71 Weight Loss Tips That Really Work

Get Moving Toward your weight loss goals! While many of these tips may seem common sense, applying one or two of them to your daily life will positively impact your weight loss goals. The tough part of course, is getting out there and doing it. Here’s how the successful get going:

1. Prioritize. The beds might not get made, but Amy Reed, 36, still makes time for exercise. That’s how she’s kept off more than 80 pounds for 13 years. “I have to schedule it in and let go of other things — like a perfectly clean house,” she says.

2. Find a passion. “I have a dance background and when I found jazzercise, I said,’ Thank God.’ If somebody told me I had to go out and run five days a week, I’d still weigh 185 pounds,” says Anne Geren, 41, who lost 55 pounds and has kept it off for 13 years.

3. Keep an exercise log. It makes you more accountable. Norma from Dallas, TX, who hangs hers on the refrigerator, checks off six workouts a week dutifully. “If I miss one day, I make that my day off for the week.”

4. Set a goal. Sign up for some fun runs and try to improve your times. I went from a 5-K to a 4-miler then a 5-miler, then a 10-K. As I was building miles and speed, I was getting fitter and losing more weight,” says Therese Revitt, 42, who lost 80 pounds and recently ran a marathon.