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People are becoming more health conscious these days. In today’s
corporate lifestyle, people strive to be healthy and fit but due to the
luxuries and comforts of modern living and changing environmental
conditions, people tend to gain weight in due course of time and then
they try out various weight loss strategies to lose and maintain their
body weight. People try out hard but when the enthusiasm does not match
the pace of weight loss, the disappointment leads to discontinuation of
the weight loss regimen. The only mantra to keep fit and lose weight
gradually is to be consistent with the schedule what so ever it may be.
But if you still find it hard then try out these helpful tips.
Quick weight loss tips:
 Drink
plenty of water. Water is not just way to flush out toxin but if you
have more water in your body you will generally feel healthier and
fitter. The best thing about water is that is has no calories at all.
Drink a glass of water early in the morning to start your day flushing
out toxins from your body & remember to drink a glass of water before
you start the meal. It will make you feel fuller earlier.
Stay
away from sweetened aerated drinks as they are high on calories. Better
stick to diet sodas if you have to indulge.
Include in your diet more of fresh fruits and vegetables. These things
contain more % water, vitamins, minerals & fiber so that there is
nothing that you have to lose by feasting on them. They fill you up
without adding to your weight.
Eat
fresh fruit instead of drinking fruit juice. Juice is often sweetened
but fresh fruits have natural sugars. When you eat fruit, you are taking
in a lot of fiber, which is needed by the body, and fruits of course are
an excellent source of vitamins.
Increase your fiber intake. The body needs a lot of fiber. So try to
include in your diet as many fruits and vegetables as well as whole
grains, pulses and legumes as you can.
Eat intelligently. The difference between man and beast is that we
are driven by intelligence while beasts are driven by instinct. Don’t
just eat something because you feel like eating it. Ask you’re self
whether your body really needs it.
Watch
what you eat. Keep a watchful eye on every thing that goes in. Sometimes
the garnishes can richer than the food itself. Accompaniments too can be
very rich. Remember that it is the easiest thing in the world to eat
something without realizing that it was something that you should not
have eaten.
Control
that sweet tooth. Remember that sweet things generally mean more
calories. It is natural that we have cravings for sweet things
especially chocolates and other confectionary. Go easy on theses things
and each time you consume something sweet understand that it is going to
add on somewhere.
Have
regular meal timings and do not change the routine. Try to have food at
fixed times of the day. You can stretch these times by half an hour, but
anything more than that is going to affect your eating pattern, the
result will either be a loss of appetite or will make you stuff yourself
with more than what is required the next time you eat.
Eat
only when you are hungry. Some of us have the tendency to eat whenever
we see food. We use parties as an excuse to stuff our selves. Understand
that the effect of a whole week of dieting can be wasted by just one
day’s party food. Whenever you are offered something to eat do not
decline it completely but just break of a nibble so that you appear to
mind your manners and at the same time can watch your diet.
Quit
snacking in between meals or rather Snack on vegetables if you must.
Limit
the intake of tea and coffee. Tea and coffee are harmless by themselves.
It’s when you add the cream and sugar that they become fattening.
Try
to stick to green/black tea/coffee. Black tea or coffee can actually be
good for you. But it’s better to have tea rather than coffee. The
caffeine in the coffee is not really good for you because it is an
alkaloid and can affect other functions of your body like the
metabolism.
Be
sure to burn out the extra calories. If you feel that you have consumed
more calories then make sure that you work off those extra calories by
the end of the week.
Stay
away from fried things. Fried things are an absolute no-no. The more
fried things that you avoid, the lesser weight you will gain. Fried
things are called so because they are fried in oil or fat. And even if
the external oil is drained away, there is still a lot of hidden oil in
it so stay away from it.
Do
not skip meals. The worst thing you can do while watching you diet is
skip a meal. It has just the opposite effect of what you want. You need
to have at least four regular meals every day.
Fresh
vegetables are better than cooked or canned vegetables. Try to eat your
vegetables raw. When you cook them, you are in fact taking away nearly
half the vitamins in them. And canned vegetables too are processed and
are not nearly half as good as fresh vegetables.
Eat
only one egg a day. Eggs are not such a bright idea. It would be best to
reduce your intake of eggs to maybe three in a week.
Make
chocolates a luxury and not a routine. Chocolates are not or at least
they should not be a part of your diet. So do not indulge too much in
them. Even the bitter chocolates are not good for you because though the
sugar is less there is still the cream in them.
Choose a variety of foods from all food groups every day. This is a fine
way of keeping deficiency diseases at bay. Change the items included in
your diet every day. It helps you to experiment with a variety of dishes
and there by you do not get bored of your diet.
Avoid
alcoholic beverages as much as you can. Alcoholic beverages too are not
good for you. Beer can be fattening and the rest of the alcoholic drinks
may not be fattening by themselves but after a couple of swigs you will
be in no position to watch your diet and your appetite too will be
something to battle with.
Try
to have breakfast within one hour of waking. It’s always best to have
breakfast within an hour of waking so that your body can charge itself
with the energy it needs for the day. Breakfast is the most important
meal of the day but that does not mean that it should be the most
filling meal of the day.
Sleep
is also essential. While we all know that you need exercise to lose
weight fast, oddly enough, sleep can also help. Recent research has
shown a correlation between sleep deprivation and obesity. Apparently
lack of sleep causes an imbalance in the body which inhibits the burning
of fat. So if you have sleeping problems, you should seek some help.
Also, when you're well-rested, you're less prone to snacking out of
fatigue or stress.
Reduce Stress. Stress also makes it difficult to lose weight fast. This
is probably related to the issue of sleep deprivation contributing to
obesity. While we tend to think of sleep and relaxation as the opposite
of what we need to lose weight, the fact is we need both activity and
rest to be at our best and for our body to burn fat.
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 Eat
protein at every meal, including breakfast.
Eliminate wheat- and flour-based products for the time being.
Reduce starch to one portion a day, and don't eat that portion during your
evening meal.
Apples, pears, plums and berries all are good choices. Bananas are not.
Reduce or eliminate dairy for the time being, especially cow's milk. |
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