- "What is the Healthiest Way to Lose Weight?"This is a question weight conscious people ask time and again!So here is a short report featuring 100 top tips to help you lose weightnaturally and fast.At first glance, this list may appear a little daunting.However the important thing to remember is that to make big changes in yourweight, you only have to make a few small changes at a time, until your idealweight is achieved and maintained.Never forget successful weight loss is about LIFESTYLE CHANGE not crashdieting, which all of us know, never works in the long run.So work through the suggestions, one at a time and try to pick just a couple ofideas that you can TAKE ACTION on now, and then come back in a couple ofdays and pick a few more.OK … So you want to know how to lose weight naturally and fast?…. well here goes:.1. Drink Plenty of Water.Our body needs lots of water … so give it water! Water is not just a way toflush out toxins and impurities. If you have more water in your system you willgenerally feel healthier, and less hungry. Dehydration is also a major cause ofheadaches and migraine. And of coarse, water has no calories at all!As soon as you wake up, have a glass of water. It’s a wonderful way to startyour day and you only need a small glass with your breakfast after that.Drinking lots of water cleanses your stomach and digestive system. You mayhave your morning cup of tea but stick to water after that.2. Stay away from sweetened bottled drinks...especially sodas. All those colas and fizzy drinks are sweetened with tons ofsugar and sugar means calories! They are also full of chemicals … flavourenhancer's, colouring, preservatives etc. The more you can cut out sweetenedbottled and canned drinks and the more water you drink, the better you willfeel.3. Include in your diet fresh food that contains more water(eg tomatoes and watermelons). Some foods contain 90 to 95 % water soyou can feast on them without adding pounds to your waistline!4. Eat fresh fruit instead of drinking fruit juice.Juice is often sweetened either with sugar or artificial sweeteners, whereasfresh fruit only contains natural sugar (sucrose). When you eat fruit, you arealso taking in a lot of fibre and vitamins, essential for a healthy body.5. Increase your fibre intake.Your body needs fibre (sometimes called roughage) to assist digestion.Soluble fibre is found in varying quantities in all plant foods, including:·peas, soybeans and beans· oats, rye, chia and barley· prune juice, plums, berries, bananas, apples and pears· broccoli, carrots and antichokes, sweet potatoes and onions.Sources of insoluble fibre include:· whole grain foods· wheat and corn bran· nuts and seeds· potato skins· flax and hemp seed· lignans· green beans, cauliflower courgette's, celery and nopal.· avocado and bananas· kiwifruit and tomatoes.6. Go crazy on vegetables.Vegetables (like water) are another “secret weapon” when it comes to losingweight fast. Leafy green vegetables are your best bet. Try to eat, as muchsalad in your diet as you can … you will feel so much healthier if you do!7. Eat intelligently.The difference between man and beast is that we are driven by intelligencewhile beasts are driven by instinct. Don’t just eat something because you feellike eating it. Ask yourself whether your body really needs this piece of food atthis time … discipline and will power are your keys to long term success.8. Control that sweet tooth.Remember, sweet things nearly always mean more calories. It is natural thatwe have cravings for sweet things especially chocolates and otherconfectionary. However, take this weight loss tip seriously … go easy onsugary things and each time you consume something sweet understand thatthere will be a price to pay!9. Set Fixed Times to have meals and stick to it.Try to have food at fixed times of the day. You can stretch these times by halfan hour, but anything more than that is going to affect your eating pattern.The result will be that famished feeling that puts your diet under pressure andcould result in you “breaking” and stuffing yourself with loads of “bad food”!10. Avoid snacking between meals.Do not fall into the trap of constantly snacking between meals. This isespecially true for those of us who have to travel a lot. We may feel that theonly way we can get a bite to eat is to use café snacks and junk food. Themain problem here is that most snacks and junk food are full of fat, sugar, saltand saturated oils. Just think … those French fries may look tempting but theyare terrible nutritionally speaking.11. Snack on vegetables.You will get pangs of hunger in between meals. However this is somethingthat you can control very well. Carry with you a good supply of “snack –vegetables”! Try munching on carrots. They are an excellent way to satisfyhunger pangs and are also very good for your eyes and teeth. True, you mightend up being called Bugs Bunny, but its miles better than being called fatso!12. Go easy on tea and coffee.Tea and coffee are pretty harmless in themselves but when you add themilk/cream and the sugar … thats when they become fattening. Did you knowthat having a cup of tea or coffee with cream and two cubes of sugar is as badas having a big piece of rich chocolate cake!13. Try to stick to black tea or coffee.Black tea or coffee is good for you. But personally I would recommend tearather than coffee. The excess caffeine in coffee is potentially harmful, (esp ifyou drink a lot of it) because it is an alkaloid that affects other functions ofyour body and metabolism.14. Count the calories as you eat.This is a basic but frequently forgotten tip. These days you can get a goodidea of what calories are in most food items, as packaged foods tend to havethe calorie content printed on them.15. Burn out those extra calories by the end of the week.If you feel that you have consumed more calories than you should haveduring the week, then make sure that you work off those extra calories by theend of the week. A momentary lapse is not the end of the world. Remember,this is a LIFESTYLE CHANGE not a rigid crash diet.16. Stay away from fried things.Fried things are an absolute no-no. The more you stay away from the fryingpan, the more weight you will lose! Fried food is generally bad because it isfried in oil or fat. And even if the external oil is drained away, there is still a lotof oil and fat absorbed by the food itself. So stay away from it.17. Do not skip meals.One of the worst things that you can do while watching your diet is skip meals.Contrary to what you might think, missing meals is bad as it disrupts yourmetabolism, creates terrible hunger pangs (increasing the likelihood that youwill “break” and start snacking) and if repeated over a long period of time, willsend your body into “starvation mode”. Try to have at least three regularhealthy meals every day.18. Fresh vegetables are better than cooked or canned vegetables.Try to eat your vegetables raw. When you cook them, you are in fact takingmuch of the goodness and vitamins out of them. And canned vegetables areprocessed which means that the food industry will have added all the usual“food demons” (sugar, salt, hydrogenated oils, artificial flavourings etc). Whenyou buy your vegetables its also good to see if the label says “pesticide free”.19. Not more than one egg a day.Depending on your metabolism type, too many eggs may not be such a brightidea. For most people, it’s best to reduce your intake of eggs to maybe threeor four a week. But for those of you die hard egg fans, you may have up toone egg a day but nothing more than that.20. Make chocolate a luxury and not a routine.Chocolate is not a part of your new healthy diet! Even bitter (black) chocolatesare not particularly good for you because even though the sugar is less, thereis still cream in them. Milk chocolate is full of sugar and cream. So avoid.21. If you can say no to alcoholic beverages please do.Alcoholic beverages are not good for you. Beer is definitely fattening and mostother alcoholic drinks are full of sugar and adversely affect your liver if notdrunk in moderation. The other issue of course, is the fact that the mostimportant ingredient in your achieving your target weight is WILL POWER.You have done a fantastic job walking past your favourite Chinese takeawayall week, but will you still be able to do so after a few drinks with your pals …who are all of coarse piling in there to order huge curries!22. Try to have breakfast within one hour of waking.It’s always best to have a good breakfast within an hour of waking so that yourbody can charge itself with the energy it needs for the day. The idea is not towait until you get really hungry and then end up snacking. Breakfast isacknowledged as the most important meal of the day but it is often the mealmany people neglect the most.23. 50 to 55% of your diet should be carbohydrates.It is a myth that you should try and avoid carbohydrates when you are on adiet. Rather the other way round I say. Carbohydrates are a ready source ofenergy and so 50 to 55% of your diet should be carbohydrates.24. 25 to 30% of your diet should be proteins.Various processes and activities are continually going on in our bodies.Things are broken down and being built back up again. Resistance to diseasehas to be built up, recovery from illness too is needed and for all this the bodyneeds plenty of proteins. So see to it that 25 to 30 % of your diet consists ofproteins.25. Fats should only be 10 to 15 % of your diet.You need only this much of fat so keep it at that.26. Try and adopt a vegetarian diet.A vegetarian diet is undoubtedly better for those of us watching our weight ...even if it is only temporary. There are a lot of big advantages in keeping to avegetarian diet but this is a subject outside the scope of this report. If youcan’t go totally “veggie”, make a non- vegetarian diet a weekend event orsomething special rather than the norm.27. Choose white meat rather than red.If you must have your meat, white meat, which includes fish and fowl, is milesbetter than red meat, which includes beef and pork for those of us trying tolose weight.28. High Fibre multigrain breads are better than white breads.Remember how important it is to increase the fibre content of your food; wellthis is one way that you can. Multigrain breads are not only far superior interms of fibre but also have much better protein content as well.29. Reduce your intake of pork.Pork is not something that can help you to lose weight. The fattiness of pork isthe reason. So the less pork you eat the better. And remember that porkincludes pork products, things like bacon, ham and sausages.30. Limit your sugar intake.Sugar is public enemy number one for people trying to lose weight, and partof the “unholy trinity” of sugar, salt and hydrogenated oils. These threedemons wreck havoc with our healthy eating strategies. Avoid all three asmuch as possible.31. Graze 5 to 6 times a day.Instead of sticking to just three meals a day, try grazing. Grazing meanshaving 5 or 6 smaller meals instead of three king sized meals. It is anexcellent way of getting your stomach used to smaller quantities of food andshould mainly consist of fresh fruit and vegetables.32. Go ahead cheat … but only occasionally!There are many things, which you should avoid when sticking to your newhealthy lifestyle. However we all suffer from the “fallen flesh” from time totime, and one piece of Grandma’s chocolate cake won’t kill you! But makethese occasional indulgences the exception rather than the rule and try tomake up for it by eating fewer calories throughout the rest of the day.32. Watch your fat intake.This is so important. Each fat gram contains 9 calories so by reading the totalcalories on a food and knowing the quantity of fat, you can estimate the % offat, which should in no way exceed 30% of your total food intake.33. Go easy on Salt.As mentioned (in 30) too much salt is very harmful and one of the majorcauses of obesity. Make a point of really cutting down on salt. Read the labelsfor cans and other processed food, and restrict the amount you use incooking.34. Change from Margarine to reduced fat or cholesterol free butter.Margarine is arguably one of the unhealthiest foods you can eat and is full ofchemicals. Modest portions of reduced fat natural butter are much better thanmargarine and other artificial butter substitutes.
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mardi 19 février 2013
The Quickest Way to Lose Weight: 100 Top Tips 2013
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