Tuesday, November 25, 2008

Ways to lose weight swiftly

By V. Gates

Here are ways to lose weight fast written by regular people as comments on various blogs or articles on line.

Eat grilled or boiled meat such as steak and chicken instead of fried meat. Add spices to make it taste even better.

Give up the soda. If you have a soda or two every day you are adding empty calories. If you find it hard to stop completely, cut back at first and drink water instead|Stop drinking soda. Those are empty calories so stop drinking it and substitute water. (Note that the average person adds 90,000 calories a year from sipping juice or soda. WOW! That's a great tip.)

Don't buy junk food. Shop from a list. If you don't have junk food at home you won't eat it.

Treat yourself at least once a week to the foods you really like. That will help you avoid binging when you experience cravings. When you treat, don't go to extremes.

Use a smaller plate to trick yourself into thinking you're eating more than you really are. (Not only are you tricking yourself, even if the trick doesn't work it's easier to stop eating when the plate is empty and there's no more food available.)

Get poor. Toss away your money so you can't afford food. (Um, no. That's a bad idea.)

A way to ensure you gain more weight is to try all those quick diets then ping-pong back the other way when they're done. Don't try them.

Exercise whenever you can, even at the desk with some leg lifts. (That's a great idea to increase caloric burn.)

Measure your food. If you have junk food be careful to measure and control the portion. (Portion control is a big part of a healthy diet. Most restaurants and even people at home serve too much food.)

Get really sick. After a month in the hospital I had lost 25 pounds. (Another bad idea. It's best to stick to ways to lose weight while remaining healthy. After all, the ultimate goal is improved health.)

Stick to something long enough to repeat it a few times, then you can coast. (It's said that if we repeat something 21 times it becomes a habit. Sometimes the number is different, but the idea is the same. Will power is only needed to repeat something enough times for it to become|turn into a habit.)

Eat at a leisurely pace. The body doesn't feel full as fast as you can eat, so people tend to eat beyond full.

These are all great tips from regular people just like us. Most of them also happen to be common advice given by experts in safe weight loss. It turns out ways to lose weight fast do exist, and they're not something only professionals can understand. - 15432

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