You probably know this already but the best way to lose weight fast, and to keep it off for good is to start making small and simple changes to your lifestyle – like doing a few simple exercises each day and making healthy food choices. Believe me, it’s very easy when you do it a bit at a time.
Don’t try to make too many changes all at once as this will soon become overpowering and you’ll need a lot of will power to make it stick. By making small changes slowly it’s a heck of a lot easier to incorporate those changes into your lifestyle and make them become part of it permanently.
A healthy and sustainable weight loss diet should include:
- Healthy portion sizes – use smaller plates if necessary but reduce those portion sizes.
- Pick foods high in natural fiber.
- Choose foods you actually enjoy – don’t eat foods you dislike as this makes your diet hard work and un-sustainable.
- Make sure you get all the nutrition your body needs for maximum health.
- An active lifestyle with regular forms of exercise (walking is a great exercise)
- Consistency – eat healthy food and take exercise every day.
Did you know that to lose 1lb of body weight, you need to eat 3500 calories less than your body needs, so losing a couple of pounds each and every week is not hard if you figure out how to burn off 7000 calories every week. The best way to lose weight this way is to reduce your calorie intake and burn the rest off with exercise.
- Walking burns about 300 calories per hour.
- Cycling burns about 350 calories per hour.
- Swimming burns about 400 calories per hour.
- Playing tennis / squash / racket ball burns about 400 calories per hour.
- Running can burn about 400 calories an hour.
A weight loss diet should contain about 1200 calories a day for women and 1800 a day for men. Don’t go lower than this as you then risk not getting all the nutrition your body needs, and worse still you’ll start to slow your metabolism which means it will become a lot harder for your body to burn fat as it goes into “starvation mode”.
