Ever find yourself thinking thoughts like these? 



It sure would be good if I had the time to prepare good low-fat and low calorie meals. I know I would shed weight then. I am so tired when I get home from work that I just pop anything I can find into the microwave and eat in front of the TV. The kids occupy so much of my time that I just can never get anything put together that seems to be a healthy meal.



All these thoughts gang up on people when they're trying to figure out how exactly they're going to shed the excess weight that they want to. And it's not like these concerns 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 every meal. This is the real world and you need some help losing weight that works in the real world.



First step. This is your life. You're the one who feels bad about being overweight. And it is your right to be able to take care of yourself in a way that makes you feel great. In a way that makes you feel healthy and in a way that tells others 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 have to let them know. And this is what stops lots of people cold when the time comes to make that major attitude change. They make up the worst type of things in their minds and imagine the other people telling those things to them. True enough, occasionally, your partner is going to complain. Sometimes your kids are going to want pocket pizzas every night just like they used to eat.



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



The easiest way to figure out how to make your life work so that you can slim down is to carry out some advance planning. But you really can only do that if you decide it is important enough to spend some time on. Meals that are prepared ahead of when you need to eat them are almost always much more nutritious in a healthy way than meals you eat out and about.



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



It is kind of funny. People have this whole way of thinking against preparing their week's worth of eating, but once they start and keep going for enough time to see some benefits, they become happy with their progress.



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



Making a schedule of what you're going to eat and sticking to it is one of the best ways to alter your ways of eating. And changing your eating habits is about the best way ever to shed weight and keep it off.