According to last month’s poll, 60% of the lovely ladies reading this blog want to lose weight in 2010. Here are two good reasons to drop the fat:
- Males and females gain weight in the opposite areas. The more masculine fat you have, the harder it is to create a feminine shape.
- You want to look HOT, right? The closer you are to your ideal body weight, the better you’ll look as a woman.
Here are 3 tricks that helped me shed the fat I gained over Christmas (and afterwards, I want you to tell me YOUR best weight loss tips!):
1. Drink tea
Tea is an awesome ingredient for weight loss! Studies show that tea reduces your appetite and speeds up fat burning. Coffee, on the other hand, makes you fat. Coffee increases the stress hormone cortisol, which causes cravings and increases belly fat.
You have to drink black tea, green tea, or white tea to get the fat-burning effect. (Herbal teas won’t cut it.) The more tea the better, so drink at least 4 cups per day if you are trying to lose weight.
2. Cut the secret sugars
Sugar is one of the worst foods to eat if you want to lose weight. Sugar raises your blood sugar level, which increases insulin. Insulin promotes weight gain and fat storage, so it’s a short road to Fatsville from there.
Did you know that most of the sugar you eat does NOT come from candy bars and cookies? Processed foods are loaded with sugars that secretly make you fat! Here are some of the top sources of secret sugars:
- Ketchup
- Salad dressing
- Peanut butter
- Spaghetti sauce
- Hamburger and hot dog buns
- Microwave meals
- Fast food
Avoid fast food and check labels for secret sugar names like “high fructose corn syrup,” “corn sweetener,” “malt syrup,” “maltrose,” “fructose,” and “sucrose.” You can find healthy versions of ketchup, salad dressing, spaghetti sauce, etc. in health food stores.
3. Eat more greens
If you want to get rid of your belly blubber, you need to eat more vegetables – especially green vegetables like broccoli, spinach, and romaine lettuce. They are packed with vitamins and minerals. If your body is nutritionally deficient, it will constant crave food to try to get the nutrients it needs. Green veggies also contain fiber, which fills you up and reduces your appetite.
If you don’t like the taste of vegetables, try making a green smoothie! Just throw some spinach or lettuce into the blender when you are making a fruit smoothie. You’ll hardly taste the greens, but they’re in there helping you melt the fat away!
Ok, now it’s your turn!! Tell me …
- How is your New Year’s weight loss resolution going?
- What’s working for YOU? Share your best weight loss tips with me and the rest of the girls in the comments section below!
Love,
Lucille
Hi Lucille, a tip for what it’s worth on losing weight.
I am on my third month of spiro and due to see my endo next week, hopefully to start estrogen.
I am 65 and have always been around 12 stone, about 83 kilos. It always hung around my middle. I stopped eating bread and anything with wheat, use olive oil spread. My main meal in the evening is a salad with a tin of either tuna, salmon or sardines. I do like my salad dressings and have garlic aoli and salad cream. But I do have meat once a week as a treat.
Since starting this diet the beginning of December, I have lost almost 5 kilos. Weighed my self yesterday and I am 78 kilos.
soooo need to lose beer nelly and am hoping you can help me hun.
Is 65 and the years have not been good to my waist i would like to look like i did in my 30 s but have not had the will power to diet, but will start eating more of the things suggested here except for the tuna ( yuck). Also would love to get a waist cincher belt so i could hide some of this fat ha ha. will try to start eating much better foods from now on.
I have lost weigh with a tuna diet that works it’s a three day thing
I would like some more details of this tuna diet all the best bob
It took it sorry go by this I lost 9pound one week warm thoughts gail
Will motley me send it said be said that before I can mail it discreetly if you like did try gail
I try to send it but it said I’ve done said that will not let me send it I could mail it discreetly to you
Will not let me send it day one breakfast black tea or coffee sugar substltute or juice or a grapefruit one third or one toast and one half to one tbsp.low fat peanut butter now for lunch plain toast one half cup tuna water nothing in the tuna eat it out the can dinner 3oz meat lean 1cup carrots 1cupgreen beans 1medium Apple water nothing else day two breakfast 1egg hard boiled 1slice plain toast 1banana lunch1cuptuna or cottage cheese 5saltine crackers water dinner2 hot dogs 1cup cabbage one half cup carrots one half cup sugar free ice cream water day three breakfast 5salttine 1ozcheddar cheese 1apple day three lunch 1hard boiled egg plain toast water dinner 1cup tuna 1cup cauliflower 1cupcarrot 1apple one half augar fee ice cream water do this for three days do not change anything now the others days eat low fat foods you can eat one meal of fast food only one let me know if need help on this warm thoughts gail
day one breakfast black tea or coffee sugar substltute or juice or a grapefruit one third or one toast and one half to one tbsp.low fat peanut butter now for lunch plain toast one half cup tuna water nothing in the tuna eat it out the can dinner 3oz meat lean 1cup carrots 1cupgreen beans 1medium Apple water nothing else day two breakfast 1egg hard boiled 1slice plain toast 1banana lunch1cuptuna or cottage cheese 5saltine crackers water dinner2 hot dogs 1cup cabbage one half cup carrots one half cup sugar free ice cream water day three breakfast 5salttine 1ozcheddar cheese 1apple day three lunch 1hard boiled egg plain toast water dinner 1cup tuna 1cup cauliflower 1cupcarrot 1apple one half augar fee ice cream water do this for three days do not change anything now the others days eat low fat foods you can eat one meal of fast food only one let me know if need help on this warm thoughts gail
The three day diet be nice to mail it but will try to put it all in day one breakfast black tea or coffee sugar substltute or juice or a grapefruit one third or one toast and one half to one tbsp.low fat peanut butter now for lunch plain toast one half cup tuna water nothing in the tuna eat it out the can dinner 3oz meat lean 1cup carrots 1cupgreen beans 1medium Apple water nothing else day two breakfast 1egg hard boiled 1slice plain toast 1banana lunch1cuptuna or cottage cheese 5saltine crackers water dinner2 hot dogs 1cup cabbage one half cup carrots one half cup sugar free ice cream water day three breakfast 5salttine 1ozcheddar cheese 1apple day three lunch 1hard boiled egg plain toast water dinner 1cup tuna 1cup cauliflower 1cupcarrot 1apple one half augar fee ice cream water do this for three days do not change anything now the others days eat low fat foods you can eat one meal of fast food only one let me know if need help on this warm thoughts gail
H,i Maria Joline This is Petra You Look Very Pretty in That Outfit. I to Like to Wear Only Girly Clothes. I do go Out And Wear Some Item Under Male Clothes. My Biggest Problem is the Spare and Getting Rid of it. I am in my 50,s I Would Like to Look Like in my 40,s if You get my Drift With Love Petra.
Did you take fenugreek only for feminizing your waist, hips and butt?
Hi Putta69 well I only take fenugreek for my breasts I’m not sure if it’s helping my waist hips or butt though I hope so I guess my shape is a bit on the femme side I think my waist and butt is just years dressing and training with a belt I really don’t feel all that yummy yet I still get depressed at times waiting for my life to improve even slightly but I like what the fenugreek has done for me I can’t even afford it lately Love MJ