五大减肥妙招，让你瘦得快乐又健康

There have been a lot of articles written on healthy eating, weight loss and healthy living, e.g. “How to Loose Weight in 5 days ” etc., but I don’t want to bore you with that today.

很多文章都是关于健康饮食、减肥、健康的生活方式。例如，“怎样能在5天内减肥”等等。

Your weight control is not just about how many pounds you weighed before and after your diet. It’s much more complex。

减肥不只是节食后你瘦了多少。事实上它比那更为复杂

We don’t want just to lose weight but also stay happy (not cranky and starved), improve our health and live longer. Is that right?

我们想要的不只是可以减肥，还想要保持心情愉悦(不会反弹、不用忍饥挨饿)，同时还能改善健康问题，能够长寿，对吗?

Here are 5 killer strategies to lose weight that work like a charm if you follow them exactly as described.

如果你按以下这五种方法减肥，你一定会变的很苗条。

Make a Rock-Solid Plan

制定一个坚如磐石的计划

Create a weight loss goal, set the stakes and assign a family member or a friend to keep you accountable.

制定一个减肥计划，为了监督自己坚持完成目标，你可以在朋友或是家人那里设立一个赌注。

If you fail to do it, you give them a certain amount of money. Let’s say $50 to a $100. Or they pay a specific charity of your choice with it.

如果自己没有做到，就给一定金额的钱，比如订到50美元到100美元之间，或者根据你的意思将那部分钱捐给慈善机构。

The thing about us is that we will do something about our problem only when we absolutely have to, when something big is at stake. So, this trick works like a charm.

在某些事情上加上赌注，当那些事变成我们不得不做时，我们就会去做这些事。所以，这种下赌注似乎有一定的魔力。

Set up a goal for a day, week, month and stick with it or your wallet will lose quite a few bucks.

定下每天的、每周的、每月的目标，坚持下去，否则你的钱包就会慢慢地一点点的瘪下去。

Keep Track of Your Calories by Writing Down Everything You Eat

记下你每天吃过的东西，记下你摄入的卡路里

This trick does really help to shed quite a few pounds. You will think twice before eating something, if you have to log it and count calories. There are also smartphonehealthy appsand weight-loss tracking websites that make looking up calories easy. They are quite great because they offer healthy recipes, menu planners and support groups.

这个方法可以帮你把找出分散摄入的热量。这样你在吃东西前都会再三考虑，作好记录，计算你所摄入的卡路里。智能手机上也有一些关于健康的应用和记录减肥的网站也能便捷的查询食物所含的卡路里。他们所提供的健康食谱，预备好的菜单以及推荐的食物搭配也挺不错的。

If you are too busy, not very disciplined and totally hate counting calories for everything you eat, you can just order pre-made healthy & chef-made weekly meal plans with limited calories fromDiet-to-Gothat are fairly inexpensive.

如果你很忙，不能坚持，而且很不喜欢计算食物的卡路里，你可以订一份事先制定好的每周要使用的食谱，这种食谱预先就限定了减肥时应摄入的卡路里，价格也是相当便宜的。

Gulp Water Before Each Meal

饭前喝水

Very easy to do, but the benefit of it is greatly underestimated. If you drink two 8-once glasses of water before each meal, you won't overeat, lose more weight and keep it off for at least a year according to research of American Chemical Society.

一件非常容易做到的事情，但是它产生的效果也是不可预料的。如果在饭前喝下八杯水，你也就不会吃太多。据美国化学研究会研究显示，想要减肥，保持体形，那样至少得一年才可以。

In addition to the above, drinking more water may discourage you from guzzling soda and other calorie-laden beverages that many of us are so addicted to. Drinking more water is a low-risk way to lose excess weight.

另外，多喝水也可以防止你暴饮暴食我们平时喜欢喝的苏打水以及其他卡路里高的饮料。多喝水也可以降低超重的可能性。

Keep Moving

运动

Inactivity and laziness are death. Sedentary people do not only gain tons of weight and can't keep it off, they are also at increased risk of developing heart disease and Type 2 diabetes which affects their lifestyle and longevity.

不运动，懒惰减肥的大忌。长期坐着的人不止会增重，不利于减肥外，还会增加患心脏病和2型糖尿病的几率，这两类疾病会影响他们的生活方式及寿命。

Go for a walk. Take the stairs. Help somebody. Stretch. Whatever you do - do not just sit there!

步行，爬楼梯，帮助别人，做伸展运动，不论你做的是什么都可以-不要一直坐在那里。

Post a Picture of Yourself on Facebook

将照片放到网上

If you need some more motivation and want to make sure you stick with your weight loss goal, post your "Before" picture on Facebook and promise to all your friends to come back in a month (or two) with the "After" picture where you look fabulous, healthy and 20 (or whatever your goal is) pounds lighter. Science shows this really works!

如果你想要别人来激励你，想要坚持你的减肥大计，把你“之前的”照片用做头像，许诺一个月后会放上“之后的”惊人的、健康的、减掉20磅后的照片，。研究表明这样会很有效。

All these strategies are brain-dead simple and even a caveman can follow them. But we are much better than cavemen. And smarter. And more dedicated to our goals.

所有的这些方法都相当简单的，甚至原始人都可以做到，更何况我们比原始人好很多，也聪明很多，还更专注目标。