Weight Loss : Tip Two

DIET.

Mention that four-letter word to any woman in anywhere in the world and you will get the same reaction - sigh. About 40-60% of women are dieting at any given moment. But starving yourself isn't the way to lose those fats. Learn how to eat healthfully and making ready accessible home remedies to get your diet off the right start.

Eating smart and exercising is the best pairing when it comes to losing weight. But I guess people often misunderstood the meaning of "losing weight". When it comes to weight, it is just a number. Our total body weight comprises or fluids weight, muscle mass and fat mass weight as well. As we grow older, our metabolism rate slows down as well hence in a long run = weight gain. Increasing muscle mass = increasing metabolic rate = increased of weight.

Heavy doesn't mean you are fat. Sometimes I'm sure you feel bloated or you skirt or pants got tighter in just a day . That's because of water retention or what we call water weight. Try pinching your inner thigh or the back of your arm, if it's more than 0.5cm you should really start taking my advice on reducing all these water. 

One way is to include natural diuretics in your staple meals. Cut down on salt and eat more food that are rich in potassium. Simply because our kidneys regulate fluids based on the dual pumping action of sodium and potassium. Salt (sodium) tends to draw water into the body and potassium helps to extract it. Try cutting down salt and include food that contained high percentage of potassium like bananas, apricots,avocados and raisins. These helps to regulate the fluid levels in our body and get rid of excess water.

Ginger tea is a natural diuretic that can help in colds and of course water retention. Yogurt not only helps with digestions but aid in reducing water retention too.

Avoid water retention culprits

Processed meat, frozen food, chips,canned vegetables and soup contain surprisingly high amount of sodium. Thinking of drinking Campbell's soup everyday to lose weight? yes you will but even though you look average size, you will have a lot of cellulite on your lower body and upper arms. SO, DON'T EVEN THINK ABOUT DOING SO.

Carbonated drinks, packet drinks, ribena, cordials decreases your body's ability to excrete sodium by increasing your insulin level because of those high in sugar content.

In short, avoid eating out and start cooking:) 

Drink water

It may seem counter intuitive but water helps to flush out the excess fluids and excess salt in your body. You may think its a good idea if you are suffering from water retention but it is not drinking water that causes you to retain fluid.  Drink plenty while cutting down on sodium and sugar. This promotes proper kidney function as the kidneys can excrete excess water. If you are not hydrating enough, avoid tea, coffee and alcohol as these will cause water retention.  Be sure to continue your good eating for long lasting maintenance. 

Sweat away!

Sweating is good. Exercise or sports helps you to lose water by draining excess fluid through perspiration.  I'm sure some of us will have excuses that they don't have time for sports and all. As long as you sweat, you can do ANYTHING.

 I got so inspired by my childhood friend Janise who's living in Brisbane. She got abs! She's already pretty to start with and now she's like a bomb. So she gave permission to use her picture and ta-dah! awesomeness. i'm proud of her. totally.

 I know it's easy to put it into words but here's a picture of me without edit and using a lousy iPhone camera.  yes i know, no visible abs yet that's why i'm posing side ways. I'm working on it!

and there's more. I had my weight count done at the gym the other day. if you noticed, everything else on the chat is normal except for the total body water percentage. I'm seriously working on this water retention program. I will definitely do a recheck soon:)

And yeah, my desired weight is 48kg. Some say that i will look too thin. But i was 48kg before this. Just trying to get back in shape:)

Will share on how to lose fat mass in my next post.

Thanks for reading

Weight Loss : Tip One

Hi all, I'm back with some love this time. Okay let me start of with a simple but very useful weight loss advice. 

Well, often we see lemon is added into water in restaurants, not to sure if they know the benefits of it or just a way to add flavor to it to make it more refreshing. Drinking water is necessary not only to keep our body hydrated but also make you feel full, because it neutralize the acid in the stomach , hence often it diminishes excess hunger . Drinking it with meals make your stomach feel fuller without adding many calories  Yes, of course i've heard about drinking water during meals will slow down your digestion. This is why I recommend water with lemon for weight loss.

One of the best way widely known around the world is flat water with lemon. Bear in mind that adding lemon into Pepsi or Coke DOES NOT HELP WITH WEIGHT LOSS. I really do hope this post will help anyone in any way.

Why should YOU drink water with lemon?

First of all, it is the most natural it is good for our body, adding mint leaves into the lemon water enhances the flavor or it. Mint on the other hand alleviates symptoms of digestions such as stimulates the bile production and flow in which aids in fat digestion. It is very important that we chose to drink healthy fluis especially for those who have weight loss target, it adds to your weight loss program nicely as it helps to keep our weight balance after losing it.

Does it really help?

The water and lemon combination had no calories compared to other isotonic drinks available in stores. The cost of this drink compared to lemon-water is at least twice or thrice cheaper than those drinks and most importantly there isn't any sugar added.

 A lot of my friends asked if it really helps and from my point of view., yes, it DOES. Imagine replacing  other sweetened drinks you have it over dinner (such as carbonated drinks, sweetened packet drinks) with water with lemon that has very little or no calories at all. To you, the daily influence might be just minor if you are not a fan of all those sweetened drinks but imagine if you do it for 365 days and i'm 100% sure that your body will spend more time on burning those calories y in the food you consumed instead of working extra hard to burn the calorie in food and drinks that you consumed.

Believe me that follow this post and it will do you a great deal in losing weight.

Too busy to prepare....

Well, yeah at first i have the same thought before i started drinking it.  Using flat water to mixed it with lemon would be the best because different people have different taste preferences. Using tap water might not be that good but then depends on your necessity and budget as well. Mineral water somehow creates the balloon effect in the stomach so i won't recommend that as well. Flat water is equivalent to distilled water and has been boiled and steam into and then recondensed into pure water with no minerals or any other "additives" to flavor it. The difference is you can even feel the "whoom" even by just drinking it straight. 

Think about it, it's not that hard and most of the brands out there are actually flat water. For the sake of beauty and health, I wouldn't mind for sure.

Now ... should you start as well?

I'm doing this article based on experience and it does help with losing weight, and not just that you can get other benefits such as intake of Vitamin C that is great for gums and zits and adding in mint leaves help with my flu  and sinus problems. Apart from that it is the cheapest way to detox (cleanse) rather than signing up some detox treatment from expensive weight management companies.

To those who exercise, fluid is very important. People may get dehydration if they do not replenish the required amount we needed. Our body sweats while we do physical activities and needs to cool dow after that. This process is very important for those who wants to lose weight. For me I do not sweat easily. At most my skin will feel clammy after an-hour jog but my sweat never drips. Lemon is attributed as natural diuretic, do you know? It increases the rate of urination and it helps with water retention. In addition to it, lemon helps to flush out toxins through kidney and eliminate it through urine.

Lastly, I hope this post help those who are serious in trying to lose weight and be healthy. Try searching Google and see how models maintain their weight and you'll be surprised knowing that they drink water-with lemon as well.

Thank you so much for reading:)

I'm off to the gym with my chilled water with lemon that i prepared an hour ago. I left it in the fridge while writing this:)

Have a good day.