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Tips and Tricks to lose weight in time for summer 18

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Happy New year guys!  This year I will be sharing all my weight loss secrets on here so you might want to check in regularly to see what tips and tricks I would be dropping next. Also, later this year there’ll be a free weight loss challenge for everyone to try.  Disclaimer: I am not a professional trainer, I’m also learning about what to do and what not to do when it comes to health and fitness but these tricks have helped me so far. Late 2016, I decided to get on a scale which terrifies me every time I try and I saw that I weighed 80kg. I don’t like weighing myself because In all honesty, your weight doesn’t determine if you’re fit. Weighing is a good place to start if you decide to embark on a weight loss journey just because it help track your progress and gives that boost of motivation to continue when you're progressing.  When I realised I was 80kg and unhappy, I decided to do something about it so I started working out. I worked out for about 2/3 mon...

Meal prepping/planning

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 Meal prepping is a great way to reduce food intake and stay on a diet consistently. Eating healthy is very important for weight loss, staying fit and even general health care. You have to eat to loss weight.  It's simply an act of preparing your meal at once either weekly or daily for a healthier food intake.  Scheduling your meal and planning what to eat next can be tasking but you realize that when you start and continue for a while, you just get used to it. I would have shared a picture but I'm working on mine. You can decide to prepare your food for the whole day at once or for the whole week even.           Advantage of meal planning   1. Reduces intake of food : Meal prepping helps reduce food intake because the portion of food would already be pre determined. Most times we tend to eat more when we feel hunger unknowing that the amount of food we consume is too much, then the after even occurs and we feel bloated and too full bu...

Dieting - skinny in a few

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  Dieting, according to Wikipedia " is the practice of eating food in a regulated and supervised fashion to decrease, maintain, or increase body weight.  From this definition, we can see that there are three kinds of dieting ; 1. For weight loss - which is what this post is about. 2. To maintain body weight. 3. To increasing the body. Dieting for weight loss  This is the restriction on what you can and cannot eat, or the consumption of food substances that helps reduce the body weight.  When you reduce weight, you tend to look slimmer, you start to feel lighter - which would help you carry out day to day activities, it would help your breathing and also your heart rate and reduces your chances of diseases caused by obesity or overweight.  Why you should not go on a diet There are so many reasons why we should not go on a diet or try too hard to lose weight, especially because of pressure from others. These are the ones I think are most reoccuring ;  1. To i...