For a few, the weight problem is genetic, but for most, the weight problem is a problem in your health profile. Therefore to get on the track of successful weight loss you might have to identify the sore points in your health and weight profile.

First of all, for a normal weight gain you surely can rule out a genetic or health issue and should rather look at the eating habits you have. If you eat a lot of fast foods or big amounts of candy everyday or every other day, that is where your weight comes from. To identify these issues, you should go ahead and make up a little health and weight profile for yourself.

To start out, go ahead and make a chart that shows for every day what you ate, when you ate it and how many calories you ingested. While you make your chart, do not forget to list all the liquids you ingested too. You might be surprised how much sugar we sometimes ingest without even really realizing it.

Next, you should try to figure out how many calories you really should have in your daily diet to stay at a healthy weight. Your physician can help you determine the calories or you can try pages for dieting online as well as dieting books. Generally the value for your calorie intake is calculated using your weight, height and age as well as the exercise amount you get in a week.

When you figured all of these factors out, go ahead and actually look at what you ate in that first week or two that you recorded your eating habits. You are able to see that your calorie intake is far higher than what it should be to maintain a healthy weight and even worse for loosing weight. Also, when you look over your daily list, take a highlighter and highlight all the foods that are essentially bad for you, such as fast food, candy, high fat foods, juice drinks, fountain drinks and more. If your day is very colorful, you need to cut down on those foods. Nobody says you can never have a burger or a piece of chocolate again, but you need to eat less. All that fast food or candy is what brought you into this situation. To get out of the weight trap you need to change those eating habits.

While you record your eating habits, also record your exercise habits. Exercising should be built into your weekly routine several times. Three to five times exercising is highly recommended. So go ahead and chart down those exercising habits of yours in that first two weeks also. See how much exercise you do or don’t do. From there, either decide whether you are good on exercise or if you need to hit that fitness studio some more. Buy the way, to exercise you do not need to hit the fitness studio, you can build exercise in whenever you can. Instead of sitting on the couch and watching TV, go for a walk. If you can, park as far away from the office or supermarket door as possible to add the extra steps. Take the stairs instead of the elevator and if you have a chance to go to the fitness studio, take advantage of it. Exercise is essential in a healthy diet and even more important in a diet plan.

So go ahead and get started on evaluating your health and weight profile and do not hesitate to make changes that are necessary for successful weight loss.