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Gaining unwanted weight is a side effect of today’s sedentary lifestyle. There’s really no arguing that fact. Everyone differs, however, on how to shed the weight.

One of the main functions of the liver is to convert stored fat into energy. That is the reason it is so critical that your liver is always operating at its best. Assisting dehydrated kidneys with their performance is another job of the liver. Keep your liver concentrating on transforming energy from fat by drinking more water! To maintain a healthy body, water consumption is critical. Drink less dehydrating beverages because – bottom line – your body needs plenty of water.

Your body burns calories just to exist. No matter what we expend in a twenty-four hour day, we constantly require energy. That’s common knowledge. What is not as commonly known is that the amount of muscle on your body determines your resting metabolic rate. Increase your muscle mass – even minimally – and you will increase your resting metabolic rate, resulting in more burned calories every hour of the day.

To benefit from increasing your metabolism, you don’t need to lift weights two or three hours a day. My day doesn’t have that kind of extra time in it – yours probably doesn’t either.

Would you like to lose a few pounds? If you would also like to increase your amount of muscle, be sure to start slow with basic exercises like squats and push-ups. Five repetitions of each exercise are required every day. You can do them at home without spending a cent. Are you afraid you’ll have to buy weights if you want to do more than just squats and push-ups? It might sound silly but a pair of rocks can work as weights – even if they’re only three or four pounds apiece.

In order to gain the most amount of muscle as quickly as possible, you need to keep your entire body rebuilding and repairing muscle. Work everything: from back to chest and shoulders, the biceps and triceps and forearms, the quads and glutes, the calves and hamstrings, and the abdominals. To do all that, do you need to kill yourself at the gym every day? I don’t think so. Just remember, push-ups and squats. You will work every muscle in your body with just those two exercises (if time allows, you’ll have even better results if you can focus on individual muscles).

Your diet is the last important factor in determining weight loss or weight gain. Consume a double cheeseburger, large fries, and a regular sugar-laden soda three times a day, and it won’t be easy to lose weight despite how much you exercise.

While there is a vast array of opinions as to what diet works best (all fruit, pure meat, all carbs, low fat, etc.), the truth is different foods cause different reactions in different bodies. Basically, every body metabolizes food just a little bit differently than the next. A food that energizes one person may depress the next.

How do you figure out which diet your body will respond to the best? Begin by figuring out how many calories you consume each day. Make sure your calorie count is the proper amount for your current body weight. Record how you feel – both emotionally and physically – thirty minutes after you eat. Feel drained, like you just want to crash? Or have you instead found your energy redoubled? You’ve probably already deduced the answer because your body always tells you how it feels after you eat.

Light exercise, drinking plenty of water, and a rejuvenating diet is the healthiest way to lose weight. If all three of the above suggestions are integrated, your lifestyle will be healthier and you’ll lose weight without even trying!

Source: Exercise