How to Lose Weight Quickly
With a large percentage of the world overweight or obese, how to lose weight quickly is on the mind of many people. The problem is, many methods to lose weight quickly aren’t safe or healthy at all. You want your weight loss to be sustainable, repeatable, and compatible with your lifestyle.
Here are some ways to lose weight that can provide satisfying results both short and long term.
Drink Lots of Water: staying hydrated is important when you want to lose weight. Drink several 10 ounce glasses of water per day for faster weight loss. This makes it easier for your body to flush the fat away. If you don’t drink much, your body will think it needs to conserve or retain most of the liquid you consume. Also, the first few weeks much of what the weight you lose is “water weight”, you need to drink water so that you don’t become dehydrated.
Portion Control: losing weight quickly is all about what you eat and put into your body. Most people naturally just try to quit eating to lose weight fast. This is neither effective for the long term goal of keeping off the weight, or healthy. If you don’t eat, your body will try to conserve the food you do consume, making it harder to lose weight. In addition, the weight you do lose fast will mainly also be mostly water (and not real fat). The most sensible way to lose weight fast is by cutting down your portions, but still eating 5-6 times per day with a total 1200-1500 calories.
Physical Activity: many people want to lose weight quickly without doing any exercise at all, and others think that they can lose weight faster by “over-exercising”. The truth is, for proper balance you want to get some kind of physical activity every day that raises your heart rate above 160 for 20-30 minutes. It will release endorphins in the body that help keep you from getting depressed when losing weight, helps you digest food, and creates a lifestyle change that makes it easier to lose weight for the long term.
Cook from Scratch: some people have gained weight over time because they’ve been eating out or cooking convenient boxed and processed food for too long. When you cook from scratch you’ll not only find you’re more in control of your diet, but you’ll specifically find out what food elements you should eat in moderation. Use fresh vegetables and fruit, less starches (carbs), cook with wheat or whole grain, use healthier oils – all will help you lose weight fast.
Lifestyle Change: The key to losing weight fast (and keeping it off) is to embrace it as a new way of life – a lifestyle change. Clean out your cupboards and throw or give away all the food that is not good for you. Get rid of all the processed boxes meal makers, and force yourself to cook healthy meals from scratch with fresh ingredients that are low in fat, sugar, and carbs. Losing weight on a crash diet that doesn’t teach you anthing will only lead to to the yo-yo syndrome of gaining and losing weight repetively for the rest of your life.
Don’t just strive to lose weight quickly, enable yourself to lose it and stay healthy for a lifetime.
My lifestyle change has been dramatic, and I’ve been documenting all of the Weight Loss Recipes we been cooking on my other blog.
