Lose Weight Naturally
You might have by now figured out that here at this site which is all about losing weight, the main mission is to help people to do just that as simply and easily as possible using only natural methods. So let's got on and look at this from a layman's point of view.
This is a way to get the point across about how to lose weight naturally by dieting sensibly and exercising safely. When your weight starts to drop through this simple yet effective strategy, you'll certainly start to feel great and want to keep doing it.
Natural and Healthy
If you are looking for the best ways to lose weight while boosting your health as well, then you should be looking at all the natural ways of doing this. It comes as a surprise to many people that there are actually a large number of these natural ways and most of them do not involve getting into a gym or starving yourself!
At this point in the article, I want to take a brief look at how you can lose some of that excess while staying healthy by using only natural methods.
Natural Methods
A big plus is in actually understanding how to lose weight the natural way by making use of what's around you and not resorting to artificial aids such as pills or surgery or crash diets and the like. You should make a point of eating a natural diet and getting more exercise.
That means getting out of the house more often and into the natural daylight where you can be more active while enjoying the sunshine or at least some fresh air if the sky has clouded over.
It's quite amazing that there are so many people that sit indoors all day and want to lose weight but won't get up off their comfy sofa and venture outdoors to do it. When you lack exposure to natural daylight, your mood can actually swing downward towards a depressed state due to lack of the hormone serotonin.
This is the hormone responsible for lifting our mood so its a pretty important one to have plenty of!
Get Outdoors
How do you naturally boost your body's production of serotonin? You get into the daylight and out of the house, that's how!
Not only do you get a boost of this mood lifting hormone, but exposure to natural sunlight also boosts your vitamin D levels, which you need for effective slimming according to recent expert studies in this area. This when combined with eating a healthy diet of your choice makes a pretty effective way to lose the excess fat.
So just doing that and getting out of the house will boost your slimming needs in a natural way. You can then go further and actually get active, by going for long walks, riding a bike, going for a run (if you are feeling energetic) or whatever else you want to do that involves using energy and being active!
So if you have an idea that you should turn to the natural approach to getting fit and healthy, you just learned some great ways of doing that, plus you now know that it's perfectly OK to go natural and that it really works!
It Starts with Regular Exercise
Making a point of exercising as regularly as possible (every day is preferred) will improve your stamina and strength by so much. The general idea by doing this is to boost your body's metabolic rate, which is the rate at which it converts sugars into energy and uses that energy to build muscle and other body tissue.
The higher you can raise that metabolism, the faster and more effectively you will force your body to use up its store of fat. The lower your levels of fat, the less you will weigh, but more importantly, the slimmer your body will look.
When you combine this means of reducing the body fat content while increasing its muscle mass along with strengthening those muscles through regular use, your body will begin to take on a better toned appearance as well as becoming slimmer. But it's not just long term exercise that you should be concentrating on to achieve a healthy and fit looking physical body...
Dieting Effectively
There is one sure fire way of maximizing the way in which you can lose weight through what you eat and drink and that is to make sure that you are dieting as effectively as you can. This means that what you eat and drink should provide all the nutrients that your body needs while adding no extra sugars that can be turned into stored fat.
At the same time your body should be gradually using up the store of fat it already has through maintaining a negative calorie balance. Let's explain this and see how it can work to bring about an effective reduction in body weight.
Cutting Down on Sugar
By sugar, we are referring mostly to the refined sugars that find their way into a whole host of different food that we eat as well as many soft drinks like soda. The main two offenders, from a weight gain perspective are:
- Sucrose, which is most commonly known as the white, granulated sugar that many people add to hot beverages, breakfast cereals and use in baking cakes and cookies etc.
- High fructose corn syrup (or starch), often labeled as HFCS, that is used by food manufacturers to sweeten many processed foods.
These are to be avoided if you want to avoid weight gain because of the way they are processed in the body after being converted to glucose. This processing ultimately results in the surplus glucose, of which there is usually quite a high percentage of what is consumed, being converted into fat and stored in various locations around the body.
This is generally known as visceral fat, which is produced by the liver and caused to be stored by the hormone insulin.
There are many potential health risks that go with having too much of this kind of fat in the body, which are outside the scope of this article which is primarily focused on how to avoid weight gain. Suffice it to say that too much stored fat is the excess weight we want to lose!
Burning Stored Fat
By cutting back hard on the foods that contain these sugars, we effectively starve the process that makes this fat and force the body to burn stored fat for energy, thus reducing the amount stored around the body and resulting in achieving weight loss goals.
This can be achieved by suitable changes in the diet alone, but can be helped along considerably by doing some daily exercise sufficient to cause the body to burn much more energy that it normally does.
The way in which effective dieting conveniently helps this process along is by replacing the processed foods that contain high levels of refined sugars with lots of natural foods such as fresh fruit and vegetables.
This way, the body still gets the carbohydrates it needs to function, but the sugars present in whole foods are processed differently by the body, releasing glucose more slowly into the blood stream and giving the body more time to use it up so that little or no excess is available to be stored as fat.
When this is done right through adhering to a suitable daily calorie intake level, the body will burn enough of its store of fat to result in a gradual loss of weight that is healthy and safe. This is the best way to beat obesity and lose weight through dieting, as many experts will agree.
Doing it all Safely
How to exercise safely is all about doing a little at a time and don't try to do too much all at once. Dieting sensibly is also a part of t6he same equation that will bring you surprisingly effective results when you stick with it.
Losing just a pound a week soon mounts up. What you must never do is quit believing in yourself.
As long as you stay focused on your goal, you'll attain it. This is the right thing to do. Some days it will seem easier than others.
Seeing the scales read a few pounds less always raises a smile, especially when you know it has been achieved through healthy methods and a strategy that you have been happy to work with.
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Posted on Sat, Feb 28 2009 in Weight Loss | 0 Comments
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