These Habits Will Help You To Lose Weight

Losing weight may seems to be very difficult, where you have to follow very strict diet plan stick to it for long time, have to avoid a lot of food items you love, and have to do a regular workout. To some extent, it is true but it's not that as hard as you think, there are a lot of different and simple habits that if you bring into your lifestyle, it will help you to lose weight rapidly.

One thing that you need to know is that any change in your life could only be happen, if you make some big changes in your lifestyle. These changes may feel so hard to follow in start, but as long as, you try to stick to them, they start becoming a simple habit and your weight loss journey will get much easier then ever. All you need is a little bit more patience and dedication. Now, here we discuss few simple habits that work slowly but give you long term benefits.

1. Drink a Plenty of Water

As we all know it's necessary to keep our body hydrated and it also provides a lot of benefits to our body for daily functioning. One of the benefits of drinking water is that it can also help you to lose weight, it helps you to increase your energy or number of calories you burn, for at least 60 minutes. It also suppress your appetite and reduce food craving, as well as, it boost metabolism also. So, start your day with a glass of water and try to make it more frequent, to enhance weight loss.

2. Control your portions

You need to keep on count on how much calories you intake because it is important to eat lesser if you want to lose weight. Most Americans eat 2-3 times more than the actual serving size of foods, and portion sizes are increasing drastically over the years, which is also contributing to rise in obesity rate. So, if you weight too much you must have to reduce the portions size you eat. For that you can see the serving size which is amount of food listed on product's nutritional label, where you can see how much nutritional value you get from that serving.

Here are some tips that help you to reduce portions.

• To reduce portion of eating you drink a glass of water before eating.

• Use smaller plate, because a lot of researchers found that using smaller plates, knives, forks, and other table wear can reduce the food you eat.

• Eat those health foods that make you feel full, even if you eat less, e.g. fiber foods.

• Eat less carb containing foods.

• Eat slower than usual, as it will also help you to reduce portions.

3. Eat Protein Rich Breakfast

High protein food can aid weight loss, it may also help you to keep if off for long time. So, first of all don't skip your breakfast, it should your priority to eat a healthy breakfast every day that contain lean protein and fiber foods which makes you feel full, as well as, also provide essential nutrients your body needs. Including protein rich food in your breakfast also reduce craving for longer time as compare to normal breakfast you eat. Some of the examples of lean protein sources are eggs, lentils, peanuts, tofu, salmon, beef, cottage cheese, quinoa, nut, green yogurt and more.

4. Try to Sleep Early

Your sleep schedule also plays an important role in your weight loss, because most of us who sleep late in night may eat more just for time pass, or to eat snacks while binge watching any show late night. Sleep also helps to keep appetite hormones in control, but if your sleep schedule in not right and you are not taking enough rest in night your appetite hormone become unbalance and will increase your appetite and you end up with eating more, which lead to gain in weight. So, try to sleep earlier, so that, you get enough amount of rest for at least 7 to 8 hours.

5. Don't Eat too little

However, you have to eat less when you are trying to lose weight, but cutting huge portion of calories immediately from your meal is also not good for your health. Make small and simple changes in your daily meal, try to avoid outside food or food that contain too much sugar in it, but also don't try to restrict all in very beginning of your journey. You can start with cutting 10% calories from your meal in start, and gradually keep increasing the percentage, as well as, try to avoid any of your favorite food which is unhealthy or is not good for weight loss, but you can eat on some occasions in limited portions.

6. Avoid Alcohol

If you consume alcohol too much, it may be difficult for you to lose weight. Alcohol contain high amount of calories and that too are empty calories which do not provide any nutrition to your body, it mean too much alcohol consumption can also lead to weight gain. So, reduce the consumption of alcohol or try to avoid it.

7. Avoid High Carb Foods

To lose weight you should also avoid carbohydrate containing food, which is also very beneficial for weight loss. Reducing high carb food from your diet helps to burn fat more rapidly, as carbs are main source of energy fuel for body but when you reduce carbs under 50 grams, it will force your body to use another source of energy that are ketones, that are produced by liver for from stored fat. There are many weight loss diet plans use this method, where they restrict the carbs from your diet, and fill your meal plate with healthy fats, protein and very low carb foods.

One of the most popular diet plan that use this methods is Keto Diet, that you might have heard about. So, you try to avoid carb containing food as another way to lose that could help you to lose weight, if you want.

8. Put Your Fork Down after one bite

To control your portion you need to change a lot of things, if you don't know your stomach takes 20 minutes to tell your brain that you have eaten enough. So you also need to control your eating speed, as researchers have found that slow eaters consume 66 calories less per meal as compare to those who eat very quickly. So, it's a very simple way to control your calorie intake and to increase weight loss just by putting fork down after one bite, eating slowly, and more.

9. Keep Looking Down

It can be a way to motivate yourself to lose weight, you can see your in mirror everyday to reinforce yourself to lose weight. Because of that, you will keep you reminding about your goals and it will become difficult for you to cheat your diet.

As, we all know we forget about our goals, routine or any other things that we have decided to do, to achieve any of our goal, but after sometimes we suddenly remember about that and try do follow all those routines again. In that way we never get consistent and we keep getting distracted from your goals and we never achieve the result. So, try different things like weighing yourself, frequently seeing yourself in mirror, and a lot more tricks to keep reminding yourself about your goals.