Ultimately, losing weight comes down to one key practice: burn more calories than you consume. Lay the foundation for weight loss with these practices. If you change out all of your refined grain food white bread, food made with white flour with whole-grain food, oatmeal, whole-grain cereal, whole-grain pasta, brown rice and barley you won’t lose additional weight overall. This means if you eat more food than your body needs for daily activities and cell maintenance, you’ll gain weight. You already know that to lose weight, you need to burn more calories than you consume.

Weight loss can reflect a decreased food intake, decreased food absorption, increased metabolism, or a combination of the three. It’s a good ideal to follow the current food pyramid guide, you can reduce calories and with combined exercise. If you don’t have a list of your calorie intake you can eat foods and literally forget about them, but your body won’t be able to forget and it will hinder your ability to lose weight. Keep away from food sources that tempt you to lose weight. Are there really certain foods that can help you lose weight? Know the enemy!

If you have read the above you will see that it is not the food group, but the quality of the food in it that’s important for fast weight loss. At the end of the day you must balance the food and the quality you eat, which is reflected in your weight and overall health. Such a diet assumes that you are overweight because you are not eating the right combination of food. You’ve tried dieting, keeping a food diary, exercise programs, and perhaps even hypnosis. If it’s reasonable, eat food cold or room-temperature as opposed to warm, examples include eating cold soup, leaving those hard-boiled eggs you had yesterday for dinner cold, and eating ice cream instead of drinking sweet fruit juices. You should make a list of the food items that are your weaknesses which sometimes but not always unhealthy foods. Sometimes we fool ourselves into believing that as long as we avoid the bad things, we’re making progress. You probably don’t need to keep a food diary to know your enemies. Common culprits include soda, bread, alcohol, and fast food. Limit the amount of cash you have in your wallet, especially if you’re subject to spontaneous fast food indulgences.

Your family or roommates might complain about the absence of junk food, but you’ll be doing them a favor by stocking the kitchen with healthy stuff. Counting calories of course is easier once you are organized, and it doesn’t have to cost anything! In addition to helping you stick to a daily plan, you’ll probably find yourself surprised to see how many calories certain foods contain. Usually more than you’d expect!