The most common New Year’s Resolution is to lose more weight. This time, it is all about losing weight the right way and not taking off the pounds in unhealthy ways that hurt us more than help us. Here are 5 dieting tips that you probably never heard.

5) Weigh yourself every day. That’s right ladies, pondering over whether or not you lost weight for 7 days in a row will cause stress. If you are stressed out, the body tends to fall into the fight or flight syndrome and it tells the brain that it is hungry. The longer you wait to weigh yourself, the more stressed and eventually the will power causes you to step off the wagon and that is simply not how to lose weight. Weighing yourself everyday does not mean you are obsessed, especially if you understand that the body can gain and lose 5 pounds in one day thanks to water weight.

4) Yo Yo Dieting is OK. This tip is one I know you have never heard. But, take it from the bodies point of view, losing weight is good, gaining weight is bad. If a person were to stop trying to lose weight just because they gained after the last diet no one would ever lose the weight. While losing and then maintaining is the best choice, that does not mean it is okay to live at a higher than healthy weight just because you gained it back this year.

3) Tell everyone about your diet. The more people you tell about your journey with weight loss, the more people you will let down if you fail. No one wants to fail, so tell the world; post it on YouTube even.

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