5 Tips to Lose Weight this Summer
And how to maintain it afterward
Through the year we reach different phases in our life, but after the new year, we make ourselves a deal. To lose that stubborn weight once and for all, or to just simply eat a healthier range of food.
Did you know over 60% of New Year’s resolutions are food/diet-based? And over 90% of the time we don’t stick to it.
So let’s break the mold and try this summer to have the confidence to wear any bikini on holiday. There is no better time to start than now, so let’s begin.
Calorie counting
Although people believe eating healthy meals, means you can eat a lot of them, this isn’t really true. To lose weight you should be reducing the amount of calories you eat per day to a number your body is comfortable with.
So take a day or two before you start your new look on life, calorie count how much food you usually eat for a guide. That could be 3000 calories. You could reduce that down to 1800 calories for your diet you will begin.
You should reduce it to an amount that isn’t starving you, or restricting you too much, as all that will happen is you won’t be able to stick to it due to hunger and food cravings.
Volume eating
Not many people know about volume eating, but social media is making it more popular.
While you are in a calorie deficiency, volume eating helps a lot with hunger. You simply swap high-calorie smaller meals with lower-calorie larger meals.
Here are some examples:
- Mac and cheese < tomato pasta salad
- Takeaway < homemade
- Pizza < chicken pitta bread
- Cheese and beans jacket potato < tuna light mayo jacket potato
These simple swaps create larger portions, making you feel fuller for the same or fewer calories. Also swapping to lower calorie options of ingredients such as mayonnaise can make a real difference.
Workout
Steps, steps, steps. This is something so underrated. Instead of struggling to do a hard high-intensity workout, try to aim to do something smaller like achieving 10k steps a day.
This takes around 40–50 minutes to complete and doesn’t require a sweaty, horrible 30 minutes of hell.
Of course, other forms of working out are great at quickly shifting weight, such as exercise bikes, following body workout tutorials, and weight training.
For me, what works best is walking as you can include it in your daily life, and it burns a lot of calories and makes you feel good.
Avoid scales
Scales are good every now and again, to jump on maybe once a month to check your progress. But you can easily become obsessed with the spiral of jumping on the scales every time you walk past them.
Drinking water will increase your weight, and therefore make you believe you are putting on weight. They don’t show true progress as they are so fluctuating.
I would advise tracking your progress, taking progress photos, or monitoring clothes size reductions as an alternative.
Monitoring your weight each day on the scales will only lead to disappointment.
Don’t put on hold your life
This is very important as losing weight can become your life, don’t let it consume you. Allow yourself treat days, and enjoy the foods you love just not as often as you used to.
Making sure you eat your cravings is important to lose weight otherwise snacking becomes too much.
Don’t avoid eating out with friends, still, enjoy your life and as long as in a week a couple of days are restricted, this is doing something.
Don’t let your body or food hold you back!
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