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Easy Weight Loss Tips
Below you will find 15 easy weight loss tips.
Incorporate as many of them as possible in your everyday life for
successful weight loss.
15 Steps to Grow Thin
Surely, spring is a wonderful season. Everything
awakes from winter sleepiness, long-awaited sun finally appears and
we want singing, dancing, falling in love and flying. Only those,
whose excess kilograms prevent them from flying, can argue this.
Some of us even cannot take off, not to mention flying.
A well-known picture: opening a window to first spring sun beams,
you rush to try on that striking dress, which was an occasion for
many dates last summer. After 5-minute glance in the mirror (as a
rule, surprised one), you close (and curtain off windows), put dress
back in a wardrobe, and it starts seeming to you that it would be
better if spring does not come at all. What should you do now?! Take
a deep breathe, calm down and reckon although to 15.
1. Keep a food diary
Write down everything you eat during a week. You may be absolutely
unaware how many useless calories you consume, until you start
paying careful attention to them. In general, a diary is the best
way to follow successful passing of planned program. So keep on
writing, until you feel confidently on your new life road.
2. Analyze
Think, which of your food habits impede you, and change them.
Moreover, think what they may be caused by. Very often people hide
their real problems behind food. What makes you reach for the second
portion of this divine cheese-cake? Boring work, captious boss,
apartment that failed to wait till its lucky hour of repair,
boyfriend, showing little attention that is so necessary in spring
for you? Find other work, repaint walls of drawing-room in orange,
change boyfriend! Finally, spring is time for changing not only in
centimeters!
3. Get rid of self-pity
Beforehand, so that this damned pity could not interfere you
further. And it is even better to set it on other channel. Necessary
one. The thing that makes you fat, - is not a bar of chocolate,
which you decided to spoil yourself with, when He did not call you
again. And even not half of cake, which you and your friend
celebrated the fact that He called at last with. These are your food
habits. You need to change them not only to become slender and
energetic, but also keep this state. Change for ever. You sorrow for
yourself while refusing from chocolate or vanilla ice-cream? Think!
Does not such a good girl like you deserve surrounding men’s wolf
whistles? Think better. Motivation is very important. Here you need
to determine what is important right now for you. Any, even the most
unusual variants, will suit (come to your junior sister’s school
party unnoticed and have great fun there; put on that breath-taking
short skirt, which you have been dreaming of for the second season
already; drive him crazy with a stunning strip-tease). How many
unique life opportunities go by!
4. Keep informed
“Keeping informed – means being on top of issues”, - one of popular
slogans says. Grow thin sensibly! Quit relying on numerous experts’
opinions, telling you what, when and with what to eat.
Learn the way your organism works, what it needs, and learn
providing it with all necessary things. It will repay your kindness
with a flat belly, couple of slender legs and a sea of energy. Of
course, you need time to learn orienting in the sea of calories,
centimeters, physical trainings and hypoglycemic indexes. And you
want to be slender right now already. So, add to your armoury basic
knowledge:
- Everything you eat can be conditionally divided into proteins,
fats and carbohydrates (according to prevalence of first, second or
third in them, all three components in pure form are contained only
in artificially created products). To imagine which your daily
ration should be, draw a triangle on a sheet of paper and call its
angles like 3 elements of nutrition. Write down 60-65% for
carbohydrates, 30-35% for proteins and 10-15% for fats. Now you have
only to read labels on products carefully.
- We all know something about calories. These are some obscure
terms, with help of which we value products and divide them into
good and bad. In fact, a calorie (to be more exact, kilocalorie) –
is an energy, which you need to spend to heat 1 kg (liter) of water
on 1°C.
To get rid of 1 kg of fat, you need to burn about 7000 kilocalorie,
correspondingly, from 10 kg (or how many you wish) – about 70000,
what is equal to energy, spent on walking of 1700 km. Not counting
snacks and rest while trip.
So forget about ideas of strict restriction of your ration’s calorie
content – in fact, what you need is to stick to a norm of 1500-1800
kilocalories a day to train off and about 2000 kilocalories to keep
it.
- Sugar, products of fine flour (favorite cakes, pies and patties),
of course, are very tasty. But, regardless of the fact that they are
quite different, processes they cause set going similar mechanisms
in your organism. Their essence is in change of acid-base medium of
bowels, and as a result you will want to eat these products more and
more often. As a result, you will receive excess calories on your
diet’s counter and horror of excess kilograms on all – alas! –
conceivable places.
Restrict consumption of these products and already in two weeks you
will see noticeable (others will also see them!) results.
- Stomach is an organ of your body, which you set up merciless
experiments on, filling it with food, not always so wholesome. In
fact, a poor one needs not so much – a piece of wholesome food each
4 hours. This means you should eat at least 3 (and ideally 5-6)
times a day. Longer periods organism will treat like hunger and save
everything you ate after such break in store.
Of course, you do want to put in this mini right this weekend. And
what can be better than treating yourself with some
ultra-fashionable thing from new spring collection of your favorite
designer! Images that occur to you are so tempting, that you are
ready to go without food for weeks, to reach your goal as soon as
possible. Moreover, you always can excuse shadows under your eyes
and weakness with spring beriberi.
- Be careful! Loss of more than 0,5-1 kg a week will definitely take
place at the expense of soft tissue. Its weight will be restored
right after you finish strict diet (owing to fat, as it is much
easier for your organism to gain it, than build up muscles); and,
secondly, it is rather sad to lose it! As it helps you burning
calories and makes your body beautiful and neat. So do not set
yourself unrealizable goals as an object. A result, which you go to
slowly, but confidently, will be most stable.
5. Form a plan of actions
Take a sheet of paper. Look at it. It is absolutely white, is not
it? Imagine that this sheet of paper personifies your food habits.
You will write down on it everything you think to be necessary. And
will erase things that disturbed you before. No unnecessary things.
Divide it at least in 3 columns (if you are brave enough, you can
divide it in 5-6, if you are not frightened at it – for some reason
such quantity of meals seems to be tremendously big for those who
want to train off). Write down approximate time (or time interval)
of meals in these columns. Thinking over all possible situations
(restaurant temptation with your loved one, lunch at your mother’s
place, Friday kickbacks with your friends), compose variants of what
and in which quantity you can allow eating to yourself.
6. Count
Check how many calories food you eat contains. In the end of each
day look in your diary and sum up figures. If you manage to keep
within necessary sum, compliment yourself and go to paragraph 7. If
no, think about a reason of failure and try to refrain from
repetition of this situation in future. For example, if a hungry day
in your office preceded too abundant supper at home, which you
cannot forgive yourself, take something on work with you tomorrow.
You really can control your nutrition!
7. Play
Parting with bad habits is a difficult matter. So present gifts for
yourself! For each day you lived the right way, each reached goal,
each correct thought, definitely! Invent gifts beforehand, and do
not give up until you get what you want.
8. Move
Although somehow! Success of your diet, regardless of how ideally it
may be considered, depends 30% on your activity during a day. As
Henry Ford said, “you can choose a car of any color under the
condition it is black”. Find sport to your liking, walk, make more
sex, whatever, but m-o-v-e!
9. Take measurements
Once a week, since morning, weigh yourself and measure sizes of
breast, waist and hips. Do not hung up exceptionally on weight
indices – you may look absolutely different, having the same weight.
And you also can have smaller size, than earlier, while bigger
weight. This is explained by the fact that muscle bulk weighs more,
than fat, and reserves less space.
10. Follow speed
Your organism needs at least 20 minutes to realize a happy fact of
eating. So take your time. Eat more slowly, and if you cannot, then
switch to, say, kisses with your boyfriend. Finally, he should help
you too!
11. Size is important
Follow your portions. Less is more. As for size of plates: even if
you reduce volume of what your usual dinners, breakfasts and suppers
consist of, at least on one third, without changing anything else,
all the same you will start growing thin.
12. Drink
Yes, indeed. Those boring 8 glasses of water a day. Water is your #1
helper in a difficult matter of getting rid of excess centimeters.
It will provide a feeling of satiety between meals, inspire you and
clear organism from fat cells’ decay products (you have made up your
mind on this, eh?). And they have not begun issue water in pills
yet.
By the way, you can also start singing, not only drinking. With a
view to cheer yourself up. Moreover, it is very good for
strengthening of abdominal muscles.
13. Do not try to do everything at once.
This will only bring you to unnecessary disappointments. Your
organism needs time to learn living a new way. Look closely at your
plan and mark the most important, to your opinion, changes – those,
which you will start with. When things you wrote down on a paper
become a habit for you, put a new goal for yourself. Without
forgetting about paragraph 7, naturally.
Moreover, spoil yourself with your favorite unhealthy food in tiny
amounts. This way you will not get a feeling that you deprive
yourself of best and most pleasant in this life. You know, food is
also one of the greatest life pleasures. Have not you forgotten
about it yet?
14. Imagine
Every day think of that wonderful summer (year, life) waiting for
you in future. Remember in details how you have been living before
composing your program, and imagine a new life – with a new
yourself. Thins about all details carefully: what you eat for
breakfast, what you wear, how other people react on you. Do this
exercise every day, and this will significantly increase your
chances for success.
15. Love!
Yourself, every cell and curve of your body. Look at yourself in the
mirror more often (and without fear!). Think, what your body does
for you every day, and thank it for this. Who else loves you so
much?
If being absolutely frank, there is one more step. Probably, the
most important. Believe in yourself! You will surely manage to do
everything! Forget about past failures to grow thin. You just did
not know a lot and therefore made mistakes. Don’t blame yourself.
Knowledge on correct nutrition is not inborn. Remember all your
achievements in life – you know, way to them was not easy, eh?
Everything is possible. And for a human that has a goal, there are
no obstacles. And soon you’ll nevertheless put on that breath-taking
skirt. In fact, not for long. Soon you will have to put it off. You
haven’t changed your mind as for strip-tease, eh?
Yana Mikheeva is the creator of the
WomansPassions site for women and about women at
http://www.womanspassions.com, it is an on-line
resource for women and about women. Here you can
find articles on various subjects, such as: diets,
receipts, health, cellulite, figure, aromatherapy,
wholesome food, psychology of relationships,
pregnancy, parenting, fashion and many others.
She also has a blog for women at
http://www.womanspassions.com/blog/
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