The answers could shock you. A friend of mine, a nurse from the local hospital says that she very rarely find a fat Chinese lady. Even if she really finds them, the number is really small.

So, what happen exactly with these Chinese ladies? How they could maintain their weight, and stay healthy? Don’t they ever eat anything?

A recent studies in Japan shows that there is a special type of Chinese tea called the Okuma’s Wu Long tea that could burn more calories than an original Japanese tea. Drink this regularly and combine it with some exercises, and the calorie burning will increase two folds. The smart way of drinking this tea is by drinking it for 15 minutes before you eat any carbohydrates. It’s proven to suppress the rise of insulin in your body that usually happens when you eat carbohydrates.

Because carbohydrates increase the insulin level in your body, you’ll also feel that your body gain weight when you eat a lot of carbohydrates. Drinking this tea will control the weight gain that you have.

Other benefits of the Okuma’s Wu Long tea that the Japanese Research founds are:
- the eczema could clears up in 30 days after the first time you drink it
- reducing free radicals in your body
- lower the risk infections

In one of the old Chinese pharmaceutical book called “Bencao Shiyi “(The Compendium of Materia Medica), you could find the quote that says tea “will make one live long and stay in good shape.” Tea, especially the Okuma’s Wu Long tea comes from China’s Fujian Province where the ladies in there drink this type of tea for generations. This special tea helps melting the body fat they have, clear their skin, and even boost their energy. The newer scientific discoveries also said that it’s possible to melt inches of your waistline by using this tea.

Teas are a good complement of your diet foods. Even if it’s not necessary, you could use it to lose weight faster. To make your weight loss diet plan more successful, the combining of a healthy diet plan, teas, and exercises are a good way to go.

1. Water is your best friend

All weight loss plans suggest you to drink more water. It’s true. Water is the invisible weapon that you can use to combat fats and calories in your body. Drink at least six glasses per day, and your body will naturally flush out the toxic that impeding the weight that you want to burn. Water could also speed up your digestion process. If this digestion process in your body running smoothly, there are more calories to burn than to store inside.

2. Adopt new appetizer

While cutting off your favorite food into half is not enough, you could start by adding a new appetizer into your meal. A small cup of soup or broth is a good way to go. Add this to your lunch and dinner everyday. Warm soup will make your body feels fuller so that you’re only want to eat a smaller portion in your meal. This trick goes well especially when you’re eating in a restaurant. It will suppress the need to order a bigger main course.

3. Reduce your salt intake.

While salt is good for your body, it could also harmful to your diet plan if you eat it more than the required amount. Salt, especially the one in processed foods, tends to have a larger amount than what we needs. Starting from now, spend some of your time to check the food label that you buy whether it contains too many salt or sodium in it. The best way you can do to reduce the salt intake is by removing the processed foods away from your house.

4. Reduce the sugar intake.

It’s widely known that sugar is one of the substances that make our body fatter. While it isn’t necessary to cut it off completely, you could reduce the amount you take. The form of sugar not only in the foods like chocolate or milkshake, but also in the pastas and white breads that you eat. Switch it to the healthy food like brown rice or whole wheat bread, and you’re good to go. One more thing, limit the snacks that contain lots of sugars.

5. Move a lot.

Exercise is another way to lose weight while tone your body. You’re not only got a slim figure from your diet, but a healthy one too from your exercise. You don’t like exercise? No problem! Just spend several times a week to go for a long window shopping that requires you to walk a lot. It’s more fun and healthy for you. Another way is by having a walk everyday for at least 30 minutes. You could split this up by having 10 minutes walk three times a day during your work.

6. Slowing down.

Try to have several minutes a day to slowing down and review your diet plan and exercise. When you’re trying to lose weight, you usually forget about yourself. Take some time of your own and make sure you’re worth it to get the weight goal that you want.

7. Get more fruits and vegetables

Just like your mother said, fruits and vegetables are healthy for you. Not only that it have less calories than other processed food you’re also don’t have to worry about eating it as much as you can. Use this as your snack replacement, but don’t forget to control the sugar intake. One simple way you can do to add more vegetables into your diet plan is by adding some steam vegetables into your meal. It’s not only made you a bit diuretic and loses some water weight in your body, but it will also energize your body too.

Everything you need for weight loss is all here. Stop thinking and start doing!

Stressed people usually use their problems as the excuses to eat more. No matter what the problem is, they tend to run for foods than face the problem and solve it. If you’re happening to be one of these types of person, you could find several tips below to manage your stress and succeeded in your weight loss plan.

1. Be more patience

A high stress level probably drives you crazier until you can’t wait to grab some foods and eat it. Train your patience by waiting about 10-30 minutes before you start eating. After the stress hitting you, try to go for a walk first or go to some place to clear your head. After that, figure out whether you still wants to eat or not. If you’re not, then your desire to eat is triggered by your stress level. If you’re not, feel free to grab some light food so you’re not getting hungrier while still maintain your diet plan.

2. Make your food journal.

Food journal will helps you tracking what you eat day after day. It should give you a clear picture whether you’re still sticking with your diet plan or not. Also, don’t forget to write down what snacks that you’ve eaten during the day. Knowing that you’ll need to write it in your journal, you probably want to think first before you eat it.

3. Get a friend’s help.

Your friend could help you to control your behavior during your stress. Just drop them some notes, email, or call them right away when you start to feel stressed out. They probably could help you to solve your problem, lowering your stress level, even keeping you on track with your diet plan.

4. Stay nourished.

While some people reacted to eat more when they are stressed, some of them are not eating at all. This is probably a lot worse than the first type of person because they tend to eat more than the first type do. Stay nourished even when you’re stress by eating some healthy snacks or drink more water.

5. Write some notes on your desk.

If you happen to spend more of your time working in the office, grab some pen and papers, then write down something like, “Are you sure you’re really hungry?” or “Think about why you should eat right now”, and put it in the places where you see them most. These notes will keep yourself in check and not eating when you don’t need it.

6. Remove tempting foods from your refrigerator. Tempting foods tend to drive you crazy. In one side, you like it a lot and you really don’t mind to eat it. In other side, you know you should stick to your diet plan and avoid it. The answer of this problem is removing the tempting foods completely from your refrigerator.

7. Take your personal time everyday. Use this time to check yourself about what makes you stress today, and think about ways to resolve it when you’re facing the same problems. This is one of the critical steps because you need to maintain a healthy condition, either physically or mentally.

Here are 7 habits that you could implement to your life right away:

1. Moving more

Ordinary people will burn about a third calories everyday. You could increase your calories burning by simply moving more than you do before. This simple habit will helps you to burn more calories everyday. So, how do you do that? Just keep moving. Don’t let your body just sitting in there. One tip for you, put the post-it-notes in the place where you’re always sitting or doing nothing for a long period of time. Write just one word in it, “MOVE!”

It will remind you that you still need to move during your break. Here are a few ideas that you could start doing to move some parts of your body: swing your legs when you’re sit down, change your position often, stand up and stretch your body, stand up when you phoned someone and start pacing, or park your car in the furthest corner of your parking lot.

2. Eat small and often

Eating small but often will keep you energized during the day and prevent you to want “something more” to eat. It also helps to burn your calories faster, and distribute the fat in your body properly. Try to eat a small portion of your meals every 2-4 hours because it will make your body working constantly to digest the food. This digesting process requires more energy, and energy burns more fat in your body.

3. Consume “healthy” fats

Even if our goal is to burn more fat, we need to realize that fats are also essential for our body. Healthy fats will help you lose weight by increasing the calories burning process. Some of the foods that contain healthy fats are olive oil, flaxseed oil, salmon, avocados, and nuts. Add some of these into your daily diet plan.

4. Drink Cold Water

Cold water will make your body to burn more calories in order to raise the temperature of it. Besides, it could also keep you well hydrated during the day and make your metabolic process burn quicker.

5. Do exercise with weights

Weights are another good way to burn your calories. Lifting weights regularly will develop a muscle tissue in your body. This muscle tissue is metabolically active and it needs more calories when it’s in the rest condition. Not only that, it could also increasing the fat-burning enzymes in the body.

6. Eat spicy food

Hot spices could speed up the metabolism in your body. Try it by adding half a teaspoon cinnamon into your coffee per day. It can boost your metabolism and keep your sugar level steady. If you can’t stand a cinnamon in your coffee, try adding different spices into your meal, such as wasabi or crushed red pepper.

7. Eat protein

The process to digest the protein into your body requires more calories to burn. It’s because the complexity of their chemical breakdown. Plan your meal that contains more proteins and eat snacks that contain it too. Protein, which takes longer to digest, will make you not to overeat and stay full for a longer period of time.

Being a people with obesity, I see people from a different point of view. I got jealous of the people who seems healthy and fit, while comparing them with myself. I used to feel depressed and stressed just by thinking what I could do to be like them. But it doesn’t mean I didn’t do anything to lose several pounds. I do. I try every single diet plan, pills, or programs, but none of them seems to works for me. So, I dumped them all, mostly in the next 3 days after I try them. Why did I do that? Simply because the program is too boring, require me to exercise a lot, even restricted me by not allowed me to eat any of my favorite foods at all.

I keep doing this until I realize that I need something easy. I need a diet plan that I would be followed happily without sacrificing the chance to eat my favorite foods. Yes, even if it takes more time to see the results.

The first things I do are asking myself the following questions, and answer all of them honestly.

1. What makes you overweight? I often eat junk foods and never exercise but once a month, if I remember to do that.
2. How determined you are to lose weight? Very! I’ll sacrifice my left arms just to lose several pounds a week.
3. Are you willing to do this in a longer period or do you want it to be as fast as possible? I like the sound of the last one, but if it makes me can’t eat what I want, even for a tiny portion, I choose the first one, please.
4. Could you discipline yourself to follow the diet plan? Of course! I will discipline myself even if I have to pay my sister to kick me when I missed the diet plan.

After I answer the questions, I will put it in the place where I could see those most, in my bathroom and near the TV. It constantly reminds me about the diet plan that I have and stick with it for a longer period of time.

Then, I start to find a diet plan that could take me to my goal without skinning the fat from my body myself. These are the weight loss plan that I follow and still do until today:

1. Things That I Must Do
- Eat three healthy meals per day. (Recently, I changed it into 6 small meals per day because it calms me from eating as much as possible during lunch, and I constantly eat after 3-4 hours which prevent me to become hungrier before the next meal).
- Fun exercise. (I can’t picture myself running, collapsed, and dragged by my dog. So, I choose the easier exercise like walking with my dogs for an hour or two everyday, parking as far as possible from my office, or use the stairs. It’s quite fun and doesn’t feel like exercise at all).
- Cooling my head when the temptation to eat is strong. (I grab some apples or oranges if I tempted to finished a whole bucket of ice cream, and go for a walk).

2. Things That I Must NOT Do
- Having snacks between meals. (This is the reason why I changed my meals into 6 small portions, because I don’t have time to worry about snacks when my next meals in the next couple hours).
- Eat too many junk foods. (Well, I allow myself to eat junk food for lunch every Sunday. I never overeat, but it lessens my cravings for junk food. A bit hard at first, but it slowly becomes a habit).
- Lie about what I’ve been eating. (My food journal constantly checked by one of my family member, usually my sister. She’s very helpful to keep me on track).

This is sound very easy to follow. It is, by the sound of it. Try it for 3 days, and get a bit bored. Try it for a week, it’s quite fun. Try it for 2 weeks, it becomes a habit that I couldn’t let go even if you pay me. This diet plan probably not make you lose 5 pounds per week, but I’m aiming the less conservative, 1 pound a week. It’s not that hard to achieve though.

Fear in weight loss usually caused by the need to impress anybody by being thinner than usual. This fear could act like a double edge sword. People with obesity usually fear that the community won’t accept them if their bodies are too big, fear that no one would like them when they’re still in that condition, or fear that people will look at them as if he’s too greedy to share his foods. When the people getting thinner, their definition of fear on weight loss start to change. They will think that being overweight is much better because they could hide behind their fat, and disappear from the world. Or, you figure out that people are a lot nastier when you’re slim and fit than when you are big and fat.

This fear can’t be banished like any other emotions. You need to see deeper in yourself before you could overcome your fear completely. You need to figure out what are you scared of, what makes it important for you to fear it, until realizing what kind of fear that drive you toward to lose weight. After you address the problems, it would be much easier to find the answers.

People, who never experience this fear before, often jumped right away to start their weight loss diet plan. You could do the same way. But if you’re not, it’s much better for you to prepare yourself for it.

There is always a way to easing the fear in your mind. Below are 4 proven systems that you can use to overcome your fear of weight loss, and achieve your goal:

1. Find your support.
- The people who acted as your support could be one of your family members, your spouse, people who just did what you want to do, or your personal trainer. Personal trainer usually more experienced by helping the people who has fear of weight loss in their mind. The personal trainer could help you to digging the problems, find the answers, and even motivate you to the next level. If you can’t find a good trainer in your town, the next option is by finding the people who already did what you just want to start. They already walk the walk, and willing to show you how to do that.

2. Keep a journal.
- When the fears are uncontrollable, pour it into a journal. It could helps you to ease your mind and figure out what really ticks your emotion, and how you could prevent it the next time it came. Just write down your feelings or fears without editing. You’ll learn the honesty in it, and be a better person.

3. Do affirmations.
- Releasing a negative emotions not only stop until you write a journal. You need to feel the empty spaces with affirmations. It gives your mind some work to do so it can’t go back feeling the negative emotions again.

4. Have your personal quiet time.
- Free up about 15 minutes of your day for your personal quiet time. If your work is so busy, this will help you to slow down a bit, and trace back about what you’re doing before that could bring you to this point. People often use this personal time to do some meditations and release themselves from fear.

Don’t limit yourself with your fear. Be a better person by knowing how to take care of this fear once and for all.

You could find 5 tips below that require you NO gym membership or stop eating your favorite foods. You need to remember that a good diet plan will helps you to lose weight requires time. You can’t expect the results instantly. By knowing this, give yourself some time to adapt the diet plan or exercises in your body for at least 3 months long before you switch to another diet plan. Most will suggest you to try it for 30 days, pick your own pace, but not shorter than a month.

These are 5 weight loss tips that you could start today.

Tip #1: Get some walk

Walking is the simplest form of weight loss plan. Go for a walk about 30 minutes everyday to burn some fat and strengthening your legs. Go to several places that you think you’ll be willing to spend your time to walk around, and do it.

Tip #2: Bicycling

You could do it in the conventional or modern way. The conventional way require you to bicycling around your neighborhood and actually pedal your bike while enjoy the view. The modern way is by using the exercise bike. A busy people choose to attach this exercise bike to their desk, so they could work on their job while they’re pedaling. It’s fun to do and get more things done.

Tip #3: Take the stairs

Starts exchange the use of elevator with stairs. If your office located on the third floor, it’s one of the best exercises you’ll ever do. However, if your office located in 20th floor and up, you need to be a bit smart. Use stairs for the first third to five floors, and use the elevator for the rest of it. Another way you could do is park your vehicle a bit far from your office so you need to walk for a while to get in there. It’s fun, but won’t make you exhausted.

Tip #4: Limit your favorite food intake

If you’re usually eat a big hamburger in the morning, try to make or buy a smaller size, and eat it. Rather than cut off your favorite food, choose the smaller portion instead. In this way, you still can continue your diet plan while enjoying your favorite food. The point is, make your diet plan as fun as you can so you could enjoy doing it rather than being forced.

Tip #5: Start your exercise routine

Doing the routine exercise will help you to reach your weight loss goal faster. Stick with it, even if it’s only for 15 minutes a day. People who discipline themselves with their exercise more likely to success in their weight loss plan than people who are not. Set aside several minutes a day for your exercise, and do it.

Those are 5 tips that you could try right away to lose weight. Don’t forget to consult your diet or exercise plan with a professional so he could tell you the best way to do it without sacrificing the fun in your side.