- Eat more fresh food! Choose fresh, nutrient-rich, healthy, low-fat foods rather than junk food. Junk food can range from burgers to those cookies that you always bought! Adding a lot of vegetables and fruits
to your diet will help you, they keep you feeling full for longer than
processed food so you won't even feel the need to eat loads. Also,
drinking bouillon, a Haitian soup, made with filtered water will help you feel full.
- Exercise every day!
This could be the most difficult step to follow. But what you can do is
actually start slowly then steady increase the amount of exercise. For
example, today you will walk
for 10 minutes, repeat this for the whole week. For the next week,
double your workload. You may get leaner that way! The important thing
is to get your heart rate up and start, now!
- Feed your temptations once in a while. Go ahead and have that doughnut or slice of pizza, but before you do, drink 8 glasses water and eat a bowl of raw veggies such as cucumbers, celery, carrots, and tomatoes. They will fill you up and you will have very little room to eat the "junk" food.
Consume things that have no calories. There are two things you eat and drink that contain no calories: water and fiber. The more of these you get into your diet, the better off you will be. For example, you can eat a pound of mixed salad greens with assorted raw vegetables
(carrots, red cabbage, celery, broccoli, onion, etc.) with a low or
no-calorie salad dressing and only have eaten 100-150 calories. This is
because of the high water and fiber content of the salad and low calorie
dressing. Also, eat lots of celery. It has only 8 calories, but
amazingly, it takes more than 8 calories to digest it. So, you actually
BURN calories by eating celery! It's not much, about 2 calories per 8
inch stalk, but it sure doesn't hurt.
- Avoid sodas as much as possible. Instead, drink flavored water or unsweetened iced tea. Caffeine, when placed in a low-calorie beverage like black coffee or unsweetened tea, raises your metabolism and causes you to burn more calories. Too much caffeine has harmful health effects, though, so be reasonable in your consumption if you choose to have caffeine.
Include foods which burn fat for you.
By choosing your foods carefully, you can drop the pounds without going
hungry. There are many foods out there that are proven to help you to
lose weight, foods such as chilli, green tea, berries and whole grain,
can do various things to help you to drop the pounds, by avoiding
insulin spikes and keeping your metabolic rate going.
Have broth-based soups.
They are relatively low in calories. A commercially-available ready to
eat "chicken and stars" soup may only have 80 calories for 1 serving,
much less than diet "meal shakes" or nutrition bars.
Practice good eating habits.
Always use utensils and sit at the table. This stops you from eating
precariously. Eating with your hands will mean that you take in more
food in one scoop. Don't forget to eat slowly and stop
when you're full. Similar to the above step, if you can't stop, drink
up! Maybe your body is thirsty and hungry no more! Also, you can do any
other chores (other than eating). For instance, go shopping, or play badminton with your friend, or play games on the computer!
Drink more water.
Often we mistake thirst for hunger which means we eat when it's not
necessary. By keeping yourself well hydrated you'll feel hungry less as
well as getting a clearer complextion and shinier hair.
Spread out your diet!
Eat more small chunks of meals, rather than 3 big meals. If you eat
100-150 calories or so every two hours, your body stays in a
higher-metabolism digesting mode. This allows you to burn more calories
than eating just 3 meals a day.
Record what you eat!
This is a simple yet very powerful exercise to open your eyes to see
whether you are keeping up with the dieting plan. Often, we tend to
overlook those snacking we do between meals and really think that our
diet is failing us. But the truth is there can be many petty things that
we do that really affect our dieting plan. For example, one might skip
breakfast 3 times a week without being conscious about it. Studies have
shown that if you eat breakfast, you tend to eat proportionally fewer
calories the rest of the day. Without a record, it might seem like you
are doing all the right thing, yet fail miserably in your dieting plan.
Make vegetables a major part of your diet plan!
If vegetables are not a major part of your diet, it is time to
reconsider. Studies have shown that vegetables can play an important
loss in losing weight. This is because vegetables are high in water and
fiber and low in energy density.
