What do you think is the most important factor that will help you lose weight and keep it off permanently? If your answer is to eat healthier or workout a lot, then you're on the right track, but that's not it.
No doubt what you eat and how active you are play a role, but this is the real key to permanent weight loss.
You can learn all you want about your body and know everything there is to know about working out and exercising, but what good is it if you don't use that knowledge in your life.
The most important factor to help you permanently lose the weight is consistency.
If you eat perfectly and workout hard for a week, you're likely not to see any results.
Even though you did it perfectly, it won't matter because you didn't stick to it.
On the other hand, if you eat just a little better, and workout just a little harder, but do it consistently you'll start to see real results and they'll stick with you.
Only when you decide to stick to something for good will you begin to reap the rewards.
But this is really hard to do isn't it? That's why you have to make small changes in your life that you can stick with for the rest of your life.
If you try to do everything at once like that first example, you're likely to quit early because it's just too much that changed.
But if you take it slowly and improve one small thing at a time, you'll be much more likely to stick with it and finally see those results that you've been after for so long.