Weight Loss Tips

I post a lot of articles that I find online with tips about weight loss and diet. I thought I would put a section here too with a few excerpts and my favorite tips. These are not things that I’ve written-simply things I’ve found online and support. I won’t credit the sources here, but all of these tips appear as parts of larger posts on my blog, and there they are credited. Anyway, on to the tips.

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“Never say never. Instead of cutting out indulgent favorites completely, try a more balanced, livable plan. I look at foods as ‘usually,’ ‘sometimes’ and ‘rarely’. There is no such thing as ‘never’. If you fill your day with vegetables, fruit, whole grains, lean proteins, and low-fat dairy, a little cheese or a piece of chocolate won’t derail you.”
-Ellie Krieger, RD, author of So Easy: Luscious Healthy Recipes for Every Meal of the Week and host of Food Network’s “Healthy Appetite”

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Muscles are fat-burning furnaces, so be sure to do enough resistance training to build and maintain them, and follow your workout with a healthy meal or snack that contains protein, carbohydrates and fat. Building new muscle raises your Resting Metabolic Rate (RMR) so you’ll burn more calories every day.

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Try to get 7-8 hours of sleep every night. A recent study from Case Western Reserve University found that, on average, women who sleep for 5 hours or less per night are 32 percent more likely to gain weight and 15 percent more likely to be obese than those who get at least 7 hours.

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Playing up your favorite body parts can boost your confidence and draw attention away from spots you want to minimize. Sculpting your shoulders, arms, chest, and back, for example, can help balance heavier hips so you look more proportionate. Plus, you’ll be firmer all over. 

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Stay above 1,200 calories… ”The average person’s body goes into starvation mode if she eats fewer than 1,200 calories a day,” says Eric Berg, author of “The 7 Principles of Fat Burning.” “That’s stress, and stress creates more belly fat.”

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Focus on gradual loss. I mentioned this above, but it’s important. Too many people focus on trying to lose weight fast — 10 pounds in 4 weeks, 20 pounds in 2 months, etc. It’s not healthy, and it doesn’t work, because even if you are able to lose that much weight that fast, you haven’t learned sustainable eating habits that will last you a lifetime. The key is to figure out an eating pattern than will work for you for the rest of your life. Again, if you focus on losing 1-2 pounds per week, you will lose between 50-100 pounds per year. You just have to be willing to wait a year, but trust me, a year goes by pretty fast these days (I think it’s inflation or something).

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I will keep adding more, so check back often!