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5 Top Weight Loss Tips You Need To Know and Act on Starting Today

weight loss tipsLosing weight doesn’t have to be absolute torture. A lot of people struggle – seemingly powerless to lose weight for a variety of reasons.

Regardless of the reason for your troubles, there are specific ways that you can maximize your likelihood of successfully losing weight.

The key is knowing and understanding what needs to be done in order to prep your body to achieve weight loss.

Below, we will be focusing on five of the top weight loss tips that you will want to utilize in order to lose weight successfully:

Top 5 Weight Loss Tips

1. Don’t Dietdon't diet

One of the biggest problems people get into with their inability to lose weight is their consistent approach to dieting.

The truth is, dieting is a flawed method for losing weight.

While it’s true that dieting can help you achieve a certain amount of desired weight loss, it is not something that is sustainable in the long run.

The fact is, a diet is something that is meant to end at some point. Therefore, once your diet ends, you typically regain a significant amount of the weight you lost.

Thus, the entire idea of dieting is inherently flawed because it puts you in a temporary mental state. Instead, you should focus on making lifestyle changes that are meant to be more permanent.

By implementing lifestyle changes, you will be in a better position to not only lose weight but sustain it as well.

2. Snack Smarter

snack smarter

A lot of people struggle with an inability to lose weight because they make the wrong snacking choices.

Unfortunately, snacking is the contributor to a lot of people’s weight gain because they do so endlessly.

While it’s not the worst thing in the world to eat an unhealthy snack once in a while, you do not want to make a habit of it.

Instead, you will want to attempt to substitute your poor snacking choices with healthier options.

Some of the best snacks to include in your diet should be heavy in protein and healthy fats. The good thing about choosing these snacking options are that they limit your appetite.

Because foods that are dense in protein and healthy fat are typically some of the most filling foods.

So these snack options will help to minimize your appetite for meals, which can further your chances of success of losing weight.

Some of the best options are Greek yogurt, almonds, almond butter, avocados and more.

A major problem with snacking is that people tend also to do this late in the evening. One way to get out of this bad habit is to choose a stoppage time for eating, come evening time.

Ellie Krieger, writing for The Washington Post states that:

The dieting staffers, and many individuals I have worked with, have found it helpful to draw a line in the sand, picking a cutoff time to stop eating in the evening. About 8 or 9 p.m. seems to work for most people, but you can choose whatever time is best for you. Ideally, it should be about three hours before your bedtime, giving you enough time to digest your dinner but not so long that you are likely to get hungry again before going to sleep.

3. Increase Muscle Mass

increase muscle mass

Another important thing that you will want to do in order to increase your weight loss efforts is to increase your muscle mass.

By taking steps to increase your muscle mass, you should be able to better your body’s own inherent fat-burning ability.

This comes through increasing your metabolism. The best way to increase your muscle mass is to implement strength training exercises into your routine.

By implementing more strength training exercises, you allow your body to generate more muscle – which can boost your metabolism.

4. Eat a Balanced Breakfast

Breakfast Egg Cups

You may have heard that breakfast is the most important meal of the day and that is certainly true when it comes to bettering your ability to lose weight.

By eating a balanced breakfast and adding a healthy amount of good fats and protein to your diet, you will be able to decrease the need of snacking mid-day, which is where a lot of people run into trouble.

Here’s a recipe for “Balanced Breakfast Egg Cups” that will yield you a big batch all at once that you can eat all week:

Ingredients

  • 1 small spaghetti squash
  • 1 tablespoon butter, or oil of choice
  • 4 slices bacon
  • 1, 10 ounce bag frozen spinach
  • 12 eggs
  • 1 teaspoon fine sea salt, divided
  • 1/4 teaspoon pepper
  • Chives, chopped for garnish

Instructions

  1. Cut the spaghetti squash in half, scrape out the seeds, and place it in a rimmed baking dish face-down with 1/4 cup of water. Bake at 375 F for 1 hour, or until soft. Once cooked, set aside until cool enough to handle. Once cooled, scrape the squash out into a large bowl and mix with 1/2 teaspoon sea salt.

  2. While the squash is cooking, cook the bacon in a pan with matching lid over medium heat until crisp. Remove from pan, let cool, then crumble.

  3. Sauté the frozen spinach in the leftover bacon grease and then place the lid on the pan and steam for 1-2 minutes, until cooked through.

  4. Grease 12 muffin tins with butter, ghee, or other oil of choice.

  5. Place spinach on top of the spaghetti squash, then crack an egg on top of the spinach in each muffin tin. Note, you will use about 1 cup of spaghetti squash so you will have leftover spaghetti squash from this recipe. Sprinkle the salt and pepper over the eggs, then top with bacon.

  6. Place egg cups in the oven to bake at 375 for 25 minutes, until yolks are fully set.

    Source: fed and fit

Because a balanced breakfast is capable of helping curb your hunger throughout the day, it is going to allow you to really be able to minimize the amount of bad food you consume between meals.

This will help to jump start your metabolism at the same time.

5. Create Small Daily Goals

set goals

Another major thing that you will want to do in order to successfully lose weight is create small goals that you can strive for every single day.

A lot of success in losing weight is going to come from having the motivation and drive to do so successfully.

In order to really start to lose weight, you will want to be sure to maintain a consistent and high level of motivation each and every day.

A lot of people lose motivation throughout their journey to lose weight since it can be very long and tiring.

Thus, you want to try to come up with goals that you will be able to hit each and every day to provide you with the motivation that you need to continue on.

And that will allow you to look forward to meeting them.

You should have desirable rewards for hitting daily, weekly, and monthly goals that will allow you to really maximize your motivation throughout the course of your weight loss journey.

Conclusion

Overall, there are so many different things that you can do in order to maximize your ability to lose weight successfully.

However, not only do you want to lose weight, but you also want to position yourself so as not to gain it back.

By following the tips above, you should be able to maximize your chances of losing weight successfully and being able to sustain it. 🙂

How soon will you start acting on the five weight loss tips above?

Are you already implementing any of them?

Have you had any success?

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