What’s Your Best Fat Loss Tip? Tuesday’s Tips 01062009

Hello! Each Tuesday in 2009, I will be publishing a collection of tips to either burn fat or build muscle. If you have tips, please leave them in the comments section, and you may see them in a future edition of Tuesday’s Tips!

I thought I would get the tips off to a fun start, so here we go…

Tip: Wear Sunscreen

There is actually a ton really good advice in that video, and is one of my favorites.

Now, on to the more serious stuff…

Shop the Perimeter

When you take your weekly trip to go grocery shopping, where do you spend most of your shopping time? My guess, if you were anything like me, is going up and down the isles. Next time you go into the supermarket, take a moment to make an observation…

Where is all the healthy food?

It is on the perimeter of the store. Whole grain breads, fresh fruits and vegetables, lean meats, milk, eggs, dairy. Most of the time, these items are on the perimeter of the store, and this is intentionally so. It is designed that way to get you into the center section of the store.

What’s in the center section? Cookies, chips, ice cream and soda.

It often seems like to me that the grocery stores are conspiring to make be overeat. So I chose to fight back. I spend over 80% of my shopping time on the outside isles of the store. And my waistline has thanked me for it.

Have a Drink…Of Water!

Drinking water is one of the simplest ways to cut calories from your diet.

Not only does the water replace the empty calories you are drinking in from your soft drink, if you drink approximately 8 to 10 ounces before a meal, you will eat less during that meal.

The reason is that the water takes up space in your stomach that would normally be taken up by food. You will feel fuller faster, and eat less.

To Lose a Lot ( and Keep it Off ), Change a Little

One of the biggest mistakes I made when I started losing weight a few years back was jumping all over the crash diet bandwagon. And you know what happened? That bandwagon did exactly that – crashed – each and every time.

I finally had success when I started to make small sustainable changes like the two listed above. Those are easy changes that I can repeat day after day, week after week, month after month, and year after year.

It can be something as easy as saying “no” next time someone asks you, “Would you like to supersize that?”

Start small and build from there…

Are You Using This Tip?

I call this the "Blogger's Diet."

This great cartoon came from the great folks over at Funny and Jokes.

Well, that wraps up this Tuesday’s Tips.

What is you best fat loss tip? Please leave it in the comments below.