5 Quick Weight Loss Strategies for Busy People

Want to lose weight fast, but don’t have the free time to spend hours at the gym or in the kitchen preparing healthy “weight loss” meals? Don’t worry. Busy people can lose weight too…and they can lose weight just as fast as everyone else.

Use the proven tips below to increase your efficiency and lose more weight in less time. They can help you boost your metabolism, burn more fat, and build a sexier body fast…

1. Plan every day.

Take a few minutes each night to plan your next day. Get some kind of daily schedule and use it regularly. Plan your workouts and, if possible, your meals. This will help you make the most of the limited amount of free time you have each week.

2. Take snacks everywhere.

Keeping plenty of healthy snacks on hand at all times is one of the “secrets” to quick, easy, and healthy weight loss. It also allows you to get those quality calories that you need to consume every 2-3 hours (to fight hunger, boost metabolism, etc.) without worrying about having to cook/prepare food all the time.

Healthy “weight loss” snacks are high in protein and low in starchy carbohydrates. Good examples are: nuts, seeds, low-fat cheeses, jerky, fresh fruit, raw vegetables, protein bars, and meal replacement shakes.

3. Do “big” exercises at the gym.

When it comes to working out, you can save yourself a lot of time and get great fat-burning and muscle-building results by focusing on “big” exercises. In general, these are multi-joint “compound” movements that involve more than one muscle group. Some examples are push-ups, pull-ups, squats, lunges, bench presses, rows, and burpees.

Forget single-joint “shaping” or “isolation” exercises (for example, one-arm dumbbell curls). Don’t waste time using machines either, as these often make the exercise too easy (and therefore less effective) by “balancing” the weight for you. Focus on proven fat-blasting, muscle-toning moves like the ones mentioned above, and you’ll get better results in less time!

4. Do full-body circuit training style workouts.

Performing full-body workouts in a circuit training style will allow you to get more for your money (exercise-wise) and be in and out of the gym in 40 minutes or less. Each exercise circuit should combine strength-training movements (eg, 10 push-ups, 20 bodyweight squats, and 30 sit-ups) with short bursts of cardiovascular exercise (eg, 1 minute of jumping rope). Do not rest more than 1 or 2 minutes between circuits.

This type of exercise will have a huge “metabolic” effect on your body helping it burn more fat and produce powerful hormones that can keep your metabolism elevated for 24 hours or more.

5. Take the hard way.

Most people have plenty of opportunities to take “the hard way” throughout the course of the day and therefore get some extra exercise to burn calories. For example, you can start parking further away from buildings, so you’ll have to walk more. You can take the stairs instead of the elevator. Use a tote basket at the grocery store instead of a shopping cart.

These things seem small, but they can add up quickly over the course of a week and help you burn fat and get fitter faster.

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