Rapid Weight Loss Ideas...
To See Results Quickly!

This list of rapid weight loss ideas will help you quickly get started with your weight loss efforts. There are no magic bullets when it comes to losing weight. However, adopting these rapid weight loss ideas will help you to easily incorporate some healthier habits to help you be successful in quickly losing weight and keeping it off!

Healthy Eating Habits
Adopting healthy eating habits is absolutely necessary to successfully lose weight. It is important to not only choose healthier foods but also to adopt healthier eating behaviors like when and how often you eat. This list of eating habits outlines some things you can easily and quickly incorporate into your routine for losing weight:

Eat a healthy breakfast – We’ve all heard it before, but so many of us skip breakfast anyway. Start your day off with oatmeal with a cup of blueberries mixed in, or unsweetened cereal with a sliced banana, fresh berries, or both on top. Consistently eating a healthy breakfast everyday will help you avoid over-eating later in the day.

Eat every 3 hours – By eating six small meals per day (every three hours), you won’t be as tempted to over-eat. These “meals” do not have to be large or fancy. Think of three of these meals as healthy snacks between regular, healthy, smaller meals throughout the day. This will increase your energy, boost metabolism, and lessen cravings by keeping your blood sugar levels more stable during the day. Make a real effort to not skip any meals!

Drink lots of fluids – In addition to the recommended minimum 64-ounces of water per day, you can drink any liquids that are non-caloric. This includes unsweetened hot or iced tea, coffee or diet sodas, or other calorie-free beverages. Just try to reduce or eliminate the caffeinated versions of these drinks. Also, skip the high-calorie sports drinks, unless you do strenuous aerobic exercise for at least 90 minutes. These drinks contain lots of sugar or fruit juice. For most of us, ordinary water is the best choice!

Watch the carbohydrates – Carbohydrates are not bad. The sugar from too many carbohydrates, however, contributes to overweight and obesity. Eating too many calories from any source will make you gain weight, whether the calories are from fats or carbohydrates. It is important to maintain a diet that consists of a healthy balance of proteins, carbohydrates, and fats in your food choices.

Plan for healthy snacks – Planning ahead and having healthy snacks available and ready will help you overcome cravings for those “less-healthy” higher-calorie temptations. For example, choose celery, broccoli, cucumber, or pickles. If something sweet is on your mind… choose sugar free Jell-O or sugar free popsicles.

Use a smaller dinner plate – One of the easiest of these rapid weight loss ideas to incorporate into your routine that will help you control how much you eat at home is to use a smaller dinner plate. Your plate will look full, but with less food on it. This will help your mind be satisfied that you are eating a full-sized meal while reducing the calories you consume. In fact, if you compare the size of your dinner plate to your grandmother’s old dinner plates, you will likely find that yours are much larger!

Choose fats carefully – Our bodies need fat to build healthy cells, cushion internal organs, keep skin and hair healthy and provide a layer of insulation beneath the skin. However, not all fats are the same. So, what can you do for healthier fat intake? Choose high mono- and polyunsaturated oils and fats such as olive oil, switch to soft margarine from stick, limit fried foods and commercial baked goods, and read and understand food labels that indicate the amounts and types of fats in the foods you consume.

Watch the sugar – Simple carbohydrates and refined sugar from candy, cake, table sugar, syrups, sweetened cereals and other sources of concentrated sugar contribute "empty calories" that provide energy, but no nutrients. Use unsweetened cereals instead of higher-calorie sweetened ones. Instead of Honey-Nut Cheerios, for example, eat plain Cheerios. Or, try regular Corn Flakes instead of Frosted Flakes. If you want to sweeten the deal, try adding fresh berries when they are in season.

Healthy Living Habits
In addition to healthier eating choices, making some quick and easy changes in other areas of your life will help set you up for successful weight loss. These changes include moderate regular exercise and getting enough sleep every day. Here are some rapid weight loss ideas centered around other lifestyle habits:

Get moving – Adding exercise to your weight loss efforts is very important. You don’t have to be an Olympian! In fact, there are many physical activities that will provide a reasonable amount of exercise that you might not consider “exercise.” For example, consistently doing some ordinary daily activities like walking the dog, taking the stairs instead of the elevator, and parking your car farther away from stores or your office are great exercises for losing weight. Getting started and staying consistent is the most important step!

Minimize alcohol consumption – Alcohol adds calories and may increase your appetite. Restaurants suggest alcohol prior to your meal to decrease your defense mechanism and lower your resistance to eating healthy. Even one drink per day (including low-carb versions) can slow down your weight loss.

Weigh yourself regularly – Weigh in once a week first thing in the morning on the same day every week. Why? You look forward to it. By seeing progress, you are more prone to stay motivated and keep striving for your goals. Avoid weighing yourself more often as you are only setting yourself up for disappointment.

Make sleep a priority – Make sure to get 7-8 hours of sleep every night (women 6-7 hours and men 7-8 hours). Studies confirm that poor sleep directly contributes to poor heating habits. Some simple steps you can take to improve your sleep are to organize your bedroom and put away clutter, don’t watch TV in bed, choose a bedtime that allows you to get enough sleep and stick to it, keep your room cool while you sleep, and never eat in bed.

Use these rapid weight loss ideas to incorporate healthier choices and habits into your routine to help you quickly and effectively lose weight in a healthy manner.

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