Most people consider losing weight as a big task for them.

However, this isn’t the case.

Losing a few pounds doesn’t mean you strain a lot.

It doesn’t mean you change all your diet or your daily workload.

The morning routine is the basement for your weight loss.

The following 11 Simple morning habits for ultimate weight-loss success will positively eliminate your weight loss worries and will lead you to a healthier life.

1. Practice eating high protein breakfast

Breakfast is an important meal to consider every day.

Whatever you consume in the mornings is set as a base for your day.

A morning meal will set your satisfactory level until lunch time or it will decide whether you will run to the vendor prior to your mid-morning snack.

High-protein breakfast aids in crave-cutting and weight loss.

Studies show that in most women, high-protein breakfast reduces cravings which occur after meals as compared to the normal breakfast.

It is continuous to suggest that, high protein breakfast reduces fat gain, hunger, and daily intake when compared to normal protein breakfast.

2. Weigh yourself every morning

Determining your weight each morning before breaking your daily activities effectively increases your motives and also improves your self-control.

Those who weigh themselves frequently in the morning have high chances of losing around 13 pounds more as compared to those who often weigh themselves less.

Studies continue to prove that adults who daily weigh themselves in the morning have a high potential of losing an average of 4.4 kg (9.7 pounds) in a two years period.

Those who weigh themselves once in every month gains 2.1 kg (4.6 pounds).

Frequent morning weighing improves restraint as compared to those who stopped weighing which is affected by increased calorie intake.

This also decreases self-discipline.

Try to weigh yourself every morning after your bath and prior to any meal intake.

This also helps in determining your weight fluctuations and taking the best measure.

3. Drink water

Consuming two glasses of water every morning increases weight loss.

Water increases your calories burnt and energy expenditure.

Taking fluids aids in high metabolic rates and a study shows that over-weighed women have higher chances of losing around an extra 4.4 pounds of weight per year when they take a lot of water in morning hours.

Drinking water reduces food intake and appetite in most individuals.

Older adults, on the other hand, reduce the number of calories intake during breakfast — this frequent drinking of water assists in weight loss.

Morning water intake makes you stay hydrated hence a great booster for weight loss under minimal effort.

4. Get Some Sun

You can practice opening curtains early in the morning to allow sunlight to enter your room.

You should also spend  a few minutes outside the room to access the sunlight each morning.

These kick-start your weight loss on a high note.

Exposure to moderate light or ultraviolet radiation aids in suppressing weight gain after a high-fat morning intake.

Morning sunlight exposure is a rich source of vitamin D.

This vitamin gain plays an important role in weight loss and reduces weight gain.

As per the study, overweight individuals who take vitamin D supplements every morning reduces a lot of weight yearly as compared to those with insufficient vitamin D in their blood.

Older women have high chances of weight loss under Vitamin D gain.

The time took under sunlight exposure mainly depends mostly on the place of your location and your skin type.

But being exposed to sunlight for 10 to 15 minutes is essential for your weight loss.

5. Involve yourself to some physical exercise

Frequent morning exercises boost weight loss.

Increased aerobic exercise in overweight women also assists in weight loss.

Study compared individuals who engage in morning physical activities to those who engage in the activity in afternoon hours and concluded that morning individuals lost a lot more weight.

Morning exercise helps to keep a steady blood sugar level in the body.

Low blood sugar may result in negative results in your body such as excessive hunger.

Individuals with diabetes control their blood sugar level through morning exercise.

6. Practice Mindfulness

Mindfulness practice involves focusing on present moments which brings awareness towards your feelings and thoughts.

Mindfulness practice assists in the enhancement of weight loss and healthy eating habits promotion.

Study shows that mindfulness practice reduces obesity and increases weight loss.

Mindfulness practice can be achieved through spending some few minutes in a space full of calmness and having a sensational connection.

7. Longer Sleep

Getting into your bed earlier and waking up a bit late helps to increase your weight loss.

Depressed sleep may lead to increased appetite.

This result in increased cravings and hunger especially for high-calorie and high-carb foods.

Sleep restriction increases calorie intake as per the study.

Apart from eating well, an established healthy sleep schedule plays an important role in weight loss.

8. Pack Your Lunch

Set aside time in the morning to prepare your lunchtime meals.

Rather than purchasing your lunch meals in cafes, morning meal preparation in our homes is better for our health.

As per the study, home-prepared meals are healthier.

It is of a high-quality diet and also reduces the risk of increased body fat.

Study shows that those who eat home prepared food frequently per week have high chances of reducing their body weight.

Hence, it is more advisable if you are working and you can’t find the time for preparing your lunchtime meals is to prepare them early in the morning.

9. Commute to Your Work Place

Daily driving to your workplace isn’t that healthy.

Though it seems to be a comfortable life but expensive to your health.

Study shows that walking, cycling or taking a public mean of transportation plays a bigger role in weight loss hence reducing the risk of weight gain.

Studies continue to prove that those people who commute by car gain more weight as compared to non-car commuters.

It also proves that individuals who cycle, walk or take public means of transport or any other active mean of transport have low body mass index as compared to those under private transport means. 

10. Track Your morning Intake

Have your morning food diary close to you for tracking your eating habits.

This keeps you accountable and assists in boosting your weight loss.

Study shows that those individuals who track or monitor their diets lost a lot more weight than those who did not.

It also shows that women who track their diets improve their long-term weight loss management.

Try to use various Apps to track your diet or even just take a paper and a pen to write what you consume in order to be well informed on your daily diet.

11. Avoid reading most news in the morning

Some breaking news in morning hours has a serious effect on our health.

They may cause stress and long-term stress has an impact on your health.

Long-term stress triggers the hormones that are in charge of calories saving.

This long-term effect cannot even be treated by eating less.

The only effective treatment is avoiding daily stress.

Conclusion

A few morning changes increase your weight loss.

Morning health behaviors make you start your day on the right foot and a successful day end.

A healthy lifestyle is determined with your daily practice and your diets.

Many tips and techniques for losing weight are all over the internet, magazines, and books today.

However, most of them discuss the how’s and why’s.

Only a few talks about the adverse and the side effects they bring.

So before you get shocked with what you have done, consider these 11 things no one warns you about when losing weight. 

1. You will feel weak at the beginning of the weight loss process

Imagine your body going through changes.

When your normal intake of food is reduced to 50%, you will literally feel weak during the initial process.

This is because your body is adjusting to your new calorie intake.

Most especially if you are a carbo eater and you decided to cut down on it, your body will automatically crave for more in the initial stage.

You can avoid this by using the technique used in medicine called tapering.

Tapering is the art of gradual reduction of medicine intake so as not to cause withdrawal symptoms.

When dieting, gradually taper the amount of food intake so as not to shock your body with the sudden change.

2. You will face temptations to eat more during the first phase of your weight loss plan

Don’t be surprised when you often feel the urge to eat more.

During the first phase, that is a normal side effect.

Whatever method of weight loss you are using, whether exercising in the gym or dieting, you have to remember that your body is adjusting.

Normally, your cells will demand more energy that they are used to.

This explains the reason for feeling hungry easily.

But instead of increasing the amount of food intake or eating in between meals, try to drink water to satisfy your craving.

If you crave again, then drink again.

3. The first 21 days are the most difficult

They say that it takes 21 days to make a habit.

During these days though, you need to exercise self-control as to maintain a course of action that could ripen into a habit.

This could also be adopted in establishing a new diet plan or exercise regimen.

You may encounter difficulties from resisting the temptation to eat your favorite food and lessen your food consumption or suffer joint pains brought by changing exercise regimen as determined by your gym instructor.

During these days, you also experience the body weakness and emotional changes brought about by the process.

The comforting thing is passing these days would make the following days easier.

4. Losing weight is not an extraordinary challenge once you established your routine

The good news is that you will feel less difficulty once you established dieting or exercising patterns and adopted them as part of your lifestyle.

In this case, losing weight won’t be a super challenging task anymore.

As a lifestyle, it becomes a normal thing to do already.

However, before you reach this stage, you have to pay the price by overcoming the 21-day challenge of developing a good habit.

Once established, all you have to do is maintain your patterns and exert lesser efforts than before until you reach your goal. 

5. Gym exercises without toning can make you have baggy, loose skin

This comes as a shock to those who are not well informed about the effects of using the gym to shed off excess fats.

As a gym instructor puts it, any exercises aimed at shedding off excess fat need to be complemented with toning exercises; failure to which you will only end up with loose and baggy skin.

Just imagine, if fats are shed off, what will happen to the spaces filled by those fats before?

Normally, the skin will shrink.

This problem is commonly seen in the arms, abdomen, and legs.

So if you are unwilling to have those baggy loose skin, accompany your shedding off exercises with toning ones.

6. Rapid lose weight schemes result in the development of gallstones

Everything done rapidly has some unexpected effects that could be discovered after a period of time.

This is true with losing weight.

A co-worker once lost weight for just a month or two.

Then she vomited a lot and exhibited other symptoms like shoulder pain and severe abdominal pain that is triggered by ingesting oil and heavily seasoned food.

When she had her condition checked, the doctor said that she had formed gallstones brought about by rapid weight loss.

So there, do things in moderation so that you will not create another problem in the process of solving one. 

7. Maintaining your resolution to lose weight could be challenging

It is easy to start implementing a diet plan or exercise plan to lose weight.

What is difficult is how to maintain your passion and enthusiasm from beginning to end.

Normally, the process starts with your high hopes and a positive attitude.

However, as the process continues, you will encounter difficulties that could make you cheat on your plan or break your oath of losing weight.

This is why many abort their plans and sadly, gain more weight than before they started.

Overcome this challenge by starting your weight loss plan together with a team.

8. You will feel more stressed and agitated

Believe it or not, losing weight can be emotionally taxing.

From the negative commentators to the discouragers, you face your own emotional battles.

Depression could be one.

Frustration could be another, but the worst are stress and agitation.

I have encountered dieting people who are easily agitated by simple things.

The thing is, these feelings occurred almost every day as an aftermath of the process.

If this happens, it is important for you to surround yourself with people who understand what you are going through that no matter what you say or do, they readily forgive you.

9. Losing weight requires emotional support

There are times when you think that your regimen is not working at all, that whatever you are doing is not producing any progress towards your desired outcome.

With all the sacrifices in not eating the food you love and tolerating the pain brought about by endless exercise, you will reach the point when you feel exhausted.

At this point, you need cheerers who believe in what you are working and fighting for.

It helps when your supporters will eat what you eat and do what you do just to encourage you. 

10. Losing weight has after effects

What weight losers often overlook is the effect of losing weight.

Most of the time, they focus on losing but forget to prepare for the effects of the process that they have gone through.

Some of these effects are the necessity to make an adjustment due to some sleeping pattern changes, food preference changes and body response to temperature.

As fats are known to be a natural insulator, losing them could make one feel colder than ever.

Therefore, it pays to reassess yourself while losing weight so that you could adjust gradually.

11. The effect of losing weight is costly

Losing weight means a change in wardrobe.

It could also mean a change in shoe size, readjustment of ring size and change of fashion style.

All these entail money.

If you have not prepared for this change and saved some amount for it, you might be surprised at what you are going to spend on and how much you are going to pay for.

So before you start your diet plan or exercise regimen, consider this factor and start saving if you have no money to buy for new sets of dress or pairs of shoes. 

Conclusion

If you want your weight loss plan to be successful in all aspect, prepare in advance for the possible problems that could occur during the process.

As Benjamin Franklin puts it, “By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.”

Most people would like to reduce their body weight.

This is because too much weight can be detrimental to your health.

In most cases, persons who normally gain weight are unaware.

There are many things that can make you gain weight.

First and foremost, your diet can contribute a lot to weight gain.

If you are fond of taking junk foods, you might gain more weight over time.

Taking foods high in carbohydrates can make you gain more weight.

Failure to do exercises can make you gain weight over time.

You should, therefore, reduce this weight so that you can become healthy and fit.

The process of losing weight is not easy.

You should note that many people normally give up along the way.

Some normally feel like they are overworking especially when they are doing exercises.

Some get exhausted fast after starting their exercises and this can discourage you from losing weight.

However, this should not be the case.

You should remain motivated in order to achieve your weight loss goals.

The following are 10 ways to stay motivated to lose weight:

1. Know the reasons why you want to reduce your body weight.

First and foremost, you must have a goal that you want to achieve.

You might, for example, have health issues that can become complicated over time.

For instance, you might be suffering from diabetes.

In this case, it is important that you reduce your body weight so that you can mitigate this problem.

You might want to look like your younger self again and you might also want to look good for a certain event that’s coming up.

In this case, it is advisable that you reduce your weight so that you can look more attractive and fit.

Knowing your goals can motivate you to lose weight.

2. Set achievable weight loss goals.

Before you start reducing your body weight you should set achievable
weight goals so that you can work towards them.

You should actually set goals that you can achieve within a certain period of time.

This can motivate you to work towards achieving them.

Unrealistic goals will only frustrate you.

You should set goals that you can easily achieve and you should also have the right intentions so that you can stay motivated to lose your weight.

This actually helps to keep you on the right track.

3. Choose a plan that fits your lifestyle.

We are all different in a number of ways.

You should, therefore, choose a weight loss plan that fits your lifestyle.

You might be thinking of taking a diet that completely eliminates certain foods, however, this might seem to be a good idea but it can also be detrimental to your health.

Consider creating a plan that suits your needs.

You can choose to reduce the portions of food that you take on a daily basis while reducing the intake of fried foods before completely eliminating it from your diet.

4. Do not compare yourself to others.

We are all different.

Some people normally have more stamina than others.

You might notice that your friends are doing yoga exercises for many hours without getting tired.

But if you are just starting out, you should not compare yourself to them.

This can frustrate you and even cause you to give up.

You might accidentally strain your muscle and get muscle pains, you might even get more tired and frustrated.

That is why it is important that you go at your own pace.

You can start with a few minutes and increase this as time goes by.

You should concentrate on what you are doing so that you can achieve your set goals.

5. Record your weight loss progress.

It is important that you monitor your progress so that you can remain motivated.

In this case, you can record your weight from time to time.

This can help you know when you are losing weight and when you have gained weight.

In addition, this will help you know the amount of weight that you have lost within a certain period of time.

6. Appreciate and celebrate your success.

You will note that reducing your weight is not an easy undertaking.

You need to appreciate yourself once you have attained a certain goal.

In this case, you can buy a present for yourself or even your favorite shirt or a pair of trousers.

You can also go to the cinema and watch your favorite movie.

Giving yourself credit can motivate you to continue with your weight loss program.

This has actually worked well for many people out there.

7. Get social support.

You need to have friends who are going to motivate you to lose your weight.

In this case, you can make friends with people who have the same goals as you.

You can share your weight loss success stories with them and thereby get some motivation.

You might be surprised to note that your friends also found it difficult to lose their weight at first but still managed to continue with their weight loss goals.

These friends will motivate you to lose weight from time to time.

8. Ensure that you are committed

If you want to achieve any goal in life, you have to ensure that you are committed.

This also applies if you want to lose weight.

You should ensure that you are committed to your weight loss program.

You should stick to your goals and work towards them.

This can make you have some serious motivation to achieve your set weight loss goals.

9. Remain positive.

You should always be hopeful that you will achieve your set weight loss goals.

You will note that there might be friends who are going to discourage you from losing your weight.

You should avoid such people.

You should socialize with friends who are optimistic about their weight loss goals.

This can make you remain motivated to work towards your weight goals.

10. Look for a role model

It is important that you look for a role model whom you can copy.

This can motivate you to work towards your weight loss goals.

In this case, you can choose a role model who has achieved their weight goals in the recent past.

Conclusion

Consider these ideas today and you will be motivated to work towards your weight goals.

These ideas have helped many people in the past.

Consider them and you will not be disappointed.