10 Easy Healthy Weight Loss Tips

10 Easy Healthy Weight Loss Tips

Keep a Food Diary

Oh how easy it is to persuade ourselves that we always eat healthy foods, in sane amounts! Write down what you eat for a week, and discover the truth. Then resolve to cut out the junk, use healthy portion control, and make healthier choices, day on day. Share your weight loss tips here.

Eat A Rainbow of Different

Is your food predominately beige...white...brown? These colours are associated, in my mind at least, with junk food, and certainly not with the fruit and veggies you need for a healthy diet. Jazz up your plate with multi-coloured fresh fruit and vegetables,the more different shades the better - scarlet tomatoes, bright yellow peppers, dark red raspberries, dusky blueberries, bright green salads...one of the wisest easy healthy weight loss tips is simply to eat a rainbow, every day.

Add Fruit Or Veg To Every Meal

Yes, every meal can benefit from adding fruit and veg. You really need that minimum of five a day, and more is better. A breakfast-time smoothie or a scattering of fresh fruit on your cereal, an apple mid-morning, salad in your sandwich or one of these healthy soup recipes for weight loss and a piece of fruit for dessert, carrot sticks and hummus mid-afternoon, and a couple of servings of veg with your evening meal and you're done - and feeling fuller and healthier into the bargain.

Add Exercise

This easy healthy weight loss tip is the deal-breaker. You'll find it a whole lot harder to lose pounds if you don't switch to eating healthy and exercise. Even if you're exercise-phobic, give it a go. There are so many health benefits that you really can't afford not to.

Drink Water

Water is the best drink you can have, and if you usually drink sodas and soft drinks, you must switch to water in order to lose weight. You don't have to take your water cold and plain - have it hot in winter or first thing in the morning, and add a slice of lemon, lime or orange, some grated fresh ginger or a few sprigs of fresh mint for flavour. As with exercise, once you get into the habit of drinking more water, you'll wonder how you managed before. Drinking a glass half an hour before a meal can help curb your appetite and make weight loss easier.

Eat Salads

Salads don't have to be boring - there are 50 Healthy Salad Recipes in my handy little ebook. Don't keep salads just as side dishes. They make great main courses as well, just watch your serving size if the salad contains pasta or rice. Eating a bowl of mixed salad before your main course helps fill your stomach, so you won't be so tempted to overeat.

Don't Skip Meals

Never be tempted to miss meals in a quest to eat less. Your body is cleverer than you think, and if you deprive it of food it simply holds on to its stores of fat all the more tenaciously - because it has no idea when you're next going to stoke up with food? A great approach is to eat three small meals and two snacks a day, evenly spaced through the day. That way, your metabolism stays even, your blood sugar is stable and you're much less likely to get caught up in the starve/binge cycle that wrecks so many weight loss attempts. Find out more about how to lose belly fat healthily.

Plan Menus and Shop In Advance

Work out a week's worth of healthy meals, do your list and buy your ingredients all in one swoop, topping up with one or two fresh items during the week if you need to. This will also help you to save money on groceries. By planning ahead, you won't be tempted to dive out to the takeaway, or drag a pizza out of the freezer (and it's a good idea not even to keep pizza in the freezer...), when you come home and have nothing planned to eat. Remember to shop after you've eaten as well - never enter the supermarket with an empty stomach.
Get Support In Your Bid To Lose Weight
You've a better chance of success if your family goes along with your new healthier eating plans - and they stand to benefit as well. It can also be really helpful to swap notes with a friend who's also losing weight - try searching for online forums if you don't know anyone who can help.

Stay Off Slimming Diets

Another of the most important of our easy healthy weight loss tips - avoid punishing weight loss regimes, which keep you trapped in the cycle of yo-yo dieting. Learn more about eating healthy to lose weight. Go for a weight loss of no more than 1kg/2lb a week, and all of it done with that magical combination of healthy eating and exercise.