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What naturally helps you lose a few pounds?
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Last reviewed: 08.07.2025

If you want to lose weight, you will have to accept one thing: you do not need a diet, but a completely new way of life. A healthy way of life. No diet for several days will be able to make you truly slim. You can lose, suffering in cruel restrictions, a few kilograms, which will certainly return even more than it was, as soon as you return to your taste preferences.
Remember that each fold of fat on your body was formed not in a week or a month, but several months, or even years. Therefore, in order for it to disappear, you need the same amount of time, no less, as well as hard work on yourself. The work consists of one thing - to spend more calories than you consume.
And even if at first you reduce the total number of calories by only 300, in a month, if you stick to the chosen volume very strictly, you will feel that you have lost 3 to 5 kg, without suffering and painful prohibitions.
Although, let's be honest, there will certainly be some restrictions in gastronomic preferences. But they relate to the "cap obvious": smoked, fast food, fatty-fried, spicy, appetite-inducing, salt, simple carbohydrates in the form of sweets and flour products - sweet pastries, cakes, pastries. Of course, at least a minimal load from physical exercise should be - to help the metabolism.
Mayonnaise and ketchup should also be excluded, since they are full of starch, which should not be used in a healthy diet and when you are aiming to lose weight. When switching to a diet that will not be heavy for you and with which you will not gain unnecessary folds, it is important to adhere to the rule: choice, combination and regular moderation. That is, you should choose the best products for yourself - for example, if you are a "milk" person, your emphasis can be on fermented milk products, which are rich in proteins and you can choose the fat content. In addition, they are very satiating. If you are a meat eater, then your diet should be based on lean meat varieties: rabbit, poultry, lean pork and beef - meat can be either baked / stewed in its own juice or boiled. Vegetables are ideal for meat - in any form. For fast and proper cooking, use multicookers, steamers, pressure cookers from different brands (now huge) - these household helpers should replace your frying pans. In multicookers, you can cook without oil, fish and meat turn out juicy and tender.
In short, to adjust your weight - adjust what you eat. Eat fractionally, in the morning you can actively eat complex carbohydrates - a full breakfast of porridge, you can eat sweet fruits, low-fat yogurt. But if you are used to having an even more substantial breakfast - there are almost no restrictions for breakfast: the main thing is not fatty, not sweet, not smoked. For lunch, eat vegetable soups, stewed meat with salads. But for dinner, eat either something protein or fiber - vegetables. Gradually, the body will get used to new habits - you will see the result, you will be happy that you have now become slimmer. The main thing is to be patient and methodically follow your new eating style: fat deposits will melt.