Ten Best Diet Tips to Lose Weight

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Tip 1: Drink plenty of water. It is considered as one of the greatest health myths.  However, I still believe in the benefits of water, not only in its role for losing weight but also for being healthy.

Water is flushes out toxin in our body, and you won’t have to worry about calories for drinking more of it.

Start your day with a glass of water.  As soon as you wake up, gulp down a glass of cool water.  A glass of water lets out all your digestive juices and sort of lubricates the insides of your body. You may have your morning cup of tea but have it after a glass of water. It is good for you. 

Drink a glass of water before you start the meal. Water naturally needs some space so that you feel fuller without actually having to stuff yourself.

Have another glass of water while you are having the meal. Again this is another way of making yourself full so that you can actually rise from the table eating less but feeling full just the same. Instead of drinking it one gulp, take sips after each morsel. It will help the food to settle faster so that you get that feeling that you are full faster

Tip 2: Avoid sweetened drinks such as sodas, soft drinks and the like.  These drinks are sweetened with sugar, which obviously gives you lots of calories.

You should also avoid commercial juices because, like any other sweetened drinks, these will give you lots of calories for its sugar content.  Additionally, these drinks are unhealthy for containing food coloring and artificial sweeteners.  Drink home made fresh fruit juices. 

Tip 3: Increase your fiber intake.  Fiber acts as body cleanser.  Go crazy over vegetables and fruits because these are good and natural sources of diet fibers.

Tip 4: Try to stick to black tea/coffee.  Black tea or coffee can actually be good for you. But personally I would like to recommend tea rather than coffee. The caffeine in the coffee is not really good for you because it is an alkaloid and can affect other functions of your body like the metabolism.    

Tip 5: Stay away from fried things. Fried things are an absolute no-no. The more fried things that you avoid, the lesser weight you will gain. Fried things are called so because they are fried in oil or fat. And even if the external oil is drained away, there is still a lot of hidden oil in it so stay away from it.

Tip 6: Fresh vegetables are better than cooked or canned vegetables. Try to eat your vegetables raw. When you cook them, you are in fact taking away nearly half the vitamins in them. And canned vegetables too are processed and are not nearly half as good as fresh vegetables. When you buy your vegetables it would be a good thing to see if the label says that it is pesticide free.

Tip 7: Do not eat egg more than 1 per day. The yolk of an egg contains many calories.  If you can avoid eating egg, then better.   For die-hard egg fanatics, you still can indulge to it however; it is advisable not to eat more than one piece a day.  

Tip 8: Make chocolates a luxury and not a routine. Chocolates are not or at least they should not be a part of your diet. So do not indulge too much in them. Even the bitter chocolates are not good for you because though the sugar is less there is still the cream in them.  

Tip 9: Choose white meat rather than red. White meat, which includes fish and fowl, is miles better than red meat, which includes beef and pork for those trying to lose weight. 

Tip 10: Try and adopt a vegetarian diet. A vegetarian diet is undoubtedly better for those of us watching our diet. There are a lot of advantages of keeping to a vegetarian diet but I don’t want to sing an ode to vegetarianism now. What I would suggest is keep to a vegetarian diet as much as you can. Make a non- vegetarian diet a week end event or something if you find it impossible to give up eating all those animals.