Being Overweight and obese can lead to a range of health issues. Globally around 1.9 billion adults are overweight and around 650 million are obese. In India only 135 million are affected by obesity. In India abdominal obesity is one of the major risks for cardiovascular diseases (CVD). It has found that the prevalence of obesity in women is significantly higher as compared to men.
This article is basically designed to give tips to readers about how they can achieve their weight loss goal by practicing some super easy tips which would also help them to lead a healthier lifestyle. The truth is that losing weight is easy, but only it is done in the right manner. So here are 10 healthy jumpstart tips for a healthy weight loss.
- Start your day with an aerobic exercise:
Doing aerobic exercise is an excellent way to shed off some extra calories and improve your physical and mental health. Aerobic exercise may help in lowering blood pressure, control blood sugar, and reduce belly fat. Take the first step and Start slowly, walk five minutes in the morning and five minutes in the evening.
Some of the Aerobic exercise one must include in their routine are:
- Brisk Walking
- Running or Jogging
- Cycling
- Swimming
- Aerobic Dance
- Say Bye to Sugar:
Eating too much sugar may lead you to gain unnecessary weight which would be difficult to shed off. Having Too much sugar in your diet can develop a habit of consuming it every day. Choose a healthy option like Stevia or jaggery as they not only can cut down your sugar craving but also don’t add extra calories to your diet.
Be a Water Baby:
Be a Water Baby:Drinking a good amount of water can boost up your metabolism by 24-30% over a period of 1- 1.5 hours, which would generally help in burning off a few more calories. It is also suggested to have half a liter of water about half an hour before meals helped dieters eat fewer calories.
- Eat More Protein:
Include more food which is high in protein as it helps in losing weight and building muscles. As protein takes time to digest so they keep your body full for a longer period of time, hence you satiated.
- Chew Your food more slowly:
Chewing food slowly leads to intake in fewer calories and it increases the production of hormones which helps in weight loss. Chewing slowly helps you to slow down your food intake and pay attention to each bite.
- Eat more fruits and vegetables:
Fruits and vegetables contain few calories and a lot of fiber. Their water content gives them low energy density, making them filling. As they contain viscous fiber which not only helps in increasing satiety but also controls your weight over a longer time.
- Incorporation of Herbal Teas in your diet:
As herbal teas are loaded with powerful antioxidants, they help in fat burning. Catechins, an antioxidant found in Green tea works great with caffeine present in green tea to enhance fat burning. Herbal tea will soothe the body and relax your mind.
- Eat less Refined carbs:
Refined carbohydrates basically include sugar and they have stripped of their fibrous nutritious part. Refined carbs elevate the blood sugar rapidly leading to hunger and food cravings which is directly related to increased food intake.
- Eat Spicy Foods/ Add some Pepper:
Red Pepper contains capsaicin when pepper is eaten early in the day it will decrease the food intake later in the day as capsaicin decreases calorie intake and increase metabolism
- Eat Early:
As the body metabolism is higher during the daytime, which helps in burning off some of the calories. Food eaten earlier in the day generates more energy than food eaten late at night and that food is stored as fat.
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