strength to do this. Read how and why right here.

“At the start of this article, you have read that I have lived in the ‘diet world’ almost all of my life. At the same time, I have an unbelievable passion for herbs and my spouse is a bio-engineer. Well, I have simply put all this know-how to work and I made a product for myself. A powder that I mix with 750 ml of water and I drink in half a day.

Half a day, because there is an adjusted morning and afternoon formula. These are really different. After I used it myself for a full year, I dared to offer it for sale. Because I had really initially developed it only for myself. But now that I know with 100% certainty that it works, I’m willing to offer it to others too.

Because it is chock-full of natural ingredients – such as ginger, turmeric, lemon, green matcha tea, etc.- I know that it can also really support your health.”

AVERAGE WEIGHT LOSS OF 4 KILOS IN 3 WEEKS

“Let me be clear, every body is different so everybody is different. I can only say that more than 80% of the people who have already used SkinnyLove have lost an average of 4 kilos in the first 3 weeks. But what may be even more important is the fact that SkinnyLove increases your sense of satiety.”

1. You are thus less hungry
2. The dietary fibers have a probiotic effect, which means that they are a good source of nourishment for the body’s own bacteria in the intestinal wall. This encourages intestinal peristaltism and thus also a healthy bowel movement.
3. Green coffee and green tea ensure a better metabolic burn.
4. The various herbs and spices, such as – among others – ginger and turmeric, each have their own specific effect and primarily act as a support for the cleansing of your body.

“But on top  of all of this, my taste has has also evolved. My taste, but above all else my craving, for the wrong things has disappeared. And that is something I can stick to for the rest of my life.

For me, and for more people every day, SkinnyLove works fantastically. How do you know whether SkinnyLove is the right choice also for you? The answer follows.”

IS SKINNYLOVE ALSO PART OF THE BEST DIET FOR YOU?

“I know that SkinnyLove works and that I can perfectly stick to it for the rest of my life. Without denying myself anything, simply because I am really not in the mood for ‘the wrong stuff’ anymore. You can only discover whether it’s the best diet for you as well if you try it for at least 3 weeks. The ball is in your court. You are up. If you click here, you order it online and it is at your home the next workday.”

The question now is very simple. What are you going to do? Lose time? Or lose weight?

Buy it right now

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“WILL I REALLY LOSE WEIGHT WITH SKINNYLOVE?”

THAT IS A TYPICAL QUESTION WE OFTEN RECEIVE. READ MORE.

“I then started dieting again; unfortunately, I did not reach the same result as the first time this time around. I remained stuck with 3 kg of fat; 11 kg of body fat earlier and now I’m stuck on 14 kg. And this has attached itself to my belly and hips. I must admit that last year I went to the gym and did a lot of spinning but, due to problems with my joints, I cannot do this anymore. If I do it anyway, I’m in too much pain afterwards. It is strange, but these 3 kg of extra fat, compared to last summer, make me look waaaay heavier than just 3 kg more.”

LOSE WEIGHT WITH INFRALIGNE?

“In the meantime, I have found an alternative for physical activity: Infraligne. Given that I don’t ‘have’ to lose weight, I do this more for gaining strength and for the activity as such, but actually I don’t notice much effect on my figure; I still have lipedema. I did not achieve the stated result after 20 times; I will only notice any change in my body shape after doing it for a year or so…unfortunately! After going on the diet for a second time, something has changed in my attitude towards healthy eating; in the morning, I eat two slices of special fibre-rich bread with a sugar-free spread and drink a cup of lactose-free milk. Before noon, some soy yoghurt with fresh fruit, at noon a salad with fish or meat, in the afternoon a piece of fruit and in the evening something that’s low on carbohydrates. I drink more than 2 l of mineral water daily.

I also suffer from IBS (irritable bowel syndrome), and I get bloated if I am hungry and eat a much too large portion. The same happens to me when I drink cola zero. My problem is that I often ‘forget’ to eat less or to be careful, because the drive to  satisfy my hunger comes first, but soon after I really feel not so well. What can I accomplish with your product? Will I really lose weight with it?”

LOSE WEIGHT – EVERY BODY AND THEREFORE EVERYBODY IS DIFFERENT

Someone who offers guarantees regarding how much weight you are going to lose and how quickly you are going to lose weight…is simply lying to you. Every metabolism is different and every body is consequently different.

What I can guarantee are the following 2 things.

1. That SkinnyLove is 100% healthy. You just have to take a look at the list of ingredients. There is a bunch of wholesome, natural ingredients in SkinnyLove, such as, for example, ginger, grapefruit, lemon, green matcha tea, turmeric, etc. That is why SkinnyLove not only supports you when you want to lose weight, but is also simply a super healthy product. In the meantime, I’ve been drinking it myself EVERY day for about 2 years already. Not only have I lost almost 25 kilos, but I have also never felt so well, so energetic. My bloodwork is better than ever and certainly better than when I weighed just shy of 100 kilos.
2. That SkinnyLove, in combination with my tips & tricks, will certainly help you lose weight. SkinnyLove will put something in motion in you. And rather quickly. But in order to fully enjoy its effect, I also give you tips & tricks. Call it a form of personal coaching, if you want. You can ask me all possible questions about losing weight and I answer all of them, one by one.
   

   Image from a real livestream of Alain Indria (producer of SkinnyLove) with a user

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Now, you must be wondering, how can loving my body help me lose weight? Well, I’m goin to tell you this in a very precise manner in the text that follows. After reading it, just follow the tips – there are 11 in total – that fit your lifestyle and they will help quickly you lose weight.

At the end I’ll even throw in a word about how SkinnyLove can help you lose weight easily as well. Read on.

LOVE YOUR BODY – PUT THE POWER OF YOUR MIND TO WORK FOR YOU

Pinching your ‘love handles’ or feeling bad because you don’t look like the dolls you see on Instagram will not help you achieve your weight-loss goal. Do you know what will help? Love your body. Really!

Every time you have negative thoughts or feelings about your own body, without even being aware of it you are setting yourself  it into a ‘fight or flight’ mode. And what happens then might surprise you.

“Your heart rate rises a little (often without this being noticeable to you), your digestion slows down, or even stops completely, and you experience a surge of your cortisol (the stress hormone) and of your insulin,” explains Marc David, founder of the Institute for the Psychology of Eating.

The thing is that all these factors make you alert to danger and order your body to store extra fat. Because in earlier times – such as during prehistory – danger often indicated the start of a period of lack of food. And we are biologic result of this evolution. This extra fat storage is exactly the opposite of what you wish for when you try to lose weight. Research in the Journal of Endocrinology even shows that psychological stress increases the risk of insulin resistance, but never mind.

These scientific, biological, facts might perfectly explain the following surprising finding, which was published in the International Journal of Obesity.

‘Women who think they are corpulent –whether this is true or not- face a greater risk of becoming overweight in the future!‘

In other words, if you have a negative self-image, you automatically work against yourself.

Unfortunately there are many people who frequently criticize their own body and often have negative thoughts about themselves. If happiness is your ultimate target and the journey towards this goal is filled with a kind of self-hate, then reaching your goal becomes really difficult.

HOW DO YOU GO FROM SUCH A NEGATIVE ATTITUDE TO THE ‘LOVE YOUR BODY’ MENTALITY THAT IS PREFERABLE? HERE COME THE 11 USEFUL TIPS I PROMISED YOU.

1. Take a deep breath and Love Your Body

Every time you look at yourself in the mirror and you feel that your self-criticism is coming up, immediately close your eyes and take 5 to 10 really deep breaths. While breathing, focus on the sentence “I Love My Body”. This may seem self-deceptive, but in combination with the deep breathing, it will automatically pacify your mind and take you to a zone of positivity. And even if this technique only reduces the duration of your self-hate from 5 minutes to 2 minutes…then you have already gained 3 minutes already. And if you keep doing this easy exercise, the annoying negative reflex will even completely disappear after some time.

2. Get Physical and Love Your Body

A nice way of building a more positive contact with your body is to grant your body some physical pleasure. Which form this should take varies from woman to woman. Check what you find to be tasty (besides junk food, snacks, or candy). What makes you feel good about yourself. This can be intimacy with your partner, some physical activity, a warm bubble bath, or even a massage. Simply something that you really enjoy on a physical level.

The key to success is to be as aware as possible of this experience. Pay attention to the good vibes that flow through your body during this activity. Indulge yourself. Think about the ‘Love Your Body’ concept.

3. Use Mantras

Mantras come from meditation. A mantra is a tool where a word, or combination of words, becomes the focus of your thoughts. You already know that your usual negative internal dialogue has bad consequences for your effort towards weight loss. Well, a positive internal dialogue, on the other hand, sets you on the right path. If you’re standing somewhere waiting, focus your thoughts on a mantra such as “I love myself”, “I shower my body with love until it becomes what I hope for”, or something like that. Adjust it to fit your own beliefs, but you do understand what I mean, don’t you?

4. Stay away from the scale

I don’t mean that you are never allowed to step on the scale any more. It is certainly good to take note of your weight when you start. But this is to determine how much weight you want to lose. But it is really pointless to weigh yourself every single day. Because your body weight fluctuates on a daily basis for very diverse reasons, such as, for example, water retention. If you suddenly see your weight increase, for a reason that is temporary, it can cause a dent to your self-confidence.

I personally enjoy not to weigh myself for a few days in a row and to do it suddenly if and when I am 100% sure that I have stuck to my intentions for several days in a row. Because I’m sure I’ll see how much weight I have already lost! And this encourages me to hold steady.

One more positive point about not stepping on your scale every day is that it allows you to more easily believe that you have started losing weight. And as you already know by now, negative thoughts about your body prevent you from easily losing weight! Positive feelings stimulate you towards the result you desire. So, do not step on the scale every day and…Love Your Body!

5. Avoid unrealistic photos

One of the worst things you can do is continuously comparing yourself with unrealistic photos of celebrities in magazines or on the internet. These people have personal trainers, plastic surgeons and…the photos are almost always Photoshopped. Such pictures are just not real!

Do not let them discourage you. Read positive stories. Stories of ordinary people who overcome an obstacle and accomplish their goal. Because you too will  accomplish your goal.

6. Pay attention to beauty around you

We often don’t really look at people, objects and places that we see every day. Look purposefully at people and things. Search for beauty around you. Take a good look at that tree that you walk or drive by every day. Look at details on facades of houses. Look at a nice object, painting or furniture that you have chosen for yourself. And focus on it’s beauty.

This boosts the positive feelings in you. And it lowers the barrier for the – yes, I know that I’m being repetitive, but it is for YOUR own good – ‘Love Your Body’ effect.

7. Be realistic

Sorry for being so blunt, but you will not lose 8 kilos in a week! But it is perfectly feasible to lose 4 to 5 kilos within 3 to 5 weeks. Quick fixes just don’t work in the long run.

Don’t suddenly start fasting and live on just water and cucumbers or something insane like that. Be realistic and be patient. Losing weight in the long run is what matters. Not what happens during the first 48 hours.

Permanent weight loss is mostly a matter of picking up some good habits. Not of acting outrageously for a short while. These good habits must be of the kind that you can hold onto for a long time. The longer you maintain your new good habits, the more they automatically become a part of your daily life and routine. Exactly in the same fashion that bad habits can unfortunately occupy a set place in your daily life.

An additional benefit of being realistic is that it allows you to enjoy your small, intermediate victories. With every obstacle you overcome in the right direction, you realize you have taken another positive step. Enjoy these positive changes in your body and your life. Enjoy this evolution that will have an astonishing impact for you in the long run.

8. Choose physical activity and an eating pattern that you can sustain

If you are a bit like me, and like most of us women actually, I suspect that you have already tried all sorts of diets. With varying results. I have also registered twice in a gym…without ever going there again after the first visit. How about you? It is all well and good to start off with good intentions and with the assumption of a rock-solid discipline.

But in truth you must feel confident about your approach and your perseverance. Think about what constitutes a realistic approach for you. If you haven’t done any sport at all in the past years, don’t start with Zumba classes for the advanced. Just begin walking or carefully jogging. This way, you gradually evolve towards more physical activity… and less eating.

9. Find support

Unless you live all alone on an island (with a decent internet connection, otherwise you wouldn’t be able to read this), there is a good chance that someone in your environment is willing to support and encourage you in your resolution.

Ask a friend to go walking with you 2 or 3 times a week, or do sports with you, or even think along with you about your eating plans. Because it actually also helps to plan your meals in advance.

Choose someone with whom you feel good. Someone who awakens the positive in you. A person who has a positive influence on your self-image. I have such a best friend myself. Each time I spend time with her, I always go back home full of energy and positivity.

If you feel completely alone and lonely in your undertaking, it becomes harder to stay motivated. Share your goals with a close friend. She (or he) will support you in attaining them.

10. Go shopping

You don’t have to wait until a smaller size fits you in order to treat yourself to something nice. Go shopping and buy something in which you feel beautiful. Some clothing in which you find yourself pretty. And you know what? When you have lost the kilos, you can always have it taken in.

11. Be happy the way you are

Nowadays So much emphasis is placed everywhere on how we look. This makes it easy to lose perspective of the fact that appearance is only a (small) part of who you really are as a person.

People who really know you don’t think of you as a ‘just a body’ but as a person. They don’t notice some fat hanging under your arms or that your thighs were somewhat smaller in the past. They see you as YOU! And, if you allow me to just assume, they see a beautiful human being.

It may be time to start thinking this way about yourself as well. OK, so at the moment you are not exactly where you want to be physically. You may even have quite some way to go before you reach that target. But you are so much more than your appearance. From now on, focus on all your wonderful positive characteristics. Don’t forget that you are really much more that your pants size. In a nutshell (and I believe that this is the last time I say this today): LOVE YOURSELF AND LOVE YOUR BODY.

WHAT DOES SKINNYLOVE HAVE TO DO WITH LOVE YOUR BODY?

“Over the past year, I have spoken with tens, maybe more than 150, women and men about weight loss. Because people saw that I had lost quite some weight. 20 kilos within 1 year! If I have learned one thing from these many fascinating conversations, it’s the following.

The two greatest obstacles towards losing weight are:

 

• Fighting with hunger and/or, in a broader sense, with the desire to eat
• Becoming discouraged by negative thoughts or facing a temporary obstacle in losing weight

Coincidentally – or maybe it isn’t just a coincidence? – SkinnyLove gets these 2 challenges out of the way for you:

 

1. Hunger and/or the desire to overeat or snack in between meals: SkinnyLove increases your sense of satiety in a natural way. Among others, through the high presence of a mix of 100% natural dietary fibres. For me, SkinnyLove has become part of my daily habits. I drink it every single day. And my cravings for extra food, sweet stuff, or nibbling on salty snacks, has completely disappeared.  Which means that I don’t have to ‘fight’ in order to not overindulge. It just happens by itself.

2. Because SkinnyLove also includes a bunch of other wholesome ingredients, such as, for example, pure ginger, turmeric and green matcha tea, it has additional wellness effects on your body, such as a cleansing detox effect, making the joints more flexible, boosting your resistance. I simply feel myself a whole lot more energized.”

Alain Indria, producer of SkinnyLove

LOVE YOUR BODY, TRY SKINNYLOVE NOW AND LOSE WEIGHT

SkinnyLove is a 100% natural product. You can read more about it on other pages of this website:

the SkinnyLove story

SkinnyLove frequently asked questions

You can buy SkinnyLove in our own webshop. Because SkinnyLove really supports you incredibly well in your weight loss experience. More than 80% of the users have lost 4 kilos within 3 weeks, on average. Alain Indria himself has lost 20 kilos within 1 year himself thanks to SkinnyLove.

Actually it is very simple. The choice is yours to make now. Are you going to take the first step towards the Love Your Body SkinnyLove weight loss method? Do it now. Don’t lose time. Lose weight.

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Unfortunately, there is no adequate cure for fibromyalgia. But a combination of medication, physical exercise, stress management and healthy habits can sufficiently facilitate your symptoms to live a normal, active life.

SKINNYLOVE users on FIBROMYALGIE

Videos such as these, from Muriel who has been a fibromyalgia patient for 10 years, are typical of what a lot of SkinnyLove users tell us spontaneously. Take a quick look.

If you do not have the opportunity to immediately watch and listen to the video, these are some key phrases:

• “I have been taking heavy medication for 10 years”

• “after using SkinnyLove for 7 weeks I do not take any medication anymore, not for fibromyalgia, not for irritable bowels, not for reflux, not even sleeping tablets”
• “I was hardly able to sleep for 10 years because of the pain, I could hardly concentrate on my work and my life was led by pain”

• “SkinnyLove has really changed my life”

As previously stated, Muriël is not the only lady who reports similar cases. Dozens of women have spontaneously told us that after years of suffering from fibromyalgia, they feel much better after a few weeks of using SkinnyLove.

As previously stated, Muriël is not the only lady who reports similar cases. Dozens of women have spontaneously told us that after years of suffering from fibromyalgia, they feel much better after a few weeks of using SkinnyLove. *

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CAUSES OF FIBROMYALGIA

Doctors are not really sure what causes it, but some think that it is relating to a problem with how your brain and spinal cord processes pain signals from your nerves.

We know that certain elements indicate that you are more likely to get it if:

– You are a woman

– You still have a painful disease, such as arthritis, or an infection

– You have a mood disorder, such as anxiety or depression

– You have been physically or emotionally abused or have PTSD (post-traumatic stress disorder)

– You rarely engage in sports and exercise

– Other family members also suffer from this

SYMPTOMS OF FIBROMYALGIA

In simple terms, you experience pain just about everywhere. Common symptoms include:

– Muscle pain, burning pain, muscle spasms or stiffness

– Low pain threshold or sensitive points

– Extreme fatigue

– Problems with concentrating and remembering known as “fibro mist”

– Sleeplessness or not being able to sleep well

– You feel nervous, worried or depressed

Fibromyalgia can feel like osteoarthritis, bursitis (bursitis) or tendinitis (tendonitis). But instead of pain in a particular area, pain and stiffness can be present throughout your body. Other fibromyalgia symptoms may be:

– Abdominal pain, bloating, fever, constipation and diarrhoea (irritable bowel syndrome)

– Headache

– Dry mouth, nose and eyes

– Sensitivity to cold, heat, light or sound

– Frequent urination

– Sense of feeling or tingling in your face, arms, hands, legs or feet

TREATMENT OF FIBROMYALGIA

Depending on your symptoms, your doctor may prescribe painkillers, antidepressants, muscle relaxants and medication to help you sleep. Over the counter painkillers can also help you.

Stronger drugs, such as opiates, tend not to work well in the long run, and you could become dependent on them.

Regular and moderate exercise is a key to controlling fibromyalgia. You want to perform low-impact activities that build your endurance, stretch and strengthen your muscles and improve your ability to move easily. Think of activities like yoga, tai chi, pilates or even walking. Movement also releases endorphins, which reduce pain, stress and depression. And moving can help you sleep better.

You can try complementary therapies, including massage, acupuncture and chiropractic manipulation, just to reduce pain and stress.

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THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN FIBROMYALGIA AND OBESiTY

Carrying excess body weight increases the level of pain and the extent to which widespread pain occurs in people with fibromyalgia. It also increases the severity of other symptoms of this chronic pain syndrome. Studies have shown that obese people with fibromyalgia are not so physically strong or flexible, have more sleep problems, experience greater levels of anxiety and depression and experience lower quality of life than ‘healthy’ people with fibromyalgia.

Akiko Okifjui, PhD, a researcher at the Pain Management Centre at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City says the bond between obesity and pain is strong. “Research shows that obesity increases the severity of symptoms and pain sensitivity in almost all chronic painful conditions, including fibromyalgia and osteoarthritis”, she says. She states, the more people weigh, the more pain they have,

A 2015 editorial about the pain-obesity link, published in Pain Management, has for example reported that people who are overweight (BMI between 25-25.9) have 20% more chronic pain than healthy people, while obese people (BMI) between 30-34) or very obese people (BMI between 35-39) experienced 68% and 136% more pain respectively.

Painful strain

Strained joints are part of the pain-fibromyalgia relationship, says Okifuji. She says, “The more you weigh, the more it puts pressure on your joints, especially in the lower parts of your body. This can negatively affect your pain level”.

This finding was confirmed in a 2010 study, published in the ‘Journal of Pain’. In short, obese people experience an increased sensitivity to pain, compared to people with lower weight, especially in the lower part of the body.

“This extra sensitivity in the lower part also points to mechanical stress as the cause of pain in fibromyalgia”, concludes Akiko Okifjui. Overweight is a form of inflammation “Cells in the adipose tissue are chemically active and release a number of proteins and other chemicals that cause inflammation throughout your body”, says Okifuji.

“Researchers begin to compare obesity with a normalised state of constant low grade inflammation”, she says. “Although fibromyalgia is not an inflammatory disease such as rheumatoid arthritis, increased general inflammation is likely to play a role in increasing pain and sensitivity.”

WEIGHT LOSS IMPROVES EFFECTIVE FIBROMYALGIA SYMPTOMS

A 2012 study, published in ‘Clinical Rheumatology’, compared individuals with fibromyalgia who reduced their BMI by about three points, enough to move the majority of them from obesity to the overweight classification, with other subjects whose weight remained stable.

People in the weight loss group showed significantly improved scores for inflammatory proteins and almost all fibromyalgia symptoms, including pain, depression and sleep disturbances.

CONCLUSION

It seems like a foregone conclusion that if you suffer from fibromyalgia, it is all the more important that you limit your excess weight as much as possible. SkinnyLove can support you in a fantastic way.

In addition, many women who have been suffering from fibromyalgia for many years now report that they are much better thanks to SkinnyLove. Because SkinnyLove is 100% natural, it certainly will not hurt to try.

* just to clarify, we the creators of SkinnyLove are not doctors and we advise you not to disregard medical advice from your attending physician; consult and discuss with your doctor regarding this.

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