tips to lose weight

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1) only drink water and green tea, and drink a lot of it. don’t drink soda/juice/milk even if it’s healthy for you. drinks have a lot of calories in them, a lot of sugar in them, and they don’t fill you up.

2) if you’re the type that exercises, make sure your exercise reflects what you want to achieve. if you’re aiming for a slimmer figure, walking > running. walking does not build muscle but it does shed fat. walking will make you slimmer, running will make you more fit. but no matter what your aim is, ALWAYS WORK OUT YOUR ABS. you have heard that muscles burn calories for you even when you’re not doing anything right? well you want these muscles to be ab muscles, not thigh/arm muscles.

3) like i said in #2, working out your abs is really important because no matter how fat you are, if you’re stomach is flat, you’re going to look a lot better than you would with a belly. i recommend getting the ab roller. i got it on amazon about 3 months ago and every time i use it, i see immediate results the next day. it is extremely difficult to do so you only need to spend less than a minute on it and the next day you will reallyyy feel it. ab roller is my favorite

4) eating 6 “meals” a day is better than eating 3, but if you’re going to eat 6 times a day, you can’t eat “meals”. you literally can only eat 3-4 bites worth of food for those 6 meals if you’re aiming to lose weight. don’t eat 6 actual meals.

5) eat veggies. this is obvious but vegetables have negative calories, and is a natural laxative. it fills you up and helps you poop better :) you can’t go wrong with veggies, just eat them raw or steamed, don’t deep fry them.

6) read the nutrition facts for EVERYTHING you eat. sometimes, you’ll be surprised. pay attention to 3 main things:

1. calories: this one is obvious.
2. sugar: don’t eat/drink anything more than 10g of sugar per serving. sugar=fat
3. sodium: stay far away from sodium. sodium makes you retain water which will make you gain weight and become bloated. this will mainly appear on your belly and on your face the next day, the 2 places you really don’t want to swell up.

7) weigh yourself twice a day. the first time you weigh yourself should be in the morning after you go to the bathroom, but before you eat. the second time should be right before you go to bed at night. if you’re trying to lose weight, your weight at the end of the day should be the same as how much you weighed at the start of the day.

8) <— (most important tip!!) don’t eat 6-7 hours before you go to bed. and i mean don’t eat ANYTHING (drinking water/green tea is fine). even vegetables. this makes the BIGGEST DIFFERENCE. i can’t stress this enough. i know this is an amazing technique for weight loss from experience. it never fails. try it and you’ll see the difference it makes. i can eat a buffet at 5 pm and then not eat until i go to bed at midnight, when i wake up the next day i either end up losing weight or staying the same weight. on the other hand, do not eat right before you sleep. no midnight snacks! this can be extremely detrimental to the way you’ll look the next day.

9) give into your cravings. if you’re craving ice cream, then eat it, but only take a bite! no more than that. this way you satisfy your craving so that it doesn’t come back later on as a huge uncontrollable monster, and you don’t do any damage to your diet.

10) buy reeeallyy cute clothes that would fit you if you were at your goal weight. this way you have 2 more reasons to lose weight.

1. the only thing standing between you and those clothes is your excess fat
2. it’s going to be a waste of money if you don’t lose weight because then you bought those clothes for nothing

11) look at thinspo before you eat. Not just tumblr thinspo, but go on facebook and look at all those beautiful skinny popular girls that you hate and actually know in person and think about the skinny version of yourself outshining them. Also think about your crush, who’s a total cutie, walking up behind you and hugging your soon-to-be tiny waist. Thinspo is whatever/whoever motivates YOU!

12) stay away from “white” foods: potatoes, rice, cream, cheese, white bread, white chocolate, pasta etc. white foods are almost always extremely fattening and add a lot of unnecessary calories.

13) if you’re going to give into your cravings, do it in the morning so you can work it off throughout the day.

14) use substitutions. little things make big differences. here are some substitution examples:

• whole wheat bread > white bread
• fruits > candy
• low fat frozen yogurt > ice cream
• fresh squeezed oranges > orange juice from a bottle
• oatmeal/lentils > rice (honestly i think oatmeal tastes better)
• low fat yogurt > regular yogurt
• salt & pepper (not too much) > store-bought sauce

15) wasn’t going to put this on the list, but it’s a huge helper to me so i’m just going to write it out anyway. you know those times when you’re just craving a cheesy slice of pizza late at night or a big fat juicy burger? and you simply can’t stop yourself? take the burger into the bathroom, and chew on it, and then spit it out. repeat until you’re satisfied (trust me it will satisfy you). there will be TINY little chewed up bits in your mouth after you spit, it’s ok to swallow those little bits with so much flavor in them. the pieces are totally harmless because it’s so little. this method is the only way i ever reach my ugw

16) don’t underestimate fruits. yes, fruits are healthy, and they are obviously better for you than cake/candy/other sweets, BUT they have a lot of natural sugars in them. sugar is sugar, doesn’t matter if it’s natural or not. sugar = fat. going on fruit diets or pigging out on fruits all day will not make you skinnier.

17) no alcohol. Alcohol has 0 nutritional properties and messes up your body and you don’t feel full from it. When you go to the bars or go to parties, they mix your alcohol with concentrated fruit syrup/juice that’s extremely high in sugar and calories. If you absolutely need to drink alcohol, take shots, don’t mix it with sugary fruit juices.

18) brush your teeth! it make your food taste bad if you eat it right after (credits to moshpitzombie). also brush your teeth whenever you feel like it’s time to stop eating for the day. so if you get hungry later on in the evening, you’ll be like oh yeah i already brushed my teeth so i can’t eat that!

19) find a weightloss buddy. she doesn’t have to be someone you know in person, you can find this girl on tumblr if you wish. you guys can check up on each other throughout the day, follow the same diet, text photos of your progress, send thinspo, talk about what’s working and what’s not, etc and it’ll keep you on track. your weightloss buddy will also hold you accountable and nag you if you pig out or don’t follow your diet plans. it’s nice to have someone there for you who’s going through the same thing.

20) check out blogilates.com. It’s run by a pilates instructor named Cassey Ho, and she is amazing. I’m not her advertiser and and I do not know her, but she seriously has some AMAZING home-made recipes that are extremely low calorie and workout routines that you’ve probably never heard of. She’s also extremely enthusiastic about being fit and healthy!

21) if you have a membership at the gym, most likely they have free group workout classes. take group classes. they usually run for about an hour. the reason why I recommend taking group classes is because you are forced to do some pretty intense workouts for a whole hour. It will also be hard for you to give up and leave because it’s embarrassing to leave like that. Also, the class instructor knows a lot more about fitness than you so it will benefit you more to workout in their class rather than by yourself. You can also take home some of the exercises you’re taught in class that you didn’t know about before. And at the end, you know you did a full hour’s worth of good exercise.