Losing weight can be incredibly frustrating, especially when you try and try and nothing seems to work! Here are 3 tips for supercharging your weight loss diet and keeping the pounds off for good!

Of course, a healthy diet and regular exercise is never an option.  But there are a few tweaks you can do to help you get that flab off and keep it off!

These tips are simple, but powerful!

Tip 1:
Replace breads, pastas, cereals and rice with fruits and vegetables. Anything negative you have heard about low carbing is probably misconstrued information.  Your body really does see simple, refined carbs as fat making fuel!  What it needs and wants are high quality complex carbs that you find in fruits and veggies.

Don’t forget all the micronutrients that these natural wonders supply to your body!  Not only will they help you lose weight, but they keep your skin glowing and your immune system stoked!  Once you are closer to your goal weight, you can add complex carbs back to your diet, such as whole grains and brown rice without seeing much damage (but go slow and watch how your body reacts!).  Personally, I cannot eat much fruit if I want to see any pounds come off.  I seem to be very sensitive to the sugar in fruit.  You need to test how much fruit you can tolerate before you see the scale get stuck.

We were simply not meant to consume white, refined flour products.  Often, these white carbs are combined with fat and sugar to create a metabolic nightmare!  Just steer clear of them if you are serious about weight loss, and you’ll see much better results. Not only that, but consuming simple carbs will make you hungrier.  Eating these kinds of foods will only make you crave them more.  It’s much easier to stick to a weight loss plan when you are not starving!

As a general rule, eat at least 10 servings of vegetables (and some fruit) a day!

Tip 2:
Drink lots of water – purified is best.  The benefits of water for weight loss is being disputed these days, but I have always seen much better results when I keep my water intake high.

If you want to flush that fat as quickly as possible, 16 glasses is the optimum amount per day.

Water flushes out harmful toxins, boosts your metabolism, and keeps you hydrated. Drinking a lot of water makes it difficult for the fat to “stick” to your body. Just remember, though, that drinking water won’t fix the damage done by a pig-out!

Tip 3:
Resistance training will help you retain muscle mass, and help keep your metabolism running on high!

Dieting can often lead to muscle loss.  To keep your metabolism humming, you need plenty of muscle tissue to burn off excess calories.  Weight training will keep your muscle mass intact

Often times, people wanting to lose weight will concentrate on aerobic exercise and forget about the benefits of weight training in their fat loss strategy.  Women do NOT need to worry about bulking up.  Hormonally, we are incapable of building big muscles.  You will become firm, toned and defined with resistance training, and that is great when you want to keep those pesky fat cells at bay!

Resistance training also boosts your metabolism like no other form of exercise, and often for a period of 24 hours or more. This means that your body will burn fat even while you sleep.  Just remember that you always need a day between weight training sessions to let your body repair and rebuild from your workout.

Implementing these tips for losing weight will get you dropping those extra pounds and becoming a slimmer you. Remember, each step you take, no matter how small, will make a difference.  Many small steps make a giant leap!  You can do this!