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5 Tips for Losing Five Pounds a Week!

weight_lossDoes any of the following sound familiar? You desperately want to lose weight, but you’ve tried so many different diets and failed over the years that you’ve grown discouraged.

Tip #1 – Exercise More Often! The healthiest way to lose weight is to exercise. Someone who increases the amount they exercise, but maintains the same diet and calorie intake, will almost certainly lose weight. Plus, excessive sweating from cardio activity, such as running, walking and using aerobic gym equipment, will help you de-bloat and lose inches and pounds quickly.

Tip #2 – Cut Down on Your Sugar Intake! In particular, watch how many sodas or juice drinks you consume. You should also watch out for “fat-free” products. Sugar is often used to replace the flavor that is lost when the fat is removed.

Tip #3 – Cut the Carbs! Cutting down on your carbohydrate intake, particularly white carbs (that is, carbs from white bread, potatoes, etc.) and instead eating more high quality lean proteins (such as chicken and fish) is a great way to drop a few pounds quickly. You should still eat fibrous carbs, such as berries, spinach and apples.

Tip #4 – Stop Eating Processed Foods! Instead eat more fruits, vegetables and whole grains. Often, people who are used to eating a lot of junk food will discover they can actually a higher quantity of delicious fruits, vegetables and whole grains without gaining any weight.

Tip #5 – Drink More Water! Water naturally helps to suppress your appetite and drinking at least 8 glasses of water a day will help you lose weight and burn fat. On the other hand, if you don’t drink enough water every day, your body may store water and fat that you don’t need.

7 Weight Loss Tips for Kids and Their Families

weight_loss1Here is a sure-fire list of diet dos and don’t to help your family triumph over obesity:

1. Try again.  Weight loss and healthy eating is not easy.  There will be times when you and your family will struggle with this new lifestyle.  It is important to keep trying.  Failure is certain if you are not trying.

2. Avoid portion distortion. When serving food you must use portion control, a buffet-type or family-style situation tends to promote overeating.

3. Start the day off right with a good breakfast. A bowl of low-sugar cereal with low-fat milk, low-fat yogurt with a granola or breakfast bar, or an English muffin with peanut butter, rather than a doughnut or muffin. A healthy breakfast will put your family on the healthy track for the rest of the day.

4. be a ‘healthy’ role model. If there are chips, cookies and Twinkies and no fruit or vegetables when your kids look for snacks, how can they succeed?  Line your refrigerator and cabinets with fresh fruits, nuts, low-fat cheese, and easy things for kids to snack on besides ‘junk food’.

5. Be positive. Say, Let’s go pick out fruits and make a fruit salad, don’t eat this or that. Use positive words and phrases when talking with your kid.

6. Make healthy eating a family affair.  Create family meals together and for the entire family. Do not single out an overweight family member with special diet food.  Your entire family can benefit form healthy eating regardless of weight.

7. Make time for physical activity. Make physical activity a family activity. Every night after dinner in the summer, go for a half-hour walk and make it an activity that kids look forward to.