These natural weight loss tips will help you take control of your lifestyle and your health care. Making positive, healthy choices can lead to optimum wellbeing.
- Instead of eating that tempting piece of candy, brush your teeth.
- When hunger hits, drink some water and wait 10 minutes before eating to see if the hunger feeling passes.
- Set attainable goals. Don't say, "I want to lose 50 pounds. Say, "I want to lose # pounds a month."
- Try to avoid sugar. Highly sweetened foods tend to make you crave more.
- Drink at least half your body weight in ounces of water per day. Water itself helps cut down on water retention because it acts as a diuretic. Taken before meals, it dulls the appetite by giving you that full feeling.
- Diet with a buddy. Support groups are important, and caring people can help one another succeed. Start your own, even with just one other person.
- Substitute activity for eating. When the cravings hit, go to the gym if possible; or dust, or walk around the block. This is especially helpful if you eat out of anger. Try to exercise at least 3 times a week.
- Try not to eat after 7pm. If you're a late-night eater, have a carbohydrate, such as a slice of bread or a cracker before bedtime to cut down on cravings. Keep an orange slice or a glass of water by your bed to quiet the hunger pangs that wake you up.
- If you use food as a reward, establish a new reward system. Buy yourself a non-edible reward.
- Weigh yourself once a week at the same time. Your weight fluctuates constantly and you can weigh more at night than you did in the morning, a downer if you stuck to your diet all day.
- Make dining an event. Eat from your own special plate, on your own special placemat, and use the Japanese art of food arranging to make your meal look lovely. This is a trick that helps chronic over-eaters pay attention to their food instead of consuming it unconsciously.
- Leave something on your plate, even if you are a member of the ‘Clean The Plate Club’. It's a good sign that you can stop eating when you want to, not just when your plate is empty.
- Avoid finger foods that are easy to eat in large amounts. Keep plenty of crunchy foods like raw vegetables and air-popped fat-free popcorn on hand. They're satisfying and filling.
- Avoid drinking large quantities of fattening liquids, which are so easy to overdo. This includes alcoholic beverages. Sip Green Tea throughout the day as well as water.
- Treat your body for parasites.
- Don't shop when you're hungry, you'll only buy fattening food.
- Make the kitchen off-limits at any time other than mealtime. Always eat at the table, never in front of the TV. Concentrate on eating every mouthful slowly and deliberately. Chew everything from 10 to 20 times and count!
- Try to eat 6 smaller meals during the day rather than 3 big meals.
- Never skip meals. Your metabolism will slow down as your body goes into starvation mode.
- Lose weight for yourself, not to please your family or your friends.
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