It's eight o'clock at night and you had plans on working out. The television is on. Federal agent Jack Bauer is dealing with another problem during one of his long days on the television show '24'. Workout...Kiefer...workout...Kiefer. You just caved in and are now parked in front of the tube watching another hour in the life of a fictional character.

Six o'clock at night and traffic is backed up. You were going to go home and eat a healthy meal of measured out chicken, rice, and carrots. You were going to add a nice fresh fruit for dessert and start eating healthily. One problem: your stomach is growling and the smell of Kentucky Fried Chicken is wafting through your car window. You swerve into the take-out lane, your hunger overriding your head.

The check book is low on money and your plan of buying healthy food has been blown to shreds in an effort to keep food in the house. Your cart is full of 'broke food' like macaroni and cheese, peanut butter, and frozen dinners. You have no time to workout. You can't afford the gym membership. The weather sucks and your walk has been canceled.

Does any of this sound familiar? Well, if it does, then you're playing the excuse game. You're using an excuse to keep from starting that weight loss regimen that you wanted. If you were serious about losing those few extra pounds, you might as well forget it. At least until you can stop making excuses and get your butt in gear and get motivated.

This is the biggest obstacle for anyone to face when they have good intentions about dieting and losing weight. While we all want to lose weight, human nature makes us notorious procrastinators. We will do everything we can to say, 'I'll start tomorrow' or 'I'll get to it tonight'. Instead, we need to be just biting the bullet now and get going.

Once we stop making excuses, we find our motivation. It's just like quitting smoking. We have to take that first step and throw the cigarettes away. The same applies here. You have to take that first step and walk into the gym. You have to take that first step and exchange the doughnut for a bowl of healthy cereal and milk. Once we stop procrastinating and take that hard first step, everything becomes a lot easier.

Stepping into the gym and attending that first aerobics class is the motivation you need. Once you get into class and start jazzercising, you'll find how much fun it really is and then you'll start to look forward to the class. You will have found the motivation you needed to get started on the path towards losing weight.

The same goes for eating healthier. After you get the first few days of healthy food under your belt, you'll find the cravings for all the things you shouldn't eat start to dwindle. In addition, once you start to see the weight coming off and you're looking better, you will have found your motivation. I encourage you to stop making excuses and start losing weight and feeling better all around.

Weight loss during menopause is slightly different than just plain ol' weight loss. Because your hormones are going kinda crazy, you need to address that to maximize your weight loss. Here are a couple ways to accelerate your weight loss during this time.

Weight Loss During Menopause

1. Spinning Around like a child

Listen, your hormones are going crazy and they're unbalanced. Spinning addresses this because it stimulates your Endocrine System to balance out and stabilize your hormones. Now, spinning won't totally rework mother nature with menopause, but it'll help with weight loss at this point in your life since the more balance your hormones are, the easier it is to lose weight.

Here's what you do...

Spin clockwise with your arms out like airplane wings. Spin anywhere from 5-20 times. Your goal is to get slightly dizzy, not totally "fall down" dizzy. Once you spin and find that number where you're slightly dizzy, you'll need to spin that number mulitple times each day to help "rework" and correct your hormones throughout the day to clear the path for easier weight loss.

2. Jump on a mini-trampoline

This is just an all-around great exercise. I like the fact that it's convenient, you can do it at home, you can do it in brief spurts of time, and it's very low impact. What I do is jump on it 2 minutes at a time during commercials. Did you know that the average 1 hour tv show has 20-22 minutes of commercials?

That's the perfect time do jump on the mini-trampoline. You'll get a 20 minute workout while watching tv.

Try out these 2 things and weight loss during menopause will be a piece of cake.

Here are a few weight loss toning exercises for women to help you achieve that hour-glass feminine figure. Summer is arriving, so take these "quick fix" exercises and use them to get toned as fast as possible.

Weight Loss Toning Exercises For Women

1. Walking on an incline

Listen, walking is a boring tip... yes I know that, however walking on an incline is totally different from just your regular walking on a flat surface. Walking on a flat surface is fine for slow, long term weight loss, but if you want some quick weight loss, try walking on a 10-15 degree incline (treadmill or hill) for 15-20 minutes a day.

This creates a big oxygen deficit which forces your body to suck up body fat... while it tones your legs in ways you never imagined.

2. Hindu Squats

Hindu squats also create a big oxygen deficit which causes your body to eat up body fat. But it also tones your legs like crazy. What you do is squat up and down as fast as you can while you touch your finger tips to the ground during each repetition (this is to make sure you're going down far enough).

You need to do 100 repetitions in less than 5 minutes. Do this as many days each week as you can.

3. Jumping rope

It's pretty well known that boxers are in incredible shape. It's no coincidence that they jump a lot of rope. Now, you don't need to get fancy, just spend 5 minutes a day jumping rope (it doesn't have to be all 5 minutes at once either).

What I did with these 3 exercises is try to create a simple program that you can do mostly in your home without having to waste time going to the gym everyday. So for women, try these weight loss toning exercises for a few weeks and you'll be pleasantly surprised at how effective they are and how quick the results come.

Here are a bunch of interesting weight loss tips for women that'll help you to lose up to 10 pounds in 2 weeks. With summer coming up, you may want to try some of these "quick fix" tips to lose weight quickly.

Weight Loss Tips For Women

1. Eat eggs for breakfast

Listen, 80% of fat people skip breakfast regularly while 80% of skinny and lean people eat a good breakfast everyday. This simple tip alone will correct a lot of your eating habits. Eggs are the best choice for breakfast since they're high in protein and fill you up.

2. Eat 1 can of black beans everyday

Black beans are a "superfood" in that they are cheap (50 cents a can), have 25 grams of protein, and best of all they have 25 grams of fiber. That's pretty much all the fiber you'll need for the day... all in 1 can. I recommend that you eat a 1/2 can during breakfast and 1/2 can during lunch. Earlier in the day is better, but don't worry if you can't do that.

3. Eat 3 apples a day

Look, I know this tip will bore you and you'll roll your eyes at the simplicity. I get it. But if you don't do this, you're leaving some easy weight loss pounds "on the table". You can lose 2-2.5 pounds a month for 2-3 months just using this tip alone. It's so mindlessly easy, I can't figure out why more people don't do it.

The best way to do this is to eat the apple as snacks between meals, but eating them right before meals helps also since it crowds out some of your meal's calories.

So try these 3 simple weight loss tips for women and you'll be seeing accelerated weight loss in just a few days.