Fast Weight Loss Ideas

Here are some helpful ideas that should help you burn more calories and achieve your weight loss goals. Weight loss isn't easy, but with some help, we can all do it. Please add your favorite ideas to the list so we can all benefit.

• Make water your favorite drink. Drink it as cold as you can, you burn more calories drinking cold water.
• Don't stuff yourself with food in a single sitting; instead have 5 to 6 small meals or snacks in a day.
• Make a habit of walking.
• Keep small plates for serving food.
• Use skimmed milk as it is high in calcium and low in calories.
• Get up and walk around the office or your home for five minutes every hour.
  

Three Best Exercises For Fast Weight Loss

There are many ways to lose weight and just as many exercise to do so. Here are my top three favorite. Let me know what your favorites are, and please share. The more tips and tricks we all have, the better, more challenging, and more successful we will all be with our weight loss goals.

1. Interval running:
Running has the potential to burn more calories per amount of time worked than any other exercise there is. I don’t mean jogging, I mean sprint!. Interval running is just running with short breaks in between. For example: run for 30 seconds, then walk for 30 seconds then repeat. Do this for 20 minutes.

2. Rowing:
Rowing is a complete body workout and can be done outside on a lake, in the comfort of your own home, or at a gym. It burns a lot of calories and builds lean muscle.

3. Squat Presses:
This exercise is well known to trainers and athletes alike, but not to the mainstream. It is simply taking a dumbbell or a barbell, then doing a squat. As you come to the top of your squat, you press the dumbbells (or barbell) above your head and then bring it back down and repeat. This exercise works every large muscle in the body and if done with short rest periods can be a good cardio workout.

If you really want to kick it up a notch, do a circuit of 2 or all three. Run\walk for 5 minutes then do some Squat Presses. Do it for 30 minutes, 3 times a week, and watch the pounds and inches melt away. Weight loss is not a secret. You just need to eat right, get a little exercise, and stick with it.

Green Workout Tips

Here are some ways to be green while working out and keeping fit. Please add your own ideas to the list so we can all share.

• Skip the gym and head outdoors for a walk, run, bike ride, or other outdoor activity. Instead of increasing your energy consumption by using exercise machines at home or at the gym you could increase your body’s energy by re-discovering nature and fresh air.
• Use energy to create energy through your exercise equipment at home. A lot of families are looking for ways to cut back on bills and energy consumption. Consider building or buying a bicycle generator and generate electricity for your home while exercising. Detailed plans for bike generators can be found here: http://www.buzzle.com/articles/bike-generator-generate-electricity-while-you-exercise.html
• Use exercise as your mode of transportation by biking, walking, or rollerblading to work and other places. It’ll save you fuel and help you build and maintain a healthy body as well as lower stress.
• If you do head to the gym be sure to bring your own towel and cut down on the amount of laundry the gym has to do.
• Forget about bottled water and sports drinks for your workout and invest in a re-usable stainless steel drink container. Stainless steel is a better option than plastic bottles because you reduce your risk of ingesting dissolved plastic and harmful chemicals and your drink will taste better and stay cooler for longer.
• Car pool to the gym with a few workout buddies and you’ll be saving fuel and adding incentive. People are more likely to stick to an exercise schedule if they have friends to encourage them and go through it with them.
• Ditch the cleaning lady, the landscaper and snow removal. Everyday household tasks, and maintenance, add up to a lot of physical activity that you’re paying someone else to do for you instead of reaping the rewards yourself. Even something as small as vacuuming can add up to a significant amount of physical activity if you do it a few times a week instead of hiring someone to do it for you.