Is losing weight naturally possible? Living a happy, healthy, fit and athletic active life is a true goal for many of us.
Natural weight loss can be daunting if you have no patience and discipline to try it. If you’re someone who’s had a perennial desire to lose weight you’ll know how tempting it can be to turn to a wonder product or a wonder pill that claims to do all the hard work for you, right?
Below are 5 easy simple tips/guides on how to lose weight naturally.
1. Treat food as neither your friend, nor your enemy, but as sustenance. So before you eat something, you may want to ask yourself -’Do I want it, and do I really feel like eating it? Will I enjoy it?’ Will it be beneficial to me?
2. Losing weight naturally is taking less energy in and burning more energy off. Food is plentiful, and there are more processed foods, so we’re eating a lot more energy - and more calories than our parents did. It’s not easy to take a stand against bad food choices, to find time to exercise and to resist our craving instinct to eat whenever we see food, so make the effort to cut out the processed dense foods, sugary drinks and get active to shed the pounds.
3. Stop drinking alcoholic drinks and start eating healthy, incorporating lean white meats, fruit and vegetables, nuts, seeds and drink plenty of water.
4. Set small achievable, realistic goals, so that you gain a sense of achievement and feel like you’re making progress. For example, in the beginning, make it a goal to go from 108kg to 105 kg. And make it a goal to do something positive each day - like eating 2 pieces of fruit a day or walking that extra mile for the week.
5. Start preparing your own healthy food - that way you will know what you’re putting into your body. No excuse to eat out or eat junk food.
Just resist that temptation to cheat! When you are losing weight, you should exercise and diet together. If you exercise without dieting, you will get a bigger appetite which may lead to an increase in weight, or muscle growth underneath the fat layer, and make you bulkier.
