Never Diet Again: Follow These Rules To Stay Fit

March 21, 2009 By Cee

Don’t starve – when we starve ourselves, our body will save all the calories we eat because it doesn’t know when it will be fed again. Then it causes us to gain weight even more quickly, when we resume eating normally. Eating 3 healthy meals and 2 healthy snacks per day is the sensible way to keep our metabolism even through out the day.

Move more – exercise, walk more, walk the dog, stroll the baby around the block, use stairs, go to the gym, use the Wii fit, swim, how ever we are motivated to get out and move, we need to do those things more.

Weight train – muscle uses more calories to maintain than fat. The more muscle we have, the more calories we naturally burn. It doesn’t have to cost money to build muscle, we can use our own body weight for it. Push ups, crunches, leg lifts, all are excellent ways to use our body weight for weight training.

Drink 64oz of water daily – our body needs to have an abundant supply of water in order to flush toxins out of our system. At first, we may feel like we are going to the bathroom all the time, but our body is flushing the toxins out. Once our body is accustomed to having this amount of water regularly, it will absorb the water better.

Drink green tea – green tea has been proven to help our bodies burn more fat than other drinks.

Eat when hungry – Food is fuel to keep us going. We don’t realize

how often we eat just because we don’t have anything else to do. This is what causes us to gain weight. If we wait till we are hungry to eat again our body can properly digest what we’ve eaten and ask for more fuel once it needs more, by sending us hunger pains.

Finally, a rule that my grandmother taught me – Eat like a king at breakfast, a queen at lunch and a pauper at dinner - or to put it another way, get most of our calories early in the day.