7 Out of the Box Ways to Reach Your Happy Weight

Losing weight and getting into a comfortable shape is something that people struggle with their entire lives. The idea is that it’s incredibly difficult to achieve a happy weight. 

While it is tough at times, losing weight doesn’t have to take your entire life. No matter where you are on your journey, it’s possible to start taking little (or big) steps toward your goal in order to realize it. 

We’re going to give you a few simple, sometimes out of the box tips to start chipping away at your happy weight.

Let’s get started!

Simple Tips to Hit Your Happy Weight

Everyone’s different, so not all of these tips will apply to you. That said, the ideas below are pretty applicable to most people. 

If you’re worried about change because you have a busy lifestyle or you’re extremely tired, know that you will begin to generate more daily energy as you get into better shape. In other words, it could be tough at the beginning but you’ll begin to find more time in the day as you move forward.

Additionally, it’s possible to rid yourself of a lot of excess weight with liposuction. Cutting out fat through medicine is a great way to move forward if you have to.

1. Cut the Bad

When we imagine changing ourselves, most of us jump to the most drastic conclusions. People think they have to replace their entire kitchen with a series of complicated juicers and change their bedroom into a gym. 

This isn’t the case! 

Simply start out by identifying the poor parts of your diet alone. Consider making mental notes or writing down everything you eat during the day for, say, a week. When that week is done, look back on the list and see how you’re doing. 

Are the foods you eat all-natural? Are they sugary or highly acidic? Are you getting all of the nutrients that your body needs?

Most importantly, single out the habits you have that are pumping unhealthy food into your body. Change those habits however you can, and see how far it gets you. 

You don’t have to change all that much else at first, just focus on cutting out the bad foods.

2. Eat As You Want, But Cook at Home

Interestingly, many of the foods we seek out at gas stations and fast-food restaurants are incredibly packed with carbs and sugars. If you eat a cheeseburger from a fast-food joint, it will be far less healthy than a cheeseburger that you cooked at home. 

When we take time to make food in our kitchen, we cut out a lot of the terrible things that we get when we eat out. 

Part of the reason is that chains have optimized their cooking processes to quickly generate the foods that would take us a long time to make at home. Things like french fries, for example, are fine in moderation, but the volume and ease with which we get them at stores leaves us saturated.

3. Know Your Goal

“I want to be fit.” “I want to be skinny.” “I’m on a diet and trying to lose weight.”

These statements are very general. They don’t give you a concrete goal, therefore leaving you without a specific path to follow in order to achieve it. 

Additionally, we should know what a healthy weight is in the first place. You don’t have to be terribly thin to be happy. Set some guidelines, follow them, and see how you feel. 

4. Adjust as You Change

When we’re pigeonholed on our ideal weight, we fail to recognize our current beauty and progress. 

You might be doing everything right but getting down on yourself because you don’t look like you did when you were 20. Take a step back and see how you’re doing from an objective standpoint. 

Ask yourself if you’re happier than you were. Ask yourself if you’re holding yourself accountable. Finally, ask yourself if you are comfortable with the healthy weight that you’ve achieved. 

5. Question the Decisions of Your Peers

We’re not saying that you should burn any bridges, by any means. At the same time, ask yourself if you haven’t been drawn into some bad habits by the people you spend time with. 

Going to get drinks after work every night might be the source of that extra pudge you’re working so hard to eliminate. While you realize this and try to just go home to make dinner, your friends slyly convince you to go out for one. 

You don’t have to take part in things you don’t want to just because your friends will wonder why you’re acting differently. This is especially true if you’re trying to do something that will improve your life and bring a healthy change. 

They’ll still love you if you aren’t at the bar with them each night. 

6. Get Creative

If you live a sedentary lifestyle with little exercise, try to reconsider your ideas on exercise. It seems like an unclimbable mountain, requiring a great deal of will power. It seems undoable.

Any increase in physical activity of any kind, though, is good. If you go from no exercise to walking the dog twice a week, that is an improvement. 

When you take away your comparisons to others and your deep-rooted ideas of exercise, you can look at your progress more objectively. What matters is that you’re improving, and that’s enough.

7. Ride Your Periods of Inspiration

Have you ever woken up in the morning with an intense drive to get healthy? Maybe that feeling fades in the afternoon, maybe it sticks around for three weeks. 

Instead of getting down about the fact that the feeling fades, get excited about the fact that it’s there at all! When you feel like getting out, just get up and get out. 

Hold yourself accountable, but you don’t have to do excessive work when you don’t have the inspiration to. On the other end, ride your inspiration until it runs out because each step forward is an improvement. 

Need More Inspiration? 

Hitting your happy weight is a process. It requires thought and action, and it doesn’t happen overnight. If you need a little inspiration, we’re here to help. 

Explore our site for more tips and tricks to use on your journey toward a healthy life!