Ready for a healthy way to lose weight. Here are 3 ways to lose weight, help you avoid frustration and plateauing while gaining lasting and successful weight loss.

What’s the best 3 ways to lose weight in a healthy fashion? 

Many diet plans and publications report to have all the answers to losing weight successfully and maintaining your weight loss.


Stating that the secret to losing weight is to exercise more and eat less, some say that eliminating fat from your diet completely is the way to go, the rest say no carbs in your diet all together.

So let’s dive into the key components of any healthy and successful plan to lose weight.

There is no cookie-cutter method to achieving healthy weight loss that’s lasting. Our systems are so different & individually, that one method that works for one person won’t necessarily gain the same response from someone else.

Our bodies respond differently to different foods, food components, food groups due to our different body types.

It will take trialing and experimenting, along with patience, resilience and determination to find the right eating plan that’s right for your body and brings you weight loss.

3 Ways to Lose Weight

My body in particular does not lose a pound if I restrict all carbs. Carbs are needed. Healthy Carbs.

Although, if I do eliminate any cravings for chicken tenders or chicken sandwiches, which are my only vice in life…I’m very selective of course, only Chick-fil-A or Zaxby’s... I noticed a slimming in my body all together.

Some people respond well to counting calories, where my body likes to have freedom of calories within my healthy daily intake range.

By simply avoiding fried foods and cutting back on any type of processed or refined carb… that keeps me in my healthy slim weight range, also following intermittent fasting,

Personally, breaking my fast after 1 p.m. which not only regulates my metabolism and blood sugar, but also allows internal healing within my body.

Try fasting for 14 to 16 hours a day. By eating an early dinner and sleeping through most of your fasted hours this may be easier than you think. 

Breaking fast during your most active hours and then giving your digestive system a long break to perform and heal may result in weight loss. 

This is why it’s vital to find the diet technique or plan that’s best for your body in your system.

Don’t become disheartened if a diet method doesn’t work for you when you’ve seen it work for others in your life.

You must find the diet that is right for you and your system and stick with it to find lasting success.

This is about lifestyle change, changing your habits towards food including your eating habits, your relationship to food, the reasons you eat and how to look at food and a healthy and balanced way.

Helping you to achieve and maintain lasting, healthy weight loss equaling a healthy weight.

3 Ways to Lose Weight

1. Cutting Calories

Certain methods state that maintaining a healthy weight simply comes down to eating fewer calories than you burn, therefore losing weight which sounds great in theory.

So why aren’t people losing weight quickly with this method?

  • Weight loss isn’t one-dimensional. The first few weeks of restricting calories may result in weight loss. but as you continue to eat the same number of calories the weight stops dropping off. As you’re losing both water weight and Lean muscle mass and your metabolism decreases.
  • All calories are not created equally. Consumption of 100 calories of Processed sugary snacks, for example, will have a different effect on your body than eating 100 calories of celery. The key for lasting weight loss is to remove the foods that are jammed with calories but don’t make you feel  satisfied, or provide you with real nutrients your body can break down, but instead replace them with foods that are filling like vegetables & grains.
  • Are you hungry or thirsty? Many times we confuse the sensation of thirst for hunger. Stopping to drink a glass of water and waiting 10 minutes to feel if hunger is truly present is one way to decrease excessive eating.  Many of us are also emotional eaters, meaning we turn to food for comfort or to alleviate stress, which can quickly sabotage any weight loss plan.

It’s important to be aware of emotional triggers, whether it’s eating when you’re lonely or bored, be aware of your eating habits. Try to stay busy, go for a walk, go to the mall,  head to the park.

If it’s stressful eating, find ways to relax yourself… Whether it’s exercise, a spa treatment, taking a bubble bath or trying meditation.

2. Cutting Carbs to Lose Weight

Excessive refined carb intake directly contributes to the way the body stores fat after consuming unhealthy carbs, which have to do with the insulin role within the body.

Once you consume a meal the carbohydrates that you eat  flow into your bloodstream as glucose.

That’s why there are certain foods that spike your blood sugar or stabilize your blood sugar depending on the type of healthy or unhealthy carbohydrate that it is.

This would be high index carbs and low index carbs.

Glucose is processed in the body first, before fat is burned from meals consumed. 

Eating a high-carb meal causes your body to release insulin, due to the influx in glucose into your bloodstream.

So this would include pasta meals or bread, as a blood sugar spiking meal.

Insulin is responsible for two things, it prevents your body from releasing fat from your fat cells to burn as fuel. It is primarily concerned with glucose and it also creates new fat cells, storing what your body can’t burn off.

Which results an increased body weight making your body now require more fuel to utilize. Therefore causing you to eat more.

Which starts the cruel cycle of consuming carbs and gaining weight.. insulin only burns carbohydrates, therefore increasing possible carb cravings.

So to successfully lose weight reducing carbs is important. I am a firm believer in reducing refined or processed carbohydrate intake. Which helps to reset your metabolism as well as breaking the cycle of carbohydrate cravings. 

Low-carb diets consist of the concept of eliminating carbs and increasing protein and fat; it’s important to limit your intake of saturated and trans fat by choosing  lean meats, fish as well as vegetable sources of protein.

3. Cutting Fat to Lose Weight

People have the mental concept that if you don’t want to get fat, don’t eat fat. Although, reduced-fat or light foods are actually more harmful to the body than naturally occurring fat.

These type of foods are filled with extra sugar and chemical properties that your body is not able to break down, due to its unfamiliar chemical makeup.

Our bodies need healthy fat to function, our brains are comprised of fat. So fat should be consumed to keep our brains healthy and well. Studies show that low fat, no fat & light products have added to rates of obesity.

Healthy fats help to regulate body weight, helps to avoid fatigue and stabilize your mood.

Good fats are found in seeds, olive oil, fish, nuts and even avocados. By adding these healthy fats into your diet you can quickly improve the quality and effectiveness of your meal plan.

Try to eat whole foods that came from the ground or consume lean meats.

Gain Motivation

Avoid processed sugars and carbohydrates as well as low-fat products. These will stunt any weight loss progress, due to the unnatural chemical makeup and increased sugar intake.

Lifestyle change is necessary for lasting weight loss.

So motivation is key.

It’s important to maintain short-term goals that will get you to your ultimate goal.

Slow and steady equals lasting weight loss.

Make a goal to fit into a swimsuit or old pair of jeans, something measurable and yet so satisfying once achieved. No matter how small it may seem on your grand scale of weight loss.

Since weight loss is not all about pounds on the scale, it’s important to take measurable progress as well.

Measure the circumference of several body parts on a weekly basis or tracking your fitness through apps or a journal. It will keep you on track to losing your desired amount of weight. Keeping you aware of the foods you eat and the calories you are burning.

Sufficient, regular sleep is also vital for weight loss and proper hormone regulation. It also keeps your metabolism stabilized. Insufficient sleep can also affect your food choices and motivation throughout the day, due to fatigue from a lack of efficient proper sleep.

Incorporating all of these diet tips into your weight loss plan will definitely result in good success and long-term results. 

By also cutting out sugary beverages you will see a slimmer waist, as well as decreased risk for type 2 diabetes.

Fill up on fruits, vegetables and fiber. Find vegetables that you enjoy and can eat with meals or as snacks.

High fiber vegetables such as kale, greens, beans, and whole grains are higher in volume and take longer to digest, making them very satisfying—and ideal for weight-loss.

By trying to eat a side salad with every meal, it will increase your fiber intake and also give you the ability to eat less.

Try to eat home cooked meals as often as possible… Ensuring that you are in control of portion size as well as the ingredients in the food including healthy sodium amounts. 

Just Move

Try to have some type of active movement for at least 30 minutes a day. This can be as simple as going for a walk in a park or going to the mall and window shopping.

Anything that you enjoy that keeps you physically moving. Weight loss is most successful when activity is done with mindful movement.

Finding something you enjoy and starting off small increasing your time exercising at a steady progression.

Maintaining your Weight Loss

It’s important to begin these habits that will help you turn weight loss into a lifestyle, no matter which weight loss method you choose:

  • Daily Activity, walking or going for a bike ride. Participating in mindful movement every day.
  • Consciously Eating, initially being conscious of what you eat on a daily basis whether that’s with a food tracker or food diary, until healthy food choices are set and established.
  •  Fiber Intake, incorporating fiber into your day, improving digestion, bowel movements as well as weight loss.
  •  Body Weight Awareness, being conscious of your weight by weighing yourself regularly. Weighing yourself weekly will assist you in detecting any small gains in weight, enabling you to promptly take corrective action before the problem increases. It’s much easier to lose 5 lb than 50.

Take action by incorporating all of these diet tips to finally reach your weight loss goals and maintain a healthy confident physical condition.

A physique that can change your whole mindset in life…with good health and proper body weight, total body wellness also comes.