Part 4: New Healthy Habits and How to Start Them

Every one of us, including you, has a number of good healthy habits that support our heath and make our life more productive, efficient and enjoyable! You think you don’t have those habits? Let me ask you: do you brush your teeth? Do you bathe regularly? Do you pay your bills in time, go to work every day, put your money and your keys always in the same place so you can find them and wear your seatbelt?

When you where younger, implementing these habits certainly took much effort. But you decided that they are the right think to do, you practiced them for a while and made a conscious effort to perform them when needed. And made them a priority and you repeated them. Didn’t you? This is called discipline. Discipline is how good habits become a part of our lives, change our lifestyle and become part of us, eventually. Now probably all these habits require much less effort than they used to, and you hardy even think about them. You just get up and do them.

The decision to lose fat permanently with the help of Mediterranean Diet is discipline also. It means that you will, with our help, establish some new good habits, and some restrictions. Don’t worry, it does not hurt! You have already demonstrated that you have enough self discipline. Now we need to teach you to apply this discipline to new behaviors which will help you achieve your goal of losing weight (and keep it down!)

Part 1: Motivate yourself
Part 2: Free Will
Part 3: Motivate yourself! (Yes, we know is as same as Part 1!)
Part 4: New habits and how to start them

Part 2: Free Will

People frequently ask me, how many weight loss programs does it take for one person to take before he/she lose that extra weight for good? My answer is always the same: “Just one! But…”
If you are eager to lose excess body weight and equally eager to keep that extra weight off, you must learn and memorize this equation:

The energy you eat (food intake) – the energy you burn (metabolism and activity) = changes in your body fat

Energy is measured in calories; for example if you eat 3000 calories of energy a day and you burn 3300 calories you will have a negative energy balance and your fat will melt! In other words, you will lose weight! Obesity and overweight are the result of an imbalance between the energy expenditure and energy intake!

It really is that simple! Although we can’t control metabolic energy requirements of our bodies (roughly about 1300-1500 calories daily), we can adjust food intake and activity levels (workouts) to achieve a happy balance which will minimize the unwanted fat.

Right now, your balance is probably leaning toward excess energy stores (fat), but It will soon be tipped in the other directions, we promise! Once you achieve your goal weight, you will need to balance your energy equation once more, to keep it that way!

And don’t worry about all those stories from people who swear that they can not lose weight even when they are on a diet! On appropriate calorie-restricted diets like Mediterranean Diet, everyone loses weight. Some sooner, some later, but everyone lose weight! We have the whole region around Mediterranean Sea and Millions of people to prove it! Of course, if you exercise you will lose weight even easier!

Part 1: Motivate yourself
Part 2: Free Will
Part 3: Motivate yourself! (Yes, we know is as same as Part 1!)
Part 4: New habits and how to start them

You and Mediterranean Diet

The Mediterranean diet has been recognized as one of the healthiest diets in the world. Reasons are large amounts of fresh vegetables and fruits, salads, wine, nuts and seeds, abundant fiber rich beans, healthy fats from olive oil and fresh bread that provide your body with needed fibers and acids without excess calories intake.

Mediterranean diet is also the best diet for your heart because it reduces the amount of bad cholesterol since read meat intake is very low. Mediterranean diet is extremely easy to adapt to our fast pacing and stressful lives. Main factor in this diet appeal is its full, rich flavored foods and a vast variety of different foods so it can be followed easily, without much sacrifice. Mediterranean diet is very balanced diet rich in grains (rice, pasta), fish, fruits, beans and vegetables. If your goal is to lose weight or just to feel better and healthier, adopting the Mediterranean Diet is a great way to feel better and energized while enjoying very delicious variety of food.