LOOSE 5 KGS THIS WINTERS:

1.Move More

Even fitness fanatics are discouraged by the winter weather. Here’s the good news: you can significantly increase your overall calorie burn with everyday activities—so called “incidental exercise.” Unpacking the car for 10 minutes burns 30 calories. Straighten up the house for 20 minutes and use up 62 calories. Skip the escalators and elevators: 10 minutes of stair climbing burns 107 calories. Torch as many calories as you can.

2.Hydrate! Hydrate! Hydrate!


This is one of the most important part of your health. Coffee and energy drinks may not be bad if you take them in moderation, but remember, water is the best fluid you can have. A lot of people mistake hunger for thirst. Your body gives out the same want for water as it does for food. You may not like to drink water since it doesn't have sugar or carbonation but water fills your hunger!

3.Avoid alcohol: 

Alcohol is loaded with calories. And since "many holiday celebrations involve drinking, it's easy to take in a lot of calories without being aware that you are." "Drink a glass of water or a diet soda before and after each alcoholic beverage to help pace yourself and to dilute calories."

4.High water food content:


Foods with high water content include soups (80 to 95 percent water), fruits and veggies (80 to 95 percent), and hot cereal (85 percent). "Water adds weight and volume without adding calories."

Fruit and vegetables are an excellent source of important vitamins and minerals including vitamins A and C, folate, iron and calcium.

5.Increase Protein:

By boosting your intake from the typical 15 percent of total calories to 30 percent, you may be able to cut your daily calorie intake by 440 — enough to lose almost a pound a week without hunger, according to a recent University of Washington study. "A high-protein diet appears to fool the brain into thinking you've eaten more than you have," says the study's lead author.

                             HAPPY WINTERS !!

BIG BREAKFAST , SMALL DINNER. MYTH BUSTED

In this article I m trying to scientifically figure out weather breakfast or dinner is an important meal for weight loss.Is the  familiar phrase “Eat breakfast like a king and dinner like a pauper”? true. Well, according to a new study published in the journal obesity., if you want to lose weight, that may be the way to go.

Ninety-three obese women were provided with a 1,400-calorie diet for twelve weeks. The participants were divided into two groups; half ate 700 calories at breakfast, 500 calories at lunch, and 200 calories at dinner, while the other half ate the reverse: 200 calories at breakfast, 500 calories at lunch, and 700 calories at dinner. Both groups lost weight, however, the large breakfast eaters lost substantially more (18 pounds compared to 8 pounds) and lost more inches from their waists (3 inches versus 1.4).

The study is highly controlled as in our daily life it is difficult to limit our meal to 200 calories.It is said that breakfast revs up your metabolism in the morning,staved off hunger which is beneficial in losing weight . on the contrary..

In a new study, researchers at the University of Alabama at Birmingham Nutrition Obesity Research Center and other institutions found that eating or skipping breakfast had no effect in how much weight was lost over a 16-week period.

If we eat less calories at dinner ( with less carbs) the energy utilized in maintaing the basal rate of the body is more than the energy consumed and hence may aid in weight loss.

So the secret to weight loss is healthy breakfast of about 500 calories and small dinner 3 hours before sleep.

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