Top Weight Loss Techniques - Top Weight Loss Secrets

Wondering what could be the best way to start losing weight and getting your health back? You've come to the right place. Being overweight is simply not the way to live in the present day and age. Excess fat stored in the body lays the body open to health risks of all sorts, ranging from heart attack to cancers. Healthy habits on the other hand, contribute a great deal to maintaining weight and bring about a reduction in the fat stored in the body.

The truth about staying fit and getting into shape is that if you focus on a single aspect of your daily routine, for instance your health, you may not get as great results as when you would be make corrective measure on your overall routine. Here's how you can get started;

1. Quit Junk Food: From causing dehydration, to slowing down the metabolism to increasing the risks of diseases like heart attack, diabetes, etc, we have junk food and the likes to thank for all this. If you want to snack, get into the habit of eating fresh fruits and vegetables. Salads are excellent snacks and with olive oil dressings, you will feel full and energetic. Consider the vending machine your mortal enemy, chips, pretzels, cheese balls, the works. You will not only lose weight, you'll improve your immune system and blood circulation as you replace the junk with nutrition.

2. No Soft Drinks: soft drinks are another health hazard. They may be drinks, but they cause dehydration in the body as well as raise blood acidity. When thirsty, go back to the basics, water and fresh juices.

3. Drink lots of water: start drinking more water. No matter what you may hear or read by advertisers, water really has no surrogate. A healthy adult requires at least 8 glasses of water a day, while an extra 8 ounces should be taken for every 25 pounds of excess weight.

4. Drink Green Tea: taking a cup of green tea, freshly brewed daily is a great way to cleanse your body of toxins as well as lose weight. Not only will green tea help you lose weight, it's great for the skin too. You'll be losing weight and glowing at the same time, not many diets can accomplish that.

5. Eat Breakfast: missing breakfast is one of the major reasons people end up overeating at lunch time and gain weight. While we sleep, our body keeps its longest fast. The metabolism slows down. To get the energy pumping throughout our body, we need to eat breakfast. People who eat breakfast are more active and eat less at lunch, hence gain less weight than the breakfast skippers.

6. Exercise: exercise is the key to keeping the weight off and fat at bay. If you perform regular exercise, you not only burn fat but you also remove toxins from your body. For healthy weight loss, a vigorous exercise routine for 30 minutes a day 5 times a week should be followed. Keep your body well hydrated. Outdoor cardio workouts like cycling, running, hiking, swimming, etc are great for weight loss and toning of the body. Don't go straight for very intense exercise straight away, try to start off slowly and then gradually build your stamina.

7. Balanced Diet: your body can't and doesn't make all the nutrients it needs for life support functions within itself, it's dependant on food for these. When your diet fails to meet these requirements, it goes into a deficit, weakens and begins to contract diseases of all kinds. Health professionals recommend taking 35-40% of protein in the daily diet. Fats come second, around 25-30% of the diet, but these don't include greasy fast food or French Fries. The healthiest fats come from natural foods such as olive oil or avocado oils. Carbohydrates, especially the refined simple kind, should be kept low as they are the first line of nutrients the body converts to energy and then fat. Your best source of vitamins and minerals are the fresh fruits and vegetables.

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