In a perfect world, the only thing that you would need to do to reach your fitness goals would be work out occasionally. Unfortunately, the only way to truly get the body and level of health that you want is through the combination of diet and exercise.

If there is anything I have learned through my years as a personal trainer is that dieting right is the number one obstacle people face while trying to get fit. But filling your plate with healthy food doesn’t have to be a miserable experience.

Here are the best strategies I have found to keep people in shape.

Give Yourself Some Flexibility - If you box yourself into too strict of a diet, you are setting yourself up for failure. It’s true that that for most people if you want to lose weight, it is going to have to involve cutting back a bit on how much you eat, but if you allow yourself nothing but rice cakes and unbuttered wheat toast, you turn yourself into a ticking time bomb that will go off onto the nearest piece of cheesecake. Expect that you are going to indulge a little every now and then, and accept it.

Make Your Foods Easy to Make- I’ve discovered that most people eat junk food because it’s just so darn convenient. Microwaveable pizzas take three minutes to make, and there is a fast food joint on every corner who can give you a greasy pre heated burger in a matter of seconds. The only real way to counteract this is by making your healthy food just as convenient as unhealthy food.

For example, you might keep some whole grain tortillas in your cupboard so that you can make a quick and easy burrito with lean chicken or beans. You might also keep some frozen vegetables in your freezer, because they can be heated fairly quickly and be ready to eat. You may also consider buying lots of canned soups, because they take little time to prepare and are often very low in calories.

Find Ways to Combat Stress - Whenever someone has a relapse in their diet, it is usually during a particularly stressful time in their life. Maybe dealing with a toddler has kept them awake for much of a few nights or their new job is giving them a lot to worry about. This is when people start binging on French fries and ice cream. But if you want to conserve your waistline, you need to find other ways to combat stress.

To best way to deal with this by recognizing times when you might be getting stressed and react too it. If you find the pressure building up, find some time for yourself to do something that you really enjoy. Just half an hour of “me time” can make your diet go along a lot more smoothly.

Cut Out the Liquid Calories - If has calories and comes in a liquid form, try to limit your intake of it. The reason is that stuff like soda, alcohol, and milk can add a bunch of calories to you daily diet, but they never make you feel full. So you feel hungry even as you consume far more calories than you need. Focus mostly on whole foods and use tea or water to satisfy your thirst.

Fitness Expert Chris McCombs is a Personal Trainer in Hollywood California. While walking out of a burrito joint Chris discovered a radical approach to burning fat at a rapid rate which he helps people all over do today. Chris is also a personal training marketing expert and helps personal trainers and other people in the fitness industry to triple their income and cut their work hours by more than half.

在這樣的一個美好的世界里，你所需要做的一件事情就是怎樣有條理的達到你的塑身目標。然而，不幸的是，為了能夠真正的達到你所想要的體魄和健康的標準，唯一的辦法就是通過節食和鍛煉。

如果說我作為一個私人教練這么多年學到了什么的話，那就是我發現，正確的節食是每個希望得到好身材的人所面臨的最大問題。實際上，讓你的盤子里裝滿健康的食品并不是什么痛苦的經歷。

以下就是我發現的適合人們保持好身材的最佳策略。

給自己一個適應的時間。--如果你太強制性的讓自己節食的話，那你簡直就是在為失敗而做準備。的確，對大多數人來講，為了減少體重，他們就必須在原先的飲食上削減一些。但如果除了米飯，蛋糕及沒有奶油的烤面包你什么都不吃的話，你就會讓自己成為一顆定時炸彈一樣，在不經意的一塊酪餅后，而體重突然暴增，所有的計劃都付諸東流。除非你能有限制地在你所能接受的范圍內讓自己不時的享受一點。

學會制作簡單的食品—我發現許多人喜歡吃剩菜剩飯，因為吃起來很方便。把匹薩放進微波爐里，三分鐘就可以吃了。而且，在我們周圍的每個角落都會有快餐店為你服務—提供一個有油脂有熱氣騰騰的漢堡牛肉餅只是幾秒鐘的事情.那與之抗衡的唯一方法便是，讓自己制作的食品就像快餐食品那樣方便。

比如說，在你的櫥柜里可能回存有谷粒的玉米粉薄烙餅，你就可以用這些材料作成一個由純雞肉或土豆泥做餡的面餅卷。你也可以在你的冰箱里儲存一些冷凍的蔬菜，因為它們很容易解凍然后就可以吃了。你也可以考慮買一些罐裝的湯，因為這些它們不用花太多的時間準備，并且所含的卡路里也不大。

找到抗壓力的方法—一旦一個人在他的節食計劃中出現了舊病復發狀態，那么這個階段一般是他生活中壓力最大的時段。可能為了照顧小孩，他們很多個夜晚不能好好的入睡，也有可能是他們的新工作并不能讓他們安心。于是他們便開始鐘情于法國炸薯條和冰淇淋。然而，如果你想保持你的腰圍尺寸的話，你必須找到方法來抗壓力。

最好的辦法就是，你首先要清楚自己什么時候最容易受到壓力的影響。一旦你感受到了壓力，你應該給自己一點時間做自己真正喜歡的事情。即使只是短短的“自我半小時時間”，都會讓的節食計劃更順利地進行。

減掉液體卡路里—盡量限制以液體的形式吸收卡路里。因為，像汽水，酒精及牛奶這樣的的飲品就會在你的日常飲食中增加熱量，但你永遠都不會有飽的感覺。因此，你總會感到饑餓，即使你吸收的熱量已經超過了你的所需。所以，當你渴的時候，應該首要想到茶或水來解渴。

瘦身專家克里斯.麥克白是美國加州好萊塢的一個私人教練。他發現了一個燃燒脂肪的基本快速方法，這個方法也是他現在幫助人們減脂肪的方法。克里斯在私人訓練市場方面也是個專家，他不僅幫助私人教練，也為其他做健身鍛煉行業的人提供幫助，在讓他們減少一半的工作時間的同時卻讓他們的收入增加了三倍。