Modifying daily habits and trying to adopt a healthier lifestyle is essential to lose weight. With these 'shortcuts' you will achieve your goal more quickly
Having a stable and healthy weight has become one of the main needs of the human being, since it is increasingly clear to us that overweight and obesity are factors that trigger serious health problems, as is the case with heart disease.
A sedentary lifestyle and a poor diet are the two main reasons why our weight increases above the recommended levels.
Although it has also been shown that stress, anxiety and harmful habits, such as alcohol consumption or smoking, influence when it comes to losing those extra kilos.
Likewise, when someone wants to lose weight, they generally want to do it as quickly as possible. In fact, there are studies that support that a relatively rapid weight loss helps to achieve this goal successfully.
This clashes with the usual recommendation of specialists who assure that to lose weight properly it requires a slow and constant process.
Losing weight quickly is very motivating
However, it seems proven that losing a few kilos quickly and seeing the result reflected on the scale in a few days, instead of waiting eternal weeks, is very motivating.
So much so that this instant weight loss can help us move forward and improve our diet and physical exercises that we have adopted.
Losing a few pounds quickly and seeing the result on the scale is very motivating “When it comes to rapid weight loss, the key is to opt for evidence-based and ultimately sustainable strategies, so that you can maintain even rapid weight loss,” according to Susie Burrell, nutritionist and dietitian.
So, if you want to shed those pesky extra pounds as quickly as possible, here are the easiest and most scientifically sound 'shortcuts' to getting there.
Find a goal: to achieve a significant weight loss, you need at least five to seven days of relatively strict eating that should not be skipped even on weekends if you want to achieve the desired result.
This way, when you have lost the initial 2-3 kilos, you will be well on your way to really reaching your weight loss goals. Limit eating times:
the human body is programmed to go several hours without eating in order to support digestion, metabolism, intestinal health and hormonal regulation, although modern life makes us eat certain types of snacks or appetizers of a constant shape.
That is why we must limit the number of times we eat each day to naturally help the body ask us when it needs to feed.
Therefore, committing to not eating for a period of at least 12 hours (although it can last up to 16 hours) a day is a way to ensure that energy is consumed in a stretch of 8 to 10 hours and, therefore, it's an easy way to lose pounds without severe energy restriction.
Double your intake of vegetables: Eating vegetables helps you lose weight, we all know that, but doubling your daily intake and including salads and extra vegetables at each meal will help reduce the effect.
All we have to do is make sure that half of our plate is filled with salad and/or vegetables, thus reducing the portions of protein and carbohydrates that we normally eat.
Make sure half of your plate is filled with vegetables and cut back on protein portions Avoid snacking:
enjoying three healthy and abundant meals a day is ideal to maintain a balanced diet. In this way, we will avoid snacking between meals and we will be satiated for about four hours between meals.
If this is not possible, it is advisable to have a piece of fruit, some type of vegetable, a coffee or a small portion of popcorn.