Easy-to-do Diet Tips
When a person goes on a diet, they need extra help or tips on how to go about it. Here are some easy-to-do diet tips that will aid you in a healthy lifestyle.
Switch one soda, diet or regular, for water. If you replace all added sugar beverages with plain water, you could lose an average of 5 pounds more than if you don’t. Cutting down on diet drinks can help too.
Eat and run. Before you reach for that chocolate, think about how far you’re willing to go for it. How about a 2.87 mile walk? One mini peanut butter cup will cost you one third mile. A small brownie? A 26 minute run.
Chew slowly. In a recent study, when women were told to eat quickly, they ate 646 calories in nine minutes, but when they were encouraged to pause between bites and to chew each mouthful 15 to 20 times, they took in only 579 calories in 29 minutes.
Shut off the late night TV. Replacing one hour of all of inactive awake time with sleep cuts your calorie intake by about 6% simply by giving you fewer chances to eat. Turn in a little hungry. Night time snacking can add up to 300 extra calories daily. Don’t go to bed “starving”, but don’t go to bed with a full stomach either
Go a little vegetarian. Going meatless for at least two meals a week can help reduce the amount of saturated fat and calories you consume.
Change your dressing. Salad is certainly a healthy choice, until you pour on the dressing. In fact, women can often get more fat and calories from dressing than from any other food. Try one of the new salad dressing spritzers, which add flavor for just 10 calories.
Leave a few bites behind. This equals about 100 calories, which is all you need to cut from your daily diet to avoid gaining the one to 2 pounds most adults put out every year.
Go the extra mile to help ward off weight gain. That’s just 2000 steps or about a walk around the block.
Jump rope to up the calorie burn of your walking workout. Start by doing 20 jumps for every five to 10 minutes.
Sit in front of the TV on a stability ball. It gets you to hold in your abdominal muscles so you’re building strength and helping posture.
Exercise while you e-mail. Sit upright and inhale deeply. As you exhale slowly, drawing or lower abdominals in toward your spine. Hold on tight, while you take a few easy breaths, for as long as it takes you to write an e-mail or listen to a song on your ipod.
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