Water is a key element to any diets success. It will keep your hunger in check and drinking ice water will actually burn calories.
2. Remove Temptation
Snack food is great, but not if you are on a diet. Get it out of your house to remove temptation. Also if there is a restaurant or café that serves your absolute favorite foods maybe you should avoid it for awhile.
3. Don t Diet Alone
Diets tend to work better if you are not going through the pain alone. Especially if the people you are living with do it along side you. It is kind of hard to follow tip #2 above if your significant other is always bring snack food home for themselves.
4. Do Cardio
If you really want to burn the fat you have to do cardio. The more cardio you do the faster the weight will melt off your body.
5. Do Strength Training
Strength training is an often over looked area in a fitness plan. Building muscle is one of the best weapons you can use against fat. In fact the more muscle you have the easier it will become to burn fat and keep it off.
6. Bring Your Lunch with You
It is just too easy to break your diet rules when you take your lunch at school or work. Make your lunch the night before and bring it with you, that way you will know exactly how many calories you are eating and take away the temptation to grab a lunch that is just a little bit to unhealthy for a person trying to lose weight.
7. Eat Plenty of Protein
Protein builds muscle and muscle burns fat. Well actually it burns calories, but the end result is the same. Another element that makes protein an essential diet food is that foods high protein metabolize much slower than carbohydrate based foods. This makes you feel fuller longer, which will increase your overall satisfaction with your meal.
8. Sleep, Sleep, Sleep!
Lack of sleep slows down your metabolism. Lack of sleep prevents your body from healing and rebuilding itself. Lack of sleeps slows down your thinking process and messes up your decision making ability. Basically if you are not getting enough sleep you are not only setting yourself up to fail at your diet, you are setting yourself up to fail at everything you do in life.
9. Alcohol…
Actually has a lot of positive benefits. Wine is not only great for your heart, immune system, and digestive track it also has been shown (red wine) to help prevent and reduce the damage caused by strokes. Most doctors and nutritionists recommend that most adults drink 1 2 alcoholic beverages per day. Just keep in that a lot of alcoholic drinks are loaded with calories that are real diet busters. Try to avoid beer and stay away from cocktails that are really high in sugar.
10. Take a break!
Give yourself a cheat day every week. We all deserve to take break every once in a while and that end of week reward will really help to keep you motivated and focused on your diet. Just keep telling yourself you don’t get that nice piece of chocolate cake if you break your diet before your cheat day.
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