The key to losing weight successfully is balance. It is all about the numbers. If you have more of some thing here, you have to have less of something somewhere else. If you can learn to juggle or balance your calories you will have an easier time making your weight loss plan fit your lifestyle.

Here are four items that may help you balance your diet plan and still have the foods you enjoy:

• List foods that are going to work to advantage and use them. Find healthy things that you really like and work them into food plan often.
• List foods that may not be healthy, but you don’t want to give them up. Eat these foods in controlled situations, such as; buying them in a single serving or having them at a restaurant in single serving.
• Identify foods that you have no control over. Unfortunately, it is best to avoid these foods in anything but a single serving. Keep these foods out of your home.
• Give up foods that have little or no nutritional value that you are not gong to miss. If you are not going to miss them, why have the added calories.

Trying to follow these four simple rules will allow you to have the foods you enjoy while helping you stay within a weight loss plan that will be successful.

Marjorie Salada is the owner of Weight Loss 3000, a website that contains information on weight loss, exercise, weight loss surgery and living a healthy lifestyle.