Friday, November 28, 2008

Methods to lose weight fast

By Cath Night

Here are ways to lose weight fast delivered by regular people as comments on various blogs or articles on line.

Eat grilled or boiled meat such as steak and chicken instead of fried meat. Add spices to make it taste even better.

Give up the soda. If you drink a soda or two every day you are adding empty calories. If you find it hard to stop completely, cut back at first and drink water instead|Stop drinking soda. Those are empty calories so stop drinking it and substitute water. (Note that the average person adds 90,000 calories a year from sipping juice or soda. WOW! That's a great tip.)

If there's no junk food at home you can't eat it. Make a list, shop the list.

Treat yourself at least once a week to the foods you really like. That will help you avoid binging with cravings. When you treat, don't go overboard.

Use a smaller plate to trick yourself into thinking you're eating more than you really are. (Not only are you tricking yourself, even if the trick doesn't work it's easier to stop eating when the plate is empty and there's no more food to eat.)

Rob a bank and get caught. They serve a balanced diet in prison. (Um, no. That's a bad idea.)

Stay away from fad diets. They starve you and then you eat more when the diet is over.

Do exercise multiple times a day. If you're watching television, do some push ups or crunches. (That's a great idea to increase the work outs.)

The three most important factors in healthy diet are portion control, portion control and portion control. (Portion control is a big part of a healthy diet. Most restaurants and even people at home serve too much food.)

Get really sick. After a month in the hospital I had lost 25 pounds. (Another bad idea. It's best to stick to ways to lose weight while remaining healthy. After all, the ultimate goal is good health.)

Create good eating habits through repetition. (It's said that if we repeat a thing 21 times it becomes a habit. Sometimes the number is different, but the idea is the same. Will power is only necessary to repeat something enough times for it to become|turn into a habit.)

Eat at a leisurely pace. The body doesn't feel full as fast as you can eat, so people tend to eat beyond full.

These are all great tips from regular people just like us. Most of them also happen to be common advice given by experts in safe weight loss. So ways to lose weight fast do exist, and they're not something only doctors can understand. - 15485

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