How to Succeed at Weight Loss

I get a lot of emails from frustrated readers. Frustrated because they just can't stick to a weight loss program. And therefore, they just aren't getting the fat loss results they deserve.

And most of these people blame themselves...and hard.

But to be fair, in this world of fast food, comfortable chairs and 50,000 channels, it's only easy in theory to stick to a fat loss, muscle building lifestyle. In reality, we all have days where we want to skip out on our fitness needs.

Other people find the information overload so overwhelming it paralyzes their ability to move forward on a program. In this day of the information age, it's not hard to get access to some very good (and very bad) fitness information.

But I like to think the very good info is found in my newsletters here.

But even with all the info out there, it can be tough to put it all together, let alone stick to it.

And you can't expect to go from a laundry list of bad habits to a virtual fitness diehard overnight.

But you can make a big new change everyday and get one step closer to your dream body.

Yesterday I started working with two clients that both weigh over 350 pounds. But I'm not giving them a hardcore workout and nutrition plan today, and expecting them to follow it to the letter. That would last about 4 hours.

Instead, we identify the worst of their habits, and slowly attack them one by one.

With consistency.

Because it is with consistency, that you make good fat loss choices into lifelong habits.

And that's what I've seen work over and over again. For once the consistency becomes a habit, then you are in control.

One of my best clients and best friend is a shining example...gone are the days when he drank 2 liters of soda per day...and now he sticks to whole-foods eating and he is so successful he is cover-model magazine material.

But he didn't get this way overnight. And not too many people will. You slowly need to make improvements, day by day. In fact, he gained these habits day by day, week by week, over the winter last year. Buying more vegetables each week, trying new forms of lean protein (eventually coming to love salmon) every other day, eating nuts as an energy-boosting snack instead of drinking pop, subbing in Green Tea for soda, and so on and so forth.

I guarantee that a good plan will help you make life changing, fat loss habits. Day by day, step by step, you need to make consistent lifestyle changes. But at the very least, get back on track today and be more consistent than ever before.

I know you can do it!

Craig Ballantyne is a Certified Strength & Conditioning Specialist and writes for Men's Health, Men's Fitness, Maximum Fitness, Muscle and Fitness Hers, and Oxygen magazines. His trademarked Turbulence Training fat loss workouts have been featured multiple times in Men's Fitness and Maximum Fitness magazines and all over the Internet, and have helped thousands of men and women around the world lose fat, gain muscle, and get lean in less than 45 minutes three times per week. For more information on the Turbulence Training workouts that will help you burn fat without long, slow cardio sessions or fancy equipment, visit http://www.TurbulenceTraining.com