How To Diet - and How To Lose Weight While You Sleep!

In this article I’m going to explain how to diet, successfully, so you can achieve your perfect weight…forever. I’ll even show you how you really can lose weight while you sleep! It really is possible – and I’m going to explain exactly how you can do it.

It’s Easy
You just need to understand the key principles behind healthy nutrition, exercise and weight loss, so you can see exactly how they interact. Then you will know how to diet successfully – how to achieve and maintain a healthy weight, long term.

Get More Sleep!
It’s not simply about getting more sleep – although there’s plenty of research which suggests this is a really key factor in losing weight (and behind gaining it in the first place). But no, losing weight while you sleep is actually about great nutrition, healthy eating and effective exercise.

Balanced Healthy Eating
First you need to understand about balanced, healthy eating for great nutrition. Your body needs 6 essential nutrients for good health – protein, carbohydrates and fats, plus water, minerals and vitamins – all in the right proportions. All of them play essential roles in your health. Missing out or an imbalance on any one can affect your health and will leave your body craving more or overloaded. Too little can be as bad for you as too much!

Energy
You also need to understand energy, the role it plays – and how much you need. Energy means calories! On average, adult women need approx 1800 calories and men 2300, but the amount any individual person needs and uses can vary significantly.

Energy Balance
Losing weight, gaining it in the first place and maintaining a healthy weight long term are simply about balancing your energy requirements. So to lose weight you need to take in less energy than you use. And if you take in too much, then of course you will put on weight, as your body stores the excess calories it doesn’t need to use. Long term you need to achieve the perfect balance.

Energy In - Eat Less!
First you need to make sure you don’t eat more calories than you need. Essentially protein and carbohydrates provide less energy than fat per gram of food, than fat. So you can eat more of either for fewer calories. So reduce the fat in your diet to reduce calories and lose weight (but don’t cut it out altogether, your body needs a little).

Energy Out - Use More!
There are 2 main ways to increase your energy needs, so you use more calories – and both involve exercise. The first is to simply use up more calories by doing exercise. Walking, running, playing sports - or even cleaning the house or gardening will all burn calories.

Increase Your Energy – Use Even More!
The other way is to increase your personal metabolic rate, so your body uses more energy, even while you are not exercising. This depends on the proportions of lean muscle compared to fat in your body. Lean muscle uses more calories, so you simply need to do the right kind of exercise to increase your lean muscle and reduce the fat. Regular strength or resistance training is the best way to do this.

Summary
So it really is that simple! Essentially how to diet successfully, is simply about balancing your energy needs and use - and boosting your metabolism, so you burn more calories all the time. All day, every day. Including while you sleep! Then you can achieve your perfect weight and maintain it…forever.

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