Weight loss: How to lose weight without exercising
Weight loss: How to lose weight without exercising
Losing weight can be a huge challenge both physically and mentally. From sticking to a strict calorie deficit diet routine, controlling cravings, drinking the right amount of water, walking the sufficient number of steps to religiously working out every day, it takes a huge toll on you. However, it is almost faulty to believe that one cannot lose weight without working out. You might also curse yourself for not feeling those happy hormones doing their job whenever you work out, basically, it might seem like a chore to you. Fairly enough, losing weight is not really so much about working out as we are commonly taught that it is. Delve right into the following points to know what can actually very effectively replace your daily workout chore-readmore
Start cooking your own meals
You might think we suggested this to make you work out indirectly, but really no. Besides being easy on your wallet, cooking your own meal makes you in charge of what ingredients you choose to put in your food, decide the ideal quantity as well as make you savour each bite of your own hard work rather delicately and slowly. Eating food made at home, especially by yourself, is proven to promote eating less and becoming healthier.
Eat more mindfully and have your food slowly
Believe
it or not, eating speedily is associated with gaining calories as much
as eating junk food is. So, go slow. Do not want to finish your food
like the hare finished the race. Eating slowly makes you feel full with a
comparatively less intake in terms of quantity and helps you gain
significantly a lower number of calories per bite consumed.
Surround yourself with healthy foods
Scientifically, you eat what you most frequently physically see around yourself. If it’s out of your reach, it is most definitely out of your stomach, hence make sure you pack away all the unhealthy oily, packed food and replace it with as many healthy (read: fresh and unpacked) snacks as you can.
Take less stress, soak that Vitamin D and hydrate more
Losing weight is directly linked with the amount of stress that goes up in your brain. Lack of sleep and extensive stress can create a severe hormonal imbalance, which hinders your weight loss process and makes you gain weight. Do not let your stress get the best of you, that is, do not make it make you lose sleep or go to your comfort food. Remember nothing great can be achieved from the comfort zone. Besides, whenever you feel like stress is catching up to you, make it a point to welcome it with a handsome amount of water or a simple sunbath. Water and Vitamin D are the key drivers of weight loss, they are your best friends per se. You will surely achieve all your weight targets with water, Vitamin D and calmness by your side.
readmoreControl your serial snacking habits
This is where it gets real. Go ahead, be truthful to yourself. Binging on snacks while surfing through your favourite OTT platforms or shopping sites sounds like one of your favourite past times? Well, it’s time for you to switch hobbies, or switch the snack you lay your hands on. Sensibly enough, any fruit, dry fruit, sprouts or low-calorie snacks like puffed rice, fox nuts and popcorn (without the gallop of butter) make a really good and tasty replacement.