Quick Weight Loss Tips

Posted by Kym on August 31st, 2008 at 03:27pm

Today’s video lifestyle is often to blame for the gain of unwanted weight. That’s a fact you really can’t argue with. How to lose the unwanted weight, however, is open for debate.

One of the liver’s main functions is the conversion of energy from stored fat. For this reason, it’s important that your liver is always functioning at its best. Another function of the liver is to help the kidneys do their job if they’re dehydrated. The solution to keeping your liver converting fat to energy is to drink more water! It is crucial to drink water to maintain a healthy body. In summation: drink more water and consume fewer dehydrating beverages.

Just existing requires the expending of calories. No matter what we expend in a twenty-four hour day, we constantly require energy. We all know that. What you may not know is that your resting metabolic rate is dictated by the amount of muscle you have on your body.  The fastest way to lose weight is to increase your metabolic rate. If you increase your muscle mass, even by a tiny amount, you increase your resting metabolic rate, which means you will constantly burn more calories throughout the day.

To benefit from increasing your metabolism, you don’t need to lift weights two or three hours a day. I certainly don’t have that kind of time to spare in my day, and you probably don’t either.

To add lean muscle mass, remember to start slowly with simple exercises like squats and push-ups. It doesn’t require more than five of each exercise every day. It won’t cost you a dime to do both of these exercises at home. Does wanting to do more than just push-ups and squats mean you’ll need to buy a set of weights? Quite simply, a pair of rocks will do the trick - even if they only weigh three or four pounds each.

You must keep your entire body constantly rebuilding and repairing muscle to gain more muscle very quickly. Does that mean working everything: back, chest, shoulders, biceps, triceps, forearms, quads, glutes, calves, hamstrings, and abdominals? It sure does. To accomplish this, do you need to kill yourself every day at the gym? Absolutely not. Remember, squats and push-ups. Every muscle in your body will be exercised by those two movements (if time allows you to focus on individual muscles, so much the better).

Diet - the last factor of weight loss or weight gain - is also very important. Eating a double cheeseburger, large fries, and a calorie-loaded regular soda three times a day means you’ll find it hard to lose weight no matter what exercises you do.

While there is no limit to the number of diets claiming to be the best (all fruit, no meat, low carbs, low fat, etc.), not everyone reacts the same to the same food. Our bodies are not equal when it comes to how each metabolizes food. What is good for me could harm you.

So how do you know what kind of diet works best for you? Count the number of calories you consume daily. It’s important that your calorie count is the correct amount for your current body weight. Next, pay attention to how you feel emotionally and physically thirty minutes after you eat. Do you feel lifeless? Want to flop on the nearest couch for a nap? Or have you instead found your energy redoubled? You’ve probably figured this out already because your body always tells you how it feels after you eat.

Sufficient water consumption, a diet that fills you with life and energy, and light exercise are what you need to lose weight. Be sure you include all three of the above factors, you will successfully lose weight and live healthier while doing so!

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