Practical Advice to Get Slim
By Knut Holt
In order to successfully reduce weight and get slim, you have to eat healthy
food, you have to reduce your consume of fat and carbohydrates and you have to exercise
regularly. Here are some practical measures to fulfill this goal:
- Reduce the total amount of food you eat.
- However, do not try to starve yourself. Eat regularly 4 (or 5) moderate meals
each day. In this way your blood sugar level will not drop to low amounts that hinder
you in doing physical activities, and give you an impulse to over-eat.
- Do not use fast-food or other sorts of pre-made food. Make your meals from
pure raw ingredients that you buy yourself. In this way you have full control of
what you put into your body.
- Do not eat between the meals.
- Each meal shall include some lean protein-rich element like lean fish, poultry,
mushrooms or lean meat.
- Cut away all visible fat from meat, poultry or fish.
- Each meal shall also include some vegetables or fruit. These shall be raw or
only gently cooked.
- In each meal there shall also be some whole corn bread or cereals, beans, peas
or potatoes as a carbohydrate and energy source. It is important to vary the energy
source from meal to meal. Do not only use bread or potatoes.
- Fat fish, nuts, almonds, sunflower seeds, olives and the like contain very
much fat. But the fat is of a type that is valuable for your health. You shall therefore
eat some of these food types every day, but in moderate amounts. You may however
choose to increase the amount of these ingredients in your diet if you reduce the
amount of bread, and other carbohydrate sources.
- Do not add much extra oil, butter, fat sauces, fat dressings, sugar or sweet
sauces to your food.
- The little fat you add to your food should be of natural chemically unaltered
types like virgin olive oil, sunflower oil, rape oil / canola oil, soy oil, fish
oil or natural butter. Vary the oil type to get all essential fatty acids.
- Ideally you should not consume sweet beverages, except fruit juice in moderate
amounts.
- Reduce your alcohol consume. Alcohol is converted to fat in your body.
- Drastically reduce your consume of snacks, ice-cream, cakes, cookies, chocolate
and the like.
- Do not consume great amounts of salt. Salt does not make you fat, but it binds
water in your body and this excessive water contribute to your weight problem. When
you loose fat, the fat also tends to be replaced by water. Reducing the salt consume
will help you get rid of excessive water.
- Some people over-eat because of boredom. Find some new hobby activities or
some new friends that share some of your interests.
- Do some physical exercise at least every second day. You shall include exercises
that give your muscles some resistance in order to increase your muscle mass, for
example weight lifting. You shall also include some activities that make you consume
energy and build up your condition, like running, swimming and cycling. And you
should do some stretching exercises, for example yoga postures.
- A supplement of vitamins and minerals can be useful to make your body able
to burn fat effectively or increase your ability to engage in physical activities.
When you reduce the amount of food you consume, also the amount of vitamins and
minerals you take in will be reduced. This lack can be remanded with an extra supplement.
- On the market you can also find preparations of herbs, vitamins and minerals
especially made for people in a slimming process, giving these effects: They replace
a lack of vitamins, minerals and anti-oxidants because of reduced eating. They help
your body burn and eliminate fat. They give you a feeling of greater energy and
a greater ability to be physically active. They help reduce an abnormal appetite.
Some preparations also contain ingredients that reduce the uptake of fat and carbohydrates
from the intestines.