What naturally helps to lose a few pounds?
Last reviewed: 23.04.2024
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If you want to lose weight - then you have to accept one thing: you do not need a diet, a completely new way of life. Healthy lifestyle. No diet in a few days can make you truly slim. You can throw off, suffering in severe restrictions, a few pounds, which will certainly return even more than it was once you return to your taste preferences.
Remember that every crease of fat on your body was formed not in a week and not in a month - but a few months, or even years. Therefore, to make it disappear, it must be the same time, no less, and also hard work on oneself. The work consists in one thing - to spend more calories than you consume.
And let first you cut the total number of calories by just 300 - you in a month, if you adhere to a very clearly chosen volume - you feel that you have eased from 3 to 5 kg, without suffering and painful prohibitions.
Although, we will not dissemble, there will be some prohibitions in gastronomic predilections, of course. But they refer to the "cap of evidence": smoked, fast food, fat-fried, spicy, appetizing, salt, simple carbohydrates in the form of sweets and flour products - sweet muffins, cakes and pastries. Of course, at least the minimum load from exercise should be - to help metabolism.
Mayonnaises-ketchups should also be excluded, because they are full of starch, which should not be used in a healthy diet and when you are aiming for weight loss. In perestroika for food, which will not be difficult for you and with which you will not recruit unnecessary wrinkles, it is important to follow the rule: choice, combination and regular moderation. That is, you must choose the optimal products for yourself - for example, if you are a "milk" person, your accent may consist of lactic-acid foods that are rich in proteins and you can choose fat. In addition, they perfectly satiate. If you are a meat-eater, then your food should also be built on meat-free lean meats: rabbit, poultry, lean pork tenderloin and beef - you can either bake or cook the meat in your own juice or cook. Meats are ideal for vegetables - in any form. For quick and correct cooking use multivarkers, steamers, pressure cookers - these household helpers should replace your frying pans. In multivarkas you can cook without oil, fish and meat are juicy and tender.
In short, to adjust your weight - adjust what you eat. Eat a fraction, in the morning you can actively eat complex carbohydrates - a full breakfast of cereal, you can eat sweet fruit, low-fat yogurt. But if you are used to breakfast even more densely - for breakfast, there are almost no restrictions: the main thing is not fat, not sweet, not smoked. For lunch, eat vegetable soups, stew with salads. But for dinner, eat or something protein, or fiber-vegetables. Gradually, the body will get used to new habits - you will see the result, you will be happy that you are now slimmer. The main thing, be patient and follow your new style of diet methodatically: fat deposits will melt.