When you're trying to lose weight, everything you can do to make exercise easier and more efficient helps. If you've been struggling to make exercise a permanent part of your life, or if you are just starting a workout routine, take a look at these weight loss exercise tips to improve your results:

When you want to lose weight, you may immediately start focusing on dietary changes like cutting calories, reducing portion sizes and eliminating junk food. These are all great changes that will indeed result in weight loss, but there's another factor to consider. For health purposes, it's wiser to focus on getting FIT rather than just losing weight. After all, it's possible to be thin and sickly, thin and weak, and thin and unhealthy, right?

Here are a few things to keep in mind regarding fitness and weight loss:

Let's face it; losing weight is hard work, and often not very fun. There's the bland, boring meals, grueling workouts, deprivation, and temptation around every corner. As if that weren't enough, you often feel like you have to avoid gatherings and events that you used to think were fun, simply because you don't want to torture yourself with all of the good food and alcoholic beverages that you can no longer have.

The good news is that there are plenty of ways to make weight loss fun and easy - it doesn't always have to be such a huge downer. Below are some easy ways to start changing your perception of dieting and exercise so they seem less like a chore and more like something you can happily manage.

Most people think that if they can just get their eating and exercise habits in line, they'll lose weight effortlessly and keep it off for good. What they often fail to realize is that their mental attitude plays a HUGE role in determining their physical actions day to day. See: How Your Mood Can Influence Your Weight

Consider for a moment what your mental attitude is usually like, especially as it pertains to the state of your body. Do you avoid taking the actions that you know would be good for you?Do you "beat yourself up" for eating poorly? Do you try to force yourself to eat right and exercise?

Developing a positive attitude about weight loss can make the process much easier! Rather than fighting an inner battle with yourself ("Have to do this; don't want to do this; this sucks; I hate exercise . . ."), you can develop the willingness - or even the enthusiasm - to stick to your weight loss plan and make the process virtually effortless.

Here are 6 good ways to start:

When it comes to losing weight, you really need to be motivated to stick with a healthy eating and exercise plan long term. Not only while you are actively losing weight, but after you've reached your weight loss goals too -- after all, if you go back to your old habits, you'll quickly regain all of the weight you lost.

When you first start a weight loss plan, you're already motivated. You aren't happy with your weight and you firmly decide to do something about it. That initial burst of motivation may last anywhere from a few days to a few weeks, but eventually your determination is going to weaken and you may need a little bit of help to get it back up to a helpful level.

Here are a few good ways to keep your motivation strong:

If you want to drop the pounds, you need to do one important thing: burn stored fat! But how? Below are some of the simplest, yet most effective things you can do to burn more fat each day and lose excess fat easily.

There are plenty of diet plans that promise fast weight loss, but many of them are also unhealthy -- if not downright dangerous. Are there any healthy, safe ways to lose weight fast? Absolutely!

By "fast" I don't mean you'll drop 20 pounds in a week or anything; that's excessive. But what if you could make a few small changes to your habits and easily and steadily lose weight and reach your goal in the next 2-3 months? (The length of time it takes depends on how much weight you need to lose, but for most people a few months would be reasonable.)

See: How to Create a 12 Week Weight Loss Countdown Calendar

If that sounds good to you, take a look at the super-simple fast weight loss tips below:

There are so many complex weight loss plans available today, and most of them probably work when applied correctly. But many people shy away from confusing, expensive plans that require a lot of time, preparation, and expense. Are you one of those people? Do you wish there was a simpler, easier way to lose weight for good?

There is.

In this article I'm going to share a timeless, easy weight loss "trick" that really works. There's nothing "tricky" about it, really. But it does almost seem magical in a way when you see the results of it working in your life.

One major thing that people who want to lose weight have in common is the desire to lose it FAST! Of course, most of them want to lose it safely too. Does that describe you? If so, you may be wondering if it's indeed possible to achieve fast, safe weight loss.

You're probably already aware that there are plenty of ways to lose weight that are NOT safe, like crash diets, starvation diets, fad diets, and diet pills with dangerous stimulants. None of these will work long term, and they can create a lot of scary health problems.

Is there such a thing as a "perfect workout routine"? Yes, but probably not in the way you may be thinking about it. There isn't a one-size-fits-all perfect workout routine for everyone, but it's very possible to create a workout routine that is perfect for you personally.

Here are a few things to consider: