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Weight loss tips and tricks--- From the Obvious to the surprising
DonA1979:
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If you're habituated, it's not really a concern.
By the way, why do you think it's advantageous to have a slightly higher heart rate from caffeine?
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I'm sure theres no real advantage to it. For myself, I find that it helps shorten my warmup period.
quirk3k:
I would like to throw out some standard advice and some novel tips that worked for me.
The standard
* Track: Know how much you are eating; know how much you exercise. Measure when possible and estimate only when necessary.
* Support: Get help from people around you. Get to know people at the gym. Form a social network with a culture of weight loss.
The novel (which worked for me)
* Reward Yourself Frequently: Every day I have small chocolate squares or ice cream. It's a constant stream of small rewards.
* Vary Your Food Intake Greatly: Some days I pig out; other days I have small meals. Remember to track everything and fit it into a weekly budget.
In the past, when I've tried to lose weight, I would only eat "healthy foods." I would go on for months like this, but would feel deprived, go off the diet, and gain a bunch more weight. Now I fight to avoid feeling deprived. I eat little bits of chocolate, small cupcakes, small scoops of ice cream. I have all the foods I love in teeny tiny doses. I eat them in small bites and take my time to enjoy them. A salted dark chocolate caramel is amazing as it melts over your tongue. A single piece can last me 10 minutes.
In the past, I would track my food and eat the same number of calories every day. I would lose weight for a few weeks, but then my body got used to the new level of food and weight loss would slow to a crawl. I got my best weight loss results by varying my daily intake and making it work out to a weekly average.
I hope this helps. Losing weight is hard.
RyanSchwieger:
Ok. I know this sounds really weird, but eat from smaller plates/smaller bowls/smaller glasses(especially if drinking juice or soda and not just water. Doing this helped me to confront how much I was eating, and I ended up being more aware of what a serving is.
Cut fast food and really needless or over abundant snacks. Replace Soda with water.
LumpyFish:
Cut out sugar as much as you can. That packs so many calories.
lonely moa:
Eat the foods that leave you satisfied so you are never hungry.
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