Top Tips for Losing Weight

It seems like lately everyone is offering tips on losing weight. Most of these tips suggest cutting out certain foods in our diet and most of them seem to want to take all of the joy out of eating.

Yes, losing weight is important, but Why?

To enjoy our lives. Part of life, one of the most enjoyable parts in fact, is the joy we experience from the flavor, texture and smell of a well cooked meal.

Losing weight and being miserable is pointless. No matter how good we might look our sour attitude will affect everything we do and everyone we meet. The trick is to find the balance between losing weight and enjoying life.

The health of your body is connected to the health of your mind. Being at peace, being happy, and being healthy all go together.

• Low Carb Diets are my least favorite. Some of these diets are so strict that it is impossible to enjoy food at all. Even eating a large apple during the first few weeks of your diet is frowned at. Yes, you lose weight quickly in the first few weeks, but not because of fat loss.
  
  Low Carb diets deplete glycogen (a reserve form of glucose) in our liver and muscles quickly, so most of the initial weight loss is from dehydration and not natural weight loss. Not only is this extremely unhealthy (because glycogen acts as your energy reserve) but is makes it harder to stay active.


Low Carb Diet Rating : 2.5/5


• While it is important to eat fats in moderation, many of the Low Fat diets take away some of the best tasting food. Fat calories slow the flow of carbohydrates into your system. This controls the release of glycogen and regulates your blood sugar. Ever had a sugar high? Remember the crash afterwards?


Low Fat Diet Rating: 2/5 (has the worst affect on energy and mood swings)


• Crash Dieting is another horrible diet method. Yes, it works for as long as you do not eat. This means that you get no energy and no tasty morsels at all. When you do finally eat, you will gain back everything you lost.


Crash Diet Rating - 0/5 (WARNING: This is the most dangerous form of dieting and can lead to serious health issues)

Following the tips of any of the above dieting methods will only result in temporary weight loss. You want to keep that weight off, you want to feel good while you lose it, and you want to lose it as naturally as you can. Losing weight should not be hard to do.

Here are some very simple tips of my own that work well and will help.

• Walk often. Some people will recommend 30 minutes a day. I honestly suggest you walk as often as you can, even if you do not have a destination. Walk somewhere just to see what it looks like. Walk slowly and take in the simple things, walk up hills to see what is up there. Do not walk to lose weight, walk to enjoy being outdoors (which just happens to help you lose weight).



• Hang out with children. Kids are the most energetic force I know of, an hour with a 4 year old will give you more exercise and fun than any other activity.



• Spend some time forgetting about losing weight. We often forget that how we think affects what we do. If you spend all your time thinking your overweight, worrying about how hard it is to lose weight, or beating yourself up than you will more than likely find less time to fix the problem. You will have less motivation because you will become hopeless. Losing weight is not hard! Remember it! Losing weight goes hand in hand with living well. Remember how to enjoy yourself in life and your body will change to suit.



• Eat more frequently, slowly, and in smaller quantities. Really enjoy that food, make small portions of healthy and tasty meals and eat them slowly. Savor each bite if you can and really appreciate the meal. Eating more frequent and smaller meals will boost your bodies metabolism. You will not be weighed down with a large meal while you walk, but will have plenty of energy to make it to the next small and tasty portion. This will rid you of those fat reserves quickly and naturally.

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Losing weight should not be a punishment, it should be as easy to take off as it was to put on!

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