Stop Extreme Diet, Try These Safe Tips to Lose Weight

JAKARTA – Having excessive weight isn't good. In addition to annoy the appearance, having too fat body can also be risky for health. Well, for those of you who are overweight and want to lose weight you should avoid taking an extreme diet. There are three safe tips to lose your weight.

Reducing weight safely is certainly through a process that isn't short. The process of weight loss must also pay attention to its effects on health. Here's a safe way to lose weight you can try.

1. Reducing Sugar and Carbohydrates

The most important part of reducing weight is reducing the consumption of sugar and carbohydrates. When you do it, the level of hunger will go down and eventually you will eat fewer calories. Because the intake of sugar and carbohydrates is reduced, the body will begin to burn settled fat  in the body.

Another benefit of reducing carbohydrates is that it can reduce insulin levels. It makes the kidneys excrete the excessive sodium and water from the body. Then this will reduce unnecessary water from the body.

2. Consuming Protein, Fat, and Vegetables

All foods you consume must contain sources of protein, fat sources, and low-carbohydrate vegetables. In this way, your carbohydrate intake will automatically match the recommended range, which is 20-50 grams for a day.

Protein sources that you can eat including beef, chicken, lamb, salmon, shrimp and eggs. Eating lots of protein can increase your metabolism by up to 80-100 calories each day.

Eating protein can also reduce obsessive thoughts about food by 60 percent, reducing the desire of snacking at night, and it makes you feel full.

Low-carbohydrate vegetables that are good for you to eat include broccoli, cauliflower, spinach, tomatoes, cabbage, lettuce and cucumber. Don't be afraid to eat these low-carbohydrate vegetables. You can eat in large quantities without exceeding of 20-50 carbohydrates each day.

Even though you want to lose weight, you still need fat intake. Good sources of fat in this case are olive oil, coconut oil, avocado oil and butter. You can eat it 2-3 times a day.

3. Regular Sports

You don't need to do a variety of sports to lose weight. Enough to warm up and lift weights 3 times a week.

By lifting weights, you will burn lots of calories and prevent the metabolism from slowing down, which is a common side effect in losing weight.

If you don't like lifting weights exercises, doing some cardio exercises such as walking, jogging, running, cycling or swimming.

You can apply the above three safe tips to lose weight. Remember, avoid extreme diets that can endanger your body's health. (*)

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