Weight Loss Success Made Easy!

Weight loss is a game, similar to solitaire. It's a game that you play by yourself. The sooner you realize that it's you and only you that's going to make the weight loss happen, the closer you've just gotten to your own weight loss success.

This doesn't exclude personal trainers and perhaps your very own diet guru. You can, and should, acquire all the positive support you need, but in the end one truth will hold: only you can lose the weight. No diet pills. No magic weight loss spells. No Hollywood 48-hour pineapple juice voodoo.

Now once you've come to terms with this, you can get onto the activities you will need to begin—and stick with—to accomplish your weight loss goals.

Below I've included 3 absolute beginner must-dos, if you "really" want to lose weight.

WL Must #1: Exercise. It doesn't matter how much at first, just do it. Do it, and do it often. Begin and be consistent. Do something today. The faster you begin something, the better your chance of keeping with it. Don't delay.

WL Must #2: Adjust your eating "slightly." Do not… I repeat, do not attempt to completely alter your dieting habits. Too much of a change almost guarantees you will not stick with it.

You see this all the time with New Year's resolutions. People start out hardcore motivated for weight loss success, and then two weeks later (maybe sooner than that) they succumb to the gravity of their old weight "gaining" lifestyle.

They fall flat because they tried to do too much too soon.

WL Must #3: Treat weight loss as a priority. This is the opposite of "Must" number too. Don't pity-pat or half step your beginnings. There is a fine line you must walk at the very beginning of every weight loss program.

You've been out of the game for a while (maybe forever). You must step out of the weight loss gate with purpose, but also control. You must be able to measure your limitations and gradually increase your diet and exercise abilities over time.

Patience and balance will guarantee your weight loss success. Begin where you are, feel good about that, and then progress slowly over time. Do this and your weight loss success is only a few miles down the road.

So You Want To Lose Weight Before Prom Fast?

Most of us girls have been there and done that. It's a few weeks before prom, we've seen that sexy dress we want to wear but don't quite fit in, and we panic. We want to lose weight before the prom fast! So, what do we do?

For days we literally go hungry, drink just water and munch on lettuce like a deer in the backyard.

We suddenly remember that gym membership and jump on the treadmill for hours every day.

After a few days we're completely pooped, look like a slightly overweight ghost, and snap at everyone because we're cranky, hungry, and that darn dress is still a size or two too small.

Okay, we figure, this isn't working.

Next we jump on the Internet and find all those quick weight loss solutions. You know, the ones that have you run on that darn treadmill for hours wearing a plastic bag, drink herbal tea till you want to gag, or pop pills that wind up your metabolism like a coiled spring.

It's tempting at this point in time, isn't it? Prom is getting closer every day!

Listen girl, just don't do it. The risks to your health and wellbeing just simply are too great to try to lose weight fast before the prom.

One pound of fat equals roughly 4,000 calories. It is impossible to do enough exercise, eat little enough without dying from starvation, or increase your metabolism enough to burn that number of calories in a short period of time.

Remember, you need to burn those calories in addition to the calories you need to stay alive.

The best you can aim for in terms of realistic fat burning is around one pound per week.

To do that, you need to eat sensibly to stay healthy, do moderate exercise, and closely watch your calorie intake.

Buy that dress in a number that fits you. Then be creative and add a few extras or accessories to hide what you don't like. You know, use those little secret tricks that just us girls know.

Then go out, have a blast and forget about how to lose weight fast before the prom.