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Best Weight Loss Diet Tricks

June 29th, 2011 admin No comments

Don’t think exercise is your only option when it comes to losing weight. There’s a trick to losing weight that involves only your diet. Below are some of the best weight loss diet tricks.

In today’s age, we are facing an obesity epidemic. People could certainly stand to lose a few pounds. However, you don’t have to be obese in order to lose weight. All you need is a desire for a leaner body, which many people have. Exercise is a great way to shed pounds from your body. But diet alone can help you accomplish your goals. Here are some of the best weight loss diet tricks that will help you stay slim.

Tips and Tricks

  • Eat less. This is so simple and yet so effective. The easiest way to lose weight is to take in less food than you need. Remember, 1 pound is equal to 3,500 calories. The average person utilizes about 2,000 calories a day (more or less depending on body weight, body type, gender and other factors). Creating a 500 calorie-a-day deficit will let you lose a pound in one week.
  • Eat small, frequent meals throughout the day. This will keep you from feeling hungry in between meals and helps you eat less than you normally would.
  • Eat plenty of fruits and vegetables. These are low-calorie, calorie-dense foods. They will keep you full without letting you pack pounds. In addition, they give you the nutrients you need to stay healthy.
  • Replace high-fat items with items that are low in fat. Chances are that you won’t know the difference, at least after the first few times you eat this way. For example, use 2 percent or skim milk instead of full-fat milk. Use spreads made from vegetables oils as opposed to pure butter.
  • Eat slowly. It takes your brain about 20 minutes to realize that it’s full. The faster you eat, the more you will eat.
  • Drink plenty of water. Sure, initially you’ll put on some weight, but you pee it out anyway. So what’s the advantage of drinking water? It keeps you hydrated so you feel full. Sometimes the body can mistake dehydration for hunger. Don’t allow this to happen to you.

Above are the best weight loss diet tricks I have to offer. Now, here are some additional tips and tricks. While the methods below will not allow you to necessarily lose fat, they will allow your body to lose water weight. This will reduce the weight of your body. This is ideal for anyone who wants to shed a few pounds for the sake of a readout on a weighing machine.

  • Eat less carbohydrates. Carbohydrates help you hold in water. If you want less water weight on your body, follow this simple tip
  • Eat less salt. Salt also helps you retain water. Lose the salt and you’ll shed the pounds

Conclusion

Some of the best weight loss diet tricks go hand in hand with certain precautions that must be followed. Always consult with your physician before starting a weight loss program or modifying your diet. Weight loss is much better accomplished as a long process as opposed to something you achieve rapidly.

All forms of weight loss result in the loss of muscle tissue as well. However, rapid weight loss will result in the loss of higher amounts of muscle tissue. Furthermore, bone density is lost during the weight loss process as well. Both of this can be minimized with a protracted weight loss program. Remember that with a more gradual weight loss program, you can have a body that is more toned and lean with a stronger skeletal system than you would if you lost weight quickly. Losing weight slowly makes more sense. It helps shape a leaner you as opposed to creating a smaller version of yourself.

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Eating Several Small Meals for Weight Loss

May 18th, 2010 admin No comments

Do you want to eat more and still lose weight? Well, there may be a trick to this particular piece of advice for weight loss. Many diet gurus advocate eating smaller meals more frequently in place of the usual three square meals a day, the practice of consuming smaller amounts of food at regular intervals throughout the day has been seen to help with weight loss by changing the body’s metabolism, or by taking advantage of it.

The digestive system and hunger center in our brain are connected, so how we eat affects how long we feel hungry or sated.The human body evolved for survival, so it has many mechanisms to ensure survivability. For example, the brain signals hunger when your stomach is empty, and will cause you to want as much food as you can stuff into your belly. This mechanism evolved over times when food was scarce, and eating a lot was the only way to store energy for lean times. Now times have changed, and food is readily available at most any time of the day, but we still have these outdated survival instincts. Luckily though, by understanding why we eat what we eat, we can work against these urges, and even alter them to some extent.

More frequent, but smaller meals can also mean better control over the food. When you are very hungry, you might feel that you do not care about the portion size or caloric content, as long as you get full! Alaso when we feel extremely hungry we tend to overeat. While this is a natural mechanism, it can prove to be a problem when you are trying to control your portions. Eating more often changes how your body seeks food, and you will always have something in your stomach, making you feel less hungry. Thus, the next time you eat, you can keep your portions controlled. Keeping portions small allows us to shrink our stomach and feel full on smaller meals.

The human metabolism rises and falls throughout the day, in accordance with how you eat. When food enters your stomach, the digestive system revs up to a higher state in order to deal with what is coming in. After a few hours, the food will have moved on and your digestive system goes into a low state. The highs and lows affect your energy levels, so you feel energetic a short while after eating, and tired in the couple of hours before the next meal.

The concept of eating more frequently takes advantage of the system by keeping the digestive component of metabolism from going into a low state. By periodically injecting fuel into the system, you can keep metabolism in medium-to-high cycles instead of the usual low-to-high cycles. This means that in the times between your small meals, your body can keep burning calories at a reasonable rate, some of which will come from fat deposits. Keeping your metabolism running full speed also gives you more energy throughout the day. This practice of eat-often-eat-less keeps our energy levels at more-or-less constant levels, so we feel more energetic and thus can do more. By adding exercise into the mix, the amount of energy taken from fat deposits increases even more, and weight loss becomes a serious reality.

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