The Top 15 Weight Loss Tips That Will Actually Work!

15 Natural Weight Loss Tips That Work Fast

Are there weight loss tips that actually work, and are fairly simple to implement?

Most American adults over 20 do not know how to lose and maintain the ideal weight for their height.

That is a fact.

How do we know this?

Because a 2016 CDC study showed that 75 percent of the adult population over 20 years old in America is overweight or obese.

The problem is that you want to lose weight and do not know what to do.

That is why these easiest weight loss tips of all time will help you reach and maintain your ideal weight.

Let’s get started:

The Top 15 Weight Loss Tips for Men and Women

#1. The Sleep Technique – Look to Increase Your Sleep

Is there a weight loss tip that is easier than going to sleep?

I don’t think so.

This is the easiest lifestyle change for you to make but has huge effects on your weight loss, and overall health.

Increase your sleep to at least 7½-8 hours.

If you live in New York City, too bad, you still have to get more than 5 hours of sleep.

Why?

Because sufficient sleep regulates your body – hormones, metabolism, and lowers overall inflammation.

Good sleep also repairs your body on a cellular level.

Don’t be fooled by artificial lighting – the body was made to sleep when it gets dark.

If your body doesn’t have the proper time to repair itself, it just breaks down over time.

Sleeping regulates hormonal activity, including ghrelin – the hormone which regulates your appetite.

Staying up late at night is a sure-fire way to contract the ‘munchies’.

Getting to sleep earlier in the evening will minimize late-night food cravings (which are the worst health and weight-wise).

Aim to get to sleep by 10 or 10:30 PM.

No TV or internet after then.

Keep your room cool and dark and give your body the rest it needs.

If you have your lightest meal at night and complete dinner by 7 or 730pm, do not be surprised if you wake up 1 – 2 pounds lighter.

That’s how great sleep is for weight loss.

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#2. Real Food is the Most Powerful Drug for Optimal Health

Make a paradigm shift, and see food as medicine to ingest for maintaining good health.

Focus on having as much low glycemic index fruit and vegetables as possible.

Eat real foods.

Look to de-emphasize processed or take-out food.

Eat slower, and stop eating when you are no longer hungry.

How can you learn to substitute fruit and veggies over empty high-calorie junk foods?

Look to crowd-out the bad foods with good ones.

Crowd out nutrient-deficient food with healthy ones.

If you are putting nutrients into your body in the form of real foods that you like such as specific fruits and vegetables, then your body won’t crave or find the need to binge on chips, cookies, or other junk.

The average human stomach is only 12 inches long and six inches wide.

Don’t overeat.

You don’t need a huge food intake to feel full, and overeating is detrimental to the body.

When you overeat, the additional calories are stored as fat in your fat cells.

Find healthy foods that you enjoy, and emphasize these.

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#3. The Regular Meal Pattern Technique

Establish a Consistent Eating Schedule and Menu

Eat at the same time on a daily basis.

Look to eat smaller portions more often.

For example, eat 400 calories every 3 hours, like this:

8 AM,
11 AM,
2 PM,
5 PM, and up to
8 PM max.

Eat 4 – 5 times a day, 400 calories each, with only a deck of cards worth of fish/chicken/meat/beans at each meal.

Eating fewer calories frequently is counterintuitive, but highly effective to stabilize your blood sugar, burn fat, and help prevent or even reverse type 2 diabetes.

Do not skip meals, so you don’t become too hungry and binge.

Make your meals simple to prepare and eat.

#4. The Hydration Technique

Drink half your body weight in pounds as ounces of water.

Your incredible kidneys need plenty of water to do their job of removing toxins.

In addition, the more hydrated your body is, the less reason your body has to retain water.

Your percent water should be 60 percent or above.

If you have no idea what your body’s water percentage is, consider getting a body composition scale.

Besides drinking water you can also try out herbal or green tea to keep yourself hydrated.

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#5. Ten Simple Main Point Habits

Sleep 7 ½ to 8 hours a night.
Look to have lights-out by 10:30 PM.
See food as medicine, a powerful drug.
What are you putting into your body?
Hydrate – have 16 oz. of water with a squeeze of lemon juice first thing in the morning.
Have a glass of water with lemon or lime in between and after meals.
Up your fruit intake in the morning, especially berries, like blueberries, strawberries, raspberries and/or blackberries.
Stop mindless eating.
Eat only when you’re hungry.
Stop eating when you’re full.

#6. Practical Tangibles

Breakfast idea – a cluster of grapes, ½ an avocado, nuts, with 1/2 cup dry oatmeal cooked.

Look for ways to increase veggies, such as the Original Hashi Mashi good morning breakfast, experiment with sauteing new vegetables.

Look to break the status-quo of meals always containing a starch along with your protein.

Instead of chicken and rice or potatoes for dinner, have chicken or fish simply with vegetables like asparagus, okra, mustard greens, spinach, broccoli, or mushrooms.

Consciously increase your vegetable intake.

Try to always have at least one cooked vegetable every evening and one raw salad every afternoon and/or evening.

#7. Your Body is Your Friend

You need to make peace with your body.

Your body is your friend and faithful servant for your entire life, not your enemy.

The body’s mission is to keep you healthy and stay alive.

Your body functions on its own (the heart has its own pacemaker pumping blood to bring oxygen to every cell, respiration takes place involuntarily), but if you don’t consciously put demands on our body, it will default into lazy mode and atrophy.

Muscular endurance is an important part of fitness.

You need to be constantly building and demanding of your muscles for them to grow because muscle tissue is very “high maintenance” and is most easily used by the body as convertible energy.

Muscle tissue needs to be maintained – fat gain and muscle loss is the default of not maintaining.

Part of maintenance happens by having a good night’s sleep when tissue repair and growth occurs.

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At the Least, Walk Your Body 30 Minutes Every Day

Is there an exercise easier than walking for weight loss?

If you are blessed with two legs and feet, make sure to use them.

Consistent physical activity demands such as 30-minutes of daily brisk walking will build muscular endurance, muscular strength, as well as your cardiovascular system.

Why?

Because walking puts demands on your heart, which when done consistently will strengthen the heart muscle and enables the heart to do its job more efficiently.

So, if you wake up one day and several of your neighbors have had heart attacks, what is the right thing to do?

No, do not stop eating food and sit paralyzed in fear.

The answer is to ditch the processed junk that is called food, eat more real food, and get off the couch.

Start walking a minimum of 30 minutes a day.

Exercise with cardio helps maintain whole-body fitness.

If you cannot touch the floor in a standing position, it is because your hip flexors, hamstrings and tendons, and leg and back muscles are tight from too much sitting.

Look how many older people walk bent over.

This is due to stiffness and a lack of flexibility in their muscles from sitting most of the day and not demanding of their body.

They walk as if they are still sitting.

If a person has stiff muscles, it corresponds to them also having a stiff vascular system, which is far worse.

Walking 30 minutes per day not only burns some calories, but more importantly activates your leg muscles, which are the largest group of muscles in the body, and need the maintenance of being stretched, as well as gets the blood pumping, which provides flexibility to the vascular system.

A consistent walking program will melt your belly fat faster than you ever dreamed possible.

#8. Ideas for Eating

To minimize snacking, focus on eating more nutrient-dense foods more often.

Simple Meal Plan

Breakfast:

Look to eat around 8 AM, and then again at noon.
Try a cooked sweet potato and two hard-boiled eggs, or unsweetened oatmeal with fresh fruit or berries in it.
You could also make a vegetable omelet sauteed in olive oil like this good morning breakfast.

Mid-Day Meal:

Salmon with chickpeas; chicken with sweet potato; black bean soup.
If traveling, try tuna packets in water.
Or a whole grain sandwich with a teaspoon of zatar, salad, and a slice of cheese.

Mid-Afternoon Meal: (before 4 PM)

Sweet potato, or other starchy vegetables that you like, a small amount of brown rice, and some kind of protein.
A serving, an ounce of healthy fats like avocado, raw almonds, or cashews, and some blueberries or an apple.

Dinner (6 PM):

Fish with broccoli; spinach and lean protein like chicken or turkey breast;
Try to be in bed by 10 PM
Walk briskly for 30 minutes. (or treadmill) 5x/week (ideally in the AM).

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#9. The goal is to lose 1/2 pound to 1 pound a week

You also want to see your BMI and body fat percentage going down and your water percentage increasing.

For someone looking to lose weight, a reasonable weight-loss pace is between ½ and 1 lb. per week.

Engaging in a consistently nutritious diet plan, drinking a gallon of water daily, sleeping 7+ hours, and incorporating even a moderate level of fitness will easily accomplish this.

What happens when one engages in some level of fitness training?

Aside from an overall feeling of better fitness, you get a stronger heart, your cells function better, your ability to use oxygen improves, and many other positive effects.

When beginning a fitness program, it is important to know your current Resting Heart Rate, which is a quick indicator of your fitness level.

The average adult has a resting pulse rate of 70-75 beats per minute.

The more fit you are the lower your heart rate.

Fit people who get lots of aerobic exercise have resting pulse rates in the 50s and 60s because their heart is stronger, and pumps more efficiently.

The Karvonen Formula is a mathematical formula that helps determine your target heart rate zone.

The formula involves using your maximum heart rate (MHR) minus your age to come up with a target heart rate range (which is a percentage of your MHR).

Staying within this range will help you work most effectively during your cardio workouts.

If you are interested in the Karvonen formula, see the end of this post where it is included as a bonus.

#10. How Does Your Body Get Fit?

The way your body gets fit is via the Overload Principle.

Specific Adaptation to Imposed Demands

Your body will adapt to your demands.

If you swim, you’ll be a better swimmer, walker, runner, you’ll get better bio-mechanically.

If all you’re doing is sitting all day, you will get better at sitting, but, you won’t burn fat.

Cardiovascular fitness is lost after about 48 hours, which is why it’s important to train at least every other day.

A five-minute warm-up and 5-minute cool-down are very important.

Starting or stopping suddenly, your muscles are no longer helping the blood flow to/from the heart.

A good goal would be a 5-minute warm-up, 20 minutes, then 5 minutes cool down.

#11. Reduce Salt

A great way to lose water weight is by lowering your salt intake.

Measure your belly with a measuring tape weekly to track your progress.

One inch of waist loss equates to 5 lbs. of weight loss.

Heart disease is the #1 killer in the U.S., of men and women and these are the risk factors:

Over the age of 45 for men and over age 55 for women
A waist size of over 40”
BMI of over 30
A Cholesterol level of over 200
The body doesn’t require much food to function optimally, and a high quantity of even healthy food is damaging.
The liver can only process a maximum of about 400 calories at a time.
Any additional calories are set aside and stored as fat.
Instead, focus on eating smaller portions but more often, say every 3 hours.

Your body adapts to everything you do – exercising or not exercising, hydrating or not hydrating yourself, sleeping enough or not sleeping enough, etc.

If you fast for hours thinking it is ultimately good for weight loss, think again, as your body will instinctively hang onto the fat, as it will go into a self-preservation mode.

#12. Portion Control

Focus on eating no more than a deck of cards worth of dense foods, such as meat or beans, and no more than 400-500 calories at any one time, and no more than a cup’s worth of other items other than vegetables.

Look to eat approximately this many calories:

Breakfast – 500
Mid-morning snack – 200
Lunch – 400
Afternoon Snack – 200
Dinner – 500

That’s a maximum of 1800 calories a day.

If it’s nutritious food, you won’t feel hungry.

#13. Mind-Set, Must Vs Should:

If you keep doing what we have always done, you will keep getting the same results, also known as Einstein’s definition of insanity.

In order to get different results, you must change your actions.

Think to yourself before potentially bingeing – “I’d rather look and feel good in my new suit/dress for my [special event here] than have this temporary pleasure of eating this now”.

Get real objectivity – take a picture of yourself as you are now, and have these images handy to look at when you are considering eating fattening foods, for example, chocolate.

A definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result.

Realize that a trade-off (eating smaller portion sizes, skipping junk foods, exercising where there was none, drinking and sleeping more, etc. is required in order to change your outcome to a better result.

Thanksgiving is only once a year!

Maintain your regimen to have a consistent return.

How does you make a lasting change?

By focusing on one good habit at a time.

for instance,

committing to drinking half your body weight in ounces of water daily,
adding 7½ hours of sleep,
commit to proper daily food consumption, then
adding a fitness component, such as walking.

#14. The Karvonen Formula Explained:

Maximum Heart Rate

The Karvonen formula is based on a measurement called the Heart Rate Reserve.

First, you need to get your age-predicted maximum heart rate.

All you have to remember is to subtract your age from 220.

Therefore, if you are 67 years old, here is the calculation:

220 – 67 = 153 beats per minute is your Heart Rate Max.

Now, how do you figure out your heart rate reserve?

First, get your resting heart rate by taking your radial pulse for one minute.

Heart Rate Reserve (HRR) = Max Heart Rate minus the resting heart rate.

So, if your resting heart rate is 70, the formula is:

Heart Rate Reserve = 153 – 70, so the HRR, in this case, will be 83 beats per minute.

Determine Intensity as a Percentage of your Heart Rate Reserve

When you want to pick an intensity to exercise at, use a percentage of your Heart Rate Reserve.

For example, to exercise at 60% intensity will mean that you take your heart rate reserve of 83 and multiply by .60 which equals 49.8.

Then add the intensity to your resting heart rate.

In this case, that will be 70 beats per minute resting heart rate + 49.8 beats per minute intensity of heart rate reserve, which equals 120 Target Heart Rate.

Now you know, that your target heart rate for training at 60 % intensity is 120 beats per minute.

#15. Don’t Forget The Daily Weigh

Unless you have an eating disorder, weighing yourself every day will keep you on track.

Pick a time every morning to see how yesterday’s eating is reflected on your scale today.

My recommendation is to use a body composition scale to measure your BMI, body fat percent, and water percentage progress.

Weight Loss Tips – Wrapping Up

Reaching your ideal weight should not be rocket science.

There is no reason to overcomplicate eating, just as there is no reason to overcomplicate walking.

The problem is that you grew up with two great conveniences – processed foods and no need to move.

Nevertheless, these two amazing ‘advances’, convenience foods, and modern transportation do have negative consequences on health.

You grow up with amenities and wealth that few nations in history experience.

The question is how can you navigate your ship to a safe harbor of mental and physical health and fitness in modern society?

You do not need to be a registered dietitian, count calories all day, or use smaller plates to achieve long-term weight loss and its magical health benefits.

These 15 Weight loss tips will steer you in the right direction.

In only 6 months, you can dramatically change your body and the trajectory of your health and fitness.

If you use any of these weight loss tips, please let me know how it works out for you.

Do you have more of your own tips for weight loss to add?

What’s Next

The Hashi Mashi plan is a system that works to help you get lean and strong.

Whether you want to lose 20 pounds in 3 months, or up to 75 pounds in 6 months, the Hashi Mashi plan can help you achieve your weight loss and fitness goals.

Once you lose your first twenty pounds, you will know how to lose the rest!

The Top 15 Weight Loss Tips That Actually Work

15 Natural Weight Loss Tips That Work Fast

The Top 15 Weight Loss Tips for Men and Women

#1. The Sleep Technique – Look to Increase Your Sleep