Six easy steps to weight loss

Cut out on junk food if you wish to trim your belly.

When it comes to losing weight, all the advice and tips from friends, newspaper and magazines sound very simple: take in fewer calories and burn out more calories. However, these weight loss plans have more probability of back-firing than doing you any good.

Here are a few simple and quick methods, which if you follow suitably, can really change your perspective on weight loss.

1. Eat to reduce: Don’t starve yourself to get that size zero, instead indulge in fat releasing foods such as honey, eggs, dark chocolate, shrimp, part-skim ricotta cheese and many more.

2. Prefer water over soda or other drinks: At breakfast, go ahead and drink any juice of your preference but throughout the rest of the day, focus on water instead of juice or soda.

3. Break up your meals: A study conducted in South Africa back in 1999 revealed that when men ate parts of their morning meal at intervals over five hours, they consumed almost 30 percent fewer calories at lunch than when they ate a single breakfast.

4. Walking is the best medicine: Make it a habit to walk for 45 minutes every day, including your lazy Sunday. The reason for 45 minutes and not your typical 30 minutes is because while 30 minutes of daily walking is enough to prevent weight gain, exercise beyond 30 minutes results in weight and fat loss.

5. Brown is best: It has been discovered quite some time ago that brown coloured foods such as brown bread and brown rice is less likely to make you overweight compared to consuming the white counterparts.

6) Avoid eating out: When your mother calls you home for lunch or dinner, it is best you listen to her as you are likely to eat more high-fat, high-calorie foods when you eat out than when you eat at home.