Losing Weight Naturally - Fat Burning Tips For Natural Weight Loss

By: Charles Zoe

Creating a healthy, lean body depends on how well each individual woman's body copes with the demands made on it. This is highly individual: what works for you may not work for your friend, but the important thing is that you understand what works for you. Before you pledge allegiance to a particular diet plan, take heed. More often than not, weight lost through dieting finds its way back into your body.

So, what is the best approach to long-term weight loss? Rather than counting every calorie or scratching entire food groups from your diet, make healthful eating — along with fitness and stress reduction — a part of your daily lifestyle.

What you need is a simple plan. Here it is, in just two parts: (1) Make a little more time to run; (2) Concentrate on a handful of dietary changes that, over the course of a year, can produce significant weight-loss results.

1. Eat three well-balanced meals a day (containing protein, healthy fats, complex carbohydrates, and nonstarchy veggies), with two snacks that include some protein. Do your best to limit carbs to 16 grams per meal and 9 per snack, and to maintain a low glycemic load in your food sources overall.

2. Don't skip breakfast. A good breakfast is the most crucial part of any healthy weight-loss effort, as it revs up your energy level and metabolism for the full day.

3. Vegetables should make up the largest portion of your diet, as the antioxidants in fresh produce have a powerful effect against the free radicals in our bodies. Also, since vegetables (especially leafy ones) are low in carbohydrates, eating a plant-based diet translates into fewer calories overall. Remember, variety not only adds spice but longevity, too. As omnivores, we require a certain amount of complexity in our diet in order to stay healthy. Include as many different colors and varieties of fruits and vegetables in your diet as you can.

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4. Calcium in dairy products such as cheese, milk and yoghurt help to break down the fat stored in fat cells so they should also be included in your fat burning diet unless you suffer from high cholesterol.

5. Follow a hypoallergenic diet for one week. This means removing common allergens like eggs, dairy, gluten, peanuts, and soy, as well as any others you suspect from your diet — not necessarily forever, just long enough to see which (if any) of these might be a problem for you. Each of these can be eliminated for four to six days, then reintroduced over several days to see if there are any physical responses to the food. I also suggest that women start with the foods they crave the most, since cravings are often a signal that we're sensitive to that food.

6. Don't underestimate the importance of drinking water for weight loss. Sufficient water intake is crucial for you to achieve optimal digestion, absorption, circulation and waste excretion.

Depending on how much produce you eat, the climate you live in and how much you exercise, you should be drinking an average of 6 to 8 glasses of water a day. Remember that fruit juice, tea, coffee and sodas don't count as water. This is one of the best natural weight loss.

7. For something cool, tasty, and nutrient-filled in the morning, try a shake or smoothie. The Balanced Diet nutritional drink provides 180 calories with lots of complex carbohydrates, vitamins, and minerals in a naturally flavored French vanilla or chocolate royale. Each serving includes 5 grams of dietary fiber and 10 grams of soy, or 40 percent of the daily minimum now recommended by the American Heart Association.