For many people the challenge of a diet is too much hassle and after a positive start they soon fail and lapse into bad habits and old eating habits. However there are some good bits advice from experienced dieters that can really help you succeed and stay true to your weight loss goals.

The first diet tip seems obvious but is ignored by many dieters. Eat Heathily! Many dieters think that they can lose weight by cutting down the quantity of bad food but they don't replace it and so they are always hungry and sometimes under nourished. Eating healthy and nutritious food is beneficial for a number of reasons because lets you eat a decent quantity and at the same time improves your digestive and metabolic health. For example, eat lots of fruit, vegetables, whole grain foods, lean meats, seafood, beans and nuts.

There is a big variety of healthy food on the market. Go out and buy healthy food and it'll be easier to diet. You'll soon forget about your cravings for unhealthy food and start to feel healthy and look forward to your meals.

The next thing to be aware of is that change can be tough and sudden and dramatic change is even more tough, so make it easy for you and change slowly but with a precise direction and with clear goals in mind. Make the changes realistic for your lifestyle and environment. The changes must be sustainable and reasonable. Many people fail because they try to change too much too soon.

Next consider that along with the change in eating habits your eventual goal must be reasonable too. It is no point setting a weight loss target that is impossible to meet. Give yourself time to get to your goal and establish a weight that your would like to be that is reasonable and not unhealthy. Maybe you need to only shed 5 percent of your body weight to be healthy. Losing a small amount of weight can really improve your health and motivate you to keep the weight off. Look at the weight loss challenge as a long slow run and not as a short sprint.

Dieters also forget that as with any challenge morale must be kept high for best results. So give yourself a prize or a pat on the back every now and then and take an objective look at what you have done. Give yourself a reward of some sort when you say lose the first 4 pounds or keep to your gym routine for a say a month. Also keep in mind that if you do mess up your diet just get back to it and don't feel that all is lost because of one slip up. In fact when you break your diet, try to analyse why you did and learn not to walk into a diet trap again. For some people it is easier to stick to the diet rules for the majority of the time and then conciously break them for special occasions. This requires discipline and honesty to yourself.

Support like morale is important to a good weight loss plan. Having a friend to talk about diets and exercise is useful and can give you an extra leg up when you are failing. Friends and diet buddies can be good for encouragement and it can be fun and even slightly competitive to compare notes.

Successful dieter write down what they eat so that there can be no forgetting and blurring of diet patterns. If you see that in one day you eat too much you can easly compensate quickly the next day by eating less or doing an extra workout.

Exercise must go in hand with dieting. Some experts say that diet is only 50% of a good weight loss plan. Physical activity not only sheds the calories and boosts your metabolism but it also help you feel better physically and mentally.  Make the rest of your life revolve around the gym so it doesn't get squeezed out. If you find the gym boring, vary your routine or try and play sports like squash with a friend or a fellow dieter.

Overall look at weight loss as a long term and steady process. Be prepared for setbacks and small failures, but never let setbacks get the better of you and give you a reason for giving up your diet and health.