Do you want to jump start your weight loss? We all want to lose weight quickly, don’t we? I know my mind certainly tells me I should try to get quick results!
So here are 10 easy steps to jump start your weight loss.
While everyone may want to lose weight quickly and there are ways to help (like the ones I am sharing below), I’m here to tell you that there is no magic pill that can make you thin in a month. Trust me, I’ve tried it! You can certainly lose a substantial amount of weight in a month, but it is not sustainable if you are not going to continue on with a healthy eating pattern.
I learned that the hard way. I am the “queen” of fad diets and yo-yo dieting. I’m a life time member of one of those famous diets. Yet, in every instance, I found I lost the weight and put it right back on after I stopped – yes, even when I was on some type of maintenance plan. I was always down on myself; certain I just didn’t have the willpower to keep on going and not gain more weight. But that was just not true.
It’s not about willpower and it’s not just about being on the right “diet plan” It’s much more about changing your lifestyle. That’s how it worked out for me at least. I have never looked back since changing my lifestyle. I am so much more energetic, happier and healthier.
However, there are several ways that you can jump-start your weight loss by increasing your metabolism. So I am going to share 10 of them with you in this blog post.
1. Keep yourself hydrated:
This is the most basic and easiest way to jump-start your weight loss. Drinking a lot of water and detoxifying herbal teas will help you flush all the harmful toxins from your body, boosting your metabolism by improving the efficiency of your thyroid functioning.
Drink five glasses of water daily at the very least to keep your body at its best. Drinking a lot of water and herbal teas, especially first thing in the morning and before meals, will also curb your hunger and prevent you from binge eating.
2. Get enough sleep:
Your diet, your workout, and all the water that you consume will go to waste if you fail to get enough quality sleep. Good sleep help to keep your hormones and your mood balanced. If your hormones and mood are balanced, then your body will function more efficiently and will keep all your unnecessary cravings at bay. Make sure to give yourself a peaceful night of at least eight hours.
3. Hot lemon water:
Drinking hot lemon water early in the morning before breakfast helps
4. Health shots:
Another way you can fire up your metabolism is by having a health shot of lemon, honey, ginger, and turmeric first thing in the morning. It might taste disgusting to some, but it has a dramatic impact on your metabolism.
5. Pre-workout hydration:
Drinking loads of water or green tea before a workout is an easy and efficient way to burn twice the amount of calories that you usually do.
6. Cardio:
Exercises that keep your heartbeat up are another way to burn a lot more calories and jump-start your weight loss. You can add exercises like planks, burpees, and jumping jacks to get your heart pumping.
7. Fidget:
Some studies have shown that people who have a habit of fidgeting or bouncing their knees can burn up to 500 more calories a day. Wow! What an incredible benefit for something many of us do without thinking!
8. Spice is the key:
Spicy food burns more calories during digestion because it can fire up your metabolism. Add a few more spicy foods, like hot peppers, to your diet. You can add jalapeno in almost any dish you like, even in your eggs. Spices also add a ton of flavor with little to no calories. (See recipe below.)
9. Graze throughout the day:
Another trick is to eat five or six small meals throughout the day instead of eating three large meals. If you keep eating small amounts, your body will be constantly functioning to break down that food into energy. Your body will learn to work more efficiently and will burn more calories.
10. Drink black coffee once a day:
Drinking pure black coffee at least once a day will boost the rate at which your body burns calories.
Losing weight is not meant to be a high-speed activity; your body doesn’t function that way. These tips should be practiced along with a healthy diet and exercise for best results, but they may be able to give your body that little extra boost it needs to power into weight loss mode.
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RECIPE: Deliciously Stuffed Sweet Mini-Peppers
Ingredients:
- Mini Sweet Peppers (1 – 2 packages), washed
- 1 Avocado
- 1/2 cup of Cilantro
- 1 cup of Red Onion
- 1 clove of Garlic
- 1 Mango
- 2 Roma Tomatoes
Dressing:
- Juice of 1 Lime
- Juice of 1 Orange
- 3 tablespoons of Olive Oil
- 1 teaspoon of Apple Cider Vinegar
- 1 tablespoon of Honey
- Salt
- 1 tablespoon of Cayenne Pepper
Directions:
- Preheat the oven to broil. Once the oven is warm, using tongs, place the peppers directly on the oven rack. Cook the peppers for about 10 minutes. When peppers start shriveling, remove them from the oven.
- Cut mango and avocado into cubes, mince the garlic, chop the cilantro, red onion and tomato. Combine into in a mixing bowl.
- In a separate bowl, whisk the orange and lime juice, olive oil, apple cider vinegar, honey, salt, and cayenne pepper together.
- Pour the dressing over the avocado and mango mixture and gently toss to combine.
- Take your roasted mini sweet peppers, cut them in half (lengthwise), and de-seed them.
- Stuff with the mixture and ENJOY!!! YUM!