Everyone knows the basics of how to lose weight, such as
eating healthy and doing exercises, in order to slice away that excess fat. I’m
speculating that you are a beginner to weight loss, correct? If you are, then
allow me to show you these simple yet effective weight loss diet plans and
steps for you to kick start your weight loss journey.
Without further ado, let’s dive in…
#1 - Calories
Calories play an important role here, whether your weight
loss is a success or not, it depends on it. Not what you eat, calorie counts,
so we have to be careful about what we put inside our belly. The good news is,
you can eat plenty if you want to, but not too excessive. Eating plenty of
foods that contains a huge amount of calories, that we have to worry about. Let
me share an example that I usually do, imagine you have a healthy grilled
chicken, compare it with deep-fried chicken, which one you should worry about?
Of course, is deep-fried chicken, it contains a high amount of calories
compared to healthy grilled chicken. Fewer calories, fewer weight gained. Make
you check your food products as well, every product labeled with nutritional
facts on it, make sure you count your calories.
#2 Things to avoid
1) Sugar - This could be your biggest enemy, the more you
consume, the more weight you gained. Here’s how sugar works in your body, it
raises your blood pressure, eventually, it will be converted into insulin,
that’s is where you fat storage came about, you will see it mostly on your love
handles.
2) Processed foods - These processed foods included that are
cooked, frozen, canned, and packaged, you will see most of these in your
grocery stores. These foods that I mentioned are not healthy, and definitely
your weight will shoot up if you constantly eating over and over again. You can
eat it once in a while, but not too excessive. Do you know, processed foods
contained complex stations of sugar, like saturated fat and poly saturated
fats, these fats will slow down your metabolism, making it harder for you to
burn calories.
3) Laziness - One of the sins we are committing every day, we
even use as an excuse not to go on a diet or to exercise. It really comforting
on a couch, but neglecting your weight loss diet plan may be the biggest
regret. As a beginner, you might wanna do something, doesn’t have to be much as
first, at least something like goes out for a walk, preferrable with listening
to music.
4) Skipping breakfast - Breakfast helps you rev up your
metabolism engine, burning calories throughout the day. Breakfast also gives
you the energy that you needed to more focus on your work, during the morning
when you are having breakfast, you will have a higher chance of absorbing the
vitamins from the food you consumed, such foods are from dairy, grain, and
fruits as well. Eating breakfast absorbs more vitamins compare to lunch and
dinner and increases your metabolism of course. It's good to eat a smaller
portion so that your digestive system won't be overworked, thus having
efficient metabolism.
#3 - Foods to be included
Blueberries - This is my personal favorite, and I wanted to
share this delicious but yet beneficial to you, which is blueberries. First of
all, blueberries are low in calories, rich in vitamins and high in fiber too.
You can add this to your smoothies and yogurt too.
Almond - Secondly, almond. Almond is high in protein and
phytonutrients, it contains healthy fats and rich in fiber too. Almond also is
good in antioxidant and vitamin E, which benefit our brain, cardiovascular and
respiratory systems. It’s good for your skin too. However, you do need to be
careful to choose good almonds rather than the bad, almonds that are smoked or
salted.
Pineapple - Thirdly, pineapple. Everyone likes sweet stuff,
fortunate, pineapples are sweet and it has a low amount of calories. It’s good
to use this fruit as a snack, most often I think you only see this in your
pizza, right? Most importantly, since it has some volume of water, which makes
you full and prevents you to touch any other foods or snacks. Pineapple is also
rich in a digestive enzyme, which helps you to break down the food in your
intestinal tract.
#4 - Be active
If you are a beginner, start with walking, walking only
requires you a pair of shoes, and no requirement at all, try to walk 3–4 times
a week for 20 minutes. After you are used to it, try jogging and other
exercises like basketball or swimming. Try not to jump into another stage or
level if you are not comfortable, it might discourage. One all stages are
completed, try hitting the gym and build some muscle, building muscle helps you
to boost your metabolic rate, the higher the metabolic rate, the more calories
you will burn.
#5 - Consistentcy
Well, whatever you do, you need to be consistent, the same
with weight loss. That’s why you need a goal and a timetable. Your ideal weight
doesn’t happen overnight, it happens when you put up some work and effort to
make that dream comes true. But some people, me myself included, lose hope
because we are impatient, and the process is too difficult for us to
comprehend. Well, if a person wanted to start up a weight loss plan, always
start up slow and easy, because we need to cultivate a habit so that you are
consistent enough to follow the next level of your weight plan. Don’t forget to
reward yourself once in a while, always be good to yourself.
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