If losing weight was easy, everyone would look great and the world would be a boring place. Being overweight would be “cool” and “exotic” – just like most rare things are.
Unfortunately, losing weight isn’t easy, but, let’s keep it real – it’s not that hard either. Here are 19 totally timeless weight loss tips that will make you look sexy and feel awesome!
1. Don’t start your day without breakfast.
Eat breakfast. It’ll energize you for the day and keep your diet in check.
2. Keep the calories burning.
During your workout, rest no more than 30 seconds between exercises. This will dramatically bump your calorie burn.
3. Avoid late-night eating.
Finish eating three hours before bedtime. Your metabolism slows down when you sleep so you shift from fat burning to fat storage.
4. Don’t forget to use dumbbells.
Increase the strength component of your workout. Adding lean muscle to your body not only tones, it also increases your metabolism.
5. Eat smaller bites.
Use the three-bite rule with dessert: Have three small bites and put your fork down.
6. Don’t be stingy on sleep and rest.
Get six to eight hours of sleep a night. Without it, the appetite hormone ghrelin increases, which could result in weight gain. And schedule at least two three-minute breaks during the day to practice deep-breathing exercises. It will reduce the stress hormone cortisol, which builds fat around your midsection.
7. Don’t automatically give in to your cravings.
Before you eat, ask yourself, ‘Am I hungry?’. Unless a craving comes from hunger, eating won’t satisfy it.
8. Get your brain on board.
Be specific about your weight loss goal. The brain detects a difference between where you are and where you want to be, so when you’re specific, your brain throws resources like willpower at it.
9. Start with vegetables.
Eat in the right order. Eat vegetables first to naturally have more of them and ultimately eat fewer calories.
10. Don’t forget to snack often.
Eat every three to four hours so you’ll be equipped to say no to temptations.
11. Have an objective and set a goal.
Set a tangible goal with a firm deadline — for example, schedule an ‘after’ photo shoot. It will help you stay motivated.
12. Learn to forgo comfort.
Expect some discomfort. You’re leaving your comfort zone of old eating habits. Knowing that it can be uncomfortable will help you get through it.
13. Make you own lunch
Brown-bag it. According to a 2012 study by the University of Alberta, dieters who eat out for lunch even once a week lose 5 fewer pounds on average.
14. Never go grocery shopping hungry.
Always grocery-shop on a full stomach with a written list and a cart. Heavy baskets trigger instant-gratification decisions.
15. Keep a journal.
Keep a food journal. Women who do lose six pounds more on average, according to a 2015 study by the University California, Berkeley.
16. Avoid soda.
Put the soda down and step away. Regular soda drinking adds tons of unused, unwanted and unnecessary calories to your body and make muscles less likely to burn fat—double whammy.
17. Walk it off.
Take a 30-minute walk after each meal to burn a quick 100 calories.
18. Stop eating junk.
Stop putting junk into your body. If you eat crap, you’ll look like crap, and you’ll feel like crap. You are what you eat and you eat what you are. If you are lazy, you eat “lazy food” or, in other words, total junk that takes 1 minute to heat up, or 30 seconds to order on the phone. It’s that simple.
19. One last thing… you should try this 2-minute “after-dinner ritual” that
burns up to 2 pounds of belly fat per day…
“All
this by a 2-minute “after-dinner ritual?” I asked.
I
met an old friend for lunch last month and I was super impressed with how good
she looked.
She
said, “It’s not so much about the “after-dinner ritual”, but more about how it
gives you a regenerative form of deep sleep that is responsible for everything
we need to dramatically increase our fat burning metabolism and improve our
health and appearance.”
Even
though I was skeptical, I’ve been struggling with my weight over the last few
years, so I gave it a shot and watched the same video she did.
Well,
it’s only a couple weeks later and you know what they say about how “you can’t
transform your body overnight”…
They’re
right – it actually took me 16 days to lose 22 pounds.
Now
it’s my girlfriends asking ME what I’M doing differently 💅
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