Tuesday, June 14, 2011

Weight Loss Solutions


If you're looking for weight loss solutions, there are a number of options at your disposal.

Some of them cost money. Some of them cost time and energy. Some are effective. Some are not effective.

If you want to lose weight you could:
Get liposuction
Use fat burner drugs
Get gastric bypass
Go into a fasting period

Diet
Exercise


Out of all these 6 options, can you spot the two that will give you the permanent results in a safe and effective way?

They're diet and exercise, ofcourse.

Dieting and exercising costs you time and energy.

The others can be bought with money. But there are severe downsides sticking to each and every one.

Liposuction removes fat instantly but it the shock of this can cause problems to your body. Also, the results are not permanent, because you can regain that fat.

Fat burning drugs will cost you a fortune and will only cause you to lose a few percent of your body weight. When you stop taking them, you gain it all back.

Gastric bypass will make your stomach so small, you are at risk of becoming malnourished. Do you think it's easy to get all your nutrients from supplements?

Fasting will take the weight off fast. But the weight doesn't come from fat alone, but also from your muscle. Your body will start protesting and you will soon stop burning fat. Your health will be seriously damaged in the long run.

How To Lose Weight Fast

If possible, always seek your weight loss solution in the form of diet and exercise. Your diet is the fundamentation of your body's health and shape. Your exercise will boost your results by stimulating your metabolism tremendously.

When you get yourself on a weight loss diet, it has to be a healthy one. It has to contain all the proteins, carbohydrates and fats that your body require. It also has to give you an intentional calorie deficit so you can burn your excess fat.

Your exercise program has to have resistance training and cardio training in it.

The resistance training is weight lifting. This will allow you to hang on to your muscles. Your muscles burn calories even when you're not doing anything. Having muscles makes weight loss easier.

The cardio training will give you that extra metabolism boost that helps you in creating a calorie shortage. After all, if your body burns more calories, this expands the gap between the calories you take in and the calories your body burns.

Weight Loss Tips

Not only do you need to have your diet and exercise plan in order, there are many, many guidelines and rules of thumb that you can keep in mind.

Doing so will increase your chances of success.

So here are a few pointers for you!

1. Who says you have to finish your entire plate? Seriously... where did this idea come from? You don't need to overeat just for the sake of emptying that plate. If you've had enough food, stop!

2. Do not eat in front of the television. The television distracts your attention from your food. You won't appreciate it as much as when you simply sit down. It will increase the risk of you going for a snack later on.

3. Do not ever leave your home while feeling starved. Is your stomach rumbling so loud they can hear it all the way over in Tokyo? Before you leave the house, eat something that fills you up. A rice wafer with nut paste for example. These good fats will make you feel saturated. Especially if you down them with a glass of water.

4. Lay off the alcohol. Not only does alcohol contain a lot of calories, it can also affect your will power in a negative way. It might cause you to fall off the wagon and go for snacks.

5. Don't gobble down that food like a verocious dragon. Take the time to enjoy your meal. Eat slowly and cherish every mouthful. This way, you eliminate the risk of overeating. Your body has the time to signal that you've had enough so you can stop in time.

6. Be strong enough to resist treats. Leave them out of your view so you don't have to look at them the whole time. Better yet, don't even buy them! A healthy lifestyle starts in the supermarket!

7. Don't go shopping for food on an empty stomach. It will increase the risk of buying unhealthy things impulsively. It's a good way to sabotage your weight loss attempts.

8. Should you eat out of the house, make sure to ask for sauces and dressings that are low on fat and calories.

9. A good way to suppress your appetite naturally, is by drinking water before a meal. You could also have non-cream soup first. Like water, soup fills you up with only very little calories. You can protect yourself from overeating.

10. Make it a rule in your own home that you only have meals in your dining room. Don't fall prey to snacking everytime you pass the food cupboard.

Effective Weight Loss

The above list is by no means exhaustive. There are literally millions of rules you can be obeying. But sticking to a few dozen maximally should help you get where you want to go.

Overall, use your common sense. When you are going to go through a weight loss period, really don't touch the cookies and the candy bars.

A few cookies and candies here and there can't hurt you when you want to only maintain your weight.

When actually losing weight, you are asking a lot from your body. You must have the discipline to not give in to high calorie junkfood.

If you do, it will destroy your calorie deficit for the day. You will do all that effort and not get any results.

It takes persistance to get good results from a weight loss attempt. It is hard, I won't lie to you. But it is also worth the effort.

Keep in mind that you will spend most of your life maintaining your weight, which is much easier than losing it!

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