Do you hate diets?

What else can you do? Well there are several things that you can do to help speed weight loss without falling for the diet traps that trip so many of us up. You can schedule meals so that you are eating at the right time, you can incorporate water in the correct way and you can eat the right foods.

The first thing you should do is schedule five small meals per day this will trick your body into speeding up your metabolism. When you are constantly sending food into your stomach every few hours your body will stop trying to store the calories as fat and will burn the fuel you are sending instead. By scheduling small meals you are actually shrinking your stomach and your appetite and you will be less likely to gorge on food causing your body to try and store the excess energy supply.

The second thing you should do is incorporate water into your diet but in the right way. It is fine to substitute a glass of water for a sugary soda or high calorie drink but there are better and more effective ways to use water to your advantage. Eat foods that incorporate water which in turn increases the volume of the food without increasing the calories. The higher volume of these foods will provide greater oral stimulation and will help speed up your metabolism. The most important part of incorporating water into your food is that when water is bound to food it slows the absorption rate in your stomach and creates a feeling of being fuller longer. Some good examples of foods that incorporate water are soups and stews or brown rice and most whole wheat pastas. By adding water you increase the volume of these foods without increasing the calories.

Finally to answer the questions "Do you hate diets?" and "What else can you do?" there is one more trick that we all know but rarely follow. Pay attention to what you are eating. It sounds silly but if you really spent just a few minutes reading the labels in the supermarket before buying certain items or brands of items you could save yourself from ingesting hundreds of additional calories that you don't need. By simply trimming 100 calories per day from your diet you would save 36,500 calories in a year. That is enough calories to keep a grown man going for two whole weeks! Be realistic and don't starve yourself but at the same time be sensible and don't over eat to the point of gluttony and you will be much happier in the end.