5 Small Daily Habits to Support Your Weight Loss: Must Read
Losing weight with your significant other is easier than doing it all alone. This is because you encourage each other along the way, and you are accountable to each other.
Truth is, when you’re trying to lose weight, the thought of the major lifestyle changes required can be discouraging.
While drastic changes in diet and exercise may form the foundation to support your weight loss plan. But there are also countless small things you can do in your daily life that will help you lose weight.
Here are a few subtle adjustments you can make to support your weight loss day-to-day without feeling like you’re restructuring your whole life:
Take the Stairs
Thanks to advances in technology over the last hundred years, we can get to the upper floors of buildings with ease.
Unfortunately, while elevators and escalators are convenient, their biggest strength is also their biggest weakness: they require no effort.
Taking the stairs is both a valuable workout and a metaphor for weight loss itself: by putting in a little effort, you instantly make yourself more likely to see results.
In fact, two to three minutes of stair climbing (about three to five flights) per day requires enough energy to keep off the one or two pound weight gain that most Americans experience every year.
Watch One Less Hour of TV
The TV is a valuable source of information and entertainment, but watching the tube is never going to help you lose weight.
Being healthy doesn’t mean abandoning entertainment all together, though! Just a one-hour reduction in your daily TV time will have a significant positive impact on your health.
Studies show that much of our mindless snacking takes place in front of the TV. By separating yourself from the television, you’re cutting down on some of your emptiest calorie intake for the day.
If you occupy yourself with a physical activity, even a simple one like cleaning or going for a light walk, you’ll turn a time when you’re usually absorbing calories into a time when you’re burning them.
Snack on Popcorn
Even if you’re reducing TV time, it’s guaranteed you will still crave your favorite couch potato snacks from time to time.
Ice cream and chips are delicious and soothing, but they’re loaded with the main enemies of weight loss: fat, sugar, and salt. When those junk food urges arise, your best friend is low fat popcorn.
Low fat popcorn has less salt than potato chips or pretzels and less fat than dairy-based snacks. It’s also loaded with fiber, which supports your weight loss in key ways.
High fiber foods satisfy hunger faster and more efficiently, meaning you’ll snack less by volume if you’re choosing popcorn.
Fiber also helps move food through the digestive track, so you’ll absorb fewer calories overall if you’re supplementing your diet with high-fiber snacks.
No wonder why highly successful weight loss program Nutrisystem includes foods that are rich in fiber in its menu. To learn more about Nutrisystem read a review at Bestiews.
Keep a Diet Journal
Just write down what you eat each day. A 2008 study found that those who keep a daily diet journal lose twice as much weight compared to those who don’t. The simple act of writing down what you eat makes you eat less.
Sleep Well at Night
Studies have shown that weight gain is connected to poor sleep and decreased sleep duration. Sleep affects our neuroendocrine function.
For example, when we don’t sleep enough we produce more ghrelin and less leptin during the day.
These two hormones affect our satiety perception—how much we eat. Leptin makes us eat less and spend more energy, while ghrelin makes us eat more.
Therefore, make it a goal to sleep well at night. By doing so, you increase the chances that you have a healthy body weight.
The above recommendation are very easy to follow. Losing weight takes both major and minor lifestyle changes.
While these tips may seem like incredibly small adjustments, over time they add up to a significantly healthier life.
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About the Author Manish Yadav
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