After reading a good deal of stories and following various tips from friends, I finally decided to create my own way to lose weight and I lost 20kg of weight over two years - here is what I did which can help anyone trying to lose weight:
1. Eat breakfast. Eating in the morning gets your digestive system active and ready to handle the food you eat throughout the rest of the day. Never skip a meal, it slows down your digestive system and causes your bowels to store up fat instead of using it up.
2. Never eat after 7pm. When you eat later at night, food tends to digest slowly and stay put in your stomach until daybreak when you become more active. This may make you belly get bigger.
3. Drink warm water regularly, especially when you think you are feeling hungry, drink a glass of water. Warm water makes it easier for your food to digest and also helps keep you full.
4. Exercise. Regular gently exercise such as jogging and sit ups is good for you. Exercise helps lower body fat, it makes you more mentally alert, it invigorates you, reduces the risks of hypertension, heart disease and helps get rid of depression. When you exercise, fat stored in your body is converted into energy, waste products such as urea and toxins are extracted through sweat, so your body looks trimmer, lean and you feel healthier.
5. Divide your meals times into four equal parts. Eat at regular intervals; say about two hours apart and roughly the same amount of food. Don’t wait to be hungry before you eat.
6. Dish out the amount of food you can eat onto your plate, and then divide it into four portions. You are allowed to eat just on portion at a time. The other portions can be put aside for the next three meal times.
7. Use a smaller plate to eat and pack it full of healthy food, like salads, mixed vegetables and protein. Eat the salads before the main meal to fill you up before you eat the main meal.
8. Eat more fibre such as bran flakes for breakfast, lots of vegetables – they will help slow down your rate of digestion and make you feel fuller for longer. Eating less sugar will also help you lose weight and stop you craving for more sugary food.
9. Cut out most types of oil, butter and margarine because they are high in calories. Eat olive oils instead and as little as possible of biscuits, cakes, cookies and processed food which are all packed full of fat.
10. Avoid all types of drink – beers, wine, soft drinks, juices, squashes and so on. Most drinks have large quantities of hidden sugar, high in calories which can be detrimental to losing weight.
1. Eat breakfast. Eating in the morning gets your digestive system active and ready to handle the food you eat throughout the rest of the day. Never skip a meal, it slows down your digestive system and causes your bowels to store up fat instead of using it up.
2. Never eat after 7pm. When you eat later at night, food tends to digest slowly and stay put in your stomach until daybreak when you become more active. This may make you belly get bigger.
3. Drink warm water regularly, especially when you think you are feeling hungry, drink a glass of water. Warm water makes it easier for your food to digest and also helps keep you full.
4. Exercise. Regular gently exercise such as jogging and sit ups is good for you. Exercise helps lower body fat, it makes you more mentally alert, it invigorates you, reduces the risks of hypertension, heart disease and helps get rid of depression. When you exercise, fat stored in your body is converted into energy, waste products such as urea and toxins are extracted through sweat, so your body looks trimmer, lean and you feel healthier.
5. Divide your meals times into four equal parts. Eat at regular intervals; say about two hours apart and roughly the same amount of food. Don’t wait to be hungry before you eat.
6. Dish out the amount of food you can eat onto your plate, and then divide it into four portions. You are allowed to eat just on portion at a time. The other portions can be put aside for the next three meal times.
7. Use a smaller plate to eat and pack it full of healthy food, like salads, mixed vegetables and protein. Eat the salads before the main meal to fill you up before you eat the main meal.
8. Eat more fibre such as bran flakes for breakfast, lots of vegetables – they will help slow down your rate of digestion and make you feel fuller for longer. Eating less sugar will also help you lose weight and stop you craving for more sugary food.
9. Cut out most types of oil, butter and margarine because they are high in calories. Eat olive oils instead and as little as possible of biscuits, cakes, cookies and processed food which are all packed full of fat.
10. Avoid all types of drink – beers, wine, soft drinks, juices, squashes and so on. Most drinks have large quantities of hidden sugar, high in calories which can be detrimental to losing weight.
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