subject: Weight Loss Tips from Around the World (pt 2 of 2) – Weight Loss Strategies from the Mediterranean [print this page] There is an abundance of weight loss tips from around the world. The Mediterranean, especially, offers a lot of weight loss strategies.
Strategy 1: Go for healthy fats
Inarguably, olive oil is the heart of the Mediterranean cooking. The essential fatty acids such as omega 3 in olive oil raise your body's metabolism, which is the rate at which your body burns fat, and help you lose weight.
Strategy 2: Drink a glass of wine daily
You almost never have a meal without wine be it in France, Italy, Spain, or Portugal. There is evidence that moderate wine drinkers have slimmer waists and less abdominal fat.)
Strategy 3: Go for whole foods
You will see that most people in Europe, but especially in the Mediterranean condemn processed foods. They eat a lot of whole foods.
Strategy 4: Socialize during meal time
People there have delightful meals with their family and friends all the time. Eating alone is almost a taboo. As meal times are longer when you use them as social times with others, you will tend to eat less and in smaller portions as well as have more time to feel full and avoid overeating.
Strategy 5: Think always of quality instead of quantity
Think of French and Italian cuisines. They always come in small quantities but the freshness and richness of flavor that comes with the food would satiate you so much that you do not need to eat more. They also contain a lot of fresh herbs and spices that provide more flavor than fat.
Strategy 6: Make lunch your main meal
Lunch can take up to two to three hours long at times in the Mediterranean region. According to the teaching of India's Ayurveda, their traditional medicine system, our bodies digest most efficiently between ten in the morning and two in the afternoon. Therefore, having lunch instead of dinner will guarantee more caloric burn.
Strategy 7: Eat in smaller portions more frequently
Take Spain for example, they have five meals a day breakfast, second breakfast, lunch, afternoon snack, and dinner. They take smaller but more frequent meals which allow their bodies to keep burning calories throughout the day.
Strategy 8: Do not multitask while eating
You will get weird looks from the people there if you do other things while eating. Only eat when you are supposed to eat. That way, you will not get distracted from multitasking and overeat.
Now that you have learned a lot of important weight loss strategies from the Mediterranean, try incorporating them in your life and you will shed some pounds off naturally before you know it.
Weight Loss Tips from Around the World (pt 2 of 2) Weight Loss Strategies from the Mediterranean
