Eat in a balanced and healthy way, have an active lifestyle, perform regular physical activity, devote the right amount of time to meals, have regular rhythms: they are all habits that help you lose weight and stay in shape without necessarily following a restrictive diet.
Obviously, the need to put oneself or not on a diet also depends very much on the pounds that one must possibly lose weight to be normal weight and stay healthy.
The habits that make you lose weight at the table
- Drink a glass of warm water and lemon in the morning, as soon as you wake up. This habit helps you lose weight as it promotes the proper functioning of metabolism and digestive functions. Furthermore, lemon pectin helps curb appetite.
- Make a healthy and nutritious breakfast . Skipping breakfast is a bad habit that does not make you lose weight; indeed, the opposite is true. However, the first meal of the day should not be too abundant. A balanced breakfast should bring about 20/25% of your daily calorie requirement.
- Divide the daily intake of food into three balanced main meals plus two light snacks, strictly avoiding all meals. It is a good habit, therefore, to have breakfast, to have a light snack mid-morning so as not to get hungry at lunchtime and have another small snack in mid-afternoon to avoid having dinner with the desire to eat everything there is. in the pantry.
- Eat sitting at the table and allow yourself the right time and tranquility for meals . It may seem trivial, but the habit of eating slowly and sitting at the table can help you lose weight. Consuming meals in front of the PC or, worse still, walking up and down the house or the office, distracts the brain leading to eating much more than necessary. On the contrary, savoring and slowly consuming food gives the brain time to perceive the sense of satiety, leading to eating less and, consequently, being thinner.
- Drink only water during meals . All beverages other than water add calories (often unnecessary) to meals. Once in a while, a glass of wine or beer can certainly give it to us, but it is a good habit, for those who want to lose weight, to avoid all caloric drinks, especially sugary drinks.
- Not adding sugar to beverages is another habit that helps you lose weight. How many sweet coffees do you drink during the day? Have you ever thought about how many calories are introduced sweetening the drinks? If you are unable to drink unsweetened drinks, you should at least avoid white sugar.
- Always keep fruits and vegetables washed in the fridge ready to eat is another habit that helps you lose weight; it is, in fact, a great way to avoid throwing yourself on chocolate and snacks when you have little time.
- Consume whole foods that promote a sense of satiety.
- Learn and consume the right portions ; often you eat more than necessary without even realizing it because you do not know the portions most suited to your nutritional needs. It is a good habit that can be acquired easily, it just takes a little practice.
The lifestyle that makes you lose weight
There are habits, lifestyles that help you lose weight while not directly affecting the food you consume.
- Be active . When we talk about active lifestyles we are not just referring to the good habit of playing sports: walking, climbing stairs, taking a bicycle instead of a car, going to do small errands on foot, doing gardening, these are all habits that involve movement and, consequently, help to lose weight.
- Perform a constant and regular physical activity . Obviously, those who play sports tend to be more fit than those who do not. Any type of sport, adapted to one's health and age, but also to one's tastes and organizational needs.
- Get enough sleep . Good sleep hygiene helps avoid stress and the consequent increase in cortisol, a hormone that increases appetite, prompting you to eat more than necessary.
