Weekend Update - A few tips

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I haven't update my block in a few days now since I've been really busy with work and my personal life. I can assure you things are going great, and I'm keeping the pounds off - even to this day.

I'd like to take a few minutes to write to you some weight loss tips that I picked up while trying to lose some weight. Some I heard worked for other people, but didn't work for me, and other tips I tried didn't really work well for many other people, but they worked really well for me.

1.                    Drink plenty of water
When you drink lots of water, you help to speed up your body's natural metabolism, as well as keep your stomach some-what full with something healthy, rather than with something bad for you. The typical human should drink around 64 fluid ounces per day. Athletes should drink upwards of a gallon a day to stay properly hydrated!

2.                    Eat three meals a day, with healthy snacks in between
When you teach your body that food will always be coming to feed it, it will no longer have a tendency to keep any as fat since it knows that more is coming shortly. Also, eating three meals a day will help to minimize the amount of food that you will eat at night. Say for instance you don't eat at work and when you go home you want to "pig out" and then go to bed an hour or so later. That food will be stored as fat since you're going to sleep with it still in your stomach, undigested.

3.                    Watch out for soda and soft drinks
Soda and other such beverages are loaded with carbs and sugar. They don't do anything for you. They may taste good, but in the end they will do nothing but make you gain weight and rot your teeth.

4.                    Keep an eye out for food high in sodium
Watch the amount of sodium that you take in on a daily basis. Sodium can be hidden in many foods, even those that you think are healthy. Take for instance the Smart Ones microwavable platters - those are loaded with sodium since it's a natural preservative. Sodium also makes your body retain more water, thus making you heavier and more bloated-looking.

5.                    Use common sense
One of the most effective things I did when I lost weight was when I used my common sense. I did my research; I kept track of what I was eating at what time, and how much I was losing on a daily basis - not just once a week or once a month. Keeping an accurate and honest diary / blog is a good idea since it is likely to motivate you into losing weight. When I look back at some of my journal entries (I have a Microsoft Word document that contains all of my journal entries) I can't believe how stupid I used to be when it came to my own health. Common sense should have told me, "Hey, this isn't healthy for you" had I been listening.

Those are just a few tips to help you lose weight. They might now all work for you, but if you take them and tweak them, they may just come in handy.

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Just out of curiosity, which tips worked for you and which did not?

My biggest problem was that I was drinking more than 2 liters of soda a day. Looking back at things now, that's probably how it all started.

Soda is nothing but empty calories - you get nothing out of it other than the good (at least to me) taste that it has. Instead of drinking a lot of soda, I switched to water, and now and then I'd mix Crystal Light in with water for some flavor.

Second, I used to eat right before going to sleep. That was a dumb mistake. Try to not eat anything in the three hours before you go to bed. This helps to lessen the amount of fat your body will be sleeping with... Unless of course you have a fat partner.

Just keep a detailed log of what you do, and look for things that seem to work for you. It's all about trial and error, really.

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