How often have you made a New Year’s resolution that fell by the wayside? You start out with great resolve and change your behavior for a while. Before long, however, you revert back to your old habits.

Let’s face it. Behavior change is hard. What’s familiar is always the path of least resistance. Unforeseen challenges arise and throw you off track. Things improve a little and you forget the pain that made you want to change in the first place. Before long you figure that maybe you don’t need to follow through after all.

“I can’t lose this weight because I am always too hungry.”

Have you ever said this to yourself? Hunger is a signal the body gives you to remind you to add some fuel to the furnace. It is in place so you don’t forget to eat and get too low on energy. Hunger is a good thing yet you might find yourself getting upset about being hungry when you are on a diet. There is a way to work with your hunger to make weight loss a lot easier. Below I have defined 3 steps you can take today to use hunger to your advantage.

1. Know Your Hunger Number:

It comes as no surprise, that weight loss is about eating right, exercising on a regular basis and your lifestyle habits. And you should know that there is no miracle pill that will help you loose weight overnight. If you set your weight loss goals to high, say like loosing 20 lbs in a week, you will only disappoint yourself. Weight loss is not all about exercise and diet. I would like to show you two steps that you should be doing daily or on a regular basis to help you loose weight:

1. Avoid Self-sabotaging thoughts: It does no good to let your mind jeopardize your own weight loss plan. If you think you can’t loose weight, then you won’t loose any weight, and if you think you can loose 20 pounds in two months, you surely will achieve your desired weight loss.