Everybody wants to know the best ways to lose weight the healthy way, but it can be hard to know which tips actually work.
At first I used to get confused about what I should follow and what I should ignore, so I’ve decided to try myself all the healthy weight loss tips I read about in magazines and online. And as a result, through trying and experimenting, I finally figured out which weight loss ways actually work! And which don’t …
So, here they are – the 20 Healthy Ways to Lose Weight that worked for me. Try them and see if they will be as effective for you!
1. Always combine diet with exercise, don’t prioritize one over the other …
When you gradually reduce the number of calories in your diet while still getting the nutrition that your body needs – and combining it with exercise – you’ll have better chances of losing weight the healthy way.
2. It takes small steps at a time to take that big leap …
If you always succumb to the temptation of downing a cup of hot, rich chocolate drink in the evenings – the pounds will easily add up within a year. Try cutting off habits like these out of your diet – and you’ll be amazed at the results that you will get.
3. Increase your level of physical exertion …
When you increase your exercising and combine it with a good diet, you are most likely to be successful in losing weight. Park your car a couple of blocks away from your destination and walk the rest of the way – it’ll do you good. Have sex more often, do step-ups in between commercials while watching your favorite show instead of munching on popcorn …
4. Exercise for an hour a day …
Pick an exercise that you enjoy, and make sure that you are doing it right. I vary mine, so that i don’t get bored. See which of these 10 Top Exercises to Lose Weight … will be best for you.
5. Eat three healthy meals a day …
Make sure that the three main meals of the day contain the essential nutrients and food groups that you need every day. Include breakfast, which is often forgotten.
6. Fruit and vegetables …
Liven up dull meals with fruit and veggies, and you’ll also be much closer to meeting your five a day! Try adding strawberries to breakfast, or peppers to your sandwich. I take a sliced apple to work with me, to stop me snacking and to increase how much fruit I eat. Check out 50 Healthiest Foods: An Ultimate Grocery Shopping List for Losing Weight … to see which fruit and veggies to get next time you are in the store.
7. Weigh yourself regularly …
This helps you see that your efforts are working, but it’s important that you don’t obsess about the numbers. Once a week will be adequate, and if you feel that you are becoming a little too focused on your weight, stop for a few weeks.
8. Watch what you buy …
If you have a house full of crisps and chocolate, there will be temptation everywhere. Cut them out of your shopping list. I find that if I have to make a special journey to get some chocolate, I’m more likely to just eat something that I already have, which is probably healthier!
9. Make exercise social …
Plan a family bike ride, or play Frisbee with your friends. It will be both fun and exercise at the same time!
10. Eat the healthy foods first …
Eat low calorie and healthy foods first, so that when it comes to the more fattening options you are less hungry.
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- 10 Easy Weight Loss Rules You Must Know …
- 23 Healthy Ways to Lose Weight …
- 5 Best Low Calorie Snacks …
11. Pay attention to portions …
I’m terrible with this, and so I’ve found that letting my boyfriend serve the food means that I don’t snack before it’s served! Remember that everything you eat counts, so if you’ve eaten a lot before dinner, have a smaller amount. Read more on the portions and the kind of plates to use in 7 Fastest Ways to Lose Weight…
12. Be active …
I always wash my car at home, rather than taking it to the car wash. As well as saving money, it burns calories and it’s great fun too!
I want to loose weight and exercise but my work requires a hard day shift and when I finish I feel so exhausted that can not do it. What can I do?
To Shirley Morales – As for the workout, Girl, you have to coffee-up (literally, 1 cup of coffee about 2 hours before your workout will do), find a source of inspiration (like: “I really really REALLY want to go to Rio de Janeiro next summer and wear a super tiny bikini”), and finally, you need to give yourself and your body about 2 hours of the day to workout. Also, I strongly suggest you workout in the morning (5 am or 6 am) because the day may get complicated and you might not be able to workout in the afternoon or night. As for the diet, go easy on soda (even light!!), pasta, bread, sugar and salad toppings. Start by cutting your daily intake by half, and two or three weeks in, 80%.
Trust me, the payoff for waking up really early to exercise and passing on lasagnia is absolutely worth it.
Dear Annie,
That’s a great piece of advice! I absolutely agree on cutting the daily intake by half – it works wonders! When in a restaurant it often helps to ask the waiter divide your meal in half before it even makes to the table – so that you eat half and take home another half and have something for the next day too!
Dear Shirley,
As for the workout routines, I found one that works great for me and my husband and it takes only 7 minutes a day. It’s called 7 Shapely Secrets and can be found online, but if you don’t want to spend any money, I’ll gladly share in the comments what the exercises are and how to do them properly – I do it 3-4 times a week and the results are amazing! Much better than the 30 minute workouts with an instructor in the gym…
Do let me know if you are interested, sweetie :)
Thank you, girls!
I am trying to lose weight. I am eating right, watching my intake, going to to gym but the only thing that seems to be getting smaller are my boobies. What can I do to help flap turn into flat.
Here is another tip – drink lots of water. Perhaps tea, if you like that drink. Thing is, snack hunger can often be curbed by drinking a glass of water. Sure, you may need to go to the bathroom more often than normal, but so what? You will consume less calories, hence you lost weight if you have some patience.
Also if you drink more water, or make more exercises you can w8.
YOU CAN DO UR WORKOUT AT EARLY MORNING. THAT WILL GIVE BETTER RESULTS INSTEAD OF EVENING
I agree with Maria that drinking water is another really good, easy tip for aiding weight loss. Not only is water needed to help with carbohydrate and fat metabolism in the body, but if you stick to water instead of fruit juices, pop or coffee you'll be eliminating lots of sneaky, hidden calories from your daily life.
im trying to drop 3-4 dress sizes,, i eat healthy, and am finding the exercise im doing is comming to no avail. am i better off doing exercise in the mornings for 40mins rather than at evening? and anyone got any tips on breathing while doing jogging? thankies
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ok let me tell you guys here is very simple home remedy to loose weight…Juice of a lime mixed in a glass of warm water and sweetened with honey , take it every morning on an empty stomach.now honey mobilizes the extra fat deposited in the body, puts it into circulation and thus burning it and try including alot of cabbage in tyour diet, it prevents the onversion of sugar and carbs into fat.
Hi Olga.
I would love to hear the “7 Shapely Secrets” you mentioned!
Im 17 going on 18 and i was wondering if there was any teen healthy was to lose weight ? right now i way about 184.5 and i wish to get back down to at least 150.5 again ? I play Varsity Softball but that doesnt seem to help ? ?
Hi Amanda,
Have you tried any of the tips mentioned here? These tips are healthy and they will not have an adverse effect on your teen body. One thing though, do you eat your breakfast? Most teens I know skip breakfast. This leads to over-eating. Make sure that you eat 3 meals a day, as Kati mentioned. :)
Oh yeah, you should never go into the starvation diet.
Good luck! :)
I agree with the other suggestions of drinking lots of water. Many of us walk around dehydrated, plus often we reach for something to eat, but if we reached for a drink of water instead we would eat a lot less!
Here’s to healthy habits!
I am fifteen, 6 ft, female and I need to loose 5 stone (70 pounds) to get me to a really heatlhy weight. I am also a vegetarian.
Any diet tips for me and some excercises as well?
I have tried to lose weight before, but I get easily dis-heartened and it takes a lot for me to get motivated but heck, when I get motivated I really do get going, I just need to find a way to always be motivated.
My weakness is chocalate; so that would still have to be in my diet, lol.
Thank you. :)
hi dear kati
its be subheesh i just wanted to now how to reduse the weight,,,,, and i have so meny thing to ask u,
take care
hi kati. iam 28 yrs married femail. i want to reduce 10kgs weight v fast and quick..plz do help me and send me some good tips …thx
samar
Hello.
MY name is Jade and i have seriously tried to lose wieght for a couple of years now. I’m 19 and everything i try just doesn’t help. I’m really fussy with food and even when i do eat well and workout 5 times a week, i see nothing.
It is really depressing me now, i really really need help :(
Thanks.
to Jade:
Sweetie, looks like the exercise routine you’ve picked and the diet you’ve been on is not working for you. Do you have a gym nearby? Ask a personal trainer to put together an exercise program for you that will be change every 3 weeks or so – otherwise your body would just get accustomed to the workout and will no longer show any improvements. The personal trainer can also advise you on foods you should be eating. Perhaps you might want to make those portions twice as little. And make sure you do not eat any sweets, pastry or junk food, soda included.
Please keep me posted on how it’s going…