1. The habit of drinking water after waking up
Enough has been said about the importance of water. But in this case, it’s not even about fighting dehydration (although 8-9 hours of sleep without drinking is no joke). For Japanese women, who are famous for their slimness and longevity, drinking water immediately after waking up is a mandatory ritual, along with brushing your teeth and washing your face. So just take a cue from Japanese women and introduce a new habit that activates the metabolic processes in the body and prepares your gastrointestinal tract for work.
2. The habit of always eating breakfast
This is a habit that needs to be developed once and for all. Breakfast is the most important meal of the day. During a night's sleep, your body managed to get hungry and skipping breakfast for it is a stress that will provoke a slowdown in metabolism, which means that everything that you eat next, your body will try to put off for future use. Just in case.
3. The habit of eating every 3-4 hours
The feeling of hunger is the first enemy of harmony. With a feeling of hunger, it is not even recommended to go to the grocery store - with a 99.9% chance you will buy more than you need there. And it is all the more impossible to sit down at the table with this feeling. You will have time to overeat before you realize that you overdid it. Optimal breaks between meals are 3-4 hours. At the same time, a serving at one time should not exceed 300 grams (which is not difficult if you eat at such a frequency). Yes, this means a departure from the classic “first, second and compote”. Change your habit. Meals are considered not only breakfast, lunch and dinner, but also light snacks.
4. The habit of controlling salt intake
Salt not only retains water in the body, which in itself adds weight and volume to the body. The main problem with salt is that it is a powerful appetite stimulant. Salty foods, of course, are habitually identified by our taste buds as more delicious, and therefore it is more difficult for us to stop in time. But remember that small children eat food perfectly without salt and sugar. Moreover, until a certain time, many children cannot stand salty food. Getting used to it happens gradually. And just like that, you can reverse the situation. Get in the habit of less salt in what you eat. Or don't salt at all.
5. The habit of drinking tea without sugar
It's great if you already have this habit. However, most of us have been accustomed to drinking sweet tea since childhood (hello to kindergartens and schools, where the option “tea without sugar simply does not exist”). If you're still throwing even one sugar cube into your cup, or sweetening your tea with sweeteners, retrain. We remember that tea is a healthy drink that was historically prepared without adding sugar. Read more about tea and its wonderful properties, fall in love with the taste of natural tea, not spoiled by sweetness. You can't drink black tea without sweetening it, then discover oolong tea. It is easier to drink without sugar, and most importantly, it is considered one of the products that affect lipid metabolism in the body. Simply put, it helps burn excess fat.