The safest way to lose weight is gradually, with a combination of exercise, eating less and eating healthier. No fad diet is safe. About two pounds a week is considered the optimal level of weight loss.
Drink Water
Replace most of your daily beverages with water. Water has no calories or unhealthy additives and keeps your metabolism working.
Breakfast
Eat a healthy breakfast to get energy for the day and jump-start your metabolism, which slows overnight.
Snacks
Replace junk food with a handful of nuts, which have healthy unsaturated fat and have been shown to aid weight loss, or fruit, which is also healthy and nutritious.
Carbs
Skipping carbs is not a safe way to lose weight; get carbs from whole grain breads, cereals and pastas, brown rice and oats.
Weight Training
Resistance and weight training exercises are essential to safe weight loss. When losing weight, you lose muscle mass faster than fat if you don't exercise.
Aerobic Exercise
To lose weight, you must burn more calories than you consume and aerobic exercise, such as brisk walking or jogging, is the best way to burn calories.
