The best part about the 30 day diet plan is it’s not a diet!

So what is it, you’re wondering?

I came across an interesting article yesterday about doing a 30 day plan. In it the author talked about how some computer software comes with a 30 day trial period.  After those 30 days if we like what it does we usually keep it.

I thought this was an interesting idea that could be used with weight loss and dieting.

A lot people tackle weight loss head on, trying to make a huge commitment that they can’t possibly keep. The weight that needs to lost seems impossible and the thoughts of continuing to diet and exercise for the months ahead seem too much and they give up.

But why not go micro small and focus only on changing one daily habit just for the next 30 days? And after the 30 days you can change back if things didn’t work out or you found it too hard too keep doing.

Here are some things you could try out for the next 30 days…

• Cut out soft drinks from your diet

• Do 20 -30 minutes of exercise per day. (This could be broken down into using the stairs instead of a lift or parking your car further way from work and walking the rest of the way.)

• Cutting out snacking and eating in front of the TV

• Drinking more water

• Putting more vegetables on your plate at meal times or even just starting to eat vegetables when you didn’t before. Of if you really want to push the boat out you could try to go vegetarian and cut out meat.

• Use smaller plates at meal times to reduce the amount you eat.

• Stop drinking alcohol or reducing the amount you may drink

• Give up smoking.

• Pull out the old exercise bike and use it while you watch your favorite soap on TV for half an hour.

There are numerous things you could try out and remember… it’s only for 30 days. It’s not a long term contract that’s going to go on and on to infinity.

But do you know what the interesting part is?

If you try something out and do it everyday religiously for 28 days it becomes a habit….and as we all know some habits are very hard to break.

Also if do your new habit or routine for the next 30 days what are chances that you’re going to turn around and undo all the good work.

For example if you gave smoking up for those 30 days do you really think you’d smoke on day 31…(Imagine all that wasted effort down the drain.)

Or would you give it another 30 days??

The best part of a 30 day plan is, it’s not a permanent thing that tends to really push your will power to the limit. Also at the end of the 30 days you can look back and see if you got the results for your efforts.

As you do this keep the following questions in mind.

• Did it work for me and did I lose some weight with what I’ve done?

• Is there anything else I could add to what I’m doing to make it better? Like maybe adding another 5-10 minutes a day to my exercises? Or cutting down, or out, anything else from my diet?

Remember its only for the next 30 days, right??

So pick one thing today you’d like to try out today and then mark off your finish date (30 days from now) on your calendar.

And as the days pass mark them off with a “chunky” red marker, it’ll look great the next time you visit the calendar see all those red X’s one after another and how far you’ve come.

Don’t be shy either; put that calendar up where you can see regularly during the day and where other people can also see it. They’ll probably ask what all the reds X’s on the calendar are for.

Don’t be shy and tell them. This can also help because if you know other people are monitoring your progress and could give you the added push in the early days when you’re not keeping to the plan.

So what are you going to change just for the next 30 days??

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Have you got a better a bigger collection of diet books than you local library?

Or are you one of those people that jump from one weight loss trend to the next one hoping that this one is going to be the magical one that sorts your life out completely.

Could this new diet program or book have the magical power to make all your weight loss dreams come true?

If this is you, then you’re probably a weight loss or dieting junkie. Now don’t take this the wrong way you’re not alone there are lots of people like this.

But are you to blame for being like this?

Personally I blame the media for all the confusion and contradictions out there. They’ve taken something simple as how to lose weight and they’ve made it into a complicated mess where you don’t know what to do or what food you should eat?

But the truth is going to be revealed here today; yup you read that correctly you’re going to have the magic formula in the next millisecond…

Drum roll please…

Dum daddle dum…

“Eat less and exercise more and you’ll lose weight” … Tadddaaaa!

Are you shocked?

Is it too simple an idea? Are you angry with me now you’re probably thinking “But everyone knows this…but I did this in the past and it’s not worked for me??”

If you’re still angry with me stick with me here for a few more seconds. I bet if I asked you any question about all the fad diets out there, you’d probably know more about them than I do.

But if you take all of those diets and break them all down into the very, very, very basics you’ll find that at the very core of all of them are this….”Eat less and exercise more and you’ll lose weight”

Take even the weight loss drugs and pills that are advertised everyday. They always come with the small print “For best results a calorie controlled diet should be followed and some exercise”

Most of us are looking for the complicated formula that going to change everything “Eat less and exercise more” is too simple there must be more to it than that?

But that’s how a diet works.

It’s always been like that ever since the first day we set foot on this earth all those millions of years ago. If we control what we eat we can control what weight we are. The problem is modern media has taken this simple formula and thrown so many rules and formulas on top of it that sometimes we just can’t see it anymore.

But as the saying goes sometimes the truth hurts, but there are times when the truth can set you free.

So don’t waste anymore of your life, time and money jumping from one fad to another. Promise yourself that that last diet book you bought will be your last.

Concentrate on the basics, they’ve always work in the past, I don’t think it’ll ever change in the future.