7 Lifehacks to Lose Weight Easy and Enhance Your Health Everyday
Fast Until Lunch – Calorie Restriction
Research has shown that calorie restriction can increase the vital longevity of your life. But who wants to count calories all day?
The solution is to fast three days a week until lunch time.
Yes, you can have black coffee during these three-morning fasts. No, you may not have milk in your coffee or tea, nor drink juices or sodas. Does this sound painful? Are you worried you won’t be able to concentrate at work if you don’t eat breakfast? Perhaps you have the idea drilled into you that breakfast is a must have to function well. You’re right. And you’re wrong.
Children need to eat breakfast. Adults can skip food three mornings a week. You aren’t growing, are you?
You will be doing more than restricting your calorie intake by fasting until lunch three mornings a week. You will be giving your body a break from inflammation and digestion. Why is this important?
Our bodies are flooded with toxins from what we drink, the food we eat, the air we breathe, and the products we rub onto our bodies and hair. Fasting gives your body a break from digestion so it can turn its attention to flushing out toxins and to repairing the body down to even a cellular level.
The Raw Garlic & Lemon Detox
There is something you can do to aid your body in the hard work of detoxification on your three fasting mornings. Squeeze an entire lemon into a glass of water.
Researchers have discovered that Vitamin C can aid the body in detoxification of waste products and acts as an antioxidant. By drinking down your lemon juice, you will be injecting Vitamin C into your system to scoop up potential cancer-causing free radicals.
Vitamin C also stimulates your digestion system so you can flush out toxins faster.
Next, you press one raw garlic clove onto a spoon and swallow it down with a large glass of lemon water first thing in the morning. Yuck right?
You might cringe at the thought of consuming raw garlic first thing in the morning. You may be worried that you will smell of garlic all morning, or all day long.
You won’t smell it.
Your stomach will be empty first thing in the morning. You won’t be chewing on the glove, but swallowing down the pressed clove. The pressed garlic will flow rapidly out of your stomach and into your intestines. There will be no garlic hanging around in your mouth or stomach to cause bad breath.
Meanwhile, the power of garlic will supercharge your wellness. Garlic has been used medicinally all around the world for thousands of years.
Garlic can act as a powerful natural antibiotic and antioxidant. Garlic also thins the blood, which can prevent the buildup of plaque in your arteries and enable nutrients to move with greater ease.
Please note that you should consult your doctor before taking the three mornings a week garlic cleanse if you have blood-clotting problems or are taking any medications.
Eat Larger Lunches and Smaller Dinners
You are likely already eating more substantial lunches and smaller dinners if you are European. But if you aren’t eating more substantial lunches and smaller dinners, start now to supercharge your sense of well-being.
Eating your most substantial meal in the middle of the day gives your body the energy it needs to power through the afternoon and evening.
Eating your largest meal in the middle of the day also lends your body time to digest properly. For best results, go for at least a five-minute stroll after lunch to stimulate your digestion and wake you up. The walk will wake you up out of the typical post-meal sleepiness.
Eating a small meal in the evening means your body will not be engaged in digesting your most substantial meal as you relax and sleep. Your body can turn its energy and water toward care and repair of its systems and extremities, such as your skin.
Don’t be surprised if you experience healthier, more radiant skin if you switch to eating your main meal at lunch.
Start every lunch with a plate of raw vegetables
Few people consume enough fiber or vegetables in their diet. One simple change to your daily routine that could have vault your body into wellness is eating a large plate of at least three different raw vegetables every day before your main entrée.
Notice that I did not write SALAD. I wrote RAW VEGETABLES. From red peppers to cucumbers, beets to carrots, peapods to zucchini, tomatoes to cabbage. Change up your plate based on the season and what is available at your local market.
By consuming a plate of raw veggies every day before your main entrée, you will be consuming a plate of food rich in nutrients and low in calories.
The high fiber of the raw vegetables will fill you up, causing you to need to eat less of the main entre and to stay feeling full long into the afternoon. You won’t be reaching for a snack two hours later.
The optimum would be to buy your veggies from local farmers. Is this too pricey, or impossible for you? No problem. You can buy big bags of vegetables at Costco or Sam’s club and cut them up the night before for the next day’s lunch.
The fresher the veggies and the fewer chemicals on your produce, the more nutrients and less toxins you’ll consume. But the critical element is eating the raw vegetables every day.
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