6 Easy Steps To Lose Weight Fast - Ben Pickering-Watson

Achieving weight loss doesn't have to be that difficult. No one likes the word "diet". Just hearing that one little dreaded word, can make you stop before you even start. We shall now discuss some proven ways in which you can lose weight with a minimum of effort.

1. Avoid Starving Yourself
The answer to losing weight is not to diet, and does not involve starving yourself. This might sound odd, but it's correct. Consuming too little is the main reason for the failure of most people in their goals for weight loss. You may seem content and think that you are losing unwanted flab on your belly and thighs by skipping those meals. This feeling will soon depart though. Your body cannot bear receiving inadequate food to create the energy needed for your daily activities. Eventually your body concludes that it is not receiving enough energy for survival. Your body will interpret this as a threat and will attempt to maintain the most fat that it can. This occurs because this behaviour has evolved over thousands of years of human existence, specifically to help keep humans alive. People will often attempt to lose weight by making huge cuts in their calorie intake. Doing this will only force your body to do the opposite of what you intend. I recommend cutting only a maximum of 500 calories a day from your diet.

2. Eat Several Small Meals A Day
Consuming several mini-meals throughout the day will actually speed up your metabolism, raise your energy level, and burn off more fat. It is better to eat five or six smaller meals throughout the day instead of having three larger meals. By doing this, your body's metabolism will stay up during the entire day. You can prevent over-eating by eating more frequently, in smaller servings. Try to eat every 3 hours.

3. Eat A Quality Breakfast
Breakfast is considered the most crucial meal of the day. Therefore, everyone should eat a good breakfast. The last time you had something to eat would have been during dinner the night before, which would be as much as 12 hours earlier. Your energy level will be low, and your body will tell you that you should eat. Eating a substantial breakfast will give your body the energy it needs to successfully start the day. Ideally, breakfast should be your biggest meal and dinner your smallest. Unfortunately, most people eat the reverse of this: a small breakfast followed by a larger lunch and finished off by an enormous dinner. A large breakfast isn't typically stored as fat because when your body has been fasting all night, it will turn this food directly into energy. Calories consumed during a large evening meal are far more likely to be stored as fat. This is because fewer calories are burned at night due to a lower activity level, and your metabolism is at its slowest when you sleep. If you fill up at the end of the day, your body will convert excess calories, and store them as fat.

4. Drink Plenty Of Water
Most of us don't drink the 8 glasses of water a day that we are supposed to. Adequate water intake helps promote healthy cell function, as well as a fast metabolism that burns fat. Is it common for you to awaken in the morning feeling so exhausted, as if you were experiencing a hangover? Dehydration is the usual cause. Symptoms of dehydration include headache, fatigue and tiredness. The most abundant nutrient in the human body is water. Water makes up about 60% to 70% of your body. Water is essential for proper body function. You would perish in a few days without water.

5. Too Much Sugar Is A Bad Thing
Stay away from foods that are high in sugar. Since these types foods will digest quickly, they will give you a boost in energy, but it will only last a short amount of time. Consuming sweet food causes a peak in blood sugar and a rise of insulin. As the insulin removes the sugar from your blood, your blood sugar level will drop to lower than normal. The sharp drop in blood sugar levels will make you feel tired, and it will also trigger cravings for sugary foods to raise the level back up again quickly. The cycle of craving sugar, consuming more sugar, then the energy peak and energy crash will continue endlessly until you make a positive change to correct this. Meals should be planned utilizing numerous fruits and vegetables, a reasonable amount of bread, rice or pasta for carbohydrates, and lean meat and protein rich foods. You should only eat treats such as sweets, sodas and pastries on rare occasions.

6. Work Out
Walk if you are only going short distances from home, use the stairs instead of the elevator, go jogging, bicycling or skating. Perform tasks like these, or other chores around the house, on those days you don't feel like going to the gym. Ensure that you continue to do this on a regular basis, and you won't even realize that you are dropping pounds while doing these boring tasks. Use exercise to get rid of fat, rather than eating less. This will burn off some unwanted calories without lowering your metabolic rate. The best exercise for fat burning is aerobic exercise. While you exercise your body uses body fat for energy. Do at least 30 to 60 minutes of light exercising a day.

The keys to lose weight fast are eating a healthy breakfast, cutting back on your daily calorie intake (up to 500 calories from what you eat now), eating smaller and more frequent meals, drinking water instead of soda and other empty calorie drinks, and exercising. Your ideal weight is easily within reach, in no time at all, you only need to follow these six simple tips.