6 Things you need to know to loose weight
If you are looking to loose weight, the question springs to mind of most people is: When do we eat?
Let the Lunch Bell
When you diet, most plans you follow tell you to reduce the food you take on and this will in effect help you to loose weight ---- WRONG
1. Eat 6-8 Meals a day
Starvation will not help you loose weight?
So often when people start to diet, we have over the years been almost brain washed into almost starvation, which does noting but make you hungry to eat more food.
Particularly for mens health, fitness you need to eat rich food sources which are full in protein, but also include some carbohydrates, but the meals need to be smaller and well balanced in order to give you all of the vitamins and minerals your body needs. This mixed with the right exercise will help you loose fat and increase lean muscle.
2. Drink Smoothies/Shakes
One of the best ways to loose weight is to replace unhealthy snacks, with a healthy smoothie or shake, these can include all manner of fruits, berries and whey powder mixes, which not only fill that empty gap in your stomach, but leave you feeling, fulfilled and energised, helping to make a healthy man.
3. What to Drink
If you are serious about weight loss, then you have to be serious about what you put into it. While you are targeting weight loss, try and steer clear of alcohol; all it will do is slow down you reaching your goal.
Okay, you guessed it, water is going to be your life blood, try to drink 8 glasses a day, it has a lot of benefits.
It helps keep you full, sometimes people mix hunger with thirst. It also flushes your system, helping to rid your body of waste fat, but helping all the good nutrients get to the parts that need it. Also try and stick to low fat milk try as many different herbal teas as possible. Although the take some getting used to if you like tea or coffee, there are some great ones out there. And if you get desperate limit yourself two no more than two diet drinks per day.
4. Exercise
I have found that is important to mix a routine of both cardiovascular and weights. So that while you are burning fat with cardio, you are also doing the same with weights and are continuing to burn fat while using weights. The important thing is that if you want to achieve your goals, then you have to push your body and wake it up, otherwise it will never change or the change will be so slow that you’ll loose heart and give up. I would suggest that you do three days of cardio and three days of weights, but do it on alternate days to rest your body. If your body still hurts from previous sessions, then you have probably pushed it too hard, take a little time to build up slowly. The trick is finding that fine line will help you overcome most mens health issues, in particular if you wish to become a healthy man.
Always try to have a healthy shake an hour before training and almost immediately after, this will give your body what it
needs and help it continue to burn fat.
Diversify your food at every meal to get a combination of protein, carbohydrates, and fat.
Always make sure you include some protein into each snack.
5. Stop Counting Calories
Calorie counting will not help you loose weight. You will know if you have cheated and yes I know its cliché but you most definitely are cheating yourself.
6. One Day a Week, have a day off
To coin a phrase, “And on the seventh day God rested”. So you should to. Let’s face it if you are training hard, while working in a full time job and if you have kids, you will probably be a little exhausted. In my experience, usually a Sunday, I did no or little exercise and I ate what I wanted – although the strange thing is when you been working so hard all week, you still feel a little guilty about indulging. All I would say is indulge, but don’t try to undo all the good you have done.
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