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11 Proven Ways to Lose Weight Without Diet or Exercise

Sticking to a conventional diet and exercise plan can be difficult.
However, there are several proven tips that can help you eat fewer calories with ease.
These are effective ways to reduce your weight, as well as to prevent weight gain in the future.

Here are 11 ways to lose weight without diet or exercise. All of them are based on science.






1.Chew Thoroughly and Slow Down:
Eating your food slowly can help you feel more full with fewer calories. It is an easy way to lose weight and prevent weight gain.





2.Use Smaller Plates for Unhealthy Foods:
Smaller plates can trick your brain into thinking you're eating more than you actually are. Therefore, it's smart to consume unhealthy foods from smaller plates, causing you to eat less.





3. Eat Plenty of Protein:
Adding protein to your diet has been linked to weight loss, even without exercise or conscious calorie restriction.





4. Store Unhealthy Foods out of Sight:
If you keep unhealthy foods on your counter, you are more likely to have an unplanned snack. This is linked to increased weight and obesity. It’s better to keep healthy foods — like fruits and vegetables — in plain sight.





5. Eat Fiber-Rich Foods:
Viscous fiber is particularly helpful in reducing appetite and food intake. This fiber forms gel that slows down digestion.




6. Drink Water Regularly:
Drinking water before meals may help you eat fewer calories. Replacing a sugary drink with water is particularly beneficial.





7. Serve Yourself Smaller Portions:
Larger portion sizes have been linked to obesity and may encourage both children and adults to eat more food.





8. Eat Without Electronic Distractions:
People who eat while distracted are more likely to overeat. Paying attention to your meals may help you eat less and lose weight.





9. Sleep Well and Avoid Stress:
Poor sleep and excess stress may imbalance several important appetite-regulating hormones, causing you to eat more.





10. Eliminate Sugary Drinks:
Sugary drinks have been linked to an increased risk of weight gain and many diseases. Your brain doesn't register liquid calories as it does solid foods, making you eat more.





11. Serve Unhealthy Food on Red Plates:
Red plates may help you eat fewer unhealthy snack foods. This may be because the color red triggers a stop reaction.


The Bottom Line:
Many simple lifestyle habits can help you lose weight. Some have nothing to do with conventional diet or exercise plans.
You can use smaller plates, eat more slowly, drink water and avoid eating in front of the TV or computer. Prioritizing foods rich in protein and viscous fiber may also help.
However, it’s probably best not to try all these things at once. Experiment with one technique for a while, and if that works well for you then try another one.
A few simple changes can have a massive impact on your weight over the long term.
First of all, check with your doctor (blood tests) that everything is fine.

4 Proven Ways to Build Muscle

Just so you know I am not a dinggleberry blowing smoke up your bunghole via the internet, here is my own transformation (no this photo is not photoshopped and no I’ve never used any illegal substances)…


My Internal Shift:
  1. Define Your “Why”
Here is the kicker though, in order for your “why” to power your vehicle it must have enough horsepower.
For example, 4 a cylinder 100 horsepower “Why” = “I want to get in shape to look sexy”
Pretty generic why….
Our job is to take another step further and unearth your deepest desire and motivation for wanting to get fit.
On the flipside a supercharged V12 “Why” = “I want to get in shape so I can show up in my life authentically. I want to build a body which awakens my inner confidence and allows my greatness to shine through to the world. I am tired of hiding and feel uncomfortable in my body, I am ready to level up and become the best me”
See the difference?
Here is the deal, even with a successful training/nutrition plan and a clearly defined “why”
Sh*t is still going to be hard along your path.
You’ll have ups.
And you’ll most definitely have downs.
The key is to have a “why” so powerful and inspiring that it will propel you through the natural undulations.
2. Have a plan
Cliche I know, but this is ground zero along your fitness journey.
After coaching over 112 clients in the last 12 months, I have learned that nearly every single one of my clients struggled immensely before joining Thrive Coaching for one reason...
They were lost in the gym.
They felt as though their workouts weren’t bringing them closer to their goals.
And on top of all that, they felt blindfolded in the kitchen.
In the majority of cases, they knew exactly the results they desired for themselves
but they simply didn’t know how to obtain them.
They would dabble with some random workout they found from scrolling through instagram...only to leave the gym feeling hopeless and confused.
Feeling as though their efforts did little to bring them closer to their dream body.
Same was true in the kitchen.
The all to common pattern was to jump from one fad diet to the next, in hopes that one of these silver bullet diets would give them the results they were looking for.
Keto one week followed by Whole30 a month later.
They were on the figurative fitness hamster wheel.
Trying hard, but getting nowhere.
Sound familiar to you?
The central issue here is that their efforts were hodge podged and lacked any clear direction.
Pretty difficult to have consistency and motivation when you don’t have a clear plan of attack, huh?
3) Honest Assessment
Once you have clarified your “why” and have a plan which will drive you towards your vision, you need to take an honest inventory of yourself and your efforts.
Are you training with proper form/executing your exercises conciously or letting your ego get in the way?
Good form and execution is grossly underrated IMO.
Are you listening to your body or aggressively training through injuries?
Nothing will put the brakes on your progress faster than a long term neglected injury.
Are you truly bringing your A game to your workouts or half heartedly putting in effort?
Effort…most don’t go it. Do you?
Are you stay consistent and trusting the process or constantly getting sucked into new fads and trends like an caffeine infused ADD chimpanzee?
In an age of social media influencers spreading information which is equivalent to a steaming pilling of horse dung, you must be careful who you listen to and how often you change things up.
Side note: most times, changing things simply for the sake of “changing things” is a horrible idea. Please avoid this rookie mistake of program hopping frequently.
My Practical Shifts:
  1. Train Progressively
Without a shadow of doubt, mechanical tension based training should occupy 40–60% of your time in the gym.
The reality is, your body wants to stay in homeostasis.

It does not want to change.
For a natural lifter, simply getting a “sick pump” in the gym with your bros is not enough to kick your body out of this state of wanting to be unchanged.
You must apply a stimulus which is truly challenging.
There are many ways to implement progressive overload, but far and away the most “scalable” long gains producing strategy is to consistently get stronger on your compound lifts overtime.
Our bodies have mechanosensors which sensitive to the magnitude and temporal aspect of load (weight on the bar).
These magical internal little gains producing gremlins spark anabolic and anti-catabolic signaling pathways through mechanotransduction.
In layman terms….
Lift heavy things.
Eventually lift heavier things.
Do this with enough volume, and you will get bigger.
2. Periodize your training
Your training program should not be binary.
It must be dynamic.
It must account for changes in volume, intensity, and rest overtime.
Training is stressful…like really stressful.
In order for your body to adapt your must periodize your training.
This can be done via deloading, or simply having periods of high volume training followed by lower volume training.
3. Focus on your shadow
Let’s be honest….

Most peoples only metric for success in the gym is simply how “good” you look.
If you fall into this category (myself included at times), you want to maximize your shadow.
What the heck do I mean by this?
This means prioritizing development in the illusory muscle groups.
This includes your: deltoids, lats, calves, and the like.
These are the muscles which when trained properly can give you the illusion of having a supernatural physique.
4. Protein is actually important
This is perhaps the only point which the “bro scientists” have gotten right.
No, you do not need to be slamming protein shakes immediately post workout or eating 300g of it daily…
but you must be conscious of your macronutrient balance (carbs, fats, and protein).
For my first two years of training, my post workout meal was peanut butter and a bowl of cereal.
Yikes…
(FYI In a perfect world this post workout meal would have been 20–40g of easily absorbed protein , 40g o f starchy carbs, and little fat. )
As a blanket statement, I recommend .6–1g of protein per pound of bodyweight daily.
While it is hard to quantify the exact benefits I saw after I began tracking my macros two years into my fitness journey, what I do is that my results began to skyrocket around the exact same time.
Food for thought (literally).
Hope that helped:)