| There is no magic pill to weight loss, and there is | | | | week, and 16,800 a month you are not adding. |
| no single solution. If you exercise like crazy, but | | | | A pound is 3500 calories. That means you |
| have a terrible diet full of junk food and deep fat | | | | prevent yourself from adding almost 5 pounds of |
| fry everything, then despite your exercise you | | | | calories a month just by switching to water. You |
| probably won't make the weight you want. | | | | know what the bonus is? Drinking ice cold water |
| Likewise, a great diet without exercise can only | | | | each day a actually burns 50-100 calories a day! |
| get you so far. It takes a combination of | | | | So at the end of the month, not only do you |
| factors, and both diet and exercise, to | | | | keep five pounds off, but burn another half a |
| successfully lose some weight. | | | | pound. Water also flushes the system, and this |
| One of the most basic steps is to have a healthy | | | | does not even include the benefits from keeping |
| diet. There are fad diets to never eat meat, and | | | | all that sugar out of your system. |
| other fad diets to always eat meat, but never | | | | If you're not a big exercise person, start with a |
| eat carbs. For most people the best way to go | | | | 30 minute walk every day. A good thirty minute |
| is to avoid the fad and gimmick diets and find | | | | walk is 100-150 calories or more. This can also |
| something reasonable. Making sure to eat all | | | | help to raise your metabolism. If you are willing |
| your fruits and vegetables each day is not only | | | | to exercise a little harder, a stationary bike is a |
| healthy, but it fills up your stomach with foods | | | | huge way to burn a large amount of calories in a |
| that are very light in calories and often have no | | | | short time. |
| fat at all. For the same reason you should eat | | | | Also, though many people's schedules don't allow |
| grains and fiber every day. When it comes to | | | | for it, see if you can eat five or six really small |
| meat, white is generally better than red. If you | | | | meals instead of two or three large ones. Your |
| can replace beef with chicken and pork with | | | | body generally can't burn more than 500 calories |
| fish-do it! The difference between those | | | | at any meal setting, so smaller meals not only |
| different meats are huge. | | | | puts less calories right into storage, but keeps the |
| If you are a pop drinker, switch to water. For | | | | metabolism up and burning over the whole day. |
| many people that alone can equal twenty pounds | | | | Mind all the details, keep all these little hints in |
| in a year! Suppose you drink two to three | | | | mind, and you might be amazed at the weight |
| Cokes a day. That is 600-750 calories, assuming | | | | you start dropping with what seems like barely |
| you are drinking a can and not a larger bottle. If | | | | any effort at all. |
| you stop drinking pop, that is 4200 calories a | | | | |