10 Fastest Ways To Lose Weight

Nobody in this world (other than the SOMO wrestlers) does not want to be slim and smart. Even I tried so many things to lose weight; some of them were really painful like the workouts / hard exercises and Saying NO to tasty food like meats, pasta and fast foods etc. Losing weight is sometimes one of the most difficult tasks and to do it right you have to learn some expert tips and opinions like how to exercise, how to control your diet and what are the best nutrition plans according to your body type,  so below are some of the fastest ways to lose weight, take a look and do follow them and give us feed back by commenting below!


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Mostly people think that when you have to lose weight then you need to avoid food. But the best way is to add food which you really love plus add veggies to you soups and sauces.

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The thought of exercise and working out often freak out people, so do something else that is more fun to do, like cycling, grass skiing, making snow angels, beach combing, washing car, playing with Frisbee etc.

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Whenever the weather is good, do try to walk, even if you get a chance to walk for 10 minutes, just do it.

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Don’t go for the food that you love and are with high calories. Like if you love pizza then do eat it. But use it with low fat cheese.

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Drink maximum amount of water throughout the day because it helps a lot.

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Share your food with some person alike! It is simple, twice the motivation, without twice of an effort.

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You can get more exercise by dancing on the music that you love; do that for at least 15 minutes.

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You know when you have a small plate then it appears to you that you have more to eat, but when you have same food but larger plate then it is like you have more food.

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Get involved in other activities, like watching TV, doing other things that make you happy. Because it is a general concept that, when you are bored, you start eating.

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This part is about the later stage when you have lost some pounds. You need to maintain the weight that you lose for 2 or 3 years only then you’ll be a successful loser.

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10 Tips for guaranteed weight loss

                 With fad diets and fitness routines round every corner, it is quite difficult to keep a tab on which weight loss tips really do work and which don't. Should you join that bhangra aerobics class, adopt that no-carb diet, or eat dinner at 6pm? Never mind all that loophole-ridden weight loss jargon, step over to the healthy side. Here are 10 tips for guaranteed weight loss that will set your weight straight, and help you adopt some really healthy, weight-friendly habits for life.

Weight loss tip 1: Decide how much weight you need to lose - Most people start their weight loss journey by claiming to be xyz kilos overweight. This isn't a healthy way to project or aim for weight loss. Calculate your desired weight against your height by using reliable methods like the BMI, and set a healthy weight loss target. This is often half the battle won.

Weight loss tip 2: Time management - This is quite often overlooked. Decide which part of your day will be dedicated to exercise, when in the week you will stock up on groceries, and when you will do the cooking - all within your current work and home life routine. If you don't do this now, your days will be rushed and unplanned, and you won't be able to sustain your weight loss efforts.

Weight loss tip 3: Stock your kitchen - Keep your house well-stocked with fruits, vegetables, healthy meats, grains, cereals, spices, and flavourers. Follow our tricks to healthy cooking, cooking vegetables for the week, and low-fat cooking posts to understand how best you can stock your kitchen with healthy and delicious ingredients. All of this will go into helping the next step - cooking healthy meals at home.

Weight loss tip 4: Eat healthy homecooked meals - Whether it's you who's cooking, a family member, or house help, ensure that every one practises healthy cooking methods, and ingredients. Ask any person who's lost weight the healthy way, and you will always hear about how healthy homecooked meals were a big reason behind it. Use less oil, low salt, fresh produce, and you'll start seeing results in no time.

Weight loss tip 5 : Start a cardio + weights workout - A healthy weight loss programme is incomplete without a good exercise routine, and weight training mixed with cardio is the best way to lose weight. Of course, variations and forms exist, but any workout that stresses on muscle tone and increased heart rate will always help you lose weight and keep it off. You can either start a home workout today, or rely on gyms for fitness training.

Weight loss tip 6: Alter your snacking habits - At Health Me Up, we have several healthy snacking ideas for you. Set those French fries aside, skip that aerated drink, and ban those unhealthy deep fried samosas. Explore the healthy snack world and you will find several appetisers, party snacks, movie snacks and meal accompaniments that'll satisfy every craving of yours.

Weight loss tip 7: Have at least one active hobby - It isn't sufficient to rely on just 30 to 60 minutes of physical activity per day. Moving from bed to office chair, and back to bed, isn't a healthy way to live. Buy a motion sensor gaming console that lets you enjoy social games with friends and family, plan weekend trips, clean your house once a week, dance, play sports, the list is endless. Get out of the coffee shop and dining table rut, and you'll have fun along with the healthy weight loss.

Weight loss tip 8: Find a solution to combat stress - As we pointed out in our post about stress and weight loss, stress is always detrimental to healthy weight loss in the long run. Find ways to combat stress and you'll soon realise that your diet and exercise aren't sabotaged anymore, and that you truly do see results. Look at yoga, meditation, deep breathing exercises, or simple hobbies like reading to fight stress.

Weight loss tip 9: Drink plenty of water - You've known that your body relies heavily on water for all important bodily functions, and yet you skimp on drinking adequate quantities of water every day. Well, it's time to stop that. Check out some exciting ways to make water interesting and you'll be packing it away in no time. Do not forget to carry a water bottle to your workout, and take a few sips after every 2-3 minutes of exercise.

Weight loss tip 10: Plan healthy vacations - Why go all the way with healthy weight loss, when one tiny vacation will just come along and topple it all? Healthy vacations aren't impossible. Take a look at how you can eat smart on a holiday, and then at bodyweight workouts that you can carry with you wherever you go, to understand how to holiday right. Above all, remember that these are lifelong habits that'll help you stay fit forever and not short term weight loss quickfixes.

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How to lose weight without dieting

              While there are plenty of fad diets that may help you lose weight, they also leave you feeling hungry and food-deprived. For all those who don't have the time or inclination to undertake a crash diet or even hit the gym, we've got some great news. If you want to slim down the healthy and painless way, try the following strategies. After all, it's not what you eat but how you eat.

CHEW MORE, EAT LESS Studies show that the longer time you spend chewing, the lesser calories you consume. Chewing for longer prevents over-eating, by giving the brain more time to receive signals from the stomach that it is full. It is not only great for digesting, but it also helps in limiting your portion size. Try chewing your food 35 to 50 times per mouthful.

DON'T SKIP BREAKFAST No matter how late you are running to work, avoid missing breakfast. There is a reason why it is called the most important meal of the day. Your body (rather your brain) expects to be refueled a few times each day, so when you skip breakfast, you feel so hungry that when lunch time comes, you overeat or maybe choose foods items that are not the healthiest choices. Missing breakfast slows down your metabolism. More importantly, always eat your breakfast, within an hour of waking up, as your body has gone without food the entire night.

CONCENTRATE ON YOUR FOOD How many times has your mother reprimanded you to not talk, read or watch TV while eating food? Not without a reason. When you are multitasking during meal times, your brain isn't focussing on the amount of food that you are consuming and you are more prone to piling on pounds. This doesn't mean that you cannot enjoy a meal with your friends. You can do so, but just pay attention to what you are putting in your mouth!

DON'T OVERCOOK YOUR MEALS Overcooking food kills or reduces the number of nutrients your meal contains, and when you don't get enough nutrients, you don't feel satisfied and soon start to get junk food cravings. To combat this, try eating more raw foods like sushi and salads. Steam, bake, blanch or grill vegetables and grill or bake meat and fish. Avoid microwaving.

FRUITS BEFORE MEALS It is advisable to eat fruits at least 30 minutes before any heavy meal. This way, the fruits will digest quickly. Eating fruits on an empty stomach detoxifies your system and supplies you with a great deal of energy for losing weight.

HAVE SMALLER MEALS, MORE OFTEN Ideally, you should eat five to six times per day, with a two to three hour break between each meal or snack. Eating more frequently gets your metabolism going and keeps it working at an elevated level continuously throughout the day. But don't use this rule as an excuse to overeat.

AVOID EATING AFTER 8 PM It's good to eat your last meal before eight in the evening. This way you don't land up binging on a snack before dinner time. If you find it hard to resist, have some herbal tea or brush your teeth after dinner immediately to switch your mind off from the idea of eating.

THINK AND DRINK While everyone knows it's necessary to drink at least eight to 10 glasses of water, very few know when one should consume it. When you drink is as important as what you drink. If you drink water in-between meals, the liquid slows down digestion, diluting the acid in your stomach and so the nutrients from the food that you eat are not well absorbed. To avoid this try to drink water 15 minutes before or after a meal, and if you really need to drink while you eat, limit yourself to small sips only.

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The Top 10 Things to Do to Lose Weight

                  Are you lost in the sea of weight loss advice? You can lose weight immediately without having to know the differences between diets such as South Beach, Sonoma, Atkins, Dukan, Best Bet, Blood Type, the Healthy Six diet, and dozens of others. Do these eleven simple things to lose weight daily.

1. Join the Small Plate Movement

Serve your food from smaller plates and bowls. A three ounce serving on a 12-inch plate looks small, but the same serving on a 10-inch plate looks larger. An April 2005 study titled “Super Bowls: Serving Bowl Size and Food Consumption,” published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, found that when people eat from larger plates, they consume more food. In the study, the people who were given large bowls took 53% more food than the people who had smaller bowls.

2. Sleep at least 7 hours a day

The obesity rate in 1960′s America was about 12%, a time when people slept an average of 8.5 hours a night. Today, in 2011, obesity is around 30% and people sleep from 6.5 to 7 hours. This is not coincidence. When you sleep six hours or less before starting your day, your tired body craves sugary or high carbohydrate foods to replace the energy it lacks.

Doctors from the University of Chicago studied two hormone levels, ghrelin and leptin, in 12 healthy males while monitoring the men’s appetites and activity levels. When the men received less sleep their leptin levels decreased and ghrelin levels increased. Their appetites were significantly larger, resulting in a 45% increased demand for carbs and other high-calorie foods. Give your body enough rest to help avoid cravings for such foods.

3. Walk, Jog, Bike or Run

Whichever exercise(s) you choose, exercise smart instead of hard. Walking reduces “bad cholesterol”, low-density lipoprotein (LDL) while increasing “good cholesterol”, high-density lipoprotein (HDL). It lowers blood pressure and can even improve your mood. Jogging, running and bicycling are high-impact exercises. There is no need to push yourself like a tri-athlete to see the benefits. Start with a few minutes of stretching and then do your chosen exercise at least 3 days a week. Increase the length of your workout over time, as well as the number of days per week you exercise.

4. Eat chicken without the skin

The skin has the most calories on a piece of chicken. Did you know 30% of chicken skin is fat? A single, small piece of chicken (1/8″ x 1.5″ x 2″) contains 13 calories, half a gram of fat and 2 grams of protein. Remember that the number of calories in chicken depends on how it is cooked. Chicken that is cooked in its own liquid has more calories than chicken that is cooked in a way allowing for the liquid to drain off.

5. Eat your favorites instead of abandoning them

Rewards are an important aspect of dieting. Simply telling yourself, “No more sweets!” isn’t going to help you lose weight. For example, if you are leaving three favorite junk foods or candies out of your diet plan, set aside a day when you reward your efforts by eating one of those three foods absent from your diet. A sensible serving will not harm your progress.

6. Avoid coffee creamers

Single servings of liquid creamers, like Half & Half, contain 20 calories each. Table cream contains even more, with about 29 calories. The powdered varieties contain fewer calories; regular powdered creamers have 16 and “light” substitutes have 13 calories. Nearly all creamers contain 1-2 grams of fat, with the exception of light powdered creamers, which have about a half a gram of fat.

7. Eat spicy foods

According to Penn State’s Associate Professor of Biobehavioral Health, Sheila West, PhD, the spices cinnamon, turmeric, paprika, garlic powder, oregano and rosemary benefit the metabolism. Her team studied six overweight but healthy males, ages 30 to 65. After one week of normal food, then a second week of spicier alternatives, the men’s insulin and triglyceride levels lowered by 21% and 31% respectively. Although the sample size of participants was small, the results are prompting other researchers to pursue larger studies.

8. Reduce your stress level

Hormones, like adrenalin and CRH, release when you’re too stressed, decreasing your appetite for a short time. This is known as the “fight or flight” response, but when the stressors are events that you can neither fight nor flee from, you eat more. Shawn Talbott, PhD, author of “The Cortisol Connection” points out that since we aren’t physically fighting our way out of danger, we’re not releasing the calories we would otherwise. Most stressors in 21st century first world nations, he says, leaves us “to sit and stew in our frustration and anger…” Identify the source(s) of stress and either eliminate or reduce them.

Stop watching 24/7 news coverage of worldwide atrocities. Don’t let disagreements turn into arguments. Take a walk, swim, jog, listen to music, play a game… do anything – except overeating, obviously – to reduce your stress level.

9. Choose actual fruits over fruit juices

Unlike chicken skin, which contains 30% of the fat that poultry has, edible fruit skins contain most of the nutrients of the fruit. Among these are:

blueberries
raspberries
strawberries
prunes
plums
grapes
raisins
pears
apricots
figs
apples

Most juicing processes actually remove these skins, reducing the nutrients significantly. Like the skin, pulp is also a good source of fiber, which is critical for a good diet. Advertisements, especially for orange juice, claim that pulp is added to the juice. While that is true in some cases, the pulp has to be “added” because it was removed in the juicing process to begin with. Whole fruits always contain more nutrients than their processed derivatives.

10. Use salads as appetizers

A salad is not just a healthy choice, it reduces your appetite for the more calorie-dense meal that follows. Eat any kind of salad before a calorie-rich meal so you will consume smaller portions of the main dish. This will help increase your stock of leftovers, which you can eat later, or give to a family member, friend, or a diet buddy.

Dieting does not have to be a nightmare of consuming bland foods, swearing off treats forever, and becoming irritable over major sacrifices. Eat good foods on smaller plates, lower your fat intake, burn some calories, sleep well, and reward yourself with your favorite treats. Dieting can be a fun experience enjoyed either on your own, or shared with friends.

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