Things you Didn’t Know About Weight Loss!

How to ensure you have good health and weight?

Who wouldn’t love to look good? You might have tried out a fitness routine or followed a strict diet (though you have few cheat days when no one’s looking) and you still aren’t satisfied with the results.Some of you might have even tried to fast thinking that it’ll help in shedding those extra pounds but you might have observed that you only ended up gaining more weight.

There are few things one must know before they start a diet or a fitness regimen so that you lose weight naturally and maintain a balance.

Things you must know about Weight Loss

Change Metabolism

• Physical activity helps one lose weight.
• Even in your genetically fat, you could try and include some basic exercises in your routine and see the difference.
• You can also include green tea which contains caffeine and boosts metabolism.

Stress could make one fat.

• If one is stressed out, it causes them to crave for carbohydrate rich foods.
• Stress also increases stress hormones which causes fat to get accumulated.

Sleep more to help in weight loss

• If you’re sleep deprived it will upset your hormone balance in the body.

• It could trigger undesirable functions like making you feel hungry all the time like ghrelin which will trigger hunger and reduces leptin which is a hormone that helps you feel full.

  Have Enough Sleep

Sugar is bad for health.

• It is addictive.
• Sugar excites those parts of the brain which is similar to the parts that get activated when one is high on drugs.

Anti-oxidants help in weight loss.

• Include a handful of berries which are rich in anti-oxidants in your diet.

• These make you feel full and thus you wouldn’t end up over eating.

How to ensure you have good health and weight?

There are certain basics one must follow to ensure you have good health always irrespective of your current weight and state of health. Now I would write down the guidelines that form the basic foundation for a long and healthy life and which may even help you in automatically achieve your dream ideal weight.

Healthy Diet

• Include fresh whole foods in your diet.
• Go for organic and locally grown fruits and vegetables.
• Eat raw vegetables or partially cooked ones since they retain the nutrients.
• Include fruits and vegetables.

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• Let the food appear like a rainbow, in the sense include different varieties of fruits and vegetables which will give all the different vitamins and nutrients that are required by the body.
• Limit sugar intake by cutting down on fizzy drinks.
• Include healthy fats in your diet.

Stay Hydrated

• Drink plenty of clean water.
• Cut fizzy drinks when you feel thirsty, instead go for tender coconut water or a bottle of clean water.
• Water helps in removing toxins from your body.
• Water also makes your skin glow.
• Limit exposure to toxins.

Manage Stress

• Discover hobbies like playing a game or painting which will help you relieve stress.
• Try meditation to remove all the stress from your brain.
• Smile often and stay happy.

• Sleep for good 7-8 hours regularly.

Implement a fitness program.

• Include a variety of exercises from high intensity to low intensity ones. It could be aerobics, strength training and stretching.

• You must also optimize the vitamin D levels in your body by exposing to the sun. Remember to use a good sun ban lotion.

Please remember that everyone is unique and we all are gifted with a good body. Don’t take it for granted and try out diets and fitness regimen followed by others, just because it worked out well for them doesn’t mean that it will have an impact on you. Consult a dietician or a fitness expert before you start anything. Note that a healthy lifestyle is what one needs to produce a healthy mind and a healthy body with balanced weight and also increase your longevity.