WEIGHT LOSS TIPS...

1: Decide how much weight you need to lose - Most people start their weight loss journey by claiming to be xyz kilos overweight. This isn't a healthy way to project or aim for weight loss. Calculate your desired weight against your height by using reliable methods like the BMI, and set a healthy weight loss target. This is often half the battle won.

2: Time management - Decide which part of your day will be dedicated to exercise, within your current work and home life routine. If you don't do this now, your days will be rushed and unplanned.

3: Stock your kitchen - Keep your house well-stocked with fruits, vegetables, healthy meats, grains, cereals, spices, and favorers. All of this will go into helping the next step - cooking healthy meals at home.

4: Eat healthy home cooked meals - Whether it's you who's cooking, a family-member, or house help, ensures that every one practices healthy cooking methods, and ingredients. Use less oil, low salt, fresh produce, and you'll start seeing results in no time.

5: Start a cardio + weights workout - A healthy weight loss program is incomplete without a good exercise routine, and weight training mixed with cardio is the best way to lose weight. You can either start a home work-out today, or rely on gyms for fitness training.

6: Alter your snacking habits - Set French fries aside, skip that aerated drink, and ban those unhealthy deep fried samosas.

7: Have at least one active hobby - It isn't sufficient to rely on just 30 to 60 minutes of physical activity per day. Moving from bed to office chair, and back to bed, isn't a healthy way to live. Buy a motion sensor gaming console that lets you enjoy social games with friends and family, plan weekend trips, clean your house once a week, dance, play sports, the list is endless.

8: Find a solution to combat stress - Stress is always detrimental to healthy weight loss in the long run. Find ways to combat stress and you'll soon realize that your diet and exercise aren't sabotaged anymore, and that you truly do see results. Look at yoga, meditation, deep breathing exercises, or simple hobbies like reading to fight stress.

9: Drink plenty of water - You've known that your body relies heavily on water for all important bodily functions, and yet you skimp on drinking adequate quantities of water every day.

10: Plan healthy vacations - Healthy vacations aren't impossible. Take a look at how you can eat smart on a holiday, and then at bodyweight workouts that you can carry with you wherever you go.