How to Lose Weight & Live Healthy

These tips on how to lose weight and live healthy are just my own ideas and practices. I’m not a nutritionist or dietician, I based my advices on my own researches, personal experiences & observations as a health conscious myself. Whatever info you found on the net, it’s still better to consult a health specialist to check/advise you personally. Though however, my tips are not in anyway unsafe so I hope you’ll have fun reading this.

1. Do not skip breakfast. You think you will lose weight by skipping breakfast? That’s wrong. You’ll become so hungry by lunchtime that you tend to unconsciously eat more than you should be eating. According to Dr. Wayne Callaway, skipping breakfast can lower your metabolism. A lower metabolic rate increases your chance of becoming fat. Further, our body needs food to keep our energy levels high especially in the morning.

2. Eat less in the evening. We usually rest after dinner so we don’t need much food at this time. Our bodies don’t burn much calories in the evening as it does in the morning.

3. Eat as per RDA (Required Dietary Allowance) at the right time and at the right proportion. Eat in moderation. Losing weight does not equate to losing some nutrition. We just need to regulate the proper amount of our intake. You become fat because you are taking more than what is required of you to take.

4. Moderate your sugar in-take. I know many of us have sweet tooth or is a dessert enthusiast. As much as we don’t want to be prone to diabetes, controlling our cravings for sweets can be a big help too. Sweets like cakes, ice cream, smoothies & similar concoctions have higher amount of calories as taking french fries or burgers. We may take some to satisfy our sweet tooth but don’t eat much.

5. Be physically and mentally active. Engage yourself in physical activities in your idle time (days off from work) by doing some sports like playing tennis, badminton, bowling or by simply jogging or brisk walking. But don’t overdo it to exhaust yourself, just enough to burn your excess fats/calories.

You might also observe that you easily get hungry when you’re thinking/studying. For instance, I as a writer, squeeze my brain to come out with my creative juices. Even I just ate an hour ago, my tummy will keep growling until I am fed again. I believe brain activities also burns a lot of calories.

6. Avoid alcoholic drinks/liquors. Aside from the calories they contain, it makes you lose your inhibitions. So you tend to eat more than you realize because you’re enjoying the fancy conversations with your tipsy buddies and chummies.

7. Stop eating when you have taken just right, not when you are full. Our tummy is like a rubber band, it expands as long as you stretch it. When you accustomed your tummy to taking large volume of foods, like a hospitable host, it will adjust itself to accommodate all the food you intake as long as it can. You just puke when your tummy can’t take it any longer. So when your tummy was flexed into a large size, you will not really feel full until you have fully used its capacity. But if you will control your intake to a proper volume, your tummy will also return to its proper size/form.

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