Tips that work:
- Much of the losing weight syndrome is down to keeping your metabolism high rather than low. Particularly, don’t skip any meals and if your metabolism drops, you’ll want to overeat.
- Balance your food intake with equal amounts of protein and carbs and more vegetables and fruit.
- Always have a good, healthy breakfast. Eggs are a good standby as are fibre filled cereals with fresh fruit, milk and sugar-free yoghurt.
- Cut out white bread, cake, sugary biscuits and all sweets.
- Choose your meat carefully, especially beef, buy lean cuts.
- Get those portion sizes right. Don’t load your plate. You need to weigh yourself and find out your recommended calorie intake per day per weight.
- Healthy sleep is at least 8 hours per night and less than this will affect your hormonal balance and in turn your appetite.
- Vary your meals, change your daily selections to keep food interesting and your metabolism positive. Try and keep to 3 meals a day and keep them evenly spaced, with the evening meal no later than 7pm.
- You need to exercise to keep on top of your weight, but do not overeat after exercising, or all your hard work will go straight on your middle.
- Keep away from those ready meals and sugar-loaded fizzy drinks. Rather, treat yourself to a healthy meal out, which will be an event to look forward to and keep that fat away.
Exercise
You do need to physically exercise every day, though this doesn’t have to be an intense workout. Ideally you should do one day of a physical workout and one day of rest, to let your body adjust.
You do not need to go to your local gym either, but usually you can do a well-balanced workout in a 1 hour period. Ideally, working through areas of your body, start with the legs, then on to an arm and upper body, next to thighs, upper thighs and trunk, then abdominal exercise, which will tighten up your middle muscles and finally relaxation and stretching exercises.
We have put a link at the bottom of Maximum Workout, that are workout exercises that are done in 10 minute slots, all of which include your whole body and I can recommend this as being very beneficial and possible to do.
Also mentioned in this blog is a more intense gym workout, where it has been proved that to alternate the pace from rapid to slower will have quicker results.
We have found that a Mediterranean type of food diet really works and is very tasty and in our next blog, will include a selection of these type of recipes, with recommended portion size, preparation and cooking instructions.
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