Top ten Free Diet Tips

Diet tips 1:

Don't diet! Seriously. Severe caloric restriction causes metabolic slowdown. Very soon your body will have adapted to your reduced caloric intake, and dieting will have no effect at all! Although it seems contradictory, drastically reducing your caloric intake will not help your weight loss efforts.

Diet tips 2:

Only "moderately" reduce calories. Your bodyweight times ten in calories is a good place to start. Moderate caloric reduction is an essential element of successful weight loss.

Diet tips 3:

Eat six small BALANCED meals a day. This is difficult to do because it's hard to find the time necessary to accomplish this (for help, read my meal replacements article). Nonetheless, this is essential to the success of your weight loss program. Eating many small meals ensures blood sugar levels are stabilized, and food eaten is more likely to be used as energy than to be stored as fat. It will also help boost your metabolism.

Diet tips 4:

Try a chromium supplement. Try 200 mcg three times a day before meals. Chromium helps increase the efficiency of insulin. Supplementing with chromium may decrease cravings for junk food, and ultimately lead to weight loss. Other useful glucose moderators include green tea, alpha lipoic acid, and vanadyl sulphate.

Diet tips 5:

Remove simple carbohydrates from your diet - these include sweets, pastas, bread and buns, breakfast cereals, potatoes, muffins, fruits like bananas, and vegetables like carrots and corn. These "high-glycemic" carbohydrates are the ones that raise blood sugar levels very quickly, causing an "over-release" of insulin, and ultimately, fat storage.

Diet tips 6:

Replace simple carbohydrates with high-fiber fruits and vegetables. Fruits (like apples), and leafy vegetables high in natural fibers take much longer to be broken down and converted into glucose by the body. Thus, their consumption is much less likely to result in increased weight gain.

Diet tips 7:

Make sure all meals and snacks include at least as much lean protein as carbohydrates. Some good lean protein sources are chicken, turkey, and fish.

Diet tips 8:

Include a good source of Essential Fatty Acids in your diet. The best way to ensure this is to buy some at your local health food store. Make sure the brand is stored in the fridge, and formulated without the presence of heat, light, or oxygen. Udo's Ultimate Oil Blend by Flora Health is a good formulation. You may also wish to supplement your diet with occasional servings of fish.

Diet tips 9:

Exercise between 3-5 times a week, for a minimum of 20 minutes per session. Exercise is a fantastic way to increase calorie burn, and boost metabolism. Remember, exercise need not be hell in order for it to be effective. If you wish, you may start simply with a brisk walk each morning. Others may find stationary bicycles and treadmills to be effective.

Diet tips 10:

At least once a week, eat whatever you want. Life is short, and food is good, so allow yourself a meal of wild abandon once in a while. You'll find it much easier to stick to a meal plan if you know you can reward yourself occasionally without feeling guilty!