If you are reading this, you might be in the same situation I was some years back. Sometimes losing weight seems so impossible but a mater of fact, losing weight is not as hard as it may seem. Once you get in the “mode”, then you will have no problem sticking to your diets, eating healthy foods which in turn will help you achieve fast weight lose.
The proper approach to why you are overweight can be the difference between losing weight fast or never losing
1. Weight problems in your family (Father, grandparents being overweight)
2. Eating for comfort (Under stress and depression)
3. Eating too much and not knowing when to stop (Over full stomach)
4. On medication that has side effects of gaining weight.
5. A low metabolism rate
Once you have determined the cause, you need to take following steps to begin losing weight in just a couple of weeks.
Here are some basic tips to get you started:
* Eating carrots will use up more calories inside to digest the carrots. Other vegetables with similar property are cucumbers.
* Fat requires oxygen to burn, so when exercising, inhale a little deeper and exhale slightly faster.
* A realistic goal of losing weight is 2 pounds/week
* Avoid sleeping for more than 12 hours on any day and avoid sleeping less than 8 hours a day.
* Get more whole grain foods in your list of foods.
* 75% of your weight loss is determined by diet and nutrition and 25% is by exercise. You still need to follow more tips in order to completely lose weight. Healthy ways to lose weight are:
* Regular exercise (3-4 days a week for 30 or more minutes)
* Doing weight training (Every consecutive day)
* Eating healthy food with high fiber.
* Controlling on calories (Eat 200 less calories each day than you are supposed to).
* You need to exercise to lose weight. a positive sign. Muscular men/women have a higher BMI than average, but this doesn’t make them over weight.