Lose 100 pounds: don't wait any longer!

If you need to lose 100 pounds and have found yourself reading this article, you are one step closer to reaching a healthy body weight. Losing 100 pounds is a lot of work, and it's not going to happen overnight. Part of tackling such a large goal is accepting that you have a long, challenging road ahead of you, but making the decision to stare the fight in the face.

Set a weight loss goal.

 Decide how long you are going to give yourself to lose 100 pounds. Do not aim for a time goal that is unrealistic as it is only self defeating and usually ends up in weight gain. Slow weight loss, though it requires patience and can be frustrating, is the way to lose weight and keep it off. A challenging yet realistic goal to lose 100 pounds is 1 year, which is roughly 8 pounds a month, or, 2 pounds a week.

Do the math; a weight loss of two pounds a week leaves you 100 pounds lighter over the course of a year. Know what it takes to get there; 3,500 calories is a pound. If you want to lose 2 pounds a week, you need to burn and/or eliminate 7,000 calories from your diet each week. That’s 1,000 calories every day. The best way to reach that thousand calorie deficit each day is a combination of diet and exercise; 500 calories less in intake, and 500 calories burned through exercise.

Choose a weight loss program. 

This is the tricky part. If you are going to lose 100 pounds, no quick fix is going to get you there, and no fad diet will leave you anything other than frustrated and heavier than when you started. The smartest "weight loss program" one can possibly adhere to is just committing to a healthy lifestyle of eating well and exercising. Unless you can commit yourself to this fact, you will likely find yourself yo-yo dieting with a matching weight pattern.

Enlist in the support of family and friends.

 If you need to lose 100 pounds are more, the chances are that someone you love is worried about your health. If you have a goal of losing 100 pounds, you are going to have to think ahead and find out what your support system looks like so that you can lean on them on the dieting days that are challenging. Enlist in the help of your friends, family, family doctor, online weight loss forums, etc. Do everything you can to ensure your own weight loss success. You can do it!