Top Tips to Lose the Christmas Gut

The first thing you should do is start the day fresh, it’s no good beginning to remove the bloating and fat from your body half way through the day. Start the day fresh with the right frame of mind. Have in your mind how much weight you want to lose. Or simply, what you want to look like at the end of it. But do not let it end there, continue your meal plans for life, make it a lifestyle and not a ‘diet’. The term ‘diet’ is daunting and always has a time limit. A lifestyle, well that’s for life!

The first top tip which is fundamental in any type of quick fix to remove any unwanted weight is to drink about a gallon of water a day for about a week which is around 4.5 Litres ; this will remove any retained water acquired from simple sugars, salt, alcohol and fatty foods. The body becomes dehydrated from the overdosing of bad toxins within the food that it has to hold onto excess water. If you drink the required amount of water a week, this will release that retained water your body is holding onto which will ultimately remove excess weight.

Another top tip is to not have any carbohydrates after 4pm. Digesting your carbohydrates before that time will allow your body to be free of resting carbohydrates in the body when resting at night. You will feel slimmer and less bloated in the morning just by reducing your carb intake.

Eat a lot of vegetables in meals. You can eat as many vegetables as you like without worrying about gaining a pound. They have virtually zero calories and very high in fibre. Foods high in fibre keep you fuller for longer, so you won’t have a craving for more food in a short space of time.

Eat protein. Protein has been proven to reduce fat due to the high protein content within the produce. A lean protein such as fish, chicken and turkey are great. They are low in fat and high in protein.

Get 7-8 hours of sleep a night. This will metabolise your body into a fat burning state. Not getting enough sleep will cause your body to hold on to fat. So rest is essential to losing fat.

Do exercise. Strength training is a great method to increase your metabolism, and of course the higher the metabolism the more calories you burn. Possibly the two best strength training exercises are the ‘clean and press’ and ‘deadlift’. The clean and press uses a vast amount of muscles from hamstrings to shoulders. So from head to toe muscle movement is a great metabolic booster and you increase strength stability along the way. The deadlift is similar to the clean and press without the press, burns fat and boosts metabolic rate.

I hope these tips help you through January. Before you know it you will be back to your usual self. If you are committed to a healthy lifestyle you will continue to eat, exercise and sleep well throughout the year.

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