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Weight loss without counting calories?

I am interested in weight loss tips that will help you lose weight, without having to count calories. I've heard of portion control, and of course excercizing, but what other things work to help lose weight? I'm not looking for easy solutions, etc, I know weight loss is hard work, I'm just looking for things a little different than just counting calories.

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago
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    Resistance exercises (even light/moderate weight with higher reps) builds/maintain muscle, and the better your muscle-to-fat ratio is, the more calories your body needs to burn each day minimum just to *maintain* it's weight. This allows you eat a greater amount of healthy food each day, while still having the option of losing weight by restricting calories, but insuring that an abundance of powerful, healthy nutrients are still being fed to you at the same time.

    Yogurt (& other dairy products in general, along with some other foods) have been shown to target belly fat cells which have been unhealthily enlarged due to chronic over-consumption of sugar/carbohydrates, and bring them back to normal sizes again. This is how obese/overweight people lose weight around their waistline quicker, during healthy weight lose regimens.

    Things like non-sugar green/black tea and/or 600-700mg of ascorbic acid (vitamin C) spaced throughout the day has been shown to boost the body's metabolism and fat burning properties by significant margins. Those things also provide other important health benefits as well.

    You will find that if you are eating mostly healthy foods, that you can eat a ton of them each day and not eat a lot of calories in comparison to how much you consumed.

  • Anonymous
    5 years ago

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    The Mediterranean diet is a pretty healthy, effective and not measured diet, so if you're looking for something different than counting calories you could give it a try. I've been following a Mediterranean weight loss program too and I got pretty good results (lost 8 pounds in about a month). It's a complete and varied diet, providing your body with a balanced intake of all the nutrients you need to control your weight the healthy way. What I like most of it is that it's all about learning balanced nutrition and making it a daily routine: losing weight is a natural consequence of your healthier eating habits, so it's something more similar to a lifestyle than simply to a diet. No foods are off limits, you focus on what to eat (more whole grains, more fruits, more vegetables and legumes, a lot of fish, olive oil) rather than on what not to eat (less red meats and less dairy) and this positive approach makes it easier to stick to your plan

    I found my diet on the web, take a look at it if you like. Here's the website where I got it from http://www.italiandiet.com/ If you wanna try it out, you just need to sign up, give information about your weight, your lifestyle, your food preferences and your weight loss goal (it's a personalized plan) and you'll get your diet straight into your email account, that's quite convenient! It's provided by a team of italian nutritionists from the SISA (Italian Association of Food Science), so it's a pretty safe eating plan, and it's free.

    Hope you'll find it useful! Good luck with your weight loss journey

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Watch every morsel you put in your mouth on weekends. A University of North Carolina study found people tend to consume an extra 115 calories per weekend day, primarily from alcohol and fat.

    Stock your refrigerator with low-fat yogurt. A University of Tennessee study found that people who cut 500 calories a day and ate yogurt three times a day for 12 weeks lost more weight and body fat than a group that only cut the calories. The researchers concluded that the calcium in low-fat dairy foods triggers a hormonal response that inhibits the body's production of fat cells and boosts the breakdown of fat.

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  • 1 decade ago

    Quality supplements can help.

    Unfortunately, supplements typically come in 2 options:

    1. Make you think your full - this is essentially starvation.

    2. Rev up your metabolism so you burn calories faster - this has well documented health dangers.

    A third option is a product like mandura TRIM. It uses Leptin, which is the hormone your body's cells use to tell the brain when you're 'full'.

    Or modern lifestyles (drinking, stress, pollutions, etc) messes with our body's chemistry.

    Using a supplement that boosts your Leptin helps 'cut through' that chemical clutter, and makes sure your brain get's the message!

    In short, you eat less by eating appropriate amounts, naturally!

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  • 4 years ago

    Skip ordering pizza and make one of these crusts at home: gluten-free fairly sweet potato crust, a quinoa tulsi crust that's also gluten cost-free, or this low-carb cauliflower brown crust area.

  • 4 years ago

    put a lesser amount of meals out and you'll acquire a smaller amount within

  • 4 years ago

    berries throughout small amounts. almost no breads or maybe cabohydrate supply

  • Anonymous
    5 years ago

    At the start of the week, prepare a big container of salad to help keep in the fridge. If the salad has already been made, you're more likely to have greens with your dinner.

  • Anonymous
    5 years ago

    I bite three or four sticks of gum an afternoon. I bite sugar loose, and each and every stick is four or five energy (relying on gum). You burn eleven energy consistent with hour of chewing gum. eleven-five= 6. You lose 6 energy consistent with hour of chewing. I discover gum to provide me that candy style in yearning and to suppress my urge for food. Aim for a million,two hundred energy.

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