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Lose Weight With These Lifestyle Changes

The smartest way to lose weight is to slash calories and exercise! That's Dieting 101. However, we all know that losing weight is easier said than done. The challenge for many of us is that going on a diet is often followed by going off a diet. Try these ten lifestyle changes to help you lose weight.

Ten Lifestyle Changes To Lose Weight

1. Lift Weights

A high energy workout that uses weights is one of the fastest ways to tone muscles and blast away fat. Two strengh training sessions per week can increase muscle mass and strength at any age and muscle burns more calories than fat. 

So what are you waiting for? It's never too late to lose weight! 

Another great reason to lift weights.....

Research published in the Archives of Neurology show that weight training is important because the stronger your muscles are as you age, the less likely you are to develop Alzheimer's disease. 

2. Shake your groove thing! One of the best ways to burn calories and lose weight is with aerobic exercise. If you love to dance, a Zumba workout can burn 500 calories in just one hour.

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4. Get in tune with your body. Pay attention to how full you feel during your meals. Don’t clean your plate. Instead, focus on how your body feel's and try to leave about one quarter of your food on the plate at every meal.

5. Weigh yourself often. Studies show that dieters who weighed themselves at least once a week lost more weight than those who didn’t. Weigh yourself at the same time each day. The actual amount you weigh is not as important as noticing a five pound weight gain.

6. Don’t eat your meals in front of the TV. According to a University of Massachusetts research study, those who ate while watching tv consumed an average of 288 more calories per meal. When you are distracted, the brain cannot identify if you are full. 

7. Burn more fat by eating eggs, tofu or nuts every three hours. Eating eggs can increase the body's ability to produce leptin which acts as a control switch for your appetite. Leptin is a hormone that tells the brain you are full. It can also increase your metabolism which helps the body burn body fat for energy.

8. Block the fat storing hormone cortisol by balancing your meals. Women who decide to eat healthy meals as their diet strategy lost double the amount of weight than those who chose the deprivation diet.When the body is under stress, the production of the stress hormone cortisol spikes, telling the body to store extra fat for energy. When you are on a deprivation diet of low calories and few food choices, this puts more stress on your body which fires up the production of cortisol.

Get Your Beauty Sleep 

It is important to get your beauty sleep because at night, your skin goes into repair mode. Blood flow and oxygen supply increase which enables amino acids to produce collagen in the skin which helps fight wrinkles. But the benefits are there only if you sleep about eight hours a night. 

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