Welcome towards the Lose Weight Diet's free list of weight loss tips. The
purpose here isn't to just provide you with a big list of tips, but to also help
you separate the useful tips in the useless ones.
I consider a weight loss tip to be anything that could by any means be helpful to a person looking to lose weight. It could have something related to your diet plan or workout program, or maybe just the mental facet of weight loss such as staying motivated and sticking to your diet plan. It could just be some way of improving your lifestyle in order that it becomes more ideal for losing weight.
Really, any piece of information that could positively benefit someone attempting to lose weight will be included on this list. Also, along with each weight reduction tip will be sort of a "tip review. " By which i mean I will include my own common sense opinion from the usefulness of that tip. You're welcome to disagree with this opinion obviously, however in most cases you'll probably be thinking the identical thing.
This list of weight loss tips will be updated with an ongoing basis, by the way. So, whenever something new pops into my head or somehow involves my attention, I'll be sure to add it to this particular list.
Tip rating system:
A - Would probably be helpful to everyone, and I myself do it.
B - Could be helpful to some people.
F - Useless, or stupid, or unsafe, or any mixture of the three.
Take the stairs instead of the elevator.
This is among the most popular weight loss tips on this list. I've seen that one everywhere. But, let's be honest here... unless you live or focus on the 400th floor, taking the stairs instead of the elevator isn't going to do much for you when it comes to losing weight. Sure, you'll walk a little extra, and that is obviously always good. But uh, 1 or 2 flights of stairs several times a week won't have much (if any) effect on the weight reduction of most people.
Tip Rating: B
I gave this one a B rather than an F because I don't want to sound like I'm discouraging extra walking of any sort. Yes, walking is great for everyone. However, don't expect an intermittent flight of stairs to make 20 pounds disappear.
Workout in the morning so there is less chance of missing your workout.
I actually do this, but not out of fear that I may skip my workout. However, I can see how this would occur to people. Something might come up, you might get tired, you may forget, who knows. What I do know is that you will find more possible reasons for why a person would miss a good work out at 6pm than there would be at 6am. Your noisy alarms rings off, you eat, and you go workout. There's very little time in there for something to get in the way or for you to generate an excuse. So...
Tip Rating: B
This weight loss tip has a lot related to your schedule, though. I realize that a lot of people workout within the afternoon or at night because they just can't workout every other time. This tip is more for the people who have the choice of getting their workout in early if they wanted in order to.
Keep a workout and diet log or journal.
I'm a large fan of this one. Progress is made by improving on what you've already done. This applies to workout progress, as well. Want to get stronger? Want to increase muscle? If therefore, you're going to need to make progress. To do that you are going to need to keep track of how much weight you lifted and the number of sets and reps you lifted it for on each physical exercise. By knowing this information, you'll know exactly what you have to do in your workout the next time in order to improve onto it.
Were you able to do a certain exercise for a particular weight for 8 reps? Next time try doing 10 reps from the same weight, or try adding 5 pounds and getting exactly the same 8 reps. This type of progress is what causes muscle mass and strength gains, and it is only possible when you know exactly what you did the previous workout to help you improve it.
As you learned throughout The Lose Weight Diet plan, one of the most important parts of your weight loss diet plan is monitoring how many calories and grams of protein, carbs and fat you're eating every day. No matter how great you think your memory is, keeping a log from it all (on paper, on the computer, on fitday. com, and so on. ) is the only way you'll be able to keep an eye on it as accurately as possible.
Tip Rating: A
There isn't any reason to not do this one. It's extremely important.
Plan and ready your meals in advance.
You know what makes sticking to your diet plan real easy? When you plan what you're going to eat ahead of time and, if possible, have it ready for you. For instance, I know I'll be eating egg whites as part of my breakfast each and every morning. By knowing this I can figure out how often I have to buy eggs so they're always in the house. I never wake up wondering what I will eat or if I'm going to find something I Ought to be eating. I also know I'm going to eat tuna seafood, whole wheat bread, brown rice, chicken breasts, nuts, vegetables, and so on. every single day. I have it all ready and waiting all the time.
By planning what you're going to eat in advance and having it prepared for you personally when possible, you greatly lower your chances of eating something don't be eating.
Tip Rating: A
Everyone reading this needs to stay as strict and consistent because they can with their diet plan, and this tip helps which happen.
Sleep enough!
Hold on. If you're thinking "Wait, have you been saying I can lose weight just by sleeping? AWESOME!!!! " you would be slightly mistaken. Sleep alone will not cause weight loss. It'll however help. There are a bunch of science-y reasons with this, and if you are in the 1% of people reading this who wish to know those reasons, email me and I'll explain. If you're within the other 99%, just know that sleeping enough will indeed help unwanted weight loss.
That's not all though. You know what it feels as though when you're tired? You become lazy. You don't feel such as doing anything. Well, when you're goal is losing weight, you cannot be lazy and you can't feel like not doing something. Sleeping enough will eliminate this problem.
Tip Rating: A
Indeed, you just read "sleep enough" on a list of weight reduction tips. This one is really as easy as they obtain. You have no excuse.
Keep junk food out of your home.
You know all of that really tasty junk food that's high in saturated fat and useless calories that serves no positive purpose besides being yummy? Good. Then you also probably know you really should not be eating any of it. One way to stop eating junk food is to stop putting yourself capable of eat junk food. By having these types of foods within your house you are obviously going to be much more likely to consume it than if they weren't there. So... throw out/give away whatever junk food you have within your house now and don't buy anymore.
Tip Rating: B
This tip isn't for everybody. It's mainly for 3 types of people... those a little lower in the will power department, those who eat when they're bored stiff, and those who live alone or live with people who don't eat unhealthy foods. I mentioned the 3rd type because I know a large amount of people live with family/friends who eat junk food constantly therefore making it impossible for you to just stop having it in the home. I know what that's like.
For me, I have the perseverence to not care or let it bother me at just about all. If you're like that too, great. If not, you possess 2 choices. TRY to get like that, or try to convince the other people in the home to cut down on the junk food. Even if they do not care about weight loss, junk food is still unhealthy for them whether they are attempting to lose weight or not.
Drink hot water.
They say drinking hot water rather than cold water will help speed up your metabolism and assist you to burn more calories.
Tip Rating: F
Stupid, stupid, stupid AS WELL AS useless. I'm not saying that this isn't true. I'm not saying that warm water won't have a different effect on your metabolism than chilly water. What I am saying is that any supposed benefit would be so slight that it might be a complete waste of time and effort to even provide it another second of thought. These are weight loss ideas, not time loss tips. If you want to lose pounds, focus on your diet and your workout. If you wish to burn your tongue, drink hot water.
Eat right AND work out.
Like I mentioned back in Phase 1 of The Slim down Diet, it is technically possible to lose weight through JUST your daily diet or JUST your workout. However, for best weight loss results and for best general health, you should do it through a combination of both. This can also make it easier to keep the weight off as soon as it's gone.
Tip Rating: A
What more needs to end up being said? Do both.
Set realistic goals.
No one wants to just slim down, they want to lose it FAST. They want huge outcomes... quickly. The only problem is, weight loss doesn't happen quick. Results don't come quickly. The reason you need to know the reason being setting goals that can't be reached will make you very depressed and discouraged whenever you realize you didn't reach them. You are basically setting yourself as much as fail.
Forget everything you've ever seen or heard. Every advertisement for a weightloss routine, pill, machine, or product of any kind is lying for you. The people who claim to have lost huge amounts of weight in insanely short amounts of time are lying to you. Those amazing before and after photos are lies. Yes, really. Like I mentioned in the slim down fast article, the only way you are going to lose 40 pounds in 1 month is for those who have some sort of chainsaw accident.
When you set realistic objectives, like losing 1 pound a week or losing 6 pounds per month or losing 60 pounds a year, goals that can really be reached, you are setting yourself up to succeed.
(I'll admit that whole "setting yourself as much as succeed" line was pretty lame, but really, it's true. )
Suggestion Rating: A
Weight loss is all about persistence. And, setting crazy goals that you can't reach and then not really reaching them is an extremely common reason for a person to stop. To avoid that, set realistic goals.
Change how you eat the food.
This one is actually a compilation of similar weight loss tips all revolving around ways people attempting to lose weight should eat their food to almost "trick" themselves into refusing to eat more than they should.
For example, eat slower. The faster you finish the food, the more likely you are to eat extra food. Gnaw slowly. Put your fork down after every mouthful. Take a minute break in the center of eating. Take smaller bites. Drink water before/during eating so you receive full faster. Instead of starting off with your full helping amount, take half a serving and then go back with regard to seconds. Use smaller plates. Etc., etc., etc..
Tip Rating: W
As much as I really want to give this one a huge F, I can't. You see, to me, this tip is actually stupid and useless. I know there are people out there who have the same way. But, for every person like us there is most likely someone else thinking "Ya know, if I took smaller bites it would feel like I ate more than I actually did. " I can not really argue with that. If you think something will assist you to, go for it.
Workout on the same days, at exactly the same times.
Working out is obviously an important part of weight reduction. And, the best way to stick to your workout is to show your workout into something that just gets done without really considering it. Make it a regular part of your life. You understand how you just know to brush your teeth after you awaken? In that same way you should just know to work out. It needs to become part of your normal routine. The easiest method to accomplish this is to workout at the same times, on a single days.
If you workout on random days at random times you become prone to miss a workout. If you train yourself to workout on the strict schedule, it will become much harder for you in order to break from that schedule. That of course means you will not miss workouts.
Tip Rating: A
This one obviously depends by yourself personal schedule, but no matter what kind of schedule you've, you should try to workout on the same days from the week at the same times of the day. For me it's to the stage now where I know what day it is by what Used to do in the gym that day. "What day is it? Oh yea right, I did chest and triceps. It's Monday. " When your workout becomes such a regular part in your life, you'll see how hard to becomes to miss one.
I consider a weight loss tip to be anything that could by any means be helpful to a person looking to lose weight. It could have something related to your diet plan or workout program, or maybe just the mental facet of weight loss such as staying motivated and sticking to your diet plan. It could just be some way of improving your lifestyle in order that it becomes more ideal for losing weight.
Really, any piece of information that could positively benefit someone attempting to lose weight will be included on this list. Also, along with each weight reduction tip will be sort of a "tip review. " By which i mean I will include my own common sense opinion from the usefulness of that tip. You're welcome to disagree with this opinion obviously, however in most cases you'll probably be thinking the identical thing.
This list of weight loss tips will be updated with an ongoing basis, by the way. So, whenever something new pops into my head or somehow involves my attention, I'll be sure to add it to this particular list.
Tip rating system:
A - Would probably be helpful to everyone, and I myself do it.
B - Could be helpful to some people.
F - Useless, or stupid, or unsafe, or any mixture of the three.
Take the stairs instead of the elevator.
This is among the most popular weight loss tips on this list. I've seen that one everywhere. But, let's be honest here... unless you live or focus on the 400th floor, taking the stairs instead of the elevator isn't going to do much for you when it comes to losing weight. Sure, you'll walk a little extra, and that is obviously always good. But uh, 1 or 2 flights of stairs several times a week won't have much (if any) effect on the weight reduction of most people.
Tip Rating: B
I gave this one a B rather than an F because I don't want to sound like I'm discouraging extra walking of any sort. Yes, walking is great for everyone. However, don't expect an intermittent flight of stairs to make 20 pounds disappear.
Workout in the morning so there is less chance of missing your workout.
I actually do this, but not out of fear that I may skip my workout. However, I can see how this would occur to people. Something might come up, you might get tired, you may forget, who knows. What I do know is that you will find more possible reasons for why a person would miss a good work out at 6pm than there would be at 6am. Your noisy alarms rings off, you eat, and you go workout. There's very little time in there for something to get in the way or for you to generate an excuse. So...
Tip Rating: B
This weight loss tip has a lot related to your schedule, though. I realize that a lot of people workout within the afternoon or at night because they just can't workout every other time. This tip is more for the people who have the choice of getting their workout in early if they wanted in order to.
Keep a workout and diet log or journal.
I'm a large fan of this one. Progress is made by improving on what you've already done. This applies to workout progress, as well. Want to get stronger? Want to increase muscle? If therefore, you're going to need to make progress. To do that you are going to need to keep track of how much weight you lifted and the number of sets and reps you lifted it for on each physical exercise. By knowing this information, you'll know exactly what you have to do in your workout the next time in order to improve onto it.
Were you able to do a certain exercise for a particular weight for 8 reps? Next time try doing 10 reps from the same weight, or try adding 5 pounds and getting exactly the same 8 reps. This type of progress is what causes muscle mass and strength gains, and it is only possible when you know exactly what you did the previous workout to help you improve it.
As you learned throughout The Lose Weight Diet plan, one of the most important parts of your weight loss diet plan is monitoring how many calories and grams of protein, carbs and fat you're eating every day. No matter how great you think your memory is, keeping a log from it all (on paper, on the computer, on fitday. com, and so on. ) is the only way you'll be able to keep an eye on it as accurately as possible.
Tip Rating: A
There isn't any reason to not do this one. It's extremely important.
Plan and ready your meals in advance.
You know what makes sticking to your diet plan real easy? When you plan what you're going to eat ahead of time and, if possible, have it ready for you. For instance, I know I'll be eating egg whites as part of my breakfast each and every morning. By knowing this I can figure out how often I have to buy eggs so they're always in the house. I never wake up wondering what I will eat or if I'm going to find something I Ought to be eating. I also know I'm going to eat tuna seafood, whole wheat bread, brown rice, chicken breasts, nuts, vegetables, and so on. every single day. I have it all ready and waiting all the time.
By planning what you're going to eat in advance and having it prepared for you personally when possible, you greatly lower your chances of eating something don't be eating.
Tip Rating: A
Everyone reading this needs to stay as strict and consistent because they can with their diet plan, and this tip helps which happen.
Sleep enough!
Hold on. If you're thinking "Wait, have you been saying I can lose weight just by sleeping? AWESOME!!!! " you would be slightly mistaken. Sleep alone will not cause weight loss. It'll however help. There are a bunch of science-y reasons with this, and if you are in the 1% of people reading this who wish to know those reasons, email me and I'll explain. If you're within the other 99%, just know that sleeping enough will indeed help unwanted weight loss.
That's not all though. You know what it feels as though when you're tired? You become lazy. You don't feel such as doing anything. Well, when you're goal is losing weight, you cannot be lazy and you can't feel like not doing something. Sleeping enough will eliminate this problem.
Tip Rating: A
Indeed, you just read "sleep enough" on a list of weight reduction tips. This one is really as easy as they obtain. You have no excuse.
Keep junk food out of your home.
You know all of that really tasty junk food that's high in saturated fat and useless calories that serves no positive purpose besides being yummy? Good. Then you also probably know you really should not be eating any of it. One way to stop eating junk food is to stop putting yourself capable of eat junk food. By having these types of foods within your house you are obviously going to be much more likely to consume it than if they weren't there. So... throw out/give away whatever junk food you have within your house now and don't buy anymore.
Tip Rating: B
This tip isn't for everybody. It's mainly for 3 types of people... those a little lower in the will power department, those who eat when they're bored stiff, and those who live alone or live with people who don't eat unhealthy foods. I mentioned the 3rd type because I know a large amount of people live with family/friends who eat junk food constantly therefore making it impossible for you to just stop having it in the home. I know what that's like.
For me, I have the perseverence to not care or let it bother me at just about all. If you're like that too, great. If not, you possess 2 choices. TRY to get like that, or try to convince the other people in the home to cut down on the junk food. Even if they do not care about weight loss, junk food is still unhealthy for them whether they are attempting to lose weight or not.
Drink hot water.
They say drinking hot water rather than cold water will help speed up your metabolism and assist you to burn more calories.
Tip Rating: F
Stupid, stupid, stupid AS WELL AS useless. I'm not saying that this isn't true. I'm not saying that warm water won't have a different effect on your metabolism than chilly water. What I am saying is that any supposed benefit would be so slight that it might be a complete waste of time and effort to even provide it another second of thought. These are weight loss ideas, not time loss tips. If you want to lose pounds, focus on your diet and your workout. If you wish to burn your tongue, drink hot water.
Eat right AND work out.
Like I mentioned back in Phase 1 of The Slim down Diet, it is technically possible to lose weight through JUST your daily diet or JUST your workout. However, for best weight loss results and for best general health, you should do it through a combination of both. This can also make it easier to keep the weight off as soon as it's gone.
Tip Rating: A
What more needs to end up being said? Do both.
Set realistic goals.
No one wants to just slim down, they want to lose it FAST. They want huge outcomes... quickly. The only problem is, weight loss doesn't happen quick. Results don't come quickly. The reason you need to know the reason being setting goals that can't be reached will make you very depressed and discouraged whenever you realize you didn't reach them. You are basically setting yourself as much as fail.
Forget everything you've ever seen or heard. Every advertisement for a weightloss routine, pill, machine, or product of any kind is lying for you. The people who claim to have lost huge amounts of weight in insanely short amounts of time are lying to you. Those amazing before and after photos are lies. Yes, really. Like I mentioned in the slim down fast article, the only way you are going to lose 40 pounds in 1 month is for those who have some sort of chainsaw accident.
When you set realistic objectives, like losing 1 pound a week or losing 6 pounds per month or losing 60 pounds a year, goals that can really be reached, you are setting yourself up to succeed.
(I'll admit that whole "setting yourself as much as succeed" line was pretty lame, but really, it's true. )
Suggestion Rating: A
Weight loss is all about persistence. And, setting crazy goals that you can't reach and then not really reaching them is an extremely common reason for a person to stop. To avoid that, set realistic goals.
Change how you eat the food.
This one is actually a compilation of similar weight loss tips all revolving around ways people attempting to lose weight should eat their food to almost "trick" themselves into refusing to eat more than they should.
For example, eat slower. The faster you finish the food, the more likely you are to eat extra food. Gnaw slowly. Put your fork down after every mouthful. Take a minute break in the center of eating. Take smaller bites. Drink water before/during eating so you receive full faster. Instead of starting off with your full helping amount, take half a serving and then go back with regard to seconds. Use smaller plates. Etc., etc., etc..
Tip Rating: W
As much as I really want to give this one a huge F, I can't. You see, to me, this tip is actually stupid and useless. I know there are people out there who have the same way. But, for every person like us there is most likely someone else thinking "Ya know, if I took smaller bites it would feel like I ate more than I actually did. " I can not really argue with that. If you think something will assist you to, go for it.
Workout on the same days, at exactly the same times.
Working out is obviously an important part of weight reduction. And, the best way to stick to your workout is to show your workout into something that just gets done without really considering it. Make it a regular part of your life. You understand how you just know to brush your teeth after you awaken? In that same way you should just know to work out. It needs to become part of your normal routine. The easiest method to accomplish this is to workout at the same times, on a single days.
If you workout on random days at random times you become prone to miss a workout. If you train yourself to workout on the strict schedule, it will become much harder for you in order to break from that schedule. That of course means you will not miss workouts.
Tip Rating: A
This one obviously depends by yourself personal schedule, but no matter what kind of schedule you've, you should try to workout on the same days from the week at the same times of the day. For me it's to the stage now where I know what day it is by what Used to do in the gym that day. "What day is it? Oh yea right, I did chest and triceps. It's Monday. " When your workout becomes such a regular part in your life, you'll see how hard to becomes to miss one.
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