10 Easiest Ways to Lose Weight

Many of us these days would love to lose a bit of weight, but it can just feel like too much of a challenge. Even if we get motivated enough to embark on some type of fad diet we will usually lose our motivation once we hit our target weight – it does not take long before the weight returns. The real secret to long term weight loss is to find easy things that work for us. Here are just a few suggestions that might help you with this.

Ways to Lose Weight

10- Keep a food diary
This might not make much sense to you but just recording what you eat can actually help you lose weight. This is because it makes you far more aware of what you are eating, and even if you never intend to share your diary with anyone else you can still feel a bit guilty about writing down excessive food intake. Keeping a food diary only takes a few minutes of work each day, but the results from this can be really impressive. If you own an iPad or something similar you will also find apps that allow you to record your food intake.

9- Eat more slowly
Most of us have a tendency to eat too fast. The problem with this is that our brains do not get a chance to register that we are full so we end up eating more than we need to. Making a deliberate attempt to eat more slowly should mean that you end up eating less.

8 – Drink more water
Humans are mostly made up of water so we need to drink plenty of fluids in order to stay healthy. One of the other benefits of drinking water is that it can give us a feeling of being full. Many people find that a couple of glasses of water near to their meal will mean that they eat less.

7 – Avoid soft drinks and beers
The problem with soft drinks and beers is that most of us forget how many calories we are consuming this way. A night in the bar can mean consuming more than a large meal. It is highly recommended that people reduce their intake of soft drinks and beers as this can be an easy way to lose weight.

6 – Eat low calorie food
It is not necessary to eat less in order to lose weight. In fact there are certain foods that you can eat all day but never put on any weight. An example of this would be celery – you use as many calories digesting this as there is inside the celery (this means that it is basically zero calories). The best advice is to find the low calorie foods that you like and use these when you want to just snack.

5 – Avoid Eating in the Evenings
Some people find that having a cutoff point for eating in the evenings means that they start to lose weight. For some people this means not eating anything after 6pm in the evening. This strategy can be effective and once people get into the habit of not eating in the evenings it is not too much of a hardship.

4- Trim your portion sizes
One of the easiest ways to lose weight is to just start trimming your portion size. You won’t have to remove much from your plate before you start to see the weight come off. Start off by just removing a couple of spoonfuls of food from your plate, and you can then build upon this. Over time you will adjust to eating less and you won’t even notice that you are eating less. The reason for why most of us end up eating too much is just habit, and this is something that we can unlearn.

3 – Intermittent Fasting
Intermittent fasting might sound like it is a bit drastic, but this can actually be an easy way to keep your weight down. There is also a good deal of research to indicate that intermittent fasting is good for your general health. The reason we say that it is easy is that you only have to be good for one day a week – just fast one day per week and eat more or less what you want the rest of the time. To make the fast easier you can make it from noon one day to noon the next. This way you won’t even have a day without food.

2 – Walk More Every Day
My favorite way to lose weight is walking. This is a type of exercise that does not involve much effort. I recommend that you purchase a pedometer so you can see how many steps you are taking each day. Over time you can try to walk more and more – over the course of a day you could easily burn a few hundred calories without making any real effort. You should also do things like walking upstairs rather than using a lift or escalator.

1- Mindful Eating
The award for easiest way to lose weight goes to mindful eating. This is a type of meditation practice that you can do without ever having to learn meditation or sit cross legged. It basically involves being aware of what you are putting into your mouth and your reason for putting it there. You are not focused on what you are eating but more with your relationship with food. Many of us eat even though we are not hungry but mindfulness allows us to spot this bad habit – this means that we can pull back before opening the fridge door. Another way that mindful eating works is that the fact that we are focused on our food means that we feel satisfied with less. Most of us will have had times when we stuffed our faces without even being aware of what we are doing.