These 30 tips to lose weight may just be what gets your motivated to lose weight and start feeling great. Cliche as it sounds, losing weight is in the mind, first. Body, second. You must train your mind to want to lose the weight or you will sabatoge your success every time.

30 Tips to lose weight assumes that you already know you must eat better and exercise, but sometimes we need that quick little hint to give us one more tool, one more trick to beat the buldge and lose weight faster then ever before.  

1.  First thing in the morning when you wake up say out loud, "today is going to be a successful weight loss day. I am going to eat better today and everything I put in my mouth will be something my body needs, not wants." 

2. Limit alcohol consumption. Alcohol is wasted sugar calories. When offered a drink, remember that you can enjoy the evening just as well with a glass of water

3. Eat a piece of fruit on your work break.

4. Keep a small notebook in your purse or a piece of paper in your wallet. Everytime you eat something, write it down. The key to losing weight is to eat less and eat better. Reading at the end of each day what you ate will make your guilt hold you more accountable for the next day.

5.  Next time you realize your watching TV only out of boredom, get up and find a cleaning activity. Cleaning doesn't burn an excessive amount of calories, but it will burn alot more then being seditary on the couch for 30 minutes.

6.  Choose a non-food reward for yourself every 5 pounds of weight you lose.

7. Eat slower—make your meal time last at least 20 minutes. Pause to take a sip of your drink often, preferably water between bites.

8.  Using smaller plates will make it look like your eating a full plate, but you will end up with smaller portions.

9.  Bring a sack lunch to your work at least 4 days a week. This will not only save you money, but encourage weight loss because you will not be eating as much junk from fast food.

10. Do not eat anything other than fruit or veggies after 7pm

11. Do not snack when watching TV on anything other then fruits or reduced fat popcorn.  

12. Asking someone else to put away the leftovers will reduce your risk of picking off a few extra bites from that nights dinner. 

13. Make dinner out of a low fat or low calorie cookbook twice a week.

14. Try 3 new low fat recipes each month.

15. Eat Breakfast. Breakfast tells your body to wake up and start burning fuel. It's like a jumpstart on your calorie burning day

16. Don’t eat while reading. Your weight loss will not be helped by eating done while not fully paying attention to what your are munching on.

17. Reward yourself a few times a week with desserts that are lower in calories in comparison to others.. Chocolate pudding, jello, frozen yogurt.

18. Always keep fruits and vegetables that you can snack on in the house

19. Low the amount of cheese you consume to reduce fat and saturated fat use cheese and lunchmeats with less than 5 grams of fat per ounce.

20. Substitute herbs and spices for salt.

21. Shop from a shopping list. Avoid shopping the chips-cookies-pop isles.

22. Replace ground beef with ground turkey or soy crumbles in dishes such as spaghetti. Don’t skip the protein in your meals; find a leaner substitute.

23. Do not eat on the run or in the bedroom, always be sitting at a table when eating.

24. Remember that you are losing weight for yourself. Losing weight the right way does not just make you look better, it makes you live longer.

25. Do not walk into the kitchen when you are stressed.

26. Take a multi-vitamin. When your body gets the vitamins and minerals it needs, it's less likely to tell the brain its hungry for foods that contain what its looking for.

27. Drink water with every meal. Allow yourself only one drink a day of anything other than water, coffee excluded.

28. Reduce the amount of creamer in your coffee.

29. Park father away from the store.

30. Wear leg weights when walking in the mall.