I’ve often wondered about how to lose weight quickly, as I’ve always considered myself “a few pounds above my fighting weight”, but never really been able to motivate myself to start a diet and lose weight the traditional way. So I was pleasantly shocked and surprised when I jumped on the scales last week - seems I may have discovered how to lose weight quickly after all. Wanna know how I did it?

It’s the first week in August and we’ve just got back from our summer vacation. Our summer hols are invariably 10 to 14 days camping somewhere in our pretty spacious trailer tent. With two young kids and a large German Shepherd (called Jess) you need a pretty big tent just to fit everything in. Anyway, I’d been trying to lose weight for the last couple of months in anticipation of the holiday, but without much luck - and I certainly had discovered how to lose weight quickly during my latest weight loss venture.

I’d tried two new weight loss diets in the two months leading up to our vacation, but only managed to lose about 3 pounds - and I’m not convinced that was due to the diet programs anyway.

So when it came time to pack our things and head out, I was pretty much the same weight as when I started, and any last minute ideas of how to lose weight quickly were pretty much dead in the water.

We camped at a beautiful purpose built camp site half way up some hills, and in easy reach of the local beach - the views out over the sea were quite spectacular - at least they were when the site wasn’t submerged in clouds and rain!

One of the most popular (or should I say common) weight loss tips I hear about a lot (and read about in all the weight loss magazines I continue to waste my money on) is that regular exercise should be part of any weight loss program. Well, it seems exercise could be the secret about how to lose weight quickly. The reason I say this is that on our holiday I must have walked about 3 miles every day (Jess loves her walks) which is probably 2 miles a day further than when I’m at home.

Half way through the holiday I started to notice that my clothes were getting a little loser than normal, and I wasn’t nearly as much out of breath at the end of the walks as I was on the first couple of days. By the end of the break, they were quite a good bit looser. I hadn’t made any drastic changes to my diet - in fact, if anything my diet was worse than when I’m back home, mainly because it’s not as easy to prepare and cook healthy meals when you’re living under canvas and catering for two young kids as well. The main difference in my routine, that I can think of, was that I walked 3 miles a day instead of 1 for those 2 weeks.

So it would appear that if you really want to know how to lose weight quickly, you should take as much exercise as possible on a regular basis. If that means getting off the metro a couple of stops early and walking the last 20 minutes, why not give it a shot?