Home Remedies for Weight Loss

There are a number of things you can do to lose weight that will lower your weight without lowering your bank balance or compromising your health.

For any of us who need to lose weight, we know we didn't gain the weight overnight and we won't lose it overnight either. It will take time. And we can't keep eating the same things we've been eating or we'll keep weighing what we weigh. Right?

So here are a few weight loss home remedies:

1. Drink a cup of Warm water and juice from one half lemon every morning as soon as you get up. Not only will this help curb your appetite, is will help reduce allergies, and will improve digestion.
2. Reduce your carbohydrate intake. I call it the no white diet. Avoid anything that is white, ie. Rice, potatoes, flour, sugar and milk and dairy products. By simply avoiding things that are white you are able to reduce your carbohydrate intake and lose weight.
3. Fill your diet with negative calorie foods. A negative calorie food is any food you eat that burns more calories to digest than you take in when you eat them. An example would be broccoli, which contains fewer calories than your body burns as it digests it. And while technically there are no negative calorie foods, you would be hard pressed to not lose weight eating these foods exclusively. Click the link for a list of negative calorie foods.
4. Do not eat any food after 7PM. Your body needs approximately 12 hours to complete a full digestive cycle. If you don't allow your body this time to digest you will develop acid reflux, a potentially serious condition as well as annoying, and will pack on the pounds. As you age, your body completes this cycle more slowly. So the older you are the more necessary completing this cycle becomes.
5. Jump start your diet with a reduced carbohydrate and reduced fat diet. One of my favorite diet 'beginnings' is The 3 Day Diet. This diet must be followed very carefully and is rather strict, but is easy and doesn't require any sort of special equipment or difficult calculating. (In other words, the diet plan is free
6. Eat a diet of at least 35 grams of fiber every day. The idea behind this diet is that if you fill up on fiber, you won't feel hungry (and so wont fill up on empty calories) and because fibrous foods expand once eaten because the fiber absorbs liquid, you will feel fuller than you would if you had just eaten the same amount of food or calories but without the fiber. (Having a chart of both high fiber foods and a food fiber and calorie chart will be helpful on this diet.)
7. And last but not least, drink 10 8oz glasses of water each day. If drinking 10 glasses of water seems a daunting task, you can always drink 8 10oz glasses of water

Any one of the above seven remedies will help you shed those excess pounds. However for an unstoppable plan of attack, as much as you are able, combine all seven of these ideas. And for more quick and easy ideas to help you drop the weight, sign up for the 'Top 10 Diet Guide' and receive '33 Simple Things You Can Do To Lose Weight!' in the upper right hand corner of this page.