Diet helps lose weight, excercise helps maintain weight loss. Eating the
right food in its right portion sizes is a great trick to losing weight.
Only people with great discipline are able to do strict and tough diets such
as kpop diets and actually finish them withought gaining back the weight.
These are not only unhealthy and dangerous, but also effective for short
periods of time. After eating an only an apple each day for a week it is
normal to grow an enormous appetite that leads one to deavouring a large
pizza with two boxes of chicken and chips as snacks, not only gaining back
the weight, but gaining even more.
Healthy meals comprising of protein, healthy fats and a plenty of vegetables
in small portions are good for weight loss. While carbohydrates are bad for
weight loss, cutting them out entirely is also bad for weight loss since
most cravings are for carbs. In fact, it is important to eat your favourite
food once in a while as a treat when on a diet. Below is a list of good food
you might want to consider eating for weight loss and recipes for cooking
them.
Intermittent Fasting
Not eating for a while is a great way of making the body use up all the energy you have eaten without storing much fat and burning up the stored fat when it runs out of energy. Most IF plans are 14, 16, 18 and 20 hours long each day, but some go even further. As a beginner starting with the 14 hour plan and gradually inreasing the fasting hours is recommended. If you are pregnant, below the age of 18, on medication or in doubt then you should consult your doctor before engaging in any Intermittent Fasting plan.
Excercise
It is impossible to lose belly fat without losing weight overally. It is important therefore, to do full body workouts with a 10-15 minute ab session at the end. Excercising the core instead of abs gives better and more permanent results. Below is a list of workouts that give best results when trying to lose belly fat.
- jumping jacks x 50
- high knees x 20
- sumo squarts x 20
- mountain climbers x 30
- leg raises x 20
- bicycle crunches x 50
- abdominal crunches x 10
- plank 60 sec
- hip dips x 30
- russian twists 60 sec
- zumba: dance to 1 song of your choice.
Water is life! Water is also weight loss. Water helps speed up digestion and other metabolic processes thereby burning a lot of fat. Moreover, water helps cleanse the of excess salt that causes bloating and other waste product. It is recommended that everyone drinks 6 glasses or 2 litres of water daily.
Cortisol is a hormone that is activated when the body is in stress. It can be activated at any given time whether in the morning rush when you cannot find your sock, or when you are mad your partner hasn't responded your text in exactly in 2 hours 15 minutes 45 seconds, or when your boss is yelling at you. When this hormone has been activated, it gives the false feeling of hunger which is usually a sugar craving. It is important to understand the difference between this craving and actual hunger. You also need to manage your emotions in order to avoid ending up with cravings because most of extra sugar is stored as fat around your belly area.
Sleep helps the body recover from all sorts of stress, rest and grow. Sleeping 9 hours a day is actually a glow up tip everyone needs to adopt. Sleeping on its own is also a calorie burner.
Loving yourself
It is important to understand that each person is built differently with their uniquely perfect imperfections. Not everyone can get the perfect Gigi Hadid ablines because not everyone has a torso as long as Gigi Hadid's, the time and energy invested in Gigi's abs may be different and the sacrifices made to maintain the abs may be different. It is therefore important to understant your own body and love it for its perculiarity.