Thursday, January 20, 2011

Lose Weight Tips

Lose weight
In my quest for weight loss I found the solution was a bunch of little free lose weight tips that gave me the most success. I found that I could be more successful and stick to smaller easier losing weight tips. If you add these tips for losing weight to your diet regime I am sure you will find the same.

Meal frequency: Try to eat more often during the course of a day. Sounds strange when we are trying to loose weight not gain it.

This means taking in smaller portions. This is not an excuse to eat more food. Rather than three big meals a day I tried eating five smaller meals aiming to maintain a more equal balance of food intake during the day. This would help to alleviate the feeling of being really hungry, eating a large portion of food and then feeling really full. By eating every three to four hours you keep your body from storing as many calories (as fat) because your body has a steady supply of food to use for energy.

A benefit of this is that it also helps to balance your calorie intake throughout the day. I focused on adding two meals. Once between breakfast and lunch and the other between lunch and dinner. When I say a meal, I do not mean sitting down with a knife and folk to eat having spent an hour cooking. I would eat some fruit, maybe with some natural yoghurt or a bowl of some natural nuts and berries for example. Eating smaller meals should be a balance, between containing proteins, carbohydrates and fat. This also helps to maintain steady insulin levels.

It can be hard to follow this losing weight tip with the daily grind of work and social commitments. I got round this by eating a reduced portion size of my three main meals and then carrying round a lip lock bag of dried fruits and nuts. Also two pieces of fresh fruit.

In order to make this as easy as possible to stick with. I would buy a bulk container of dried fruits and nuts from the supermarket and portion them equally into zip lock bags. This way all I needed each morning was grab one of my pre-packed zip lock bags ready to go.

I would even chop up the fruit and put it with some natural yoghurt in a container.

You will find this easier to stick to if you have a little system to make it as simple as possible. You will also find how delicious these little snacks are and how you start to really look forward to them!

If you follow these tips for losing weight, you are sure to notice that you will achieve some weight loss, without having to go on the latest fad diet and you will soon be back on track to being healthy and happy! Whatever you do, it is important to remember you can be successful and you will not have to lose weight without starving yourself!


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