Top 10 Tips To Reduce Obesity

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Obesity is a disease, and a severe one at that. Whether you are borderline obese, or depressingly obese, the right choice is to acknowledge the problem, know what you can do to overcome it, and have the will power to pursue the demanding regimen of weight and belly fat loss. Review what you eat, don’t be afraid of making lifestyle changes, consider intaking diet pills, adopt alternative cooking styles – so do whatever you can. To help get better results quicker, follow these time tested and scientifically verified suggestions of defeating obesity.

  • Low Carbs Diets – They Are The Real Deal

Eating less is just half the story; it’s not even technically possible, because your body needs energy, and you can’t deny the dose. The gist – eat low-carb diets, because they are the most potent in terms of helping you ‘not feel more hungry’, thus delivering the desired benefits of low calories without defying the natural logic of body’s reactions to insufficient diets. You are anyways going to burn calories if you have an active lifestyle (which you must have).

  • Only Eat If and When You Are Hungry

There is a surprisingly large number of foods that the average human can consume without feeling hungry – cheeses, chips, nuts, and the list goes on. Make it a rule – only eat when you are hungry, and not when you just happen to have food in sight. Remove those snacks from your room, and strictly attune yourself to not eating anything while watching the television.

  • Skipping Breakfast is a Bad Idea

Skipping breakfast as a part of your quest for losing weight is not a good option. A ten-year long study encompassing 2,400 adolescent girls as subjects concluded that girls who ate breakfast had lower BMIs as compared to girls who skipped the meal. Eating breakfast helps you stay away from junk eating for the rest of the day, ensuring you consume a lesser number of calories through the day than otherwise. Researchers found that men who ate breakfast regularly weighed 2.7 kilograms lesser than those who skipped the morning meal.

  • Replace frying with baking

It’s surprising how people don’t look at alternative ways of cooking, and focus more on drastic and sometimes impractical approaches like skipping meals, shunning eating, and what not. Here’s a trick – start baking your recipes rather than frying them, because that keeps the vegetables tender and tasty, without the infusion of unnecessary oils and butter.

  • Go High On Fibrous Foods

Eating fiber rich food is bound to help you in many ways in pursuing your aim of losing the extra fats. That’s because your body takes longer to digest fibrous foods, which means you get a feeling of being ‘full’ for longer durations. Brown rice and chickpeas, whole grains, sautéed veggies – all are good options in terms of fibrous foods. Your blood sugar remains stable for longer times when you eat fiber rich foods, rather than falling and spiking rapidly, which triggers your brain into demanding more food.

  • Measure Diligently And Correctly

Obesity reduction regimens can be more effective if you measure progress regularly, and in the right manner. Daily weights are not the perfect indicators of how well you are faring in your weight-loss program. Grab a measuring tape, and measure your belly regularly. Other indicators you need to track for holistic picture of your obesity reduction regimen include BMI, blood sugar, and cholesterol.

  • Don’t Fall Back

Most attempts to defeat obesity begin well, then stabilize, and ultimately falter. It’s usual for grown males and females to successfully shed anything between 1 to 3 kilograms in just one week, just by adopting a low carbs diet coupled with moderate daily exercising. After this, the weight loss rate reduces to half a kg per week, which causes motivation levels to fizz out. It’s important to realize that constant efforts will not reveal constant rates of weight loss; what’s more important is to continue even when you reach the plateau, in order to stay fit, sustain the achieved level of fitness, and give a chance to further weight reduction.

  • Understand Fruit Diets Better

Women, in particular, need to realize how fruits can have unintended deleterious effects on their attempts to overcome obesity. Most fruits contain at least 10% sugars, and these sugars are not too different from the ones that you treat as your enemies (half glucose, half fructose). It’s important to realize that fruits are ‘healthy’, but not ideal for people looking to lose weight and belly fat, because of their sugar contents.

  • Artificial Sweeteners – Not Too Sweet

You need to lose fat. How to do it without depriving your taste buds of the wonderful taste of sugars? Replace sugars with artificial sweeteners, right? Wrong, that’s because several scientific studies have failed to indicate any effectiveness of artificial sweeteners in suppressing sugar cravings of the consumers. In fact, these artificial products can increase your appetite, causing risks of binge eating that could undo efforts of several days.

  • Review Everything You Consume

If you are fighting severe obesity, your counter action needs to be equally intense. So review everything you consume, even your medicines. Insulin injections, several diabetes medicines, and routine ITC medicines are known to stall your body’s weight loss efforts. Antidepressants and contraceptives have been questioned by studies measuring the impact of medicines on reducing effectiveness of weight and fat loss efforts.

References:

http://www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/disabilityandhealth/obesity.html

http://authoritynutrition.com/how-to-lose-weight-as-fast-as-possible/

http://dietpillswatchdog.com

Jessica Gerber
Jessica Gerber has been a freelance writer for last 11 years. She attended the University of Boston and graduated with a Bachelor in English Literature. She loves public speaking and motivates people in her own comic style. In her career, she has written dozens of Press Releases, Articles, and Essays.