How to Lose Weight without Exercise or Dieting

You do not have to suffer from hunger and malnutrition to lose weight. Learn how to make wise food choices not only to lose weight but also to improve your health. You do not have to suffer muscle and joint damage after strenuous exercise to be able to lose weight. Learn how everyday physical activity can help you burn those excess calories you have to burn to lose weight.

One of the most common New Year’s resolutions people make is to lose weight or achieve good health. Weight loss and health are some of the most popular topics addressed in magazines and websites. As a population, we’re obsessed with improving our appearance and increasing our health. As long as weight loss is approached in a manner respectful of good health, there’s nothing wrong with going for your weight loss goals.

Make Healthy Food Choices

Your body yearns for fresh, healthy food and loves a variety of items to satisfy all of its cravings. Give it what it wants with fresh vegetables, fruits, nuts and dairy items. By feeding your body foods high in nutrients and filling your body with satisfying but healthy items, you’ll gravitate toward weight loss and help your body achieve optimum health. Of course, this is easier said than done, so try eliminating just one unhealthy food item a week. For example, one week, try to eliminate soda from your diet. This may be challenging at first but if you keep it up, by the end of the month, you will likely not crave those sugary sodas anymore.

Be Active

If you’re not accustomed to integrating fitness into your life, start off with an attainable goal. Make a resolution to only take stairs and avoid elevators. Make a resolution to walk to the market or the gym instead of driving. Park as far away as you can in parking lots to sneak in a few minutes of walking every day.

Once you get used to the additional physical activity, add more. Wake up 30 minutes earlier than you normally do and take a walk around your neighborhood. You’ll love the energizing effect this will have on your day—no more groggy mornings! If you have a soft spot for your daily latte at your local coffee house, earn it by walking there.

By giving yourself a payoff for your added activity—the walk to the coffee house is the work, the coffee is the payoff—you’re more likely to keep it up and more likely to trick yourself into working for other treats as well.

Know Your Body

One of the biggest problems most people have is knowing how to recognize the signals their bodies send—hungry, full, satisfied. We don’t take the time to recognize the signals and often don't realize we’re full until we’re overfilled. By eating this way, we’re always overeating. If this continues, not only will you likely never achieve weight loss, you’ll likely end up overweight or yo-yoing up and down on the scales. This constant push and pull will only leave your feeling frustrated and defeated.

Instead, learn to eat slowly. Re-teach yourself to savor each bite and chew slowly. Give your body time to register that you’re eating a meal and learn to acknowledge when you’re satisfied and no longer hungry. We all know that the temptation is great when the food is good—really good—to just eat it all up and worry about feeling stuffed later. Instead, learn to accept that you should stop when you’re full, then save the rest for later.

By following your body’s cues for weight loss, health and nutrition, you’ll find yourself slowly but surely reaching your goals for a healthy life full of energy and vibrancy.

About the author: Diane Johnson primarily writes about online classes. She enjoys traveling, reading, and sports.

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