Lose Weight Without Exercise By Eating Fat Burning Foods vs Changing the Way You Serve Meals vs Drinking Diuretic Liquids ... and 3 more
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6 Methods:
It is possible to lose weight without exercising as long as you don't eat junk food.
If you don't choose to exercise, it is still possible to lose weight by practicing the following methods of weight loss. All of these methods are geared to help you cut calories from your daily diet, without having to go to the gym and workout.
Method 1: By Eating Fat Burning Foods
Celery is a fat-burning food.
There are some foods that may help boost your metabolism regardless of whether or not you are exercising. Some of these foods are called negative calorie foods, because they take more energy to digest than their total calories. Others offer a high return in nutrition for a low amount of calories and other have diuretic properties that help eliminate water from your system. Some fat melting foods work because they contain mild stimulants, that boost your metabolism or they contain antioxidants that encourage your metabolism to turn ingested calories into fuel, rather than fat.
- 1Good examples of whole foods include oats, long grain brown rice and whole grain bread. White flour, white rice and corn meal are examples of low fiber, stripped foods that quickly to sugar in your bloodstream and cause weight gain. Furthermore, your body has to work harder to digest the fiber in whole foods because they still have the germ or hull on the grain.Eat whole foods, which forces your body to burn more calories than refined foods.
Cooked brown rice is a good example of a whole food. - 2If you are not willing to exercise then you need to eat a very high protein diet, which has a thermogenic effect on the body. When you eat meat you expend about a third of the calories contained in the meat to burn it off. This means that a 300-calorie piece of chicken requires another 100 calories to even digest it. This causes weight loss without you making much of an effort at all, except for eating the piece of meat in the first place.Choose lean cuts of meat and forgo being a vegetarian or vegan.
Chicken is a high protein thermogenic food because it takes more calories to digest it than it contains. - 3Cheese, yogurt and cottage cheese require a huge amount calories to digest and contains the Vitamin D and calcium that you need to preserve your muscle mass. People who do not exercise risk losing their muscle mass and the result is that their metabolism slows down. Eating these dairy products can help keep your metabolism running in an efficient manner.Eat low-fat dairy products every day.
Cottage cheese is an example of a thermogenic dairy food. - 4Lentils contain high levels of iron, which in turn, helps keep your metabolism to quickly convert carbohydrates into fuel instead of fat.Eat a cup of lentils every day.
Eating lentils helps to boost your metabolism - 5Hot chile peppers contain capsaicin, a factor that revs up your metabolism and helps you burn calories faster. Hot peppers can be consumed raw, cooked, powdered or as part of a hot sauce. They also augment the flavor of many foods including soups, eggs, meats, salsas, marinades, alcoholic beverages and even a cup of hot chocolate.Eat hot peppers whenever you can.
- 6These are the top negative calorie foods make your body expend more calories to digest them, then they actually contain, resulting in a calorie deficit that helps you to lose weight.Eat large amounts of celery, lettuce, raw onions, greens of all kinds, pickles, grapefruit and sauerkraut.
Celery is a fat burning food. - 7Eating high fiber foods burn off fat because it takes more calories to just digest them, which is not the case with low fiber foods. Good choices included nuts of all kinds, sunflower seeds, beans and tomato juice.Eat plenty of foods that are rich in fiber.
Tomato juice is rich in fiber. - 8These foods contain healthy fats that help your body eliminate bad fats called trans fats and saturated fats that are found in refined foods, deep fried foods and dairy products. Foods that contain the healthy monosaturated fatty acids include avocados, flax-seed oil, olives, dark chocolate, nuts and seeds.Eat foods that are high in Mono-Unsaturated Fatty Acids (MUFA).
Olives are high in mono-unsaturated fatty acids - 9Foods that have a low GI rating are considered to be fat- burning foods. These fruits release their natural sugars slowly into your blood stream at a slower rate, which helps prevent weight gain. Foods to avoid hat have are highly glycemic in nature, and therefore cause weight gain in sedentary individuals include watermelons, mangos, dates and raisins.Eat fruits that have a low glycemic rating such as apples, grapefruit, kiwi fruit, plums ,cherries and strawberries.
Plums are a low-glycemic fat-burninng food. - 10Avoid potatoes, sweet potatoes, carrots and parsnips, which are high in carbohydrates and have a high glycemic rating. If you don't exercise then you need to avoid these starchy selections or you will increase your girth around the middle as the starches in these vegetables turn into fat instead of being used as fuel for exercise.Eat vegetables that are considered to be low glycemic such as broccoli, cauliflower, green beans, celery and snow peas.
Green beans are a low glycemic food. - 11Grapes are natural diuretics that help to cleanse your tissues of fat deposits. Eating them also increases your urine input, which also helps to flush fat out of your body faster. Grapes also stimulate the liver and increase bile secretions, so that your digestion in general is more effective and eating them also lessens the chance of developing fatty liver conditions that might be partly due to a lack of exercise. [[Image:froz gra_54512.jpg]|center|frame|Frozen grapes are a diuretic snack food.|630px]]Snack on frozen grapes for dessert.
- 12Asparagus contains asparagine, an amino acid that reduces water retention everywhere in the body, including in the joints. Asparagus is high fiber and also helps clean out the intestinal tract, making you look slimmer and trimmer without exercise.Eat asparagus as often as you can every day.
Asparagus helps your body to lose weight by encouraging it to produce more urine. - 13Cilantro is a herb that improves your digestion and helps your body get rid of harmful toxins that might be accumulating due to a lack of exercise. It is also a powerful diuretic that makes your abdomen look less bloated. Cilantro can be added to many savory dishes as well as soups, salads and salads.Eat the herb cilantro as often as possible.
Cilantro is a diuretic food that can help you lose weight.
Method 2: By Changing the Way You Serve Meals
If you are intending to lose weight without exercising then it is more crucial than ever that you eat smaller portions, rather than larger ones, in order to cut your total caloric intake.
Here are some methods for reducing your caloric intake that can easily become daily rituals.
- 1When you feel calm and the food is less illuminated you are less likely to eat fast, or more than usual, both of which can cause you to intake more calories than necessary.Eat your meals formally, using real China and glass wear in a cooler, dimly lit room with a relaxed atmosphere.
Eating food in a dimly lit formal room may help you eat less - 2Hot food is more appealing and may cause you to over-indulge, especially if you are an emotional eater who finds comfort in eating hot salty meals or meals slathered in gravy.Serve your food lukewarm, rather than hot.
Serve high calorie meals lukewarm and you will eat less of what is on the plate. - 3Start off by serving three quarters of what you would eat and then reduce it to half of what you would normally eat and you will lose hundreds of calories per meal every day.Serve smaller portions then you usually would eat and abide by the limitations you have set for yourself.
Eating smaller portions is key to weight loss. - 4Most dinner plates are eleven or twelve inches wide, but you can cut your calories if you choose a plate that is nine or ten inches wide. You can use an even smaller plate, like a five to six inch dessert plate to limit your calories even further.Serve your foods on smaller plates, limit your portion and don't go back or seconds.
Choose to eat off of smaller plates to limit your portions. - 5This will help you avoid the temptation to heap food on your plate, which leads to an over-ingestion of calories and weight gain.Use a smaller serving spoon when portioning to a meal.
Use smaller serving spoons to dole out smaller portions. - 6If watching television in bed at night is associated with unlimited snacking for you then it is best not to put yourself in that situation. Portion control should always be foremost on your mind, no matter what you are doing, because if you are sedentary you are not doing anything to help your body work any weight off.Avoid situations that encourage mindless snacking and a dismissal of portion control.
Avoid situations that cause mindless eating. - 7Drinking alcohol after work as a psychological reward for getting through the day triggers snack cravings and the false belief that you can eat as much as you want without gaining weight.Avoid drinking cocktails after work with pals.
Drinking after work is not a great idea if you are trying to cut calories to lose weight.
Method 3: By Drinking Diuretic Liquids
Water is a natural diuretic that helps you lose weight easily.
It is a good idea to always have diuretic liquids on hand if you want to lose weight without exercising. Normally the process of exercising helps your body flush toxins and fat from your tissues. If you are not going to move your body, then it helps to drink teas and juices that will help you shed the pounds.
- 1Water is one of the most effective diuretics that is exists. It is free and cheap and helps to remove fat from body and waste from your colon. Adding ice to your water can help you burn up more calories because ice water cools down your body temperature. As your body fights to raise it again, you naturally burn calories.Drink at least ten glasses of water a day.
Drink lots of water if you want to lose weight without exercising.
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Every morning drink a tablespoon of apple cider vinegar in a glass of cold water
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Drink apple cider vinegar with distilled water every morning to lose weight without exercise.
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Drink four cups of green tea every day
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Green tea is a powerful diuretic.
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Drink one cup of parsley tea at least three times a week
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Drink an eight to twelve ounces of a blend of freshly squeezed tomato, cucumber and celery juice every day
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Detox and lose weight by drinking tomato, cucumber and celery juice every day.
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Drink a six-ounce glass of raw organic cranberry juice every day
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Drinking raw cranberry juice can help you lose weight.
Method 4: By Practicing Mindfulness and Self Talk
Living in the moment can help you lose weight.
You can lose weight by practicing certain psychological tricks, such as mindfulness and self-talk that my dissuade you from eating too much
- 1Halt is an acronym for the phrase Hungry, Angry, Lonely or Tired. When you feel the compulsion to eat, ask yourself if you truly feel any of the conditions above and try to the solve the situation without resorting to self-medication with food. If you are hungry, eat a low-calorie nutritious meal. If you feel angry, then deal with your feelings in away that confronts the situation or person or your reaction to it, rather than eat fatty or high calorie foods to "stuff your anger down". If you feel lonely, call a friend up rather than using food as a way of comforting yourself. If you feel tired, don't relieve the fatigue by trying to ingest extra calories. Put the high-calorie treat aside and have a nap instead.Practice HALT.
Practice HALT by never getting Hungry, Angry, Lonely or Tired to avoid addicted eating. - 2Before eating anything that is outside your diet say the following words out loud: "I am not hungry, but I am going to eat this anyway!" Often this dissuades you from eating the food or causes you to minimize the craving or it because stating something out loud causes you to be more mindful about what you are doing.Make a declaration out loud before eating any food that names the insanity of what you are about to do.
Before you are about to eat a food that may cause weight gain, name what you are doing out loud. - 3Stepping on the scale every ay keeps you mindful of how fat you are getting, due to ingesting too many calories and keep you on track with changing your lifestyle habits so that you lose more weight.By weighing yourself every single day and recording that weight in a fitness journal.
- 4Writing down every single thing that you eat every day along with the calories you are ingesting can help you be more mindful about what you are eating and when and also help you recognize any emotional triggers that might be causing your to overeat in the first place.By keeping a food journal every day that names everything you have eaten, sets calorie goals and also notes any pounds or inches gained or lost.
- 5Many fitness clubs offer volleyball, basketball, water polo and there are many team sports help you work off some calories without too much exertion. Other fun outdoor activities that burn calories include berry picking, wild foraging, horseback riding, sailing and picking flowers.Tell yourself that exercise a way of playing or fun, rather than an ordeal and work off calories by doing activities that you enjoy.
- Practice meditation whenever you can to relax and help you control impulsive and emotional behaviors that encourage you to overeat. Meditation helps lower adrenalin and histamine levels in the body which discourages metabolic disorders like Type II diabetes and also the emotional turmoil that also often causes people to overeat.
Method 5: By Changing Your Dietary and Lifestyle Habits
Changing some of your lifestyle habits is crucial if you want to lose weight without exercising.
If exercising is not part of weight loss regime, it will be necessary for you to make other lifestyle changes so that you can lose the weight. Adopting some of, but preferably all of the lifestyle and dietary changes may help a sedentary individual lose weight.
- 1This helps you build lean muscle and preserve the muscle that you already have, even though you are not exercising. The reason that it is crucial to keep your lean muscle is because muscle burns fat calories and helps you lose weight, even when you are at rest.Take a good multivitamin and mineral supplement every day.
- 2Every time you eat, the process of digestion forces your body to rev up your metabolism whereas skipping meals for long periods of time can cause you to gain weight. This is because your body believes that it is in a "famine mode."Make a habit of eating smaller meals more frequently.
- 3If you can manage to omit all sugar from your diet, you can lose up to ten pounds in one month. It is impossible to omit the sugars that occur naturally in fruits in vegetables, but you should avoid all foods that contain any type of glucose, fructose, sucrose, white sugar, brown sugar or cane sugar. One way to stop yourself from eating sugars is to stop buying cakes, cookies and refined starchy foods and do not put sugar in your coffee or tea.Stop eating sugar.
- 4High sodium levels are found in all kinds of foods including canned vegetables and soups, cheese, packaged desserts and all kinds of pickles and condiments. Cured and smoked meats are also very high in salt. Avoid these foods and also try to savor the taste of your food without seasoning with a lot of salt. You can also use a low-sodium salt substitute such as{ http://www.mortonsalt.com/home-product/morton-salt-substitute/ Morton Sodium Free Salt Substitute]Lower your intake of salt and if you must have salt use a salt substitute.
- 5Good sources of protein are yogurt, cottage cheese, peanut butter or an egg. This is not the same as eating an egg fried in butter or bacon. Eggs should be poached and ideally served on top of a vegetable, such as spinach or with a whole grain, high-fiber all natural bread, preferably one that contains pumpkin seeds or flax seeds.Make sure that you eat sufficient amounts of low-fat protein for breakfast.
- 6These foods are sources of unsaturated fats and huge amounts of sodium that overload the kidney and livers and cause weight to pile on around your middle, hips and thighs. When you don't exercise, you start looking flabby and these popular foods will just make you look bloated and fatter as time goes on.Lay off the bacon, hamburgers and hot dogs.
- 7As a rule of thumb, you should stay from foods that are white in color, as usually these are foods that are high in starch. Starch converts easily into fat, rather than fuel and adds inches to your waistline. This is especially true if you are not exercising as your body as no way of working off the extra starch.Stay away from starchy white foods such as potato's, rice, pasta and ice cream.
- 8If you truly want to lose weight without exercising, then you need to give up these foods, which contain excess calories in the form of fats and oils. They also tend to be very high in sodium. However, if you must have them, have them on the side, which gives you more control over how much of the high-calorie substance you get.Skip the gravy, salad dressings and sauces or have them on the side.
- 9Many people use cigarettes as a weight loss tool, but the reality is that these two bad habits build insulin resistance over the long term and cause you to gain massive amounts of wait. Smoking, in particular, leads to Type II diabetes which, once it takes hold, makes it difficult for you to lose weight in any circumstance.Stop believing that smoking and vamping helps you to stay thin.
- 10Wine and beer are packed with empty calories that cause most waistlines to balloon, especially if you are not exercising. Although drinking hard alcohol is a better option, it is only so if you drink it with water or soda water and forgo the sugar or aspartame laden mixes that hard alcohol is often served with as part of a cocktail. Furthermore, if you drink too much, this creates a craving for salty, greasy foods to help cure the hangover the next day.Do not drink wine or beer to excess, and for best results, don't drink any alcohol at all.
- 11Many recreational drugs relax you to the extent that you "get the munchies" and absent-mindedly eat unlimited amounts of calories. Some recreational drugs also alter your consciousness and release your inhibitions so that you no longer eat responsibly. Food can also be the cure to "come down" from hallucinogenic drugs, which causes weight gain. Many recreational drugs also wreck your metabolism and cause the type of insulin resistance that leads to obesity over the long term.Refrain from using recreational drugs.
- 12All other sugar substitutes have been found to cause cancer. They also cause insulin resistance and liver damage, which leads to weight gain and obesity. Sweeteners to avoid include Acesulfame (Sunnett, Sweet One), Aspartame (Equal, Nutrasweet), Neotame, Saccharin (SugarTwin, Sweet N'Low) and Sucralose (Splenda.)Stay away from artificial sweeteners and sugar substitutes except for Stevia, Sorbitol, Xylitol and Erythritol, which is made from stevia extract.
- 13This is a lifestyle tip that can prevent you from eating too many calories that may be fattening later. Filling up with a salad, soup or high fiber foods such celery and peanut butter before you go out can prevent you from gorging later.Eat a small, but filling meal before you go out to parties or dinner.
- 14Most fast food places have their nutritional information on hand for customers to look at right at their counters. This allows you to make menu choices that are low fat and lower in calories. If you know that you have no choice but to eat at fast food later, then keep in mind that many fast food restaurants do post their nutritional information online.If you must eat at a junk food restaurant, eat as healthy as you can by studying their nutritional brochure.
- 15To make sure that you are eating healthy it is best to avoid buying packaged foods at all, as this way you are assured of eating whole foods only. However, if you must buy a canned or packaged food reading the labels can help you avoid foods that cause weight gain.Get into the habit of reading all food labels when you go shopping to make sure you are buying healthy foods with minimal additives, saturated fat, sodium and sugar.
- 16Drink a smoothie that is below 200 calories every day instead of eating breakfast, lunch or dinner. A good example is one cup of orange juice, 1 cup of almond milk and 1 cup of ice blended together. The orange juice amounts to being 111 calorie and the cup of almond milk is 60 calories. This gives you a drink that is only 171 calories, whereas most meals are at least 300 calories to 1000 calories depending on what you are eating.Replace a meal with a smoothie that contains less than 200 calories..
- 17Probiotics are useful for chronic constipation and flattening the look of a distended or bloated looking stomach.Eat probiotic foods at least once every day such as kombucha, yogurt, Kefir, tempeh miso soup, soft cheeses, sour pickles, sauerkraut Probiotic foods supply your gut with it's good bacteria, facilitating digestion and nutrient absorption.
- 18Fasting gives your body a break from digestion and a chance to clear out mucoid plaque and fecal matter that might be causing you to have a bloated appearance. It also preventing you from digesting your food properly. Even fasting for just one day and drinking only liquids, hot and cold, is beneficial for your digestive system, and if you can manage to only drink liquids for two, or even three days, that is even more beneficial for weight loss.Go on a fast for one day every ten days.
- 19If you are not exercising you are not sweating which makes it hard for your body to flushing fat away. Scrubbing yourself down helps stimulate your circulation so that you can eliminate toxins and trapped water through your skin pores.Scrub your body down with a loofah or scrub.
- 20Fill a tub with the Epsom salts and then soak your entire in the bathtub for at least half an hour If you are not going to work up a sweat by exercising, the steam and salt will help your body perspire and eliminate fat. If the reason you are not exercising is because you suffer from muscle or joint pain, taking a bath in magnesium-rich Epsom salts can help with that too.Take a hot bath in Epsom salts.
- 21When you do not exercise, you need a way to sweat and taking a steam bath will help you share water weight as well as help you shed the pounds. As your body heats up, it will shed the calories just trying to keep your body temperature lower.Take a steam bath or sauna at least once a day.
- 22Getting enough rest is absolutely essential if your metabolism is to work properly, as this is the time when it resets itself for the morning bladder and bowel movements as well as for the energy expenditure the next day. It is especially important for you to get enough rest if you have been on a low-calorie diet without exercising.Get enough sleep every night.
Method 6: By Burning Calories Doing Every Day Activities
You can lose weight by vigorously cleaning your home.
Even if you refuse to exercise, there is an opportunity to lose weight while you are performing activities that you have to do every day. To lose one pound a week, you need to work off 3,500 calories. Here are some ways you can lose weight simply by doing some daily errands or chores.
- 1Depending on how much you weigh, you can lose between 200 and 400 calories an hour simply by keeping your place clean.Doing a little light housework is considered to be light to moderate exercise.
- 2Depending on you weight you can burn between 160 and 460 calories just by volunteering to be the one who takes your pet outside every day.Walking the dog for sixty minute is considered to be a form of moderate exercise.
- 3You can burn between 180 and 420 calories an hour, depending on your weight. The more you are on your knees digging or hauling a wheelbarrow, the more weight you will lose.Gardening is also considered to be a form of moderate exercise.
- 4You can also burn between 200 and 500 plus calories a day just by window shopping, which many people also find to be very relaxing.Shopping in a mall for two hours is considered to be a moderate form of exercise.
- 5If you did it for half an hour, you would lose between 400 and 800 calories without having to go to the gym.Taking the stairs instead of the elevator is considered to be intense aerobic exercise.
Tips and Tricks
Joining a twelve-step group may help you overcome an eating addiction.
- If you feel you are overeating because of an addiction to food or emotional problem, consider joining a twelve step program like Overeaters Anonymous which has groups all over North America
- As a general rule of thumb, vegetables that grow underground have a higher glycemic rating than those that don't and are more likely to be a fat burning food
- To figure out how many calories you burn during certain activities you can use the calorie counter at My Fitness Pal
Questions and Answers
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