How To Lose Weight Quickly
Attempting fast weight loss is always a problem. It slows metabolism, along with a host of other problems. The real key to lose body fat successfully, that is, to lose weight and keep it off, you have to change what you like to eat. This is an essential part of the commitment to changing your life-style. If you don’t do it, you will never get rid of your extra fat. Consider this, if you simply ate 500 fewer fat calories per day (that’s five tablespoons of butter or margarine), you could probably lose one pound per week of fat (and probably more than one pound per week of total weight).
1. Consider the difference in fat intake if you made your omelet using whole eggs instead of egg substitute. Egg yolks are 75-95% pure fat while egg substitute is 0% fat. Making this one simple shift will reduce your total calorie intake dramatically.
2. Or look at the percentage of fat you get when you eat that snack cake or cookie. Why do you like the taste of butter or margarine on your foods, or do you have the idea that skim milk tastes like cloudy water? Well, that could be your biggest problem. If you’re over weight, you most likely got that way because of consistent, tiny daily actions. It was your life-style that did it to you. And part of your lifestyle is the foods you currently enjoy eating.
3. It is not that difficult to learn to like new foods. Some simple shifts to different, fat-loss friendly foods, foods that will be kinder to your waistline and hips. For example, if you want to alter the appearance and taste of skim milk, you could add condensed skim milk to it. This contributes just a few extra calories of protein and carbohydrate, but no additional fat calories.
3. To lose body fat successfully, that is, to rid the body of fat and keep it off, you must change what you enjoy eating. This is an integral part of the commitment to changing your life-style. If you don’t do this, you will never rid the body of unwanted fat. Consider this, if you simply ate five hundred fewer fat calories per day (that’s five tablespoons of butter or margarine), you could probably lose one pound per week of fat (and probably more than one pound per week of total weight).
4. Consider the difference in fat intake if you made your omelet using Egg Beaters instead of whole eggs. Egg yolks are 75-95% pure fat while Egg Beaters are 0% fat. Making this one simple shift will reduce your total calorie intake dramatically.
5. Now consider cheese and nuts. These foods, popular as snacks and condiments, provide huge fat-calorie load. Many health advocates recommend both nuts and cheese as “health” foods. Unfortunately, if fat loss is your goal, the high fat content of nearly all cheese, even those that advertise themselves as part-skim, makes cheese an unwise choice for most people who are interested in ridding their bodies of excess fat.
6. Most cheeses get more than 70% of their total calories from fat and they are far from “health” foods. They can be eaten in moderation as part of a healthy diet; but the very high saturated fat content makes cheese a poor choice for people concerned about their waistline.
7. Portion size is also a big consideration. How much fat you eat per day is cumulative. In other words, if you eat small portions of something containing fat throughout the day, although the fat count may be low, the total fat consumed adds to your daily total. One big step in losing body fat the easy way is finding the low/no-fat item that replaces the high fat one and keeping the total fat in your diet to a minimum.
8. Now look at the cheese and nuts. These foods, popular for both snacking and condiments, provide a large fat-calorie load. Interestingly, both nuts and cheese enjoy a reputation as “health” foods (helped, in part, by advertising from dairy producers). But the high fat content of nearly all cheese, even those that advertise themselves as part-skim, makes them particularly unhelpful for people who are trying to lose body-fat. Since most cheeses have over 75% of their total calories in fat (cottage cheese is the notable exception, especially low-fat (1%) or non-fat cottage cheese), they are far from “health” foods. Eaten in moderation, cheese can be part of a healthy diet; but its high saturated fat (i.e. butterfat) content makes cheese unhealthful for those concerned about heart disease or their waistline.
9. Our list of high fat foods also include many choices that are low in fat. Portion size is also a big consideration. How much fat you eat per day is cumulative. In other words, if you eat small portions of something containing fat throughout the day, although the fat count may be low, the total fat consumed adds to your daily total. One big step in losing body fat the easy way is finding the low/no-fat item that replaces the high fat one and keeping the total fat in your diet to a minimum.
