Women Over 40: Four All-New Steps To Approach Weight Loss

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What's the best way for a woman over 40 to lose weight? The most common advice is to start some type of diet.

As a weight loss doctor, I devote my working life helping women above 40 lose weight, and what I most commonly hear from them is that diets that used to be effective when they were in their 20s and 30s quit working as they get older.

If you are over 40 and would like to lose weight (and most significantly, keep it off), it's clear that it is time to look at weight loss in a different way.

One thing I have found is that the majority of women who come to see me, particularly those who have been through lots of diets, have formed much healthier expectations about weight loss. In most cases, rather than searching for what works the fastest (which is what might have been essential to them previously), they are more concerned with what works for the long run.

If you are thinking "I don't want to have to do this repeatedly," then you actually ahead of the pack. You have the perspective toward losing weight that will enable you to get sustainable results.

So let us check out four more desirable ways to approach weight loss:

1. Give up on diets or anything at all that resembles a diet.

How do you describe a diet? I think about a diet as any weight loss plan of action that is extremley unlikely to last. This can actually include a lot of things that you most likely would not normally think of as a diet. And obviously, this can vary between people. One person might have no problem eating boiled vegetables for dinner virtually every night, while for others it could be their idea of purgatory. Whichever way you elect to lose weight, you should continually feel that it is something that you are willing to do for the rest of your life. Many individuals begin doing things and, if they're being honest with themselves, are extremely unlikely to continue in that technique for longer than a few weeks. This is not the way to lose weight forever.

2. Adjust your habits.

You do not want to be a person who needs to rely on "diets" to lose weight. You want to be someone who has the capacity to maintain their weight in a natural way. How do you manage your weight naturally? Well, if your habits have transformed to ones that help you maintain your weight, then your task is much easier, isn't it? You change your habits by repeating behaviors over and over again. And the behaviors that you are more likely to repeat are ones that are reasonably easy and fit seamlessly into your life.

3. Discard "overhauls" and "detoxes."

I'll acknowledge it. It often feels like you're being good when you go on a "health kick." Overhauling your entire diet or going on a detox can feel mighty virtuous. But these kinds of extreme changes are not fashioned to last. A better approach is to make small changes in different areas of your eating that you hardly notice. But over a surprisingly short time, these small changes can add up to large weight loss.

4. The double Ps.

A lack of perseverance is one of the biggest causes of disappointment in weight loss. Particularly as you get older, your rate of weight loss decreases. People often trip themselves up by expecting to lose weight as rapidly in their 50s as they did in their 20s.

The point here is that you need to be patient and consistent (the double Ps). As I tell my clients: The only way you can fail is by giving up. And if you're making small changes that you barely notice and are happy doing for the rest of your life, what's the reason to give up?

The Strategy Makes All the Difference

Diets don't work, particularly for women over 40. It's time to abandon them as a solution for weight loss. Instead change your perspective to doing things that you know will last. This is the true course to long-term weight loss.

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