The BEST tip, and one that will save you potentially years of struggling with weight loss is to get your diet in order before your exercise program. In other words, you could workout like a fiend and never lose weight if your diet sucks, but if your diet is in order, you could never work out and still lose a lot of weight.
Get a new book called The TNT Diet. It's written by Men's Health and they actually move you through stages of diet and exercise depending on where your fat percentage is. The book also spells everything out so all you have to do is follow along. Finally, it's extremely simple, with no recipes to learn.
Top 10 tips, in no particular order:
1. Cut out all carbs. You'll lose a tremendous amount of weight quickly.
2. If you can't go carb free, lose soda and refined sugars and stick to whole grains.
3. If you can't go carb free, cut out carbs during dinner. Without explaining the science, your body will store most carbs you eat during dinner as fat while you sleep.
4. Remember this phrase in regards to portion control: Eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince and dinner like a pauper.
5. If you can't go carb free, eliminate any foods that contain high-fructose corn syrup in the first 4 ingredients. HFCS is corn sugar/syrup and many people attribute it as one of the major causes of the obesity epidemic (Google it).
6. Eat 5 small meals a day. This will keep our metabolism revved.
7. People that skip breakfast are fat. Don't skip breakfast.
8. Only lift weights with compound movements...movements that hit multiple muscles groups. Curls and crunches = bad. Deadlifts, squats, shoulder presses, bench presses = good.
9. Make your cardio High Intensity Interval Training (HIIT). It's a series of sprints followed by light jogging. Google HIIT for some specific routines.
10. Identify and address the emotional reasons for eating. Find healthier ways to address them.
Good luck.
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