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5
Tips for Quick Weight Loss
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Though a quick weight loss program is generally not considered the ideal way to lose weight permanently and healthily, here are some tips you can follow if you want a short-term, quick-fix weight loss solution.
These quick weight loss tips will allow you to lose some weight and inches rapidly for a short-term purpose, such as comfortably fitting into your dress for an unexpected event coming at a short notice (say, 15 days) or looking good in your bikini during an outing on the beach.
Here they are:
1. Reduce your salt intake: During the few days you have for losing weight, reduce your salt (to be more precise, sodium) intake to minimal. This will help reduce water retention in the body, resulting in quick weight loss.
2. Increase your water intake: Drinking plenty of water has the same effect as reducing your sodium intake.
3. Reduce your carbs intake: Reducing your intake of carbohydrates, especially refined carbohydrates, and substituting them with proteins will also lead to quick weight loss.
4. Avoid gas-producing foods: Eating gas-producing foods like kidney beans and cabbage can add a couple of inches to your tummy due to bloating. So avoid them for the time being.
5. Eat small portions but more frequently: Eating small portions will firstly ensure that the stomach does not lose its shape due to bloating. Secondly, it ensures that you burn up all the calories you eat in a single meal, with no excess calories left for being stored as fat in the body.
6. Keep yourself physically active throughout the day: This will keep your metabolism perked up and you will keep burning calories throughout the day.
7. Do stretches, leg raises and abdominal exercises: These will tighten and strengthen your abdominal area, giving a slim look to your stomach. Even otherwise, keep your abdominal muscles tightened and pulled up throughout the day. Doing so will burn additional calories.
8. Eat wisely: Completely avoid calorie-rich fatty and sugary foods like chips, cakes, pastries, ice creams, sodas, etc. Instead go for fiber-rich fresh fruits and vegetables. Fiber too helps in this case.
However, if your past experience efforts indicates that your body does not generally respond quickly to any weight loss tips, then there are many commercial diets available in the market to help you.
Remember that to lose weight in a more healthy manner and on a long-term basis you need to adopt a sustained exercise plan focusing on fat loss as well as muscle mass buildup, in addition to diet control because weight lost rapidly can also be gained back rapidly.
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2
ProShape RX and Exercise
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ProShapeRX is one of the most popular weight loss solutions available on the market. What many customers discovered was that the combination of potent ingredients is a surefire way of losing weight, while at the same time avoiding the negative side effects of other weight loss products of lesser quality. Still, however sound and effective the combination of natural ingredients may be, the excess fat will not simply go away, unless you exercise.
To put it in a simpler manner, fat is energy stored by the body in a special type of cells. This energy is kept for leaner times when the body thinks it may come in handy and it is also used when the body goes through a far greater physical effort than usual. For people living the modern, largely sedentary lifestyle, even half an hour of exercising every day can be seen as extraordinary effort and helps maintain overall health by burning up stored energy.
A daily program of ProShapeRX pills and 20-30 minutes of exercising can work wonders due to the excellent combination of fat-burning exercising and natural ingredients that maximize the effect of your physical effort. On their own, none of parts of the program would have spectacular results. Exercising is not always enough, while the pills are less effective. But by bringing these two components together, you can shed all that unpleasant excess weight and fast.
One of the most common reasons why some users of ProShapeRX fail to reach satisfactory results is the lack of proper exercising. We all lead busy lives and have to face the daily pressure of multiple problems, but setting aside 20-30 minutes for exercising each day is not that hard to do. Especially when working out is for your own good. These 20-30 minutes of exercising are crucial to maximizing the effects of ProShapeRX’s natural ingredients. So don’t think about excuses! Think instead about how your new body will make other people envious.
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26
The Definitive Diet Check List
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Do you eat too quickly?
Some signs are:
Do you finish your meals in 10 to 15 mins
Eat a sandwich while working, not leaving your desk
Feel unsatisfied after you have finished eating
Dont remember what you ate
If you are eating too quickly, chances are that your body is not getting the signal that you are full. You are eating more than you require. Another disadvantage of eating in this way is that you will not enjoy your food.
Exercise:
Change the location of where you are eating. If you are eating at your desk, stay in the office, but eat with a colleague or in another location. This will help you relax, and as your desk is the anchor for work, you will be able to break the pattern for working…and create a new anchor for eating healthily.
Do you comfort eat?
Perhaps you know that you eat for comfort, but may not know the trigger, here are some ideas below. Take a moment to notice if any of these apply. If you are eating with any of these patterns regularly (2 or more times a week), you may be comfort eating.
Some signs of comfort eating:
You are bored at home and eat something that you shouldnt be eating
Eating late at night in front of the TV
Eat ice cream or chocolate when youre feeling down
Getting up in the middle of the night to visit the bathroom…stopping at the kitchen before going back to bed.
Does your shopping trolley have more junk food in it than vegetables?
Do you eat when you are not hungry?
Eating after youve had a fight with a friend or loved one
Eating something fattening to celebrate your weight loss
Time now to ask yourself:
What is the emotional issue that I am not dealing with here?
What are my triggers for eating in this way?
Is there something in my life that I am not being honest about?
As you begin facing the cause of your comfort eating, you will notice the trigger. The first step is awareness. From here, you can have a choice; once you heal the underlying issues, the comfort eating will stop. You will create healthy habits as well.
Some other unhealthy habits that may contribute to excess weight:
Do you?
Eat take out more than twice a week
Eat packaged meals frequently
Too busy to buy groceries
Eat the same food day after day
Not bothered about cooking because its just you at home
Eat dinner late and sleep soon after
Eat at unstructured times
You may not be comfort eating, but if you have weight issues, your habits may need some adjustment. We need healthy, fresh foods. Raw vegetables, fruits, and a varied diet are essential for good health. If you have two or more of the above habits, you need to make some changes. Start slowly. Pick the one habit that would be easiest to adjust and start there. Perhaps you can start by cooking one simple meal a week. Enjoy this. It is an investment in yourself, one you will benefit from for years to come.
Sayeda Habib – Author of The Definitive Weight Loss Hypnosis CD, Tape, Downloads, MP3s. Read the Facts from the UK’s Leading Life Coach for Women
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