Effective Diet Strategies - 2 Tips Work For Everyone

By Ali Bautista

When you are ready to lose the weight for good, you have to find diet strategies that can be implemented into your daily life. This doesn't have to be as complicated as it often seems.

Yes, you have to make some lifestyle changes if you want to lose a considerable amount of weight, but you can do that without spending three hours a day in the gym. The following strategies can be adapted to virtually any lifestyle or time schedule without all the stress.

The first effective strategy is to properly time your carbohydrates. Your body needs carbs because they are your main source of energy over the course of the day. Without them, you will struggle through workouts or even through the demands of your daily life. Don't fear them; just understand and control them.

Here's the secret to carbs: your body needs to use them for immediate energy or they will be stored for later use in your fat cells. That means if you eat a carb-rich meal and then sit on the couch all day they are likely to be stored rather than used. Similarly, if you eat more than your body needs for your current energy level they will go to your fat stores as well.

Therefore, timing carbs is more effective then cutting them out. Eat them in smaller portions before your most active periods in the day. So, maybe before you intend to workout or just eat most of them in the morning. Do this and you will have more energy and weight loss will be much easier.

Proper Fluid Intake: You know that sodas are sugary drinks are not good for you, but do you understand why? There is a reason that heavy soda drinkers who give it up completely easily drop 30 pounds or more in a single year.

If you are drinking anything with a lot of sugar and calories, your weight loss efforts will drag. The sugar and other ingredients in these drinks actually dry out your mouth so you feel thirstier, and the sugar can make you crave even more sugar.

There is power in giving up these drinks and going with water. It may be less exciting to drink, but you will find that you are less thirsty, less hungry, and that you have a lot more energy once you start drinking water instead.

Water doesn't dry out your mouth and will quench thirst, rather than creating more of it. It is also completely calorie free and can be used as a safe appetite suppressant.

Try drinking a glass or bottle of water about 10-15 minutes before you eat a meal. You will feel less hungry and therefore eat less at that meal.

Drink water in between meals and you will eat less over the course of the day without ever feeling hungry!

These strategies do seem rather simple, but they actually work! Often, it is the small changes you make that add up over time and bring about real weight loss that stays off long term. - 30552

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