If you want to lose weight, then these 5 steps will make weight loss a reality and not just a hopeful wish. Nobody will ever get results just from wishing, unless there is a magic lamp involved.

Get Your Head Right

So many people forget the most important element about weight loss, their minds. If your mind isn't focused on your goal, then forget about losing weight. Every morning spend 5 minutes thinking about why you want to lose weight? What's in it for you? How great will you look and feel in 6 months or a year? Picture these images in your head. Do not think about whether you can do it or how hard it will be. Remember that we never feel proud of ourselves when we do things that are easy. The harder the goal, the greater the sense of achievement.

Stick To Your Calories

Before starting your weight loss plan, you should have evaluated how many calories you were eating a day on average. You would have cut this number by 10%. Stick to this and don't be tempted to cut too many more too quickly. Sure, if you have been sticking to the same amount for a few weeks, and the results are slowing down, then drop them by another 5%. Remember that your body likes to change in stages, and not overnight. Try to implement too many changes in one go, and your body will fight you. Never go below 1500 calories a day, not only is this unhealthy, it can start the dreaded starvation mode.

Always Eat Breakfast

Never ever miss breakfast. There is a reason why it's called breakfast. You have been fasting during the night (not getting any nutrients). So you are breaking this fast when you have your first morning meal. Get it, break--fast? Anyway, your body is crying out for nutrition in the morning because it has had no calories from anything to 10-15 hours. If you don't provide your body with these calories, then your body will think that there is a problem. So it will slow down your metabolism and bang goes your weight loss. Even if you don't feel hungry, get into the habit of eating something. Some bananas or a bowl of cereal will do to begin with.

Drink Lots of Water

We are always being told about drinking enough water. 8 glasses, 10 glasses, 20 glasses? I'm not going to get into numbers here, but I will tell you that 70% of your body is actually water. If all this water was removed from your body, you would look like a big potato skin. Just a 5% shortage of water would leave you tired, unable to focus, and irritable. It's hard to lose weight when you feel like that. Your body needs plenty of water to function effectively. So whatever you are drinking at the moment, increase it by 50%, and see how you feel after a week.

Stick Your Plan Daily

Before you started your diet or weight loss regime, you would have written a plan. You did write a plan didn't you? The world is run on written plans, that is what creates order and makes the world work (well some of the time at least). If there are no plans to adhere to, then everything would be chaotic. Plans give us steps to follow, like maps. Weight loss is a goal, so it requires a plan, right? You would have written a daily plan every week. You would write down what times you will be eating, what you will be eating, when you will exercise, what exercises you would be doing, and how long for. I'm sure you get the picture. Having things written down make them real, instead of them just floating around in your head, plus it gives you a record of your achievements.

Add do these 5 things daily and your chances to lose weight will increase greatly.