You are staring at your umpteenth bland plate of salad or bowl
of cabbage soup, while hubby and the kids tuck greedily into
steaming, mouth-watering dinners. Does this sound familiar? How
about the frustration of seeing the pounds you have just lost,
reappearing overnight accompanied by a bunch of unwelcome
friends? What if you could discover how to lose 100 pounds in
one year and keep it off forever, without once taking a peek at
a diet book or popping a weight loss pill? These 9 tips are all
you need for a running start.
1. Learning The Right Moves
Every extra bit of activity helps you to lose weight and revs
up your metabolism. Get going now! You don't necessarily need an
expensive gym membership, an elliptical cross trainer or a stair
climber. Why not try a dancing, yoga or pilates class? Or what
about a swimming session, a brisk walk or a fun bicycle ride?
Any activity is acceptable. Just choose something you will enjoy
doing, otherwise you will soon be coming up with excuses to skip
it. Exercise for half an hour daily, five times a week and you
will be burning roughly 98,800 calories extra every year (around
380 calories per day). The calories burned will vary according
to your body weight, the workout you opt for, and the level of
intensity. This vital step will make up to 28 pounds disappear
over a period of a year.
2. Stop Sneaking Sugar
Are you dumping teaspoon after teaspoon of sugar into your
beverages without thinking? By reducing your sugar intake by one
teaspoon in three cups of tea or coffee per day, you will save
75 calories daily. This adds up to 27,375 calories every year,
or around 8 pounds of body weight. Your taste buds will soon
adjust. In fact, within a week or two, you will begin to detest
overly sweet tea and coffee.
3. Hop From Whole Milk To Skim Milk
While on the subject of tea and coffee: Did you know that whole
milk has a fat content of 4%, whereas skim milk comes with less
than 0.5% fat? This reduces one cup of skim milk's calorie count
to 86, compared to whole milk's 149 calories. Switching to a
cup of skim milk a day will reduce your calorie intake with 60
per day. In one year, this is a further 22,000 unnecessary
calories. This translates into 6 pounds weight-wise.
4. Feast On Fat-Free Tubs Rather Than Full-Fat Yogurt
Why not exchange the 6 ounces of full-fat yogurt for 6 ounces
of the fat-free variation? This will take away another 100
calories every single day, without a noticeable change in taste.
Taken over a year, the count is a whopping 36,500 calories.
There goes yet another 10 pounds of flab.
5. Minimize The Mayonnaise
You don't have to cut this delicacy out completely. Just be
somewhat less generous with it. If you can reduce your daily
intake by 1 tablespoon, you will bank another 90 calories a day,
or an astonishing 32,800 calories per year. Who's game for
dropping another 9 pounds of body weight? All this while you
still indulge in your regular, healthy recipes.
6. Turn Wine Into Water
Say no to 4 fluid ounces or roughly 120 milliliters of wine a
day, and you will reduce your diet and nutrition plan's calories
by 100 a day. Tot these up and you reach 36,500 calories per
year. That is another fairly easy to maintain 10 pounds in one
year. Learn to sip water instead.
7. Say No To Sugar-Laden Soda
While on the subject of beverages, you may want to take a look
at those cans of sweetened soda guzzled down without a thought.
A single 12 ounce (355ml) serving daily comes at a yearly
calorie cost of 65,700! Breaking this habit will take care of 18
pounds of flab and fat. In fact, these numbers are likely to be
even better, as many servings these days are more in the 20
ounce or 42 ounce region. Measure out 250 cups of sugar, and you
will see what you or your kids gulp down in a year. Is that a
scary thought, or what?
In addition to the weight you will lose, your digestive system
is likely to function more efficiently. You will also have a
less acidic body, making your insides less of a breeding ground
for ailments. Your wellbeing will improve drastically once your
body's PH gets into a more normal range. You will also support
your dentist less regularly. Don't worry, you won't die of
thirst. How about drinking some ordinary water, fresh veggie
juice, or one of the refreshing, unsweetened iced teas on the
market? You body will see this as much needed health news.
8. Have A Spread With Low-Sugar Jam
Another simple to implement change is to swop your twice-a-day
two teaspoons of sweetened jam or preserves for one of the tasty
low-sugar alternatives. This trims another 64 calories a day, or
23,360 calories yearly. Do you choose a jam jar body, or 7
pounds less in the flab department?
9. Opt For Popcorn Pleasure
Every time you crunch through one small bag (1 ounce or 28
grams) of potato chips, you add 150 calories, with loads of fat
and no fibre. In contrast, 1 cup of air popped Sour Cream &
Chives popcorn is fibre-rich and fat-free and weighs in at only
50 calories. This is another massive saving of 100 calories. If
this swop happens just 3 times a week, you have taken off 15,600
calories in a year, or 4,5 pounds.
None of these changes are huge, but the results can be
life-changing. Best of all, they can be sustained without
hardship. By taking a look at what you eat, you should be able
to dream up at least another 10 tips to cut calories. By doing
so, you will be creating your own easy-to-manage weight loss
diet plan. You will also be setting a sensible example for your
kids, demonstrating that the diet-treadmill isn't the one they
should be trying out.
So, stop doing the diet. Just do the math. Implement a few
smart, sensible choices and you will have a workable, long-term
weight loss plan.
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