Stop calling it "weight loss". Are you a "loser"? NO! Your unconscious doesn't want you to be a "loser" either, so... Why not "weight management" or "letting go of your weight" (You know how to let go. You do it a number of times a day!)

I've found that how you talk to yourself is the MOST important aspect of weight management (or any goal achievment).
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When you think that you're full, stop eating.

It's tougher to do than it sounds. But while eating if you even have a slight twinge of thinking or feeling that you're full, stop.

Slow down. Simply take longer to eat. Chew more, relax.

Eat tasty main meals and only healthy snacks. You don't want to starve, but eating fruit, veggies, and other extremely healthy snacks will give you the energy you need.

Drink water. Get away from the sugar filled drinks. Find a good brand of water that you like, even if it's expensive and drink that.

Last, talk to people who have lost weight.  Draw from their experience and motivation.  I'm not saying join a support group (unless you want to) but talking with like minded people who have overcome a common obsticle is one of the most valuable things you can do.
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Burn more calories, consume fewer calories. That should be the foundation of all weight loss endeavors. It's the only thing that's proven to work reliably. In addition:

• Change your diet, but don't "diet" diet. Fad diets start you on the track of weight yo-yo'ing upward.
• Don't starve yourself; it's okay to eat something that's 'bad for you' once in a while (like on a weekend or something). Balance is important.
• Find something that's both fun for you and good exercise, to prevent exercise from being considered a chore in your mind, which can become a big psychological disadvantage. And if it's not fun, try to make it fun (you won't burn any fewer calories if you're watching TV while on the treadmill).
• The right time to stop eating is not when you're full, but when you're not hungry anymore. You'd be surprised how many calories you'll not consume by doing this; it can really add up.

I didn't look for tips on any website because you asked for "your" tips. So there they are; hope they help.

Source(s):
Personal experience with a dash of critical thinking

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a proper balanced diet that is balanced to the 50/30/20 ratio of carbohydrates, protein and fats. Also eat within your metabolic rate, you can get a general calculation of this with the link provided below.  Once you know your metabolic rate then you can calculate the amount of calories needed and eat to that target.  Monitor your weight and how your body feels and looks.  If you do all the proper calculations and still are gaining weight, cut back on the calories, and vice versa.  I have always believed the 50/30/20 split and keeping track of my metabolic rate and I have always been able to gain or loose with ease.  If you want a quick trick to loose some weight fast, try the Master Cleanse, however nothing can be better than proper nutrition, exersise and a balanced diet
Source(s):
http://www.bmi-calculator.net/bmr-calculator/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Master_Cleanse

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My mother always told me these tips:

1. Take your fist, put it out, and look at it. That's all you need to eat.
2. Chew your food thoroughly and eat slowly. The slower you eat, the quicker you might feel full.
3. Drink 8 glasses of water daily.
4. Eat healthy foods with dietary fiber, vegetables, fruits, grains etc
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My wife has lost 35 pounds by eliminating just 3 things and doing 3 or 4 others. # 1 Consume nothing that contains white flour. The biggest carb problem in foods. #2 No white processed sugar. #3 No white bread

The three things she does do are #1 drink as much water as you possibly  can each day. Your body will begin to burn existing fat to replace all the eliminated carbs, you need the water to flush the system out of the unwanted stuff stored in the fat. #2 Only eat vegetables that are raw. Canned greens contain high levels of salt and cooked veggies lose most of the vitamins and coursness needed for strength and system cleaning. Juiced carrots with apple slices were her favorite drink. It will surprise you how good these taste together. # 3 Replace most of the red meat with high protien fish like Salmon or Halibut. She had great luck ridding herself of those hunger pangs between meals by eating a bowl of unsweetened cereal . Write a menu out for the whole month and stick with it-you can do it. See a doctor to make sure other problems don't exist. This is just a summary of what worked and has continued to work for her over the last several years. Good Luck...you are on the right track just reconizing the need for change. That's a big step in itself !

Source(s):
Experience of Wife

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Be realistic. Don't kill yourself. If you never work out, don't try to do an hour a day 5 days a week and then hate yourself for failing after 3 weeks. Likewise if you have 3 big meals a day plus 3 snacks, don't suddenly cut yourself back to a piece of celery for lunch and then hate yourself for sneaking spoonfuls of icecream at midnight.

Weight loss, except when on a reality tv show, has to be a gradual thing. You go out to lunch every day with the boys from work to get a sandwich? Fine - start by getting the *small* sandwich, without the cheese, without the mayo. Stuff like that. Make incremental progress. Cherry pick the easy stuff.

I have a bad habit of wandering the house at 11pm and sneaking something out of the fridge when I am downstairs and bored by myself after the family's gone to sleep. Solution? I go to bed earlier - I may wander from living room to kitchen but I'm not getting out of bed and going downstairs just for a bite.

For everything you do during the day, you can apply this rule. What did you have for breakfast? I had a piece of bananabread with some creamcheese on it. Maybe tomorrow I'll have a smaller slice, or maybe something else on it instead. For lunch, leftover meatloaf sandwich and 2 of the chocolate chip cookies the kids made last night. Maybe next time, no cookies. Or maybe instead of a sandwich, just on a plate - get rid of the bread.  Get the idea?  Whatever you just did or ate, how could you have made it better for you?

To reiterate - if you try to change your life overnight, you will be your own worst enemy, and you will cheat. But you'll only be cheating yourself. Ease into it, see progress ("Wow, just by getting rid of the cheese and mayo on my lunch I dropped 2pounds this week!") and you will be encouraged to continue, rather than the opposite ("I starved myself all week, and just because I ate that one entire pizza on Friday night I still gained 3lbs?! Screw it!")


Source(s):
Lost 30pounds doing it this way.

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G'day Danielle,

Thank you for your question.

Healthy eating and doing an hour of exercise a day.

Fad diets don't work. Trust me, I have done a few in my time.

http://www.americanheart.org/presenter.jhtml?identifier=4584

http://www.betterhealth.vic.gov.au/bhcv2/bhcarticles.nsf/pages/Weight_loss_a_healthy_approach?OpenDocument

Regards
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Forget the "fad" diet designation. Anyone can apply that label to anything, even if the diet itself is sound.

My biggest tip would be to see your doctor first. The reason? Your doctor can run tests to find out how your body deals with sugar; what your thyroid hormone levels are; what your BMI is; how your endocrine system is functioning. No matter how good something you read sounds, unless you know these things, you don't have the basis for making a good judgment on what to do.

For example, someone mentioned following a 50/30/20 ration of carbs, protein and fat. First, it's hard to hit that ratio eating whole, natural foods, unless you do things that were not traditionally done to them back when diabetes, heart disease, cancer, and developmental and fertifility problems were rare.

I have a metabolic disorder that means I can eat almost no carbs at all. Were I to follow that diet, I'd have a stroke or heart attack within weeks, because my whole system goes haywire. I have to have a completely different ratio.

Other people might have thyroid problems or things like PCOS which mess with your hormones, including those that regulate how fat is stored and burned. Unless you know that going in, you could follow an eating plan that could make the problem worse, rather than better. For example, a person with thyroid problems would not want to eat a "heart-healthy" diet high in soy (especially not now that the American Heart Association no longer endorses it)--soy depresses thyroid function.

That said, The Leptin Diet is a good match for many endocrine system problems that result in overweight. But it might not be right for you.
Source(s):
Hours spent in doctors' offices; 50 lb. weight loss between kids; 35 lb. loss after birth of last; endocrine system problem developed during last pregnancy

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Eat less and exercise more.
I most helpful thing to me was to find out how many calories there are in everything I ate. For example, mustard has no calories but mayo and catchup have a lot. By using a spreadsheet to count my calories, I realized that I could eat just about anything if I was careful about the quantity.
Here is a web site.
http://www.thecaloriecounter.com/
Source(s):
http://www.thecaloriecounter.com/

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The best tip - stop dieting and instead change your eating habits. This is probably the single most important thing to remember.
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Weight Loss Hypnosis is the Best method and inexpensive as well
Source(s):
http://patrickwanis.com/WeightLossHypnosis.asp

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It sounds as if you want a tip, not a complete diet system. So, here is my tip (which of course won't help much if you don't overall eat right and exercise):

When drinking, have a good beer rather than a wine or cocktail.

Wine and cocktails are empty calories, and they don't even fill you up. A good beer has complex carbohydrates, assorted minor nutrients, and fills you up so that you don't eat or drink so much. As a recommended good beer, anything brewed by Sierra Nevada, which is widely available.
Source(s):
http://www.amazon.com/beer-diet-book-gaining-strength/dp/B0006S1EQK

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the best way to losse weight is a smothie maker you can add anything you like and you dont have to eat it just have a big glass of anything u want thats how i lost weight it is the easy and best way
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i guess hypnosis is an ideal method to be carried out between the two
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