Finding a weight loss supplement that can actually produce results is bit difficult. Since, there are many products in the market claiming to give you the best results but rather produce negative side effects that can be harmful to your health.

Supplements work best if you also exercise and follow a good diet, according to the experts. The first thing you have to look into before buying any supplement is that if it is recognized by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and check with various sources like health care practitioner or the net for the customer reviews, ingredients, and the long term results of the product.

Protein:

• reduces hunger, which results in decrease of calories you consume. Helps preserve and build muscle as you lose weight.
• Study in 1999 show that you will see the weight loss benefits by consuming protein supplement and you may lose about 3 pounds a month. In some people, protein is tough to digest and may experience bloating or cramping.

Green Tea:

• According to research green tea stimulates your body’s ability to burn fat and increases the rate at which you burn calories, which is a result of interaction between caffeine and chemical in green tea leaves.
• People who take green tea supplement say that they have experienced a significant increase in calorie-burning ability. You may lose 2 pounds a month, based on a study of obese people who took green tea supplement.
• Green tea are safe and no known effects have been reported, but not recommended for people who are caffeine sensitive, it may cause nervousness.

Ephedra:

• also known as mahuang reduces hunger and increases metabolism. Alkaloids in it stimulate the body to boost metabolism. In 2000, based on reports published, critics called for its ban linking it to heart attack and seizure.
• However later studies found that it was safe and effective supplement when used in recommended doses.
• Ephedra is known to reduce 1½ pounds every month. It is strictly not recommended to people with heart disease and diabetes or mental illness.

Even though there are several companies coming out with new weight loss or dietary products every day. There are a few recognized and certified supplements which are top rated by the customers after using them. Clinicallix, Nuphedragen, Colonetix, Zca Stack, and SlimQuick are the top five weight loss supplements ranked following customer reviews, long term results, product safety and overall value.

Avoid consuming junk food, even if you are a junk food addict try to reduce consuming junk food gradually. But, try to stay on track; avoiding junk food should be your primary motive. If you find it difficult to diet, then you could try few different things.

For instance, try having different types of health food every day; you would not like eating salad every day.

Even while exercising, add weights to your exercise routine. Jog gentle on your walk, or speed walk or you could even try playing your favorite CD and dance in your room. That helps you burn calories too.

And the library is loaded with DVDs for free borrowing; you could also purchase it from the internet, from a local sporting goods store or local discount store.  Simple changes in your daily routine will help aid your weight loss.  If you’re into more vigorous exercise, then you could try bicycling a few miles a day, jogging or running around your block.

If you do not like going outdoors or exercising at a gym, then you can try a few things when you are at home. Something like, when you are sitting on the couch ready to watch your favorite program, you could have two 5lb weights handy and use them while watching the program.

You could even walk in and around your house like –  walk out the front door, down the driveway, turn around walk around the back of the house, walk up the stairs, through the living room and back out a few times.

Some women need to be motivated to exercise or to get on a diet; most of the women (including men) find excuses – not to exercise. Always remember a little bit of exercise and controlling your food habits will take you a long way.

Below are 8 mistakes that you could find when people trying to do some weight loss programs, and failed. Learn from the mistakes and avoid it right away when you counter one or several of them.

1. Skipping breakfast.

While in your diet plan you write that you need to limit your food intake, it doesn’t mean you need to stop at all. It’s really bad for your body. What you need to know is the calories that you eat in the morning will be burned easily during the day, while you’re working. By skipping it, you allow yourself to eat more at lunch time and easily tempted to eat some more dessert. If you really want your weight loss plan to work, eat HALF of your breakfast is much better than eat nothing at all

2. Eat it for today, and promise not eat it tomorrow

You probably ever tempted to eat a litter of ice cream today, and promise you won’t eat it tomorrow. Guess what? You devour a whole liter today, and buy another one for tomorrow. You just can’t keep your promise. If you really want to eat the ice cream it would be much better if you eat some of it every morning, than finish all of it in a day.

As long as you consume most of your high-calories food in the morning, it usually will burn up at noon. But, if you eat it in the afternoon, it will stuck in there with nowhere to go. However, remember not to overdo yourself by eating more than you can handle.

3. No diet food.

There are so many diet foods in a retail store nowadays. Buying this type of food will led you to belief that you could eat more of it since it’s a diet food. So, it must be safe, right? Wrong! That’s why you shouldn’t eat any of it because it will make you crave for more. It’s much better for you to cook your own food than buying the healthy-pack-of-diet-food, because your body knows its limit and you’ll automatically make your food in proper portion.

4. Thinking that you’re born fat and will die fat too.

Now, this is the wrong mindset you’ll ever have. While it’s good to analyze why you and your family are fat, it’s better if you analyze it, and compare it to other people who has a slimmer body. By doing that you’ll figure out what makes you still fat, and what you should do or eat to have a slimmer figure.

5. Eat salads as your main course.

It’s good to eat salads, but you just can’t satisfy yourself by eat it. This could let you to eat some more until you satisfied. Don’t do this. Just sticks with what you’re usually eats, but eats just half of your usual portion, or replace it with the healthier ones.

6. Starting a new diet plan on Monday.

While it’s good to change your diet plan into the ones with a higher successful rate, you don’t have to do it every week. You need to follow your diet plan and stick with it for at least 30 days before you change to the new ones. It’s to make sure you already follow the diet plan and let it to show the results. If it didn’t, change it after you follow it for at least 30 days. If it does, keep going with it.

7. Embarrassing to go to the gym.

If you feel embarrassed to go to a gym, change your mind. Not all people will stare or talking about you. They will be too busy to care about themselves than you. Gym also a good place to find a friend that you could ask to do the diet plan together. Getting a friend could increase your motivation and get a higher the success rate of your diet plan.

8. Setting your goals too high.

If you have a higher goal, you need to split it into several small but achievable goals. By doing this, you could follow your weight loss plan without being bored in the half way because your big goal is too high and you feel you can’t achieve it.

Well, those are 8 mistakes that you could avoid while you’re doing your weight loss plan. Having a different perspective will make it easier for you to reach your weight loss goal.

Here are 7 habits that you could implement to your life right away:

1. Moving more

Ordinary people will burn about a third calories everyday. You could increase your calories burning by simply moving more than you do before. This simple habit will helps you to burn more calories everyday. So, how do you do that? Just keep moving. Don’t let your body just sitting in there. One tip for you, put the post-it-notes in the place where you’re always sitting or doing nothing for a long period of time. Write just one word in it, “MOVE!”

It will remind you that you still need to move during your break. Here are a few ideas that you could start doing to move some parts of your body: swing your legs when you’re sit down, change your position often, stand up and stretch your body, stand up when you phoned someone and start pacing, or park your car in the furthest corner of your parking lot.

2. Eat small and often

Eating small but often will keep you energized during the day and prevent you to want “something more” to eat. It also helps to burn your calories faster, and distribute the fat in your body properly. Try to eat a small portion of your meals every 2-4 hours because it will make your body working constantly to digest the food. This digesting process requires more energy, and energy burns more fat in your body.

3. Consume “healthy” fats

Even if our goal is to burn more fat, we need to realize that fats are also essential for our body. Healthy fats will help you lose weight by increasing the calories burning process. Some of the foods that contain healthy fats are olive oil, flaxseed oil, salmon, avocados, and nuts. Add some of these into your daily diet plan.

4. Drink Cold Water

Cold water will make your body to burn more calories in order to raise the temperature of it. Besides, it could also keep you well hydrated during the day and make your metabolic process burn quicker.

5. Do exercise with weights

Weights are another good way to burn your calories. Lifting weights regularly will develop a muscle tissue in your body. This muscle tissue is metabolically active and it needs more calories when it’s in the rest condition. Not only that, it could also increasing the fat-burning enzymes in the body.

6. Eat spicy food

Hot spices could speed up the metabolism in your body. Try it by adding half a teaspoon cinnamon into your coffee per day. It can boost your metabolism and keep your sugar level steady. If you can’t stand a cinnamon in your coffee, try adding different spices into your meal, such as wasabi or crushed red pepper.

7. Eat protein

The process to digest the protein into your body requires more calories to burn. It’s because the complexity of their chemical breakdown. Plan your meal that contains more proteins and eat snacks that contain it too. Protein, which takes longer to digest, will make you not to overeat and stay full for a longer period of time.

Tip #1 – Stop Talking and Start Doing

It will do you no good if you’re just talking about the next-big-thing in weight loss program. What you need to do now is stop talking and move your body to take action. Action creates reaction. For every action you make, you’ll get one step closer to you ideal body. Don’t worry, it won’t take too long. Just stick with it and the results will show.

Tip #2 – Slowly and Continuously

Slowly but safe is much better than faster but dead. A long-lasting result of weight loss require some time to done and continuous action. Rather than targeting to lose 1 pound per day, it’s better to targeting 2 pounds per week. Why? Because it’s much safer, and you’ll get permanent result. Try combining between a diet plan and exercise. Diet plan will control your food intake, and exercise will burn excessive fat in your body.

Tip #3 – Keep your money safe

Every commercial created only for one goal, pulling the money out of your pocket. While you’re doing your diet plan and exercise, you probably receive tons of weight loss commercials everywhere. Keep your money to yourself and don’t let them steal your money away by telling you that they have “the magic pills” or “the magic weight loss program”. Nope, don’t buy that. Use your money to buy something worthy or just stuffed it in your bank account. You already have your own diet plan and you don’t need another one.

Tip #4 – Weight Loss Lifestyle

Start changing your lifestyle. If you think that foods is your passion and you need to devour all of them as fast as possible, change it into a different way of thinking. You should see the food as one of your source to live. You don’t have to get as many as you can, just pick the ones you need. For your information, start changing your lifestyle by eating HALF of your foods will make you lose weight faster.

Tip #5 – Don’t be obsessed by numbers

Number is not everything. So, don’t stuck with it. Don’t play your emotions according the up-and-down of your scale, happy when it goes down, and feel down when it goes up. The changes of your body probably can’t be seen directly. Even if you didn’t lose any weight right now, you probably already lowering your cholesterol levels or having a better heart. As soon as your inside feels good, it will show up in the outside.

Being a people with obesity, I see people from a different point of view. I got jealous of the people who seems healthy and fit, while comparing them with myself. I used to feel depressed and stressed just by thinking what I could do to be like them. But it doesn’t mean I didn’t do anything to lose several pounds. I do. I try every single diet plan, pills, or programs, but none of them seems to works for me. So, I dumped them all, mostly in the next 3 days after I try them. Why did I do that? Simply because the program is too boring, require me to exercise a lot, even restricted me by not allowed me to eat any of my favorite foods at all.

I keep doing this until I realize that I need something easy. I need a diet plan that I would be followed happily without sacrificing the chance to eat my favorite foods. Yes, even if it takes more time to see the results.

The first things I do are asking myself the following questions, and answer all of them honestly.

1. What makes you overweight? I often eat junk foods and never exercise but once a month, if I remember to do that.
2. How determined you are to lose weight? Very! I’ll sacrifice my left arms just to lose several pounds a week.
3. Are you willing to do this in a longer period or do you want it to be as fast as possible? I like the sound of the last one, but if it makes me can’t eat what I want, even for a tiny portion, I choose the first one, please.
4. Could you discipline yourself to follow the diet plan? Of course! I will discipline myself even if I have to pay my sister to kick me when I missed the diet plan.

After I answer the questions, I will put it in the place where I could see those most, in my bathroom and near the TV. It constantly reminds me about the diet plan that I have and stick with it for a longer period of time.

Then, I start to find a diet plan that could take me to my goal without skinning the fat from my body myself. These are the weight loss plan that I follow and still do until today:

1. Things That I Must Do
- Eat three healthy meals per day. (Recently, I changed it into 6 small meals per day because it calms me from eating as much as possible during lunch, and I constantly eat after 3-4 hours which prevent me to become hungrier before the next meal).
- Fun exercise. (I can’t picture myself running, collapsed, and dragged by my dog. So, I choose the easier exercise like walking with my dogs for an hour or two everyday, parking as far as possible from my office, or use the stairs. It’s quite fun and doesn’t feel like exercise at all).
- Cooling my head when the temptation to eat is strong. (I grab some apples or oranges if I tempted to finished a whole bucket of ice cream, and go for a walk).

2. Things That I Must NOT Do
- Having snacks between meals. (This is the reason why I changed my meals into 6 small portions, because I don’t have time to worry about snacks when my next meals in the next couple hours).
- Eat too many junk foods. (Well, I allow myself to eat junk food for lunch every Sunday. I never overeat, but it lessens my cravings for junk food. A bit hard at first, but it slowly becomes a habit).
- Lie about what I’ve been eating. (My food journal constantly checked by one of my family member, usually my sister. She’s very helpful to keep me on track).

This is sound very easy to follow. It is, by the sound of it. Try it for 3 days, and get a bit bored. Try it for a week, it’s quite fun. Try it for 2 weeks, it becomes a habit that I couldn’t let go even if you pay me. This diet plan probably not make you lose 5 pounds per week, but I’m aiming the less conservative, 1 pound a week. It’s not that hard to achieve though.

Tips #1: Burn more calories

The secret is to burn more than you consume. Now, you don’t have to work your ass of just to burn more calories. The simplest way is by doing your house chores regularly. Try to move a lot because it will burns more fat and make you healthier. If you feel that you don’t have much house chores, try jogging or biking around your neighborhood. Losing weight doesn’t mean that you have to do it the hard way. Consistency in doing these things will help you to lose weight fast.

Tips #2: Get a gym membership

Most people trying to lose weight the wrong way. They do the weight loss diet plan program or eat some weight loss drugs and hoping they could lose several pounds by tomorrow. It’s not likely to happen. What you could do right now is get a gym membership, and do some exercises in there. You could do some aerobic, resistance training, or anaerobic weight to help you to lose weight and tone your body. Just remember not to overdo yourself or you’ll end up exhausted by the end of the day.

Tips #3: Get a dietician

A good dietician wills literally working side-by-side with you to combat the fats in your body. He or She will help you to create a diet plan that you could use right away and helps you control your food intake. Seeking a professional health advice is a much better option than trying to do it yourself.

Tips #4: Get a friend to train with

If you’re a highly motivated person who could achieve your goals without other people’s help, you could skip this one. But if you’re not, consider getting a friend to do the exercises with you. Having a friend that has the same goal with you will keep you both motivated to get your weight loss goal. This friend could also act as your “spare battery” that will fire you up while you’re feeling not motivated to continue your exercises or diet plan.

Tips #5: Eat less food

Nothing is better than this. Try to eat less and burn more calories. But don’t get the wrong way ! The best way to do this is by eating more meals throughout the day with smaller portions. By doing this, your body fat will be fully distribute in your body with a wider period of time and maximize the food absorbance. Eating less but often could restrict your food cravings during the day.

Those are 5 weight loss tips that you could try at home without going broke or damage your health condition. Your success in lose some weight depends entirely on you. If you’re willing to discipline yourself, these 5 tips will help you to get the body you dreamed of.