5 Quick-Hit Strategies for Fast Weight Loss

1- Find a new go-to snack :

"Instead of ice cream or leftovers, try a whole-grain, higher-fiber cereal with low-fat milk or baked chips with super spicy salsa," says Kristin McGee, a New York City-based trainer and Pilates instructor.

2- Drink more water :

Being dehydrated can fool your body into feeling hungry. Drinking water (especially before a meal) fills up your stomach, so you're likely to eat less. Need some flavor in that H2O? Switch to unsweetened green tea, which contains EGCC, an antioxidant that helps the body burn fat faster.


3- Follow meals with mint :

Sugar-free mint gum, or even mint-flavored toothpaste is fine. The mint flavors send signals to your brain that it's time to stop eating. They also tweak your taste buds so second helpings and dessert aren't quite so tasty.

4- Do pushups every morning :

"It'll help you start the day with a feeling of success, and it gets in some additional upper-body training," says McGee. Try to increase the number you do each and every day. When you hit a plateau, switch to a harder style of pushup.

5- Try a fast or cleanse :

Yes, they're varied, and there's a lot of debate about their effectiveness—but Fred DeVito of Exhale Spa is a fan. "I like to do one at least once a year," he says. "It can jump-start your weight loss and helps the body process nutrients more efficiently. It also 'resets' your taste buds so you are better able to appreciate real, nonprocessed foods."
 

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1. Be careful of the snacks you choose as an alternative. Switching chocolate for a cereal bar sounds great unless that cereal bar is basically a few oats glued together with sugar.

2. This assumes of course that you aren't drinking enough water. It's not new guidance but none of this is. If you are drinking too little improve it. Be careful on the 'additives' of course, don't jump on a band wagon just because a magazine says it's a good idea.

3. Chewing generates saliva, the stomach sees saliva entering the stomach as a sign there is food on it's way. So chewing at the end of your meal will make you hungry for another. I have read this numerous times, but the first time I learned it was in a school biology class. Taste might avoid a sweet treat but making you crave more food will negate this benefit.

4. Doing the same exercise that only works on a few body parts every day will give you a nice unbalanced routine. Best case it inspires you to do more as part of a balanced early morning work out. Worst case this causes imbalance in your training and postural muscles causing problems including the incredibly common back pain making it difficult to train.

5. Fasting sends the body into starvation mode meaning the body clings onto fat all the tighter. You can lose weight this way, it will be predominantly water and lean mass, the stuff you want to keep. The water will come straight back ensuring weight goes back up and vendors of these quick fix systems get repeat business.
Cleanse wise, be very careful, I have seen a number of these and most of them are heavily unbalanced, with a few being downright dangerous.

If you are really looking for quick fix and unaware enough to think there is a way to lose 7 pounds of fat in a week without running a marathon every day and eating virtually nothing there is a method of losing 10% of your body weight instantly. the method is known as decapitation and has 100% success rate, there are side effects to this of course but nothing that would stop you taking up a career in politics or spamming websites with nonsense.
Please don't go for quick fix plans, they aren't interested in you, your health or wellbeing, they are interested in your repeat business which they are guaranteed to get.
 
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