To lose weight you need to follow a diet and workout plan of some description.
Whether you follow our own MCD Weight Loss Plan, buy one of the excellent weight loss eBooks, or put together your own plan using the information you find here and on other great fitness websites, you need to be remain focussed on dedicated to your plan, the one that works for you.
How do you start a weight loss diet plan? The first and most important part of the plan is the diet itself.
You need to learn what foods are healthy, which are not, what food provides energy, which ones just turn to fat. Understanding the common diet and weight loss myths is important too.
Why do we mention belly fat in the title? Well, the same rules that apply to losing belly fat apply to losing total body fat. So if you can learn to lose belly fat, you can learn to lose weight.
Whether you are devising your own weight loss plan or following a ready made one, you should always considered enhancing the plan so that you can do the things that you are more comfortable with. Many plans may encourage you to eat more lean meat as part of a healthy balanced diet, but maybe you are a vegetarian.
Some plans will expect you to workout 4 times a week, but maybe you have hobbies and sports commitments and can only manage 2 or 3 times a week.
It does not really matter if this is the case, so long as you make some small changes to ensure that you are still following most of the plan and still losing weight and getting fitter.
Our Quick Weight Loss Diet Tips
- No matter what you read, you do need to reduce calories to lose weight. You have to create an energy deficit.
- Read about sugar and fats. Understand that sugar is the major problem today, not fat.
- Replace as many high GI foods with low GI foods as possible.
- For one month, stop drinking alcohol.
- Never add sugar to anything
- Stop eating all cakes, white bread, cookies, white rice, candy and soda
- Stop all processed foods
- Stop all junk food
- Eat more green salad with olive oil dressings
- Eat more fresh fruits and vegetables
- Stop drinking fruit juice (the natural sugar, fructose, contains a lot of energy which will turn to fat)
- Exercise – do intensive cardio workouts
- Exercise – lift weights, do bodyweight workouts and weight training workouts
- Drink more water – water hydrates, essential for clear thinking, exercise and healthy digestion
- Eat soup once a day – soup makes us feel full for longer
These 15 quick weight loss tips are just the tip of an iceberg really. But follow these and start a new weight loss diet plan and you will soon be losing weight and getting fitter.
im 19, 5’7 and 180 pounds, and iv just recently started working out in jan. iv seen results all over and i have even slimmed the top of my stomach up. but i can’t get rid of the lower body fat. i started a cycling class and i work out 4 days a week, im trying to look good before june, any advice
Hi Devo. As you have seen improvements since January, then the best advice is to keep working on what you have been doing. You have to keep pushing yourself to get fitter, so keep working out harder each time. Do more, greater intensity and greater duration. Also look for ways to make the diet even healthier – cut out every last piece of processed, refined, junk, sugar etc.
I’m 19. From last 8 months, i just eat everything whatever i have given to me. Now i always being eating n eating. Now the problem which i’m facing is that i’ve a fat on stomach and no fat on any other part of the body. I ‘ve started exercise and jogging in the morning for 20 minutes but whatever i’ve loose wieght in the morning had not effect because i’ve eaten so much till the end of the day. Any suggestion?
Hi Raza. You cannot expect to reverse 8 months of overeating with a 20 minute jog each day, especially if you carry on overeating. You need to reduce total calories eaten every day, eat much healthier food and do more exercising. Increase jogging to 45 minutes a day if you can, or start doing a morning jog session then an afternoon / evening circuit training workout.
What are you eating now? Have you adjusted your diet or are you just jogging? You may want to read Basics Of A Healthy Diet.