1. Focus On Both Diet And Exercise
Many who want to lose weight simply focus on one and leave out the other especially those who focus on dieting.
Focusing on dieting alone makes weight loss harder and not as beneficial. Dieting may take time to manifest the desired effect as you may initially be losing water. Since muscles are heavier, this will not be obvious on the scales.
Also exercise helps you to burn calories faster. It also gives your body a sexier definition than if you focused on dieting alone and also cuts off more years from your age.
Also, exercise improves your mood substantially as it pumps endorphin's which makes you happier. This will make it likelier that you continue on your path to cut those pounds or lose a dress size.
On the other hand, focusing on exercise alone and still maintaining a lousy diet will have some undesirable consequences.
For instance , forget the six pack if you desire one. A six pack is achieved mainly if you have a low amount of fat in your stomach region. It is the removal of the fat that enables the stomach muscles become pronounced with the abs.
It is always best to mix the two for best results
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2. Engage In Some Weight Lifting No Matter How Light.
Weight lifting helps you to build up metabolism. Why is that important?
Children tend to be leaner and fitter than adults because iof their high metabolism. High metabolism enables them to burn calories effortlessly. It makes them active.
If you increase your metabolism, you will be burning the calories even while watching television! It is the gradual loss of metabolism as we grow older that brings on those pesky pounds. They weren't there when we were younger. It time you went back to those years.
3. Drink Lots of Water Before A Meal
It's good to drink lots of water before a meal. The reason is that gives the impression that your stomach is full therefore reducing your need to over consume. This will help in moderating your food portions whenever you want to eat.
4. Use The Stairs More Often
One way to burn calories is to use the stairs as often as possible. Forget the lift. Simply use the stairs and if possible walk fast or possibly jog.
I used to love jogging up the stairs two decades ago when my father's office was on the 11th floor. This was very good exercise. I could feel the strain on my legs, especially the thighs! It was fun!
If you work in a high rise building or your daily commute brings you regular with stairs often, simply jettison the lifts and use the steps.
Do this as often as possible, starting first with walking up the steps before you start running and before long, the effects will show.
Eventually you'd see it as challenging and fun and not simply as exercise.
5. Get Up And Walk Around At Least Once An Hour
According to recent health studies, people who remain seated in front of a computer monitor or at their desk for several hours straight have a higher chance of developing health problems than people who work standing up or who get up and walk around a few times daily. Make it a habit to take several quick breaks daily by walking to the water cooler or walking around your office. This little habit doesn't just boost your physical activity levels, it also can help you clear your mind so you can feel refreshed and energized when you get back to your desk.
6. Take A Brisk Walk Every Morning
Too many people who are looking to lose weight think that the only way to exercise their extra pounds off is to hit the gym hard. They think they need to join all sorts of heavy cardiovascular exercise classes or they need to take up running or biking or some other heavy duty activities. The good news is that you don't have to do hardcore exercises to boost the rate at which your body burns calories. Simple walking will do the trick. As long as your morning walks are brisk and you see an increase in your heart and pulse rate, walking is good enough to boost your metabolism. Talk about a safe, low impact way to get your metabolism on track.
7. Eat More High-fiber Foods
Thanks to modern food manufacturing and packaging, most of the fiber in our food has been stripped and refined out. Highly processed food, after all, last longer on grocery store shelves. This is really a shame. Highly refined foods make you hungry sooner. Highly refined foods also pack a lot more easy-to-process calories.
By eating more high-fiber foods, you not only decrease your cravings because you feel fuller for a longer period of time but you also make your digestive system work harder. The harder it works processing fiber-rich foods, the more calories you burn. Look to eat as much food in its natural form.
For example, instead of cutting up potatoes, peeling their skin, and deep frying them, cut them up with the skin on and bake them. Also, instead of eating white pasta, try whole meal or whole grain high fiber pasta.
8. Add Flaxseed To Your Juice Drinks Or Milk
Containing a high amount of Omega 3 fatty acids, flaxseed is great for your health in so many ways. Not only is its high omega 3 content great for your brain and body, flaxseed is loaded with dietary fiber. Your digestive system becomes cleaner and you feel fuller for a longer period of time. Not surprisngly, you tend to eat less when you mix lots of ground flaxseed or flaxseed meal with your drinks. The less you eat, the more weight you lose. The best part of all this is that you don't feel hungry.
9. Cut Down On Starch And Other Simple Carbs
If you eat lots of rice, white flour noodles, white pasta, and potatoes, you are simply sucking up sugar. Seriously. Simple carbs are nothing but sugar in a different form. Sugar is a very simple calorie source. The more starchy foods you eat, the more calories you pump into your system. Cut down on simple carbs and eat more whole meal or whole grain pasta, wheat bread, and similar food items that are high in dietary fibers.
Drink Water Instead of Soda
As I said above, sugar is simply raw calories. If you drink a lot of soda, they are packed with high fructose corn syrup which is, you guessed it, sugar-based. Instead of drinking all those empty calories, choose to drink water instead. Water has no calories and nothing refreshes like it.
The ten tips above are AMAZING simply because they are easy to follow and put to use. You don't have to buy any special equipment or pop some magic supplement pills. Just make it a habit to follow at least one of the tips above in mind on a consistent basis and you should be well on your way to losing those unwanted pounds.
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