Best Way to Lose Weight Fast

Nothing tastes as good as being thin feels!

Losing weight is not easy, but what it comes down to is this – You can lose weight by eating less calories.  The pounds will fall off fast if you can resolve to eat fewer calories. 

 It’s not hard to reduce your calorie consumption. You don’t have to deprive yourself, nor do you have to starve yourself.  The best way to lose weight is to cut your calories effortlessly and easily. These valuable tips will show you the way to lose weight fast - beginning right now.

Eat Healthy and Lose Calories

You don’t have to give up your favorite foods, just make healthy changes. For instance, if you have a craving for chocolate and eat a big piece of chocolate cake, you will have added hundreds of calories to your daily calorie consumption.

But if you eat a healthier substitution, as a sugar-free ice cream sandwich or some reduced fat chocolate cookies, you will get the chocolate  you desire at lower calories.

Try substituting  low fat and low calorie foods like low fat dairy products instead of whole milk products, 100 calorie popcorn instead of regular popcorn, lean cuts of meat, baked chips instead of regular chips, “I Can’t Believe It’s Not Butter” instead of butter, and fruit instead of fruit juice.

Lose Weight by Eating More

Yes, that’s right! If you want to lose weight, eating more isn’t the first action that occurs to you. But studies show that you really can control your appetite by eating more frequent and smaller sized meals.

Eating more will take off weight in two ways. First, it will keep you from getting overly hungry. Excessive hunger is the main reason people stop dieting. If you control the hunger, you control your calorie intake and therefore, your weight.

Secondly, smaller meals help your digestive system keep active. You will lose weight as your body burns calories faster. Smaller meals are a manageable way to decrease the number of calories you eat and burn calories at the same time.

Lose Calories with a Food Journal

Most of us really don’t know how many calories we eat every day. Studies show that people who keep food journals lose more weight than people who don’t. Keeping a food journal is a very inexpensive way of losing weight.

More impressively, people who keep a food journal are more likely to keep the weight off. Seeing what you put into your mouth daily helps you see the error of your ways.

By using a journal, you can see what an impact fast food or sugary foods have on your weight. And you can reduce your daily diet down to a workable size. This eating pattern will become a habit and stay with you long after you stop recording in your food logs.

Just list on a sheet of paper the
Food_____________________ Qty._________ Calories__________

for breakfast, lunch, supper and snacks. This increased awareness of what you are really eating each day will allow you to adjust your food so you can lose weight. Don’t dig your grave with your own knife and fork!

You can also use the Food Journal Templates and Food Diaries we created to help you keep track of what you are eating all day long.  Visit our Food Journal Template page and you can either print the form or fill it out in a word processor program.  I like to open it in the morning on my computer and fill it out electronically every time I eat something.

Lose Weight by Being Active

This has to be the easiest way to lose weight and help your body benefit by staying a little more active.  Many of us don’t have time to go to the gym (or the desire), but you can burn off calories doing your daily routines of errands and chores.

Lawn work and gardening burn an amazing number of calories. Depending on how much you weigh and what activity you are doing, you can burn up to 700 calories an hour just by doing some yardwork.

If you have pets or children, take them to the park.  You can lose 300 calories or more in an hour of sliding, swinging and playing in the park.

If you run errands, don’t use the elevator, use the stairs. Park far away at the end of the cars when you are shopping.  These are small changes you can make to your lifestyle that can result in weight loss rewards.