Sunday, November 2, 2008

How Is Your Weight - Do You Need to Lose a Few Pounds?

By Dane Masters

No matter if you are carrying a little extra around the middle or are pleasing plump, no one wants to be overweight. Everyone is looking for some practical weight loss tips.

The most obvious weight loss tip is to change your eating habits and cut down. Although this is often not as easy as it might seem!

However, many experts recommend various ways to eat less food without causing too much change in lifestyle. Those weight loss tips about food consumption focus on slightly changing your eating habits. If you are used to making two slices of toast every morning with your breakfast, cut down to one. Then if you need more food, you have to go through all the work of making more. You might find the extra effort is not worth the trouble and you have saved some calories.

If you have regular snack times a good weigh loss tip is to change these. If you are in the habit of eating a doughnut with coffee at 10 o'clock, try to work for a little longer. Take the snack break if you have to but try to rather push through to lunch or eat a healthier snack. The closer you get to lunch without a snack break the better, you might even find that if you make it through to lunchtime, you won't be as hungry as you thought, and eat less lunch too.

The types of food we eat are also a point of focus in giving out weigh loss tips. We all know that we should cut out that extra fat and sugars in the diet, but eating a carrot is not nearly as exciting as a candy bar. Although we should be eating the carrot, how many of us want to? Low calorie substitutes are available, and one of the best is popcorn. What is a movie without popcorn? It is a great alternative to a candy bar, is more filling and much lower in calories, popcorn also satisfies hunger.

Other alternative might include eating a baked potato rather than fried potatoes, and the best weight loss tip of them all is to stay away from fast foods. Fast foods have very little nutritional value and after all, regular fast food meals make you fat.

Exercise of course is one of the best weigh loss tips, not only will you look better, you will also feel much better and healthier too. This does not necessitate going to the gym, and the routine of regular exercise bores many people to death. But just by walking faster, it has been shown that more calories are burned. It has been proved that people who walk faster, are able to maintain a better body weight.

If you are seriously concerned about your weight, the best weight loss tip I can give you is to consult with a professional, if you are determined, they will soon sort you out. - 15343

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