Generally the hardest part in every diet is that first ten pounds. Getting started can feel like starvation to your body and falling for comfort food in those first few days and weeks are so easy. So here are some tips to get started on that first ten pounds.

First of all, when starting a diet, make sure you are ready. Make sure you have the motivation and will power needed to stick to your dieting and make sure you have an exercising plan. Those first ten pounds are the hardest part and to be able to tackle them, you need all the will power you got. One thing you need to remember, once you have them tackled, it is a lot easier to loose even more. Therefore do not give up, stick with your plan, whenever possible.

If you can, get some support. Maybe a friend can be your will power support or maybe a friend is going to do the dieting regiment with you. How about a support group? There are many dieting and weight loss support groups and many of them are free of charge or have a minimal fee. The more support you get the better for you. To get those first ten pounds tackled, you can use all the help you can get and do not be shy to use available help.

Also, to start a diet and to drop those first ten pounds it is very helpful to have a kick start or also called cleansing period of two to three days. Our bodies are programmed by nature to store fat whenever there is plenty of it, so that it is available when bad times are coming. Therefore to tell you body that there is no more storing fat and that the body needs to release that fat now, just reducing your calories will take much longer than you might have anticipated. So go ahead and have a cleansing/kick start activity. This part of the diet is the first three days, where you go ahead and eat very low calorie, very low fat food diet such as healthy soups and salads and a minimal amount of meat. Also cut down the amount of food you eat on these three days to a minimum. This is hard, but ones you pass those three days your body will have switched to releasing fat if the calorie intake is at a lower level, a level recommended for your height and if you stick it through those few days it will also be a lot easier for you to stick to a diet. This cleansing period will additionally curb your hunger.

Very important for you to know is that it is not very likely to loose ten pounds within less then a months. To loose ten pounds you need to seriously stick to your diet and exercising regiment and then you might see a weight loss of five to ten pounds somewhere between 4 to 10 weeks of dieting. This might sound like a long time, but you did not gain that weight within a few weeks and therefore it will take more than just a few weeks to get rid of it again.

Should you get to a point where you want to give up within those first ten pounds, pamper yourself. No, do not pamper yourself with comfort foods. But with a treat such as spa day, new cloth or a new hairstyle for what you already achieved. Any pound that you dropped it’s a great accomplishment and should be celebrated with a healthy new lifestyle item and a good boost in motivation to keep going.