How To Loose Weight Fast At Home

Written By: admin in Natural Weight Loss on February 28, 2011

Top 10 Tips To Loose (“lose”) Weight Fast At Home

The goal for anyone wishing to lose weight fast at home is to take on a regiment that is easy to do and healthy. You became overweight by consuming more calories than your body uses so the excess is stored as fat. To lose the weight, you must change your habits and begin decreasing the amount of calories to less than needed so your body will use up its fat reserves. This is accomplished through diet and exercise.

Here is a Top 10 list of tips:

1. Drink 6-8 glasses of water daily. Make water your diet aid. Drink a full glass before each meal. Combat cravings and hunger pangs with a glass of water.

2. Eliminate carbonated beverages, regular or diet. These contain too much sugar and not enough nutritional value.

3. Eliminate alcoholic beverages. Calories are high. Impairing your judgement will cause you to start eating unhealthy foods in unhealthy proportions.

4. Limit red meats. Opt instead for lower calorie fish and poultry. Include meatless meals that provide alternate protein sources from beans, eggs, or legumes.

5. Increase physical activity to burn more calories and increase your metabolic rate. Change your routines. Instead of watching TV and eating snacks, take a walk, ride a bike, go for a swim.

6. Eat foods as close to their naturally occuring state as possible without added fats, sauces, gravies. Fresh and frozen vegetables should take up 3/4 of your plate and provide you with the necessary vitamins, minerals, and fiber.

7. Use a small plate for your meals. Protein source should not exceed the size of a deck of cards, high or wide. Fill the rest of the plate with natural fruits and vegetables lightly sauteed or steamed for palatability.

8. Try eating more meals. Staving off hunger and cravings by eating far less but more frequently is a better plan. Aim for 6 meals.

9. Psych yourself up for loosing weight. If you are not mentally ready, you are setting yourself up for failure.

10. Don’t let minor setbacks undermine your goals. A piece of cake at a birthday party should not trigger an eating binge. Instead, do an extra activity like dancing.

Losing weight will become second nature. One to two pounds a week is normal. The body adjusts. Trying to lose more than that will send the body into unhealthy survival mode where it will burn less calories to only support vital functions. That is no way to live.

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