Quick Weight Loss Tips

When you get started on any kind of diet or quick weight loss program, it’s important to get everything organized from the start – your diet and menu options, how you’ll prepare your food, how frequently you’re going to eat, your exercise program (that’s right – exercise) and how you’re going to monitor your progress.

Checking your progress is equally as important as your food choices – because when you see your weight and fat levels start to fall, you’ll get a serious boost to your motivation and will power, making the rest of your weight loss plan even easier. So here’s a few quick weight loss tips to help you along the way:

Quick Weight Loss Tips #1 - Buy a wok

This is probably not one of the better known quick weight loss tips, but I would strongly advise anyone embarking on a quick weight loss diet, or even anyone who just wants to improve his or her health, to buy a wok. Although originating in an ancient era, wok cooking is ideally suited to our modem fast-paced lifestyle, as it allows the rapid cooking of tasty and highly nutritious food. And the variety of meals and combinations of ingredients that can be cooked in this way are almost infinite.

For some strange reason, wok cooking seems to be ignored in most weight loss recipes, and yet it involves cooking for short periods in small amounts of fat – and incorporates ‘essential’ fats which are vital for health.

Heat can destroy vitamins, but wok cooking provides intense heat for a relatively short time, ’searing’ meat and vegetables and thereby preserving most of the natural goodness in the food.

By cooking in a wok, you finish with a relatively high volume but a relatively small amount of food, because it has been chopped finely to allow rapid cooking.

For example, a carrot, two spring onions, 10-12 florets of broccoli, a red and yellow pepper, a clove of garlic, and two slices of ginger root would be sufficient to provide a very substantial and nutritious vegetable dish for two people. The preparation time is ten minutes, the cooking time is five minutes, and the cost is relatively little. I give this example only to show how quickly, easily and cheaply fresh vegetables can replace pre-packaged ‘convenience’, foods.

Another of my easy and quick weight loss tips is to avoid deep fat frying. Incidentally, there are no major problems with lightly fried food on a low carb diet, but do not ever use deep-fat frying. I don’t consider this form of cooking either healthy or necessary in modem society. Whilst sauteing in butter or olive oil is healthy (there really is no medical evidence to the contrary), deep-fat frying can destroy the very nutrition we are aiming to preserve for health.

Quick Weight Loss Tips #2 - Get exercising

One of my perhaps not-so-popular quick weight loss tips involves exercise. Regular exercise will complement your diet; not only will it improve your shape and body contour, it will also make you feel much better because regular (simple) exercise improves the blood flow to the tissues of the body, making us look and feel better.

You don’t need to spend a fortune on a gym membership, simple exercises you can do at home - without expensive equipment - will actually achieve a better result. Some very simple isometric exercises are a great way to get started – you can pretty much do these anywhere.

Isometric means that you can do the exercise in the comfort of your own home (in minutes), and achieve the same result as if you had been to the gym for hours. It needs no equipment and no expertise. It also involves no embarrassment. By investing just 10-12 minutes per day, four days per week, you will improve the muscle tone beneath the disappearing layer of fat, further enhancing the change in body shape which complements any quick weight loss program.

If you also walk for 15 minutes three times per week you will improve your cardiovascular health, too. Of course, all exercise programs must be sanctioned by your doctor before you start.

Quick Weight Loss Tips #3 - Measure shape before weight

This isn’t a quick weight loss tips as such, but it does make a lot of sense. I would encourage you to use the changes in your body shape on this type of low carb diet as the main criterion of success, rather than the more conventional measurement of weight loss. You will certainly lose weight (as fat) relatively quickly, but of much more significance is the way your body shape improves.

A low carb, healthy weight loss form of dieting promotes a natural body shape, which is particularly enhanced by an isometric exercise program. It will not cause the haggard look that accompanies most calorie-control diets, because you lose fat without loss of the underlying body protein. You will lose fat smoothly over your body, allowing time for skin elasticity to recover, and therefore without the unsightly folds of excess skin that can occur with crash dieting. So look at your body shape as the diet progresses and watch the way that your clothes fit better, as this is a more effective measure of the diet’s success than just weight loss alone.

A low carb weight loss diet has much more to offer in terms of body shape and health than the “normal” calorie control diet.

Quick Weight Loss Tips #4 - Drink Water

Drinking lots of pure filtered water will help keep you hydrated, and help flush toxins from your body which will be released as your change your diet and increase your activity level.

These quick weight loss tips will help you create a healthier and more active lifestyle - it’s definiely one of the best ways to lose weight and keep it off for good.