20 Sustainable Ways to Lose Weight in Your 30s

Your health should be a main priority throughout your life, including in your 30’s.

For some people, losing excess body weight can improve several aspects of their physical health, including their blood sugar and blood pressure levels, inflammatory markers, and mobility (1Trusted Source, 2Trusted Source, 3Trusted Source, 4Trusted Source, 5Trusted Source, 6Trusted Source).

Plus, reaching a healthy and sustainable body weight may improve your self-confidence, body image, health-related quality of life, and depressive symptoms (7Trusted Source, 8Trusted Source, 9Trusted Source).

Unfortunately, most weight loss methods are inappropriate and unsustainable. Plus, dieting and diet culture can be incredibly harmful to your physical and mental health (10Trusted Source, 11).

However, it’s possible to safely reach a healthy body weight that promotes your overall health.

This article covers 20 sustainable ways to lose weight in your 30’s.

1. Redirect your focus

Focusing on improving other aspects of your health rather than your body weight or physical appearance may help you reach your goals.

One study including 301 women found that those who were motivated to lose weight to either reduce their disease risk or improve their overall health — and least motivated by self-appearance reasons — achieved significant weight loss after 30 months.

Alternatively, women who were most motivated to lose weight to improve their appearance had gained weight at the 30-month mark (12Trusted Source).

This doesn’t mean that you can’t be motivated by improving your appearance. Rather, it suggests that your appearance and desire to be accepted by others shouldn’t be the only — or even the main — motivators for reaching a healthy body weight.

Being motivated by factors like improving your diet quality, endurance, and energy levels, as well as reducing your disease risk, may help improve long-term success on your weight loss journey (13).

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