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A few quick weight loss tips that should either remind you of things you should be doing or things you can be doing to reduce the amount of calories you consume on a daily basis. eat healthier foods and lose weight in the process.

Right off the bat the first thing you should be concentrating on and make sure you do is eat more frequent, smaller meals. My rule of thumb is if you’re eating 3 meals a day right now just take those 3 meals and space them out 3 hours apart and split each one of your three meals in half. Ok that’s the key.

You have to eat more frequent, smaller meals and what will happen is your metabolism will improve or you’ll bur more calories per day then before. You can accomplish this just by eating more often and basically not starving your body.

While you’re eating more frequent meals try and make sure to include at least, at least a portion of carbohydrates and protein in each and every meal. Chicken, fish or turkey would be ideal for proteins and ay long chain carbohydrate like rice, potatoes or oatmeal would fit the bill for carbohydrates.

Now that you’re metabolism is fired up and you’re losing weight just by standing there you want to switch your attention to reducing the amount of calories you consume so your body can go into weight loss mode. One of the easiest ways to accomplish this is by replacing all the soda and sugary drinks you consume with water.

BOOM!

Say bye bye to calories and bye bye to your belly!

Last but not least… don’t sabotage your diet while eating out while on a date or while eating out with your family.

Look for a dish that features an entree that is either steamed, grilled or broiled and since you’re out having dinner at a nice restaurant do yourself a favor and avoid the chemical stew that most restaurants today call water and have yourself a nice glass of antioxidant rich wine.

There you have it some quick tips for weight loss that you should be following or a good list to get started with if you want to lose weight.

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If a lean body is your goal then you should be excited to hear that just by eating a good breakfast you can increase your metabolism by as much as 10% throughout the entire day!

The mere act of eating breakfast can actually increase your metabolism and basically have your body burning more calories throughout the day then it normally would.

One of the best things you can eat at breakfast time is oatmeal because of the long chain carbohydrates that oatmeal contains. The long chain carbohydrates go into your system and because of their complexion they stay in your system for up to 8 hours!

That means your body has 8 hours to burn/utilize the oatmeal, long-chain carbohydrates as energy before converting them to fat. Compare that to the 30 minute life span simple sugars have in your stomach to be burned or utilized as energy prior to being converted to fat.

It should be pretty evident that long-chain or complex carbohydrates are superior to simple sugars because they give your body a long-term sustained form of energy that it can utilize throughout the day.

A typical breakfast for me is a bowl of oatmeal and a glass of orange juice.

The orange juice is a great addition to the oatmeal because it contains some simple sugars which can be quickly utilized by the body to replenish it’s glycogen stores after a long night without food.

Again, if a lean body is your goal then I strongly consider you begin every day with a healthy breakfast that includes some form of complex carbohydrates and some form of simple sugar and just watch your metabolism skyrocket!

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That’s right I said speed up your metabolism by eating more…

Now that doesn’t mean you can eat everything under the sun whenever you want but if you increase the number of meals you eat from the 2 or 3 you’re eating right now to 4-6 per day then you will in deed speed up your metabolism and burn more calories every single minute of the day.

I know, I know… the first time I read about this several years ago I was floored myself but here’s how it works:

Your body’s first and foremost directive is to keep you alive. Contrary to what some people believe it’s not to keep your stomach flat and keep you looking good for the opposite sex. So when you starve your body and eat like one meal a day you’re basically forcing your body to store everything you eat as fat so that it’ll have something to burn as energy (the fat stored in your butt and belly most likely) during that long period of time between your next meal…

You can eliminate your body’s pension to store the food you eat as fat by feeding your body every 2-3 hours or by eating approximately 6 meals a day. By eating and feeding your body every few hours, you’re basically telling your body that it will get fed every few hours and after a while your body will recognize that it no longer needs to store fat for future use.

The end result is your body will utilize most or all of the food you eat and whatever your body doesn’t use… well you know.

Mix in a little exercise and a clean diet and you’ll be looking like you did at 21!

Speed up your metabolism by eating more… who knew?

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