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Best 20 Diet Tips EVER

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The Top 20 Diet Tips of All Time!


How to lose weight and get in shape by following! these 20 simple diet tips that REALLY work!!

Ask 100 people for their top diet tip and you’ll probably get 100
different answers… and most of them will directly conflict with the each other. It seems that everybody thinks they know the secret to losing weight… but have you ever noticed that its always the ‘big boned’ people that think they know the most?

So, how do you know which tips work and which are nothing but crazy old wives tales?!

Despair no more :) you’re about to discover the TOP 20 best
diet tips ’n’ tricks of all time. Period. …you’d better hurry up and order a new wardrobe because you’re about to super slim. Lets go!!

TIP #1 - Don’t cheat on your
calorie count

If you’re counting calories (which you definitely should be if you
want to lose weight!) then make sure you do it honestly! Contrary to a very commonly told lie… the calorific content of ‘food on your partners plate’ is EXACTLY the same as food on your plate! So stealing tidbits of their food still needs to be added to your count.

Similarly, ‘polishing off the scraps’ as you clear away the dishes
 also needs to be added to your count.

Lots of people try to cheat their calorie count but they are only cheating themselves. Be honest. If you want to take a little extra then go for it, but make sure you count it and stick to your limits.

If your calorie count isn’t accurate and honest its worthless. However… as soon as you commit to keeping a truthful honest and accurate calorie count it suddenly becomes and incredibly valuable tool. It can motivate you, guide you, help you and bring you great comfort, especially at times when you need it most.

Allow your calorie count to be your friend and use it to inspire your diet. Its incredibly rewarding when you know that a work out you just did has burned up more calories than the snack you previously indulged put in, but you ONLY get that reward if you’re honest with your count.


TIP #2 - Eat like Traffic Lights!
(Part One!)

Traffic lights are the perfect guide to what you should put on your plate and how you should eat it! First up we’re going to be using traffic lights to determine what you should be eating.

This is very simple.

With EVERY meal include at least one food that is either RED,
ORANGE or GREEN!!

Most red, orange and green foods (We’re talking about fruits and veggies here… NOT deep fried chicken!!!) are very good for you. When they are taking up room on your plate you have less space for the nasty foods that pile on the pounds.

Colourful fruit and veg is great for your skin too, so it’ll not only help you lose weight, but it’ll also make you look younger :) BONUS!!


TIP #3 - Eat like Traffic Lights! (Part Two!)

You know how traffic lights continually stop and start… well thats exactly how your should be eating EVERY meal

Most overweight people just shovel food into their mouths like its going out of fashion. The next fork full is already waiting before the last one has even been swallowed.

STOP this IMMEDIATELY!

When you eat you must take your time. Every time you put food into your mouth STOP focusing on the food on your plate, put your knife and fork down and shift your focus to the wonderful flavours and sensations that are happening inside your mouth. !

Chew your food. Enjoy it. Savour it!

Take your time to completely chew each mouthful and notice all of the flavours and textures before you swallow. Then and ONLY then, shift your focus back to your plate, pick up your knife and fork and prepare your next mouthful.

Just think of those trusty traffic lights. Stop. Start. Stop. Start.
You get the idea ;)!

TIP #4 - Don’t get too hungry!

If you’re hungry you’ll make terrible decisions about food. And you’ll very probably snack on whatever is most readily available (which is very rarely healthy).

So… heres a cool 2 part top tip.

Part 1 - Don’t get too hungry! Its just not good at all. Aside of making you eat things you normally wouldn’t it also sends a message to your body that food is rare so its time to start storing up as much fat as possible!  (You’re body is all about survival, it doesn’t care about looking super slim n sexy. So if it thinks that food is running out it will start to become VERY efficient and turning any food you do eat into fat that it’ll be able to use later when the food has all gone.)!

Part 2 - If you know you’re likely to go hungry, give in and start
snacking then make sure you have some healthy snacks that are ready to go :) A hard boiled egg or some nuts are perfect for this.You can keep some nuts in your car just in case. So the next time you fill up and your tummy rumbles you can avoid buying ‘just one Mars bar and nibble on some healthy nuts instead.

TIP #5 - Drink More Water!

If you feel peckish, drink a glass of water, wait for a few minutes
and then check to see if your peckish feelings have gone. About
80% of the time your body is craving water (very few people actually drink enough water so we all go around in a state of semi-hydration)!

Obviously, water is in pretty much everything we eat, so when
 you feel the urge to eat something its often your body craving water. Its telling you to eat something because thats how you usually get moisture into your body.

So… STOP. Close the fridge, get out of the pantry and go grab
a cool refreshing glass of life giving water. HMMMM!!!

Oh… another interesting thing about water. You are FAR more
likely to carry excess water weight in you don’t drink enough

water, as opposed to if you drink to much. Just like we discover in tip 4, your body is all about survival. If you don’t drink enough water your body assumes their is a water storage so it tried to hold on to some and you put on water weight. If you drink enough (or even a little too much) then your body knows that theres plenty of water and it doesn’t keep any extra back.

TIP #6 - Eat SPICY food!

You know the myth about spicy food speeding up your
metabolism. Its true. But thats not all…

Spicy food has some pretty cool qualities that are very handy when you’re trying to lose weight. Chillies contain capsaicin, which (clever scientists have discovered) causes your brain to release feel good endorphins :) and if that isn’t enough, research by the British Journal of Nutrition suggests that it also help to curb hunger.

Thats 3 ‘cool’ reasons to eat ‘hot’ food :) (I hope you’re enjoying these puns!)!

TIP #7 - Diet drinks ruin your diet!

Diet drinks contain less sugar, which is great. You eat less sugar you lose weight, right? Well yes, thats true but its not the full story. Diet drinks are still sweet because they contain artificial sweeteners to make them taste like their full fat cousins.

Herein lies the problem… and its a BIG FAT problem.Artificial
sweeteners mess with your bodies natural ability to regulate calorie intake in a really BIG way.

Your body is an amazing machine but if you confuse it, it can’t do its job properly. To be on the safe side avoid anything with artificial sweeteners, they’re just not worth it. Instead just drink more water!!

TIP #8 - Calorie counting is NOT
enough

On tip 1 we talked about the importance of counting calories,
but thats not really enough. Its no good just thinking about your diet in terms of numbers in numbers out. If you are eating
crappy calories then you’re going to real struggle to lose weight and you’ll probably be incredibly unhealthy if you do.

So… don’t just count calories, make a solemn commitment to
including a nice variety of nutritious foods in your diet.

You should be including carbs, protein and fat when you eat
(the good fats that is… and all in moderation!)!

TIP #9 - “I’ll have the SOUP please”

Always start your meal with a low calorie vegetable soup.
Research shows that doing this will result in eating 20% less calories from your overall meal.

It makes sense… you’re filling up a little on soup so you’re much less likely to eat so much during your main meal. And (much more importantly) if you’re out for a meal, filling up on soup, followed by a main meal will mean that you are not so likely to order a dessert.


You still eat well, go away satisfied and feel full, but you have taken on 20% less calories. Just because you had the soup:

TIP #10 - STOP when you’re full!

This one goes hand in hand with tip 3. When you eat food it takes a while for your body to process whats just happened.

So, think of eating like this….

At some point you WILL become full. and when you hit that
point you want to stop eating (If you don’t you end up completely ruining your meal and spend the rest of the evening incapacitated on the sofa with you top button undone rubbing your poorly belly)!

Now, heres the tricky part…

How do you know which mouthful is the one that makes you hit your fullness limit? Well… theres only ONE way to find out. Wait. Thats it! Just wait. you don’t have to wait for hours, you just need a little pause after EVERY mouthful to give your body the chance to say ‘Thats enough, I’m happy and satisfied, no more thank you.’

So, eat… STOP… wait, pay attention. Are you full yet? If the
answer is yes then stop eating, you’ve had enough. At this point it doesn’t matter how much food is left on your plate, none of it should be going into your mouth. From this point on you may as well look at the contents of your plate as being lumps of fat that is gonna head straight for your thighs and bum if you are foolish enough to even touch it.

TIP #11 - Cut down on SALT

Salt is a BIG problem when it comes to weight gain because it messes with the signals that your body is giving you about the way your actually feel. It causes you to feel hungry and thirsty, which makes you eat and drink more.

Most people eat roughly double the amount of salt they should be so check the labels of products you buy and look for lower salt content alternatives.

As for the salt you sprinkle on your fries… try using rock salt instead of the stuff you buy at the supermarket. (I use Pink Himalayan Rock Salt, you might want to Google it and see if you feel you’d like to change over to it too).

TIP #12 - Don’t starve yourself at night

Theres a common myth that you shouldn't eat after a certain time, some people say 7pm, others as early as 5!!! The trouble is, if you do that you tend to grind your metabolism down and the next day you’re feeling so hungry that you are very likely to over eat.!

As a simple rule, just make sure you have about 90 minutes after your last meal before you go to bed so that you have plenty of time to digest your meal. !

TIP #13 - Breathe Deeply

When you STOP what you are doing for a minute or two, bring
your focus back to yourself and just take a few nice long relaxing deep breaths your brain starts to release those lovely feel good chemicals that reduce stress and make you smile.

When that happens, you are far less likely to reach for a ‘stress snack’. So, make a solemn vow to yourself right now that at least 2 times every day while you are at work you’ll take a 5 minute break to just relax completely and focus on nothing but your breathing. (If you have to then you can do this in the toilet!) Whatever it takes, just grab yourself 5mins twice a day to do this simple exercise and you can wave goodbye to those pesky cravings. (You’ll also save yourself some cash if you’ve been piling the pennies into the staff vending machine!).

TIP #14 - Eat before you eat!!!

If you are going out to a party where there will be buffet food
then grab yourself a quick light healthy bite to eat BEFORE you leave the house. Research shows that people that starve themselves all day because they know they’ve got an ‘all you can eat banquet later (Yes, we’ve all done it!) on average will consume 47% more calories than people that have a quick light healthy snack before leaving for the party.

Why so high? Its all down to bad decision making. When we are hungry we tend to jump right into the fatty, cheesy, stodgy goodies. But just a light healthy snack can take the edge of the hunger enough to have you in the right mindset to make right decisions. As a result you end up with much more nutritious food on your buffet plate a far far fewer calories.

TIP #15 - Use chopsticks!!

Chopsticks force good eating habits, especially if you’re not very good with them! They automatically reduce the size of each mouthful and force you to focus on what you are putting into your mouth. When you use chopsticks you become a more conscious eater.

Think of a traditional knife and fork (or even a spoon) as a scoop on a digger, blindly shovelling food into your mouth. when I dine out I like to watch peoples eating habits (discreetly of course) and I cant believe how much some people manage to get onto a fork, it seems as though they feel like they’ve failed if the entire length of each fork tine isn’t covered with food!

Thinking about what you eat, eating it consciously and putting smaller portions of food into your mouth are all very good ways of controlling over eating. Chopsticks make this much much easer.

TIP #16 - Eat treats VERY SLOWLY

Whatever it is that you treat yourself with, thats fine. Even if it is something you really know you shouldn’t. I’m not going to tell you to give up on your favourite treats. BUT… and this is very important. I AM going to suggest that you change the WAY that you eat it.

If you want a treat then STOP what you are doing and take a
full 10 minutes to eat it. Start VERY VERY slowly. Take one bite. Notice the texture, flavour and smell. Really try to notice the
way it tastes as you move it around in you mouth. Notice how it tastes differently in different places of your mouth.

Now take you time to chew it slowly. Enjoy it. Savour the


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