3 Tips on How to Lose Weight Quickly and Naturally

If you’ve been struggling to lose weight for any time now, chances are the question will have crossed your mind as to whether it’s even possible to lose weight quickly and naturally?

Or is everything just hype and mumbo jumbo, designed to empty your wallet and leave you still glaring at the scales with your weight subbornly refusing to part company with you?

One of the biggest problems is that most weight loss plans are based on government recommendations. And, as with lots of things that are saddled with bureaucracy, they’re cumbersome and don’t work in practice.

Here are some tips that will help you to lose weight quickly, naturally and without the hunger pangs and cravings normally associated with weight loss plans.

Sounds unblievable? Read on!

1. Eat what your body is designed to eat

Despite the adverts, we’re not desiged to eat burgers and pizza and chips (crisps if you’re a Brit) and candy (sweets for us Brits).

And we’re not designed to wash all that food down with unlimited top ups of sugary soft drinks or even artificial “let’s pretend to taste sugary” drinks.

Historically, we’re omnivores.

We ate anything that moved or grew so long as it didn’t poison us.

And – since genetics take thousands of years to catch up with change – that’s still what our bodies expect.

Anything else: we’ll still eat it (we’re omnivores, remember) but our bodies may not know how to deal with the manufactured product we’re ingesting.

Take artificially sweetened drinks for example.

Artificial sweeteners haven’t been around long – you may even have been born before they were created – so our body does a “best guess” and reacts as though they’re sugar.

But it doesn’t get the sugar “hit”, just an artificial attempt at that.

It should react as though the drink has zero calories in it.

But – because it’s confused – it reacts as though it’s just taken a massive sugar hit and products insulin and other chemicals accordingly. They then buzz around looking bored. And, yes, I know that’s not the correct technical description but it’s as good as any.

That doesn’t just apply to brand new items.

Which explains all the wheat and dairy and other allergens that are so much a part of our everyday life.

Our bodies haven’t really adjusted to agriculture either – our ancestors didn’t have gigantic farms with crops that had been bred for maximum yield. Most of the time, the only plants they ate were the ones growing wild if they were in season and if other creatures hadn’t got to them first.

All the foods our ancestors grew up with are still available. We can buy them locally instead of going out and hunting or gathering them. And they’re probably not precisely the same as the ones we’re best adapted to eat but – short of going native with your food – they’re a good approximation.

So it’s a trade off but one that we all have to do.

Go more natural with your food, eat what you were designed to eat and you’re a automatically long way towards being healthier and losing weight in the process.

2. Check the ingredients list

The ingredients list has to list the vast majority of the ingredients in a product. There are a few exceptions but it’s workable enough.

There are two quick rules for an ingredients list:

• Short = good
• Weird or unpronounceable ingredients = bad

So go to your cupboard or your supermarket and read the ingredients list on – say – a tube of Pringles.

Then try to figure out why something that looks a lot like a potato chip has all those other ingredients.

Then vow to spend a bit of time studying ingredients lists before you buy what’s essentially Frankenstein food.

I’m not picking on Pringles specifically – this applies to a lot more products, including many that do a very good job of pretending to be natural on the front of the packet. Pictures of farmers, grassy fields, that kind of thing. Then when you read the ingredients list you find out that the manufacturer has lied to you. Legally of course – everything is within permitted guidelines – but at a minimum they’ve stretched the truth further than Pinocchio would ever have dared.

Another clue on ingredients lists is that the smaller the print or the lower the contrast, the higher the chance that the product isn’t very good for you.

Steering clear of as many unnatural ingredients as possible will put you on track for losing weight as your body will know when it’s full rather than relying on your judgement.

3. Fat in food is actually healthy and will help you lose weight

Years of indoctrination make this probably the most difficult thing to accept.

At first, you just don’t accept the idea.

Then you think “well, a lot of the food I used to like is high fat” and ask yourself whether there’s a glimmer in there somewhere.

Of course, it depends on what type of fat.

Recently created fats – vegetable oil for instance – aren’t high up on the list of good fats.

Fats that have been around since the year dot – animal fats – are fine.

Some other fats are OK as well – coconut fat for instance.

The reasons fat helps you lose weight are varied but the main ones are:

• Fat fills you up. Sure it has lots of calories but so does that chocolate cake. And whilst you could probably munch your way through a whole chocolate cake there’s a lot less chance you could do the same with a block of cheese. Modern foods are designed to get you coming back for more – that’s how the companies make their money.
• Fat doesn’t turn into fat in your body. That sounds wrong – surely fat turns straight into those unpleasant extra folds in your body? Without boring you with all the science, your intuition is wrong. Fat gets used first and doesn’t get stored – our bodies morph carbohydrates into fat a lot sooner and quicker. Which is why those sugar laden “low fat” products help you pile on the pounds.

Find out more here…

Eating naturally is definitely the way to go.

It’s a culture shock at first – not having a pile of fries or pasta or slices of bread or whatever takes some getting used to.

But it works.

Big time (excuse the pun!)

Our bodies react in the way that all those starvation diets promised but never delivered.

And the scales finally start trending in the right direction – downwards.

Chances are you’ll need a whole new wardrobe (I’ve dropped 4 jeans sizes since I started this and have another one or two to go) or maybe you’ll fit back into those clothes you never thought you’d wear again.

Your stats will improve – my blood pressure has dropped from the red zone to normal.

Your overall health will improve.

All of which makes saying no to the less healthy things easier over time.

You can check out this resource with recipes and meal plans designed by real people for real people like you.