Weight Loss Tips and Lean and Mean Diet Tips

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Here are some great tips on how to lose some weight. This is going to give you some ideas of what is a good diet for speeding up your metabolism. Eating and performing some exercise and you will see may be the diet on how to get thin, if you stick with it.

Everyone has heard of the diet one day, eat what you want the next. Well you may see some success, but probably not what you are looking for. Use these diet and exercise tips, and you are going to speed up your metabolism and lose weight. These are some foods that boost metabolism. So enjoy, here goes:

Try to Limit your choices of food

I know…..THAT’S BORING!!!! Let me give you an example of this practice… Now, for this to work, you need a well planned diet. Assuming you planned a good diet, eating the same foods limits your calorie intake everyday without the possibility of more calories sneaking in. Also, you train yourself to eat at the proper times with no long periods between meals. Limit your choices for a few weeks and check the scale.

Limit juices and sodas

Real fruit juices may be nutritious but they’re loaded with calories. What’s bad about drinking diet sodas? Soda’s are also loaded with calories. Drink at least 1 glass of water for every 14 - 20 pounds of body-weight you now carry around, which is what your body really needs … and cut other liquid consumption down as much as possible.

Cut your unhealthy carbs (sugars and high starch carbs)

Start by having a rule…..NO SECONDS. Also reduce your portion of food by a third. The best way to do this is take your normal portion of food and put back one third. You don’t have to waste the food, just wrap and refrigerate for another day or give a second helping to other family members.

Eat more raw vegetables

What are the best vegetables to eat for weight loss? Raw vegetables are, by far, the best source of energy you can give to your body. Eating more fresh, raw vegetables will drastically improve your health, increase your energy level, and help you burn a bunch more body fat.

Avoid fried foods

There are great ways to prepare your foods without frying. Keep watching for future editions of this newsletter for tasty recipes. If you just can’t do without your fried chicken (or fried anything) then eat them only after you’ve had a large portion of raw vegetables and/or salad - and even then try to cut the portion size down to 1/4 or 1/2. Also, if you currently eat fried chicken two times a week then eat it once a week.

Move around more

You don’t need to exercise to lose weight but it sure helps. By moving around more you expend more calories per day. People who stand all day versus those who sit burn much more calories per day because the body requires more calories to stand than to sit. Moral of the story is stand instead of sit (when reasonable), walk at every opportunity. Park further away in the lot and walk more. Look for ways to move around more so you can burn more calories. Keep in mind, strenuous exercise will not necessarily make you lose weight. Jogging for an half hour burns about 300 calories but a Snickers Bar could offset the jog. It all depends on your diet.

Exercise tip for the insatiably lazy: Chew gum most of the day and you’ll burn several hundred additional calories each and every day. Take time to stretch while sitting at your desk and you’ll burn even more calories. Never could get through a full 30 minute workout??? Then break it up into 3 ten minute workouts each day. Never could schedule in 4 - 5 workout each week??? Then get the 2 day Workout and get great results while only exercising 2 short, but effective workouts each week.

Find a friend and have a contest

Contests between friends can greatly motivate you to lose weight. Find one or more people who are trying to lose weight and have a contest. Make the contest last a month to see who loses the most weight. Of course, everyone should weigh in at the same time. This works better with 4 or more people but the idea is to support and motivate each other. Be there to support each other. Keep one another accountable to good eating habits and exercise.

Set reasonable goals

You don’t have to be the person who loses the most weight the fastest…in fact most people with that attitude end up failing miserably, then gain everything they did lose back in a few weeks. However, you can be the one who consistently loses several pounds every week until you reach your dream body - and that’s really motivating!!!

There you have some great ideas and diet tips. Put them to use and take a look at the scale in a few weeks. Let me know how you are doing. If you really want to take this to the next level, you must learn more about Maximize your Metabolism. This is a wonderful product and I recommend it highly.