Getting into your summer wardrobe, just like going on vacation, is one of those situations which a lot of people normally set a deadline for. We are continually we are divulging the fact that we are going to lose a few inches. Maybe that guiltily you unashamedly your last chocolate and you brace yourself for the day you will commence your atkins diet.

You feel the need to mentally prepare yourself so you can survive the pain that is coming your way. Concentration is what is needed and you will be needing all the help you can get in order to reduce your waist.

Eventually the time comes - you commence your weight loss - however in a matter of days it's all stopped. All that planning for a few short weeks of effort.

What's the reason?

The answer is that something came up. Something you see as being of greater importance than getting in shape. Was your problem a dinner party or a major disappointment and you fall off the treadmill.

Lots of overweight people attempt to try and avoid times to try and avoid times where potential problems like this could occur. For example they plan to begin a atkins diet plan to match a friend or maybe when they know there are no functions coming for example. Anybody would think it's a good idea, for many people the truth can be quite a shock.

Here's why it doesn't work - you may well stick to the rules for a short while however when any of the hundreds of challenges you get hit with from time to time crops up, you're not ready to deal with it and so you use it an an excuse to fall back on eating crap or stopping exercising .

Far better on day one of your atkins diet to be faced with a slight problem, then keep at it. Such tiny blips will in the end help to prepare you and get you used to coping with the inevitable spanners in the works that we all encounter now and again and helps you to reappear where the grass is greener an even fitter you.

Relish the hurdles as a way to prove how focused you are to your loved ones. Shout about every hurdle you overcome and you will become more and more able to cope. All of a sudden hurdles have turned into positive things not bad things.

And here's an extra vitally important chapter to having a win with your atkins diet - and one that I have only just experienced for myself.

Honestly consider right now how many atkins diets or exercise programs have you begun but not seen through over the years? How often have you quit? At the point that you failed, with the exception of feeling a little bit let down for a while what else happened? Not very much I would imagine. Your wife didn't stop loving you. You didn't get fired from your job. Day still followed night.

The point is you're used to quitting, and it's no surprise that nothing untoward is going to happen .

But let's pretend that it actually did? Consider if giving up was simply not an option? Pretend that your doctor made you aware that you had to lose 25lb in the next 6 months or you'd better get your will written? Let's pretend that your loved one says that they won't tie the knot unless you lose that weight?

If you consider things in that light, it becomes surprisingly easy to succeed.

My goal has been to lose weight, and then find someone to love. Surprisingly I find that half way to my target weight I have found a marvellous woman and I am finding it simple to keep going on my exercise regime . appreciate what I am doing.

What could you put in place to be certain quitting is impossible for you? Maybe you could organize a new wardbrobe? Or have a wager with a friend.

Whatever it takes to virtually eliminate the chances of you giving up. Do it. It'll be the most amazing thing you've ever done.