25 Top Tips For Losing Weight

If you want to lose weight, you probably know the routine all too well. Watch what you eat, reduce your calories, and exercise. It seems so simple doesn’t it? But the truth is that there are many roads that lead to weight loss. Choosing a combination of logical, simple techniques that will enable you to establish healthy lifestyle changes are what work for the long term.

Listed below are 25 tips for losing weight for you to peruse and think about. Pick a handful of these techniques and make them a part of your daily life. Permanent weight loss is the result of disciplined changes you make for yourself… and disciplined changes can only come from good information. Here’s 25 ideas that should give you plenty to think about as you decide what is best for you.

Make A Plan

Proper planning prevents poor performance… establish a plan for your new lifestyle and use it as your daily roadmap.

Snack On Raw Veggies

Keep a small, daily supply of raw veggies to snack on throughout the day. Celery, carrots, and  broccoli work just fine.

Get A Workout Partner

A good workout partner can help create accountability that is often needed when you’re tired and don’t feel like going to that aerobic class.

Choose Low Glycemic Foods

Low glycemic foods are carbohydrates with slower burning sugars. These slower burning sugars are much better for maintaining steady energy levels without converting to fat.

Change Your Lifestyle

People that are successful in maintaining their optimum weight for the long term make lasting changes in how they eat, exercise and live.

Embrace Your Hunger

Train your mind to know that feeling hungry means you are burning fat. If it worked for Oprah, it might just work for you.

Monitor Your Portions With Your Fist

This is a very simple technique that works really well. Just use the size of your fist to approximate the portions of everything you eat.

Choose Fibrous Carbohydrates

If given the choice between two carb sources try to select the one with more fiber. Select beans over bread as an example.

Drink Regular Coffee

Fancy coffee drinks are filled with sugars and empty calories. Switch to regular coffee with non-dairy creamers and no calorie sweeteners.

Treat Yourself Once A Week

Reward yourself with a treat meal once a week. It’s nice to have pizza or ice cream once in a while and it confuses your metabolism.

No Carbs After 8:00PM

Usually your body’s metabolism is slowing down by then… with less activity why fill your tummy with carbs?

Cut Back On The Sodas

Regular, sugar filled sodas should not even be a part of the equation here. We’re talking diet sodas and they should be cut back to no more then 2 or 3 per week if you have to have them.

Do Cardio First Thing In The Morning

Doing your cardio on an empty stomach when you first wake up is a great way to burn fat for energy because your body is in a carb depleted state with very little sugars in the bloodstream to burn as fuel.

Drink Ice Cold Water

Drinking really cold water creates additional stress to your system causing it to burn more calories then if you were to drink water at room temperature.

Eat Fruit Instead Of Drinking Juice

There’s nothing wrong with a glass of orange juice… but many juices are filled with simple sugars and very little fiber or other nutritional value.

Eat 4 To 6 Small Meals A Day

Probably one of the best lifestyle changes you could make. Eating smaller meals throughout the day maintains even energy levels and keeps your metabolism running high.

Keep A Daily Journal

Keeping a written record of what you eat creates personal accountability for what you consume and is a great way to analyze what foods contain when counting calories, fat grams, carbohydrates and proteins.

Start Drinking Green Tea

Adding green tea to your daily routine can serve as an excellent substitute for sodas, juices or sugary coffees. Filled with antioxidants and other compounds that boost metabolism and help with anti-aging, green tea is a winner for healthy weight loss.

Take A Before Picture

If you will actually look at it it’s an excellent motivator. Put one in your wallet too and look at it before walking into that fast food restaurant.

Consume Most Of Your Calories Before 3:00PM

This one’s kind of self explanatory really… just try to taper down the amount of calories you eat as the day progresses. The idea behind this is to consume the most calories while you are burning the most calories.

Up The Intensity

If you seem to have plateaued in your weight loss, try increasing the intensity in what you are doing. Run if you have been walking, sprint if you have been running… you get the picture, right?

Count Your Calories

If having a way to measure and quantify what you take in every day works for you, then give this a try. There’s a little bit of Rain Man in all of us!

Lift Weights

Wow… this one may be way down on the list but it shouldn’t be. Muscle burns more calories sitting still then fat does. That alone is reason enough to get our butts to the gym.

Drink Lots Of Water

This old school technique is still as important as ever. Make sure that you consume at least 6 to 8 glasses of water each day and try to have a glass about 10 minutes before each meal.

Walk 45 to 60 Minutes A Day

If you are not already doing some form of cardio then a brisk 45 to 60 minute walk every day is a wonderful way to burn some calories.

Choose And Go

This list is nothing more then a menu of tips and tricks that all work. Put any number of these into your daily routine and begin developing some long term changes in how you eat and in how you exercise. By changing your lifestyle you will be able to finally experience what it’s like to be slim, trim and healthy without having to go on another diet.