HOW TO LOSE 10 POUNDS SMARTLY
(Men's Health) You probably don't need to lose any weight. But if summer's got you wanting to shed a few pounds, Chris Mohr, Ph.D. R.D. is here with the fastest, safest ways to do it:
Sweat it off
Emerging Research shows HIIT training short bursts of intense cardiovascular exercise, fuels weight loss not because of the calories you expend during exercise but because of the calories you continue to burn after exercise. "Interval training seems to change the metabolism and promotes many physiological changes that might favor long-term weight loss," says Paulo Gentil, Ph.D., C.S.C.S., an exercise-science professor at the Universidade Federal de Goias in Brazil. Translation: Interval training makes your body more efficient in burning fat by way of oxygen. But don't associate HIIT with "hard." "One or two days of high-intensity interval training weekly is enough and realistic when it's part of a long term plan," says Brett Klika, C.S.C.S., author of 7 Minutes to Fit. Don't go overboard. If you're new to working out, up the inclines, by a few notches for a minute two or three times during a 30-minute walk or jog. If you're more advanced, try adding hill sprints or jump rope to your usual workout. It's not hard. It's fun.
Fast it off
Window eating works. Obese people who followed a 16-hour fasting schedule lost weight without counting calories, found a 2018 study in Nutrition and Healthy Aging. I have a friend who raves about fasting for 16 hours and eating only during an eight-hour window. Because she's stopped eating after dinner, she doesn't snack or have a glass of wine late in the night. No breakfast means she's truly hungry at lunch, eats her fill, and is less likely to snack in the afternoon. It is simply harder for her to overeat throughout the day. I tell my clients that if you're good with rules, try setting some boundaries in terms of when you eat. But if the thought of such a highly structured life makes you want to dash out and eat a whole pizza, target "trouble times" during your day. If you tend to return to leftovers after leaving the dinner table, make the hour after dinner a no-calorie hour. If you find yourself mindlessly snacking at your desk come 4pm, see if you can abstain till dinner. Spot treating trouble times can offer the benefits of intermittent fasting without having you be a slave to the clock.
Sleep it off
One 2017 study published in the journal Sleep purposefully manipulated its subjects' rest to be 60 to 130 percent of their normal sleep totals. Modest sleep loss resulted in a significant increase in food intake, with a great number of calories coming from less healthy, calorically denser foods, often with lots of sleep-disrupting sugar. "Put simply, you're practically eating yourself awake," says W. Christopher Winter, M.D., a sleep-medicine doctor and author of The Sleep Solution. When you treat lost sleep as extra pounds, you can try and sleep it off. No matter how old you are, it's worth it to set a bedtime and wake-up time. That also means your devices the single greatest driver of poor sleep habits, Dr. Winter argues, should be put away. Then, after you've set this goal window, work backward or forward toward it in 15-minute increments every few days, he says. This way, you're not jarring your system or schedule.
Chow it off
Even though it's far less sexy than protein right now, fiber has the same power to satisfy. High-fiber foods take more time to digest, but they also tend to have a high water content like oranges, tomatoes, and grapefruits do and water helps to fill you up, eat less, and lose weight. Plus, they require chewing, which sounds silly, but consider how many spoons of peanut butter you can put away in the time it would take to eat an apple. The longer it takes you to eat something, the more time hunger hormones have to decline, and the less you feel like you have to eat to become full. New research shows that eating produce with other high-fiber foods, such as legumes and whole grains, may improve how your digestive system works, helping you maintain a healthy weight. "Healthy guts have a wide variety of bacterial species," says Julie Miller Jones, Ph.D., a fiber researcher at St. Catherine University. She says that he best way to feed and diversify those bacteria is to try to hit 38 grams of fiber a day by way of a broad range of fibrous foods.
Sweat it off
Emerging Research shows HIIT training short bursts of intense cardiovascular exercise, fuels weight loss not because of the calories you expend during exercise but because of the calories you continue to burn after exercise. "Interval training seems to change the metabolism and promotes many physiological changes that might favor long-term weight loss," says Paulo Gentil, Ph.D., C.S.C.S., an exercise-science professor at the Universidade Federal de Goias in Brazil. Translation: Interval training makes your body more efficient in burning fat by way of oxygen. But don't associate HIIT with "hard." "One or two days of high-intensity interval training weekly is enough and realistic when it's part of a long term plan," says Brett Klika, C.S.C.S., author of 7 Minutes to Fit. Don't go overboard. If you're new to working out, up the inclines, by a few notches for a minute two or three times during a 30-minute walk or jog. If you're more advanced, try adding hill sprints or jump rope to your usual workout. It's not hard. It's fun.
Fast it off
Window eating works. Obese people who followed a 16-hour fasting schedule lost weight without counting calories, found a 2018 study in Nutrition and Healthy Aging. I have a friend who raves about fasting for 16 hours and eating only during an eight-hour window. Because she's stopped eating after dinner, she doesn't snack or have a glass of wine late in the night. No breakfast means she's truly hungry at lunch, eats her fill, and is less likely to snack in the afternoon. It is simply harder for her to overeat throughout the day. I tell my clients that if you're good with rules, try setting some boundaries in terms of when you eat. But if the thought of such a highly structured life makes you want to dash out and eat a whole pizza, target "trouble times" during your day. If you tend to return to leftovers after leaving the dinner table, make the hour after dinner a no-calorie hour. If you find yourself mindlessly snacking at your desk come 4pm, see if you can abstain till dinner. Spot treating trouble times can offer the benefits of intermittent fasting without having you be a slave to the clock.
Sleep it off
One 2017 study published in the journal Sleep purposefully manipulated its subjects' rest to be 60 to 130 percent of their normal sleep totals. Modest sleep loss resulted in a significant increase in food intake, with a great number of calories coming from less healthy, calorically denser foods, often with lots of sleep-disrupting sugar. "Put simply, you're practically eating yourself awake," says W. Christopher Winter, M.D., a sleep-medicine doctor and author of The Sleep Solution. When you treat lost sleep as extra pounds, you can try and sleep it off. No matter how old you are, it's worth it to set a bedtime and wake-up time. That also means your devices the single greatest driver of poor sleep habits, Dr. Winter argues, should be put away. Then, after you've set this goal window, work backward or forward toward it in 15-minute increments every few days, he says. This way, you're not jarring your system or schedule.
Chow it off
Even though it's far less sexy than protein right now, fiber has the same power to satisfy. High-fiber foods take more time to digest, but they also tend to have a high water content like oranges, tomatoes, and grapefruits do and water helps to fill you up, eat less, and lose weight. Plus, they require chewing, which sounds silly, but consider how many spoons of peanut butter you can put away in the time it would take to eat an apple. The longer it takes you to eat something, the more time hunger hormones have to decline, and the less you feel like you have to eat to become full. New research shows that eating produce with other high-fiber foods, such as legumes and whole grains, may improve how your digestive system works, helping you maintain a healthy weight. "Healthy guts have a wide variety of bacterial species," says Julie Miller Jones, Ph.D., a fiber researcher at St. Catherine University. She says that he best way to feed and diversify those bacteria is to try to hit 38 grams of fiber a day by way of a broad range of fibrous foods.
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