20 Amazing Easy Weight Loss Tips
By Terry Didcott
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Published by Terry Didcott at Smashwords
Copyright 2011 Terry Didcott
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Table of Contents
3: Don't Try So Hard to Lose Weight
10: Weight Loss Diet or Natural Diet?
11: Eat Only When You're Hungry
12: Early to Bed and Early to Rise
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This book is dedicated to my partner Janice and my daughter Jasmine, the two most important girls in my life.
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Preface:
Welcome to the first of a five part series of books that collectively contain a comprehensive and fully researched collection of no less than one hundred individual chapters covering a wide range of weight loss tips, tricks, ideas and strategies. Each book contains 20 easy to read chapters. Each chapter fully details a useful tip, item of knowledge or workable strategy that you can use to help you lose weight more easily and make the process more fun. After all, losing weight should be enjoyable and never something that is seen as a chore.
This collection was originally compiled and written for the author's own website. The articles have been re-edited and reformatted for viewing on the Kindle book reader and packaged as five separate books to make them easier and more convenient to read, use and enjoy. This amazing collection of really useful tips and ideas has already helped thousands of visitors to lose weight. They can help you too.
It may be that you are just starting out on your own weight loss journey and you need some ideas to help you get started. It could be that you have already gotten underway and you want some extra help to boost your own weight loss program. Or make it go a little easier. It could be that you have been trying to lose weight but have so far had only limited success and want to know what else you can do to shift those stubborn extra pounds. It could be that you have become disillusioned by the whole idea of losing weight and need something to make it enjoyable and fun again.
Whatever you may need this information for, it can help you:
a) To get started on your weight loss journey
b) To maximize your existing weight loss strategy
c) To reignite a flagging weight loss program
d) To make losing weight much more enjoyable
This book has been written to give you some great ideas and techniques, some you may already know but are not using, some may not have thought of. There are many well known and recognized weight loss techniques that you can make use of as well as some not so well known tricks that can make the process of losing weight a whole load easier. The chapters can be read in any order as they each comprise a single, detailed topic.
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1: Look Closely at Your Diet
This first chapter looks at a person's diet and why it is a major (if not the most important) component of anyone's weight loss strategy.
In fact, diet is the underpinning foundation to losing weight and in terms of providing fuel for your body to run at its peak efficiency, it is everything. The gravity of the saying, "You are what you eat" is never more apparent when applied to weight loss as a means to regaining your ideal body size, shape and appearance. But there is a major problem with this that is often overlooked by the companies that promote their plans and programs and that is that because we are not all made the same way, one size does NOT fit all.
In other words, one diet is not right for everyone no matter how good it looks on paper. One person will thrive on it while another may fail completely.
What is the Right Diet for Me?
That is the sixty four thousand dollar question! The answer is not simple and often needs the professional expertise of a nutritionist or dietitian to work exclusively with you on a personal, one to one level to ascertain what is best for you, your character and your physical makeup.
However, there is hope.
There is one rule that applies to everyone and I'll mention it in some of the later chapters in this series but I'll mention it first off right here and that is:
When your body burns more calories than you consume through diet, you will lose weight.
This is an absolute and fundamental fact of life and it can't be gotten around with excuses or lies. It's a question of body mass and mass is something that cannot be made out of nothing.
In other more simple words, you cannot become overweight if you don't eat more than your body is burning through the work that it does. To become overweight, you have to add mass to your body. In every living being, mass is added through the food you eat if it is not used up first through activity.
If anyone tells you different, guess what? They're just not aware of this absolute law of physics, or they're in denial! Ok, that’s a little harsh, but I'm sure you can see where I'm going with this.
So the only one real "one size fits all" weight loss solution is in the simple fact of body mass. When you place yourself on a calorie controlled diet, you have to ensure that the number of calories you consume each day does not exceed what your body can (and does) burn off. But while you can fairly accurately measure the number of calories you are taking in, calculating the number you are burning in a day is a little more difficult to measure. But it can be done with modern equipment.
One thing is certain that will help your diet to succeed, whatever you or your nutritionist places you on, and that's complimenting it with exercise. And that's the topic of my next chapter in this series.
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2: Exercise and Get Fit
I decided to make the first two chapters in the series comprise probably the two most important aspects of losing weight. With the previous post looking at the role a person's diet plays in losing weight, this one takes a look at the role exercise plays in that process.
The Importance of Exercise to Lose Weight
While your diet has to be both nutritious, wholesome and filling while simultaneously restricting your calorie intake on a daily bases, your body needs to burn those calories as efficiently as it can for weight loss to come about. Sure, you can lose weight by starving yourself. But what happens when you do that?
Starving yourself causes your body to simply go into a physiological state often referred to as starvation mode. When this happens, all non-essential bodily functions are reduced or shut down and all nutrients and energy are directed to the parts that are essential to preserve life. These include auto-muscle responses like heartbeat, lung function, digestion and excretion, brain function etc.
When all your body's reserves of fat are used up and you are not getting sufficient nutrition through what you eat, your body will use what it has to in order to stay alive. Muscle tissue is taken and as muscle mass begins to decline, your body weight will drop dramatically. This is NOT a desirable state to get into as this is a serious danger to your life. You could die from malnutrition!
There is a much better, safer and healthier way to lose weight and tone up your body so that you can fit into that smaller dress size.
That way is to combine a healthy diet with exercise. Daily light exercise is perfect to begin with and can comprise long walks in the fresh air, swimming or other light, enjoyable activity that gets you out of the house and moving around. As you gain fitness this way, you can move up to more strenuous exercises as your body becomes accustomed to working more than it used to.
The whole idea of exercise to lose weight is such an important factor in the process that it beggars belief that so many people who are trying to lose weight simply don't want to do any at all. That's crazy because by omitting exercise from your weight loss plan, you are only doing half the job. You are simply not giving yourself the best chance of success, not just in the short term but in the long term too.
Exercise works to bring about a reduction on your weight and an improvement in your body shape, which is, after all the reason you're doing this! Here's how it works:
When you exercise, you are forcing certain muscle groups in your body to work. When muscles work, they need a supply of energy which they get from sugars in your bloodstream. As the muscles work, they use up the supply of sugars in the blood, causing the body to replenish the supply of sugars from its store of fat. The longer you exercise for, the more your fat store will be reduced. This reduces your "fat weight" while providing the muscles with the energy they need to work.