13 easy ways to lose a pound a week

If the resolution of your New Year's Eve disappeared five months ago, and his "swimsuit body" has not arrived yet, you can begin to lose the hope of weight loss efforts. This was perhaps the approach you have taken in the first place, weight, lose caused the error. Maybe I immersed in the play "d" on January 1, with a goal of losing 25 pounds in the summer, however. soon realized that their efforts with the numbers on the scale is not the truth that most diets do not work - they rarely lead to long term weight loss, and some may make us even more weight gain. Despite this, Americans still billions of dollars per year to spend reach in the search for the "perfect" body. Some diets can people die of hunger, eliminate food groups or even pills that could affect your health. At the end of the day exceeds depravity weight loss and people back into their old habits. And if there was an easier way? And if you make some small changes every day and still lose weight?

The first step in this direction is to make realistic goals and keep them in one area instead of the many "high end" is. A study in 2013 found that people who had to get a low-end and high-end in its objective to keep more to weight loss over time. After your choice will be calculated realistically, it's time to start your healthy diet.

Consider the following tips can help you lose up to a pound per week in a delicious way, but simply by private swaps from a few ingredients here and there, and be more attentive. Note that £ 1 = 3,500 calories. Given this, it is necessary to burn 500 extra calories through exercise or cut 500 calories from your diet.

1 Hide your vegetables.

Save Calories: 360 Calories. A recent study in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition found that adding pumpkin puree cauliflower or carrot bread, stews and pasta recipes (at least 25 percent of the total) resulted in an increase in the fiber and caloric deficit - no change in taste or texture .

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Two. Use hummus instead of other high-fat sauces and spreads (think ranch dressing, mayonnaise and ketchup, too high in sugar).

Save calories: Not only Hummus content of fiber per day (which makes you full longer), it will save an average of 250 calories.

Three. Remove cheese sandwiches.

Save calories: 70 to 120 calories for a sandwich. Although cheese is a common staple in a variety of sandwiches, delete does not significantly change the taste of the sandwich. Go for a week, and save about 500 calories!

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April. Replace sour cream with Greek yogurt.

Save calories: 175 calories per half cup. Buy low fat, simple version of the Greek yogurt for sour cream taste without all the calories and fat.

Restricting calories just for those who are chewed. May

Save calories: the removal of your smoothie of the day drinks, specialty coffee or soda can save on average between 500 to 700 calories per day!

6 Change the color of black coffee.

Save calories: Up to 200 calories can be half and half or non-dairy cream saved in the coffee by the task. Nix the sugar as well as other economies 100 calories.

7 kiss. 'S inner child, order the "child size" in the restaurant.

Save calories: the command menu items for children in fast food restaurants and "kiddie cups" Glacier can save up to 500 calories.

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8 No food.

Save calories: Make all your meals at home can be 1,000 calories per day (depending on how often you eat) store. Just thinking about it! Many restaurants offer much greater than current dietary recommendations suggest, many, many are often in fat, sugar, sodium and refined as homemade food grains is much higher.

9 If you must eat, add "on the page, please" to his usual vocabulary.

Save calories: Order dressings and sauces on the side (where you can control the amount of food added) can save up to 400 calories.

10 Use cooking spray instead of butter or oil.

Save calories: 100 calories. If you cook at home, reducing the amount of fat you. In your bread to the significant reduction in calories

11 balsamic vinegar star Make the salad with oil provides supportive role.

Save calories: 200 calories, can be stored added by reducing the amount of oil in the oil and vinegar. Balsamic vinegar is full of flavor without calories! And probably you will not see the difference.

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12 dishes wearing her grandmother.

save up to 300 calories to 600 calories. Over time, the size of the plates and the biggest U.S. side. The passage of a plate 12 inches by 9-inch plate is to believe the eye that eating more cheat. This, in turn, you will eat less at each meal.

13 Speak for yourself.

Save calories: The sky is the limit. Sometimes our choice of food is has nothing to do with the physiological response of hunger. Instead, we're bored, stressed or thirst. Take a few minutes before eating and ask yourself if you are really hungry. The answer may surprise you!

The loss of weight is difficult, and weight maintenance is difficult. Compliance with these following tips can help you see real results to push the envelope where you start. Add to that the stress management to control the game and a regular exercise program and the swimsuit body can next year exactly what you want.

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