randeepsamra Posted December 23, 2003 Share Posted December 23, 2003 1. Stretch your meals to, at least, 20 minutes or longer. Your stomach, mouth and brain are all connected and it takes 20 minutes of chewing before your stomach signals your brain that you are full. To feel full and successfully lose weight on any weight loss program, you need to eat slowly for 20 minutes or longer. 2. Drinking 8 glasses of water a day is important to your health, your normal diet and to help lose weight. Water is necessary for the metabolism of your stored fat. Weight loss cannot occur without an active metabolism which requires large quantities of water. Another way to use water to lose weight is to drink a large glass of ice water just before meals. The cold causes your stomach to shrink slightly which will make you feel full faster. 3. The more positive your self-esteem, the better you feel about yourself, the faster and easier it will be for you to lose weight. When you are self-confident, you are better able to take charge of your life. It also means that after you lose weight, it will stay gone permanently. To build your self-esteem 4. When you go fat free or low fat, you also cut out much of the taste of the foods you eat. Add the flavor back with herbs and spices. Strong flavors such as vinegar, garlic, chili powder, cayenne, curry powder, rosemary and tarragon can be used to doctor up any food you are eating. For your low fat and fat free diets, experiment with different herbs and spices until you find some you like. Staying on your fat free or low fat diet will be easier and your weight loss will be speeded up. 5. Increase your metabolism by as much as 40% by using hot and spicey foods such as hot peppers of all varieties and mustards. Research shows these foods all increase your metabolism. For double duty, give up fat filled mayonnaise for mustard and add hot peppers to your food for greater flavor and increased metabolism. 6. Negative emotions will also interfere with your weight loss program. It's difficult to stay motivated to lose weight wen you feel bad. Overeating often accompanies negative emotions such as depression, anxiety, fear, guilt and anger. If this is true for you or if you are just burdened by negative feelings 7. To lose weight faster, reduce your intake of caffeine. Caffeine leads to an increase of insulin in your body which retards the burning of your stored fat.This is a simple chemical reaction in your body that you can change. Reduce your caffeine intake by 50% and see what happens. Here is a rough guide to use when looking at the amount of caffeine you currently take in: Brewed coffee (6 oz. cup) - 100mg; Instant coffee (6 oz.) - 70mg; Tea (6 oz.) - 50mg; Soft drinks (12oz.) - (Coke, Dr. Pepper, Mountain Dew) - 50mg; Dark chocolate (1 oz.) - 20mg and Milk chocolate (1 oz.) - 6mg. 8. Incease your intake of fiber rich foods. They will help fill you up faster and will help all the food you eat pass through your digestive system more easily. 9. Exercise is probably the most important key to increasing your metabolism and burning off excess fat. Research shows that you burn more stored fat for energy when you do aerobic exercises on an empty stomach than on a full stomach. Research also shows that you burn more stored fat when you exercise late in the day rather than in the morning. Put together, the best time to exercise to lose weight by burning your stored fat is in the late afternoon/early evening before dinner. Second best is in the morning before breakfast. Our metabolism naturally starts to slow down about 8 hours after we wake up. Thirty minutes of aerobic exercises in the evening, before dinner, will not only burn off stored fat but it increases your metabolism for about two to three more hours just when it was starting to slow down. This produces a significant increase in fat burned off, even after the exercise is over. 10. To lose weight quickly, never skip a meal. Your first meal after waking starts your metabolism. Your metabolism then speeds up for about eight hours and then starts slowing down until you go to sleep when it goes to low until you wake and eat and start the cycle again. Skip breakfast and your metabolism doesn't get started until lunch time. You've just missed three or four hours of fat burning time. When you skip meals during the day, your metabolism also slows down. Weight loss through the burning of stored fat is all about eating enough of the right kinds of foods so you stay full and your metabolism stays as high as possible. Remember, if you feel hungry, your metabolism slows down. Stay full with healthy, nonfattening foods and your metabolism will continue to burn your stored fat as fast as your body will allow Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IanD Posted December 23, 2003 Share Posted December 23, 2003 thanks.. that could help me one day :) *saves in a text* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
matt74441 Posted December 24, 2003 Share Posted December 24, 2003 Thats pretty good advice. I recently lost a bit of weight (over 30 pounds), and I did almost everything on that list (except for exercise, which is why I had to lose the weight to begin with). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NeoMasamune Posted December 24, 2003 Share Posted December 24, 2003 I've been wanting to get back to working out and losing a few pounds. I like some of the advice you've given. Thanks! ;) I'll try it out ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bayrider Posted December 24, 2003 Share Posted December 24, 2003 although i do exercise 3-4x a week and watch that i dont eat too many fried, fatty or sugary foods, im on holidays in LA so i have no gym and sometiems im forced to eat foods that i dont normally. I guess ill drink my ass off (with water). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SimplyPotatoes Posted December 24, 2003 Share Posted December 24, 2003 wow thanks for something i could have google'd....since im an idiot i need a lot of help Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RaWShadow Posted December 24, 2003 Share Posted December 24, 2003 Reading that is much easier than actually doing it :( Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sin-ergy Posted December 24, 2003 Share Posted December 24, 2003 got a list to gain weight? :laugh: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason the Eighty Eighth Posted December 26, 2003 Share Posted December 26, 2003 you forgot to add "eat low (or is high) GI (glycemic index) foods" it basically means these foods will last longer in your body, thus you will feel more filled up and not have the urge to eat. http://www.mendosa.com/low_carb_low_gi_foods.htm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Samoa Posted December 26, 2003 Share Posted December 26, 2003 ah, nothing new posted. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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