Fad diets are a dime a dozen. Maybe you’ve even tried some yourself. There’s been all kind recently: paleo, keto, the list goes on. What many people find is that when they do a fad diet, they lose a bit of weight at first, but then they burn out, eat normally and gain the weight back. How can you lose weight without having to worry about your lifestyle just putting it back on? Well, you have to change your lifestyle.
Losing Weight Without Dieting
Healthy Lifestyle
A healthy lifestyle is made up of a combination of tons of different factors. There’s a lot of important things you need to pursue to be healthy, but the place you need to start is a determination to live better and a mindset that puts your health above everything else. Dedication and discipline are of utmost importance when it comes to living a holistically healthy lifestyle.
Regular Exercise
Get out every day and exercise. It doesn’t matter whether this is weightlifting, running, yoga, tai chi or rock-climbing, you just need to get out and move. If you’re never burning calories, your body is storing them as fat. That’s just basic nutrition. Whatever you need to do to squeeze in at least half an hour of exercise per day, do it.
Maybe you like playing video games. Well, don’t let yourself play until you’ve gotten in a half-hour jog through your neighborhood. Maybe you love shopping. Don’t buy any new shoes until you’ve hit your half-hour goal for yoga for a straight week. The specifics don’t matter: what matters is that it works for you and it gets you moving and burning calories.
Sleeping Better
A huge factor in living a healthy overall lifestyle is sleep. If you’re not sleeping right, you’re going to feel bad and you’re going to find it hard to lose any weight. Make sure you’re getting to bed at a reasonable hour, getting between 6 and 8 hours of sleep, and waking up at a decent time. Sleeping in late every day is a surefire way to encourage your body’s metabolism to be slow.
To help encourage better sleep, you can try a few things. Make sure you don’t drink any caffeine within eight hours of when you want to sleep. If you’re following our advice about regular exercise, you’ll probably be tired enough by the end of the day to hit the hay. If you work second or third shift, try to stop doing so if you can. Ask for a transfer to day shift or try to change jobs. If you can’t, then try to keep your sleeping schedule as consistent as possible.
Junk Food
We know we said this was an article about losing weight without dieting, but trust us on this one: you need to cut the junk food out. This includes greasy, fried foods, snack foods and everything high in saturated fats. If you want to snack, that’s fine, just make sure its on something like carrots, apples, bananas or other fruits and veggies. They’re good for you and they’ll help you keep from overeating during meal time.
While you’re at it, make sure you cut sugary soft drinks and sports drinks out of your normal diet. This isn’t to say you need to go on a diet: feel free to eat whatever else and operate normally. However, if you want to live an overall healthy lifestyle to encourage weight loss then you’re going to want to leave these incredibly fatty, sugary foods out of your diet. If you follow these steps, you’re not guaranteed to lose weight, but we do guarantee you’ll feel a lot better.