I know it’s a little early to think about New Year’s resolutions but if you can avoid some of those holiday pounds it won’t be so hard losing weight next year.
The reason exercise resolutions rarely last is that they’re often unrealistic and unenjoyable. If you resolve to hit the gym every day, but you have a full-time job and hate working out in public, it’s probably not going to happen. So the answer is “to do the things you can do”.
10,000 Steps a Day
Walking a certain number of steps each day is more realistic and easy to fit in! You don’t need to take all the steps at the same time, you don’t need special equipment, and you don’t even need to leave your house!
Get yourself a fitness tracker or download a tracking app on your smartphone and make a game out of hitting those 10,000 steps per day. If you need to work up to it, start with 5,000 steps per day and add an extra 500 each week.
Walking is the easy exercise program for anyone who doesn’t have time for the gym and doesn’t want to buy exercise equipment. It’s the purest form of exercise and your doctor will love you. The best part is all you need is a pair of walking shoes.
Keep a Food Journal
If you want to lose weight, write down everything you eat. Recording every single bite is super helpful because it holds you accountable to yourself. You can resist all sorts of tempting but unnecessary foods if you know you’re gonna have to write them down, you think twice about picking them up.
Plus, looking back on a written record of your food choices can help you identify diet saboteurs. For example, maybe you didn’t realize that every time you skip breakfast you eat twice as much at dinnertime. If you have one heavy meal a day, it should be in the morning. You want to consume most of your calories in the morning. Afternoon calories should only be eaten in small quantities, like half a sandwich or an apple, a yogurt cup with honey or fruit. You get the idea, a snack of 150 calories twice in the afternoon, just eat healthy. Eating healthy is not about starving, it’s about eating nutritious foods that have little calories.
Buy Healthy
The grocery store should be your new best friend. If you really commit to hitting the supermarket at least twice a week to pick out good-for-you foods, eating healthy will be much easier. If all you have in your kitchen are nutritious, low-calorie snacks and ingredients, that’s what you’re going to eat. A little secret, when you buy fresh it only last 3 0r 4 days, after that you start to end up with more waste.
Drink More Water
Drinking water is one of the easiest things you can do to stay healthy. Water doesn’t have magical fat-burning properties, but it can definitely help with weight loss. In fact, several studies have found that among people who are dieting, those who drank the most water lost the most weight.
My take is that drinking water helps with weight loss for a few reasons. First, sipping H2O can help you feel full and eliminate hunger pains. Second, you save calories every time you drink water instead of a calorie-laden beverage.
This is the best tip I can past along to you: Don’t drink calories!! Half the calories we consume every day is from the drinks we consume.
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