Ways to help you to weight loss

• Go green: drinking a green vegetable drink first thing in the moming won’t just fill you up, it also puts your body in to an alkaline state, whche helps rebalance the pH levels of the body,’ says strength and conditioning coach Gregg Marsh , being in an acidic state disrupts the body’s chemistry and the hormones needed to convert fat into fuel.

• Turbo charge: for your  perfect green drink packed with natural energy, juice two apples, a quarter of  a pineapple, a third of a cucmber, one stick of celery, a third of a lime and handful of spinach, says Jason vale , author of the juice master: Turbo large your life  in 14 days (£9.99 thorson). Then blend  with ice and half an avocado. The celery and cucumber provide the perfect balance of sodium and potassium, and are satisfying despite being low  in calories, while the spinach provides a generous amount of calcium and protein.

• Get plenty of vitamin C: increasing your vitamin C intake by 500mg a day can help burn up to 39 per cent more fat when you are exercising, says nutritionist Rachel gothard. The vitamin helps your body transform fat from diet into energy instead of storing it as fat reserves

• In takes 21 days: you were not born with bad eating habits. You learned them, so you can unleam them, it takes 21 attempts to create a new habit, so if you aim to eat more veg with every meal for 21 days, on the 22^nd it should come  naturally. Don’t overload yourself with targets through- tackle one habit at a time.

• Don’t go overboard on variety: eating a varity of food during the day is vital but stick to just four different types of food at one meal, if you can’t pronounce what it says  on the label, you shouldn’t eat it and founder of you can be thin seminares. We all have a sensory-specific satiety, whiche  means there is  only so  much of one food we can eat before we get bored and stop, but when  our  senses are overstimulated with choice this appetite control is overridden, which leads us to eat up to 50 per cent more.

• Fat before bed: polish off a spoonful of peanut butter before bed, the monounsaturated fat keeps you full and sparks off the metalbolism to stop you storing fat while you sleep.

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