Ever realize you are thinking thoughts like these? 



It sure would be good if I had the time to cook decent low-fat and low-calorie meals. I know I would shed weight then. I am so tired when I get back from work that I just pop anything I can find into the microwave and eat in front of the Television set. The kids take up so much of my time that I just can never get anything put together that seems to be a wholesome meal.



All these thoughts gang up on people when they're trying to figure out exactly how they are going to lose the weight that they want to. And it's not like these worries aren't valid, you have a life to live and other people are in your life. It's not like you just can go off by yourself and live in a cave eating brown rice for each meal. This is the real world and you need some help reducing weight that works in the real world.



Step one. This is your life. You're the one who feels lousy about being overweight. And it is your right to be able to take good care of yourself in a way that makes you feel good. In a way that makes you feel healthy and in a way that tells other people you are just as important in your life as they are.



That is a fact. It is not like they are likely to do the training for you. They are not going to look at you and ask if you need some help figuring out a healthy eating plan.



You will need to let them know. And this is what stops a lot of people cold when it comes time to make that major attitude change. They make up the worst things in their minds and think about the other people telling those things to them. True enough, sometimes, your partner is going to complain. Sometimes your kids will want pocket pizzas every night just like they used to eat.



But a large number of times, people will just say, Okay, so what can I do to help.



The simple way to figure out how to make your life work so that you can lose weight is to do some advance planning. But you can really only do this if you decide it is important enough to spend some time on. Meals that are prepared in advance of when you need to eat them are more often than not much more nutritious in a healthy way than meals you eat out and about.



Choosing a menu and making a week's dinners ahead of time ends up being a lot easier way to eat than almost any other way. You get the opportunity to figure out ahead of time what you must buy to make the meals and you buy those things. You wind up buying surprisingly few additional high calorie treats.



It is sort of funny. People have this whole mindset against planning out their week's worth of eating, but once they start and carry on for enough time to see some benefits, they become delighted with their progress.



Fair warning though, it's hard to prepare a year's worth of meals. 



Making a schedule of what you are going to eat and sticking with it is one of the best ways to alter your eating habits. And changing your eating habits is about the most effective way ever to burn fat and keep it off.