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10 Painless Ways to Lose Weight

Painless weight loss? If you're desperately trying to squeeze in workouts and avoid your favorite high-calorie treats, it can seem like there's nothing pain-free about it. Yet while eating healthier and slipping in exercise does take some work, it really doesn't have to require heroic effort. Making just a few simple lifestyle changes can pack a big weight loss punch over time. Here are their top tips on how to lose weight without sweating it too much. 1. Add, Don't Subtract Forget diet denial: Try adding foods to your diet instead of subtracting them. Add in healthy goodies you really love, like deep-red cherries, juicy grapes, or crunchy snow peas. Slip those favorite fruits into your bag lunch and breakfast cereal; add the veggies into soups, stews, and sauces. "Adding in really works, taking away never does," says registered dietitian David Grotto, RD, LDN, author of 101 Optimal Life Foods, but do remember to keep an eye on overal...

Top five weight loss tips for 2014

You have been struggling for that trim sexy belly look, but yet to achieve it despite your hard work. Worry not, here are some best tips to help you lose weight and attain that fabulous body image in 2014. Eat breakfast: Various studies have shown that eating breakfast daily can help in losing weight. While many people think by skipping breakfast they cut calories, which is wrong. Instead breakfast skippers replace calories during lunch and dinner by mindless nibbling as they had kept themselves starved for a long period. Have fruits: Try to eat fruits at least twice a day. Fruits have no fat and are mostly water, which will make you feel full for a long time making you eat less. Get enough sleep: Sleep is very important for a person's health and well-being. So, if you want to burn those calories off, try to get at least eight hours of sleep a night. Sit down and eat: Sit down and eat without perturbing during meal. Avoid watching TV, texting or any other distrac...

5 Things You Should Know if You Are Trying to Loose Weight

 If I’m thin then I’m healthy, right? Wrong. There are several misconceptions people have about weight, losing it and what’s healthy. Here’s the low-down on some myths we’re better off busting. 1) Starving is not very healthy and it never helps, because you will lose a lot of weight when you first start, but it can cause a lot of health problems, and yes you will probably gain more weight when you start to eat normally again. But sometimes it can give you motivation to loose weight if you starve just a bit, but not too much. The best way to do it though is do what the writer above said which is to eat healthy and exercise. Kick Start your weight loss by first keeping an accurate tab on it with a Digital Weighing Scale. 2) Avoid Taking Slimming Pills: These persons who take slimming pills think that they have total control over their actions and they will stick to the recommended dosage.  The common side effects are sudden bowel movement, oily stools, and repeated bowel mov...

Weight Loss: Honey & Cinnamon Water Recipe

If you have been trying to lose weight for awhile, but haven’t seen any results, then try this honey & cinnamon recipe, which promises to help you burn calories, shared by Syeda Kiran Zahra Hussain. Ingredients: • 2 tsp honey • 1 tsp cinnamon • 1cup/ 237 ml water Method: 1) Use 1 part of cinnamon to 2 parts of raw honey. 2) Boil in 1 cup of water. 3) Pour the boiling water on the cinnamon. Cover it and let it seep until it is warm enough to drink. 4) Add honey when the water is cool.  5) Drink 1/2 of this before going to bed. The other half should be covered and refrigerated and this should be consumed in the morning. Do not re-heat it in the morning.

10 Tips for guaranteed Weight Loss

With fad diets and fitness routines round every corner, it is quite difficult to keep a tab on which weight loss tips really do work and which don't. Should you join that bhangra aerobics class, adopt that no-carb diet, or eat dinner at 6pm? Never mind all that loophole-ridden weight loss jargon, step over to the healthy side. Here are 10 tips for guaranteed weight loss that will set your weight straight, and help you adopt some really healthy, weight-friendly habits for life. Weight loss tip 1: Decide how much weight you need to lose - Most people start their weight loss journey by claiming to be xyz kilos overweight. This isn't a healthy way to project or aim for weight loss. Calculate your desired weight against your height by using reliable methods like the BMI, and set a healthy weight loss target. This is often half the battle won. Weight loss tip 2: Time management - This is quite often overlooked. Decide which part of your day will be dedicated to exercise...

Weight-loss tips: 25 ways to lose weight, keep it off

More than half of Americans say they want to lose weight, according to a recent survey of 1,057 adults conducted for the International Food Information Council Foundation. Almost all say they are trying to improve at least one aspect of their eating habits, and nearly nine in 10 are trying to eat more fruits and veggies, the survey showed. But many of these kinds of changes are easier said than done. Here are 25 tips for losing weight from registered dietitians Dawn Jackson Blatner, Elizabeth Ward, Bonnie Taub-Dix and Keith Ayoob: 1. Set a realistic weight-loss goals.  One-half a pound to 2 pounds a week is about right. 2. Keep track of what you consume.  Dieters who keep track of everything they eat lose twice as much weight as those who don't, research shows. 3. Motivate yourself.  Get a pair of jeans or pants that are too tight and hang them in the kitchen instead of the closet to keep yourself inspired. 4. Enlist the help of family and friends.  Di...

Five diets to help you keep that New Year's resolution

IF you prefer dieting to exercising away unwanted pounds, you are not short of options. But which of the varied approaches is the one for you? Sun nutritionist Amanda Ursell says: “Here is a selection of five of the best different ways to approach slimming in 2013. There is something for everyone.” INTERMITTENT FASTING: The Fast Diet This approach to weight loss hit the nation when a Horizon programme was aired back in August with the presenter Michael Mosley. He shed almost a stone in five weeks by eating normally for five days out of seven, and then eating just 600 calories a day for the remaining two. As well as losing weight, Mosley’s cholesterol levels went down and his blood glucose levels improved. Now he’s written a book on the subject with journalist Mimi Spencer called The Fast Diet. Due out in February, it can be pre-ordered on Amazon for £5.99 and is published by Simon & Schuster. Mosley says there is evidence that eating well, but not much, also he...

Tips On Workout For Weight Loss

If you want to lose weight with the help of work out, then you can choose among different types of workout like strength training, Pilates, yoga and cardio and note as which one will help you to lose fat fast. Most of the people think that the king to burn fat is cardio. Best Workout for Weight Loss Interval Style Workouts You can go for Interval style workouts in which one has to do high intensity workouts followed by an active recovery exercise by stretching your body which is the best way to burn fat. This alternate process will help you to increase the metabolic rate and you will lose fat even after doing your workouts also. You can increase the heart rate while doing Cardio as it will burn extra calories when you will bring your heart rate and muscle activity to normal and this will also metabolize the lactic acid that is being produced in the fat burning process.But before this you must keep in mind some important things that will help you to get the right ...