If You are New Years Resolution is to lose weight, then you might want to try these 8 tricks to shed those extra holiday lbs.
1. To re-jump start your metabolism, walk or run in bursts of 30 seconds. When you do this, you will take in more oxygen into your body and this will cause the cells in your body to work harder in order to burn energy more efficiently.
2. Eat fish: What are the reasons for eating more fish, that are rich in omega three oils ? Studies have been done on rats whom were given, large quantities of fish were found to lose weight. And the rats that didn't showed no change.
3. Do resistance training : When you're actually working against something, and you start to build muscle this alone will enable your body to burn calories, even when you're resting up to a hundred more over a period of time. Muscle tissue tends to be active were as fat isn't. If you work out for 30 minutes two times per week this will speed up your metabolism overtime.
4. Drink green tea : Green tea has long been known to have very good antioxidant properties which is good for overall health. However studies have been done on people, and the participants in the studies were found to lose weight, rather than those who didn't drink green tea. You need to drink about 5 cups a day in order to lose roughly about 90 calories per day, A small investment to lose that amount of calories.
5. Don't do crash dieting : When people are initially trying to lose weight, you tend to think that by cutting your calories down to the bare minimum you will lose weight faster. But that isn't so.
What you need to do is eat five to six small meals a day, rather than having three large meals. This will stop your body going into starvation mode and holding onto fat stores. Work out your basic metabolic rate (BMR) so you know how much you need to eat in order to keep your body functioning.
6. Exercise in two parts : Rather than exercising intensively for one hour or two hours and having small breaks in between, exercise for half an hour. Then do your second session later on in the day studies have shown that, you burn more fat this way than you would do, if you exercise in just one session. You will get more of a after burn effect, your body will still be burning calories in between.
7. Eat Breakfast : With the way we tend to live these days, I dare say a lot of people do tend to skip it. A ongoing study that monitored people who didn't,and those who did eat breakfast found that over a period. Of five years that the people whom ate breakfast, lost weight and kept it off rather than than those who didn't eat breakfast.
8. Eat snacks : Sometimes this can be frowned upon in diet and weight loss circles, but the thing is your blood sugar levels will remain constant throughout the day. This will conquer any cravings and also keep your metabolism nicely ticking over. You'll find also that you will need less food throughout the day.
It seems as if Taylor Swift has it all -- a handful of multiplatinum albums, a sold-out world tour, a star-studded little black book -- but even she hopes to find something special under her Christmas tree this year.
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