There are so many varying programs out there claiming to provide effective weight loss solutions. I can give you a vary basic place to start working toward your own weight loss goals.
Tip I: Set yourself challenging, yet reachable, goals.
You need to establish several series of goals for yourself. Immediate, short-term, and long-term goals are extremely important to building an effective weight loss program. Immediate goals will deal with things you can do right now (within days). Eat healthier starting now. Short-term goals deal with challenges set over several weeks. Lose ten pounds before the wedding in 3 weeks. And Long-term goals are achieved over several months or even years. Lose 50 pounds in 5 months.
As you reach each milestone, the act of crossing off each goal as you approach it will be a continuous supply of motivation for you. Reevaluate each goal as you surpass it and continually create new ones.
Tip II: Do research on each program.
This is extremely important and must not be skipped. Do a search for the author of the program, making sure he is who he says he is. Go to forums and see what people are saying about the program. Check out a program that has a refund guarantee, you can always get your money back if the program is no good. And last, look for reviews. There are some great individuals out there that just want to help you succeed, and give you the best information possible.
These are just 2 extremely simple, yet crucial, things to remember when searching and starting an effective weight loss program.
To further aid your cause, I have done some of the research for you and determined what I think are the 3 most effective weight loss programs currently on the market.

We all know, or have been told, that the most effective means of losing weight is through diet and exercise. Fads come and go, yet the old-school remedy has remained. Diet pills are a expensive and have received mixed reviews. This guide is going to discuss one half of the solution: what to eat. This is a guide designed to introduce you to a weight loss food program.
Tip #1: What you eat.
What you eat is very important and someone could write a book on the subject.. in fact, many people have. However, the information out there is astoundingly varied and can cause even the most disciplined web-surfer to go crazy. However, you're in luck, there are certain principles that most of these books and sites agree on, therefore, they should be good right?
Calorie intake is going to vary based on many factors such as height and age, so I will not go into this here. However, I will discuss a few ingredients to stay away from.
Stay away from high fructose corn syrup! It is found everywhere from pretzels and potato chips to candy, beer and soda. HFCS is bad because it blocks certain receptors that tell your brain when you are full. By blocking these, you eat more! Here is something surprising: diet sodas can have the same effect! That's right, the artificial sweeteners in diet sodas have a similar effect.
So, stay away from high fructose corn syrup.
Tip #2: When you eat.
Your body and metabolism go through different stages and phases throughout the course of the day. For instance, your metabolism slows down during fasting times such as sleep.
Eat a big breakfast. Eating a big breakfast will do two things, it will shake the sleep out of your metabolism, and will keep you full and from snacking through the morning hours.
Do not eat 2 hours before going to sleep because as your metabolism slows, you will not be able to burn off those calories that you just ate before bedtime.

Losing weight can be extremely simple. It doesn't take any special pill or food to lose weight. It does take some knowledge though. I have prepared this article with a little bit of the knowledge that I have picked up over the years that have helped many people lose weight. Some of you may have heard this information before, others perhaps haven't.
The Easy Weight Loss Plan
Step 1:
Before you do anything, before you find a program, before you go to the gym, I want you to sit down and write out all of the goals you wish to achieve. Why are you trying to lose weight? How much weight do you want to lose? By when do you want to lose it?
Writing these out will make them real. Now, you also have something concrete to shoot for and as you reach each goal, I want you to cross them out. This will act as motivation. Nothing feels better than having achieve a goal you set for yourself. This will also prove to you that your easy weight loss plan is working.
Step 2:
Start eating six meals per day instead of the traditional three. This may seem strange at first, but most experts have been saying for years now that this is a healthier way to eat. You eat smaller meals more often (usually every 2 to 3 hours). This will keep your metabolism up and will keep your blood sugars level. Both of which will aid in your easy weight loss plan.
Step 3:
The number 1 thing I want you to stay away from is high fructose corn syrup. This nasty chemical will ruin your easy weight loss plan every time. It blocks receptors in your body that signal your brain when you are full, causing you to eat more.
Step 4:
Now I want you to get a good weight loss program.

You more than likely have heard people say you can eat more and lose weight. Diet programs have been using this as an advertising ploy for years. Is there any truth to it? Well, yes there is actually, but there is also a catch. This article is going to discuss this claim.
First off, yes you can eat more food and lose weight. In fact you can eat more food TO lose weight. Here is the catch though, you must eat HEALTHY foods to still lose weight. What exactly does this mean?
You must eat healthy foods that offer you certain nutrients such as protein, monosaturated (good) fats, B12, vitamin C and pectin. Here is a small list of foods that provide this.
1. Lean meats - Lean meats, such as turkey and chicken, provide a healthy supply of high quality protein, niacin, and B6. Fish, such as tuna and salmon, also provide protein, as well as, omega-3 fatty acids which lower leptin an boost metabolism.
2. All types of berries - Blackberries, blueberries, raspberries, and strawberries all contain high amounts of antioxidants, which help to prevent cancer, heart disease, and obesity and they contain high levels of vitamin C. The flavanoids in each helps eyesight, balance, coordination and short-term memory. Strawberries contain pectin, which helps to suppress your appetite.
3. Olive oil - antioxidant rich and contains monosaturated fats to clear your arteries and lower cholesterol.
4. Peanut butter - yes it is high in calories, but it is packed with monosaturated fats to help clear arteries, as in olive oil, and boost testosterone to build muscle and melt fat. Limit yourself to 3 Tbsp per day, to avoid the calories.
These food tips are just the beginning of what is out there. I have looked at much of the information available. I have reviewed the best weight loss programs around.

Both regular exercise and eating right is required to get rid of stomach fat. Stomach fat is stored fat and won't come off easily. There isn't a quick fix for it. It took a long time to build up and will take steady, regular efforts to get it off.

Start working off that belly fat with a regular routine of the two steps listed below.

Step 1 - Diet

Everybody knew this was coming, but if you have a fat stomach you must start a healthy, lean diet that will let you store your fat in a way that will not cause that build up around the middle.

You have probably tried to lose weight before with nearly every diet book and program ever put out. You need to go through these and find one you think you can stick with. Not a lose weight fast diet but a diet that is healthy and one that you can live with.

A diet that promises quick weight loss usually involves giving up most of the food that you love. You will probably never stick with that for very long. Who wants to go forever without cake, or ice cream, or donuts, or fat, juicy hamburgers?

You need to choose a sensible diet, a livable diet. One that allows you to eat the things you love but is more concerned with portion size. If you cut down your portion size and use your sweets as a reward or special treat instead of as an every couple of hours fix, then you will start to lose weight and fat naturally.

Step 2 - Exercise

Another dreaded word for some people. Exercise works hand in hand with dieting to get rid of belly fat. Just going for a walk or riding a bike will help if you do it regularly. If you are really into exercise, maybe you have a gym membership, then the best thing for getting rid of stomach fat is a combination of regular aerobic exercise and weight lifting.

Your stomach fat will not magically disappear after exercising for a couple of weeks. The more muscle you build, the more fat you will lose. You need to have a regular program that will slowly begin, with the help of a healthy diet, knocking off that belly fat.

In order to get rid of the belly fat you need to be consistent with exercising regularly and eating right. Once it becomes a habit you will really be on the road to losing that stomach.

I know, it is interesting, because it sounds completely against conventional way of thinking. Willpower is something that suppose to drive us, but that is not true. It is just the opposite. We don't need willpower to do something we like because our desire is much more powerful than willpower. When we are interested in something, it drives us without our complete awareness because our mind is capable of concentrating so well that nothing is in the way to slow down our performance. But, when we try to force our will onto ourselves to do something we don't really want to do, we engage in the battle that we can't win. Eventually we get tired because our desire is much stronger than our will.

So, if your desire makes you gain weight, because you always want to eat something tasty, then it is pointless to fight your desire with your willpower. It is much easier to become more goal oriented and be passionate about your goals. It is important that you exercise positive thinking of exercising in the gym and eating the right foods, because it is the seed that will help you concentrate on what you want. The stronger your interest will become in losing weight or living an active life, the easier it will be to give up your bad habits.

If you excite yourself enough, you will go to the gym because you want too. And as long as you don't over exercise or stay too hungry, your old desire of pleasing yourself with food will eventually disappear. In my experience when I over exercise I feel beat up for days which promotes laziness and many times distracts me from exercising or dieting consistently.

The idea is to maintain interest, but don't stand in front of the mirror, and don't look at yourself when you are working out, your interest has to be in the active way of life itself and not in the actual results, because if only results that excites you, then you are likely to be disappointed to soon before you learn to enjoy an active way of life, which will definitely help you lose weight, if that is your desire.

There are hundreds of diet books and diet programs. So why are so much people struggling to lose weight and to keep it off? We know that by dropping the extra pounds we can add quality to our life and become healthier. But still we are putting off the start of our diet, saying we are going to start next Monday or on the first day of next month. Procrastination is one of the biggest enemies of a successful diet. Starting a diet can be very difficult. You can purchase the most informative diet plan or book. They can motivate you to lose weight, but nothing happens without your drive to lose weight.

When it comes to eating healthy you can go to your local market and buy all the healthy food available. But if you do not eat the healthy food on a regular basis, it can not help you lose the weight.

If you are only discussing your plans to lose weight and are not putting those plans into action, you can not lose weight. You can choose the best diet plan; discuss it regularly with your nutritionist, your family, your best friend or on discussion forums on the internet. But all that excitement is worthless if you are not following the weight loss plan.

If you have followed a diet before you have no doubt that weight loss requires great effort. You have to focus on your weight loss goal and it is also important to be patient.

The second enemy of a successful diet is sticking to the diet plan. Losing the excess weight is an important decision in your life. Going on a diet is a smart choice, but sticking to it is the most difficult part.

Keep in mind that besides adding quality to your life, losing weight can also extend the numbers of years that you live. You will become healthier and cut your risks for different health issues, such as heart disease and diabetes. So start your diet and stick to it.

Our bodies are very sophisticated and temperamental. They have to be fed the right types of food to run properly. You overfill them and they will run sluggish. You don't supply them with enough of something and they will run sluggish. You need to constantly supply your body with just the right food and drink to have it perform perfectly.

To state something obvious, if you consume 2500 calories in a day, and your body burns 2500 calories that day, you will remain the same weight. If you body only burns 2000 of those calories then you will gain weight. If you do that all week long, you will gain a pound. So of coarse all you need to do to lose weight is to burn more calories than you consume. It's that simple, or is it?

How that all works is your bodies metabolism burns the calories. There are many things that control your body's metabolism though, and we all have our own unique metabolism. Also not all calories are created equal, so some calories stick around for a long time, and others burn off very quickly. So the ideal situation if you are trying to lose weight would be to get your metabolism to function at a high level and consume calories that burn off quickly. Again, it is not that simple, sorry.

There have been numerous studies that show that our bodies all need certain things to function properly, stay healthy, and lower our risk for certain diseases. The findings from some of those numerous studies have been kindly put on our labels of the products we buy at the grocery store. All of those scientific studies were NOT done by a bunch of idiots I believe. There are some people though that think they are idiots and choose to ignore those studies and make up their own daily requirements of calories, fats, cholesterol, sodium, potassium, carbohydrates, fiber, sugars, proteins, vitamins, calcium, iron, and folic acids. I actually believe that those scientists from many different countries and universities knew what they were doing and know a thing or two. They are not just guessing or playing games with us.

We need to consume as close to possible those daily requirements for our metabolism to perform properly and to stay healthy. Some of those requirements are calories that do not burn off quickly, but do provide an important function. Fat, for instance. There are four different kinds of fat. Two of them are much needed fats, Polyunsaturated Fats, and Monounsaturated Fats, which helps reduce our cholesterol, helps lower blood pressure, control inflammation, and protects against irregular heartbeats. The saturated fats and Trans fats are the ones to avoid because they raise our cholesterol, and damage our blood vessels so they could become built up with plaque.

My conclusion to lose weight and still keep your body healthy and in perfect running order is to lower your calorie intake by just a bit. I believe 500 calories a day is about right. You will need to check your calorie body needs. In the calorie intake needs calculator put your age, height, sex, weight, and how active you are, 5 choices for that. That will give you a good idea of how many calories you need to consume. It will also give you how many grams of fat, protein and carbohydrates you need. If it says that you need 2500, reduce your intake down to 2000 calories a day. Eat foods that will give you your supply of proteins, fats, carbohydrates and take a good multivitamin.

Then speed up your metabolism so it burns calories faster. To do this I have a few tips.

- Move. The more you move the faster you burn calories. Walk, stand and pace when you are talking on the phone, wiggle, stretch, tap you're your feet, twiddle your thumbs, anything, just keep moving.

- Do some resistance training or strength training. For every pound of muscle you put on your body burns an extra 50 calories a day, even why you are doing nothing, sleeping. Your body's muscles degrade as you get older, so keep them toned, you will feel better and look better plus burn more calories.

- Exercise. There are so many ways you can get exercise. Think of which one you would enjoy doing and start off slow and build ease into some sort of routine. In the morning would be best to get your blood flowing and body working, but anytime will do, just try to find something you enjoy, like swimming, walking, yoga, etc.

- Eat many meals, and eat them slow. Yes, after a huge meal you feel sluggish for a reason. You need to eat many smaller meals to keep your metabolism working at the right speed, and help your body out by eating them slow and fully chewing your food. Eat a breakfast, lunch and dinner, but also snack between those meals and after dinner. You can eat all day and still easily stay under your daily calorie intake if you eat the right foods.

If you do this you will not only lose weight the right way, keep your body healthy, lower your risk for many diseases, but you will feel so much better and be full of energy.