14 Weight-loss Tips For The Greediest Person Out There

Let's be clear on one thing: there's no shortage of weight-loss advice out there. Tips, rules, tools, myths, secrets, solutions, or miracles. Whenever you look, the choices are bewildering. This series of articles will cover 105 key points, across 11 categories - from choice of food to dining-out tactics, worst mistakes, craving-busters, the best gadgets, etc.

Experts in health, nutrition, and fitness have been asked to rank these selections. If you're looking for an easy fix, sorry, can't help you here. What you'll discover instead, are tactics professionals agreed upon to be the best ways to lose and keep off the kilos for a healthy lifetime.
Cooking: How to Lose Weight in the Kitchen

We listed seven kitchen tips over here. The frying pan topped the blacklist by a resounding margin. Artificial sweeteners rated a disappointing bottom as a weight-loss strategy.

1. Grill, steam, bake, or microwave your food instead of frying.
2. Follow the “½ veggies, ¼ protein, ¼ carbs on your plate” rule.
3. Eat whole fruits instead of drink fruit juices.
4. Use herbs and spices to flavour meals rather than fatty sauces.
5. Replace full-fat ingredients with low-fat ones whenever possible.
6. Cook in liquids in place of oil.
7. Switch from refined sugars to artificial sweeteners.

Tricks and Shortcuts

Downsize your portions! Voted top choice by experts. This a necessity, not a trick. Strategies that impressed the fewest? Putting your food on a blue plate, for instance, was ranked bottom of the pile – it was too darn unrealistic.

1. Downsize your portions
2. If you drink, have at least three consecutive days free of alcohol for a week.
2(tie). Fool your eyes by using a salad plate for meals rather than a dinner plate; a tall glass instead of a stumpy one.
4. Avoid highly refined “white” foods, such as white bread.
5. Be able to see what you are eating: eat from a bowl or plate instead of eating out of a bag or jar.
6. Eat before partying to avoid being tempted by indulgence foods.
7. Blue’s an appetite suppressant, surround yourself with it.

Do something everyday and gradually, it becomes second nature. Therefore, it makes perfect sense to take up the most effective methods and make them part of our everyday lives.

"The best time of the day to exercise is when you can do it and the best exercise is the one you like and can do regularly." -Tim Crowe, Dietitian & Nutrition Sciences Lecturer

By: Donovan T

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