Best Weight Loss Tips

Everyone is becoming more and more conscious about maintaining a slim figure and a healthy diet and exercise routine.  Writing and reading about weight loss strategies has never been more popular than it is today.  Here is a concise listing of some tips that will help you lose weight effectively.

Diet

The most important rule you have to follow while eating for weight loss is – learning how to control your daily food intake.  To accomplish this you should initially fix a target number of calories to be consumed every day.  To keep an exact count of the calories that you have consumed during the day, you should maintain a diary where you can note down everything you have eaten that day along with the calories it contained.  In this manner, you can control your calorie intake successfully.

While counting the calories, it is important to keep the diet balanced and nutritious, within the calorie limit.  There is no point in losing weight and losing out on nutrition also.  Weight loss should complement healthy eating.

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Do you eat more when you are down or do you eat a lot more when you feel happy?  Both practices are ill-advised.  It takes great effort to maintain the same calorie intake routine day after day after day, irrespective of how you may be feeling that day or that moment.   Try to remember that food maintains your health and depriving yourself of meals or gorging in, just because you are too upset or too happy would be a stumbling block in your endeavor for weight loss.  

Diet Tips for Weight Loss

• Don’t make the diet plan monotonous.  Add the foods you like to it.  If it has more calories, cut down on calories in some other meal to eat your favorite snack – and you can also substitute low-fat products for most recipes to eat them as well
• Use weighing scales for measuring ingredients before preparing meals
• Measure alcohol before you consume it

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Motivation

Ask your friends to motivate you to keep up the food and exercise regimen. They are especially wanted when you are ready to give up the diet and exercise routine when you are feeling down and out.  Share your dreams with your friends and believe in them yourself!

Motivation Tip

• Once you have lost a couple of pounds and have come down a few sizes, buy yourself new clothes
• Place a photograph of yourself taken before you gained weight, in the kitchen… this should provide some motivation to stick to your diet!

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Exercise for Weight Loss

The types of exercises for weight loss are aerobics, stretching exercises, strength training (exercises that make muscles stronger and improve metabolism like body-building, weight-lifting, and so on), and yoga.   The right kind of exercise is the most significant step towards losing weight.  Exercise helps you burn calories better, keeps you alert and healthy, and helps maintain ideal body weight, once you have lost the extra pounds.  Start on simple exercises.

Work out for 25 to 30 minutes.  Maintain a thrice-weekly routine of this exercise.  Once you get comfortable with the routine, start increasing both the duration and frequency, until you can easily set aside 40 to 50 minutes a day for 5 to 6 days every week for your exercise regimen.   Add variety to your exercise routine, by including swimming, walking, tennis, cycling, and so on.