Five instant measures to start losing weight.

If you want to start getting some results today then start by putting in place these five simple yet effective techniques.

1) Rotate your foods

The pressure of big business marketing, the addiction of grains in combination with our hectic lifestyles has lead us to rely on wheat as our main food source. Very often it is eaten for breakfast (most cereals), for lunch (bread) and for dinner (pasta). Remember the key fact to nutrition, there is no one food that is good for all of us.

It is plain for me to see that wheat is destroying the health of many people and making them fat, unhealthy and worst of all unhappy. The best way to know if wheat is impacting badly upon your body is to start rotating it amongst other food groups so that it is reduced within your diet.

Apply this concept to any other foods or general types of food you feel you consume too much of in your diet. Look to try other types of vegetables, grains, legumes, protein etc than you would normally consume.

2) Have protein, carbohydrate and fat at each meal.

A key to metabolic typing is effectively utilizing the energy from foods at cellular level. To do this you must consume protein, carbohydrates and fat at each meal The type of each of these or the amount is unique to your metabolic type so I cannot give any recommendations without knowing this but try to tune into your body. If you feel hungry within an hour of eating or notice a drop in energy you have miscalculated one of your portions of protein, carbs or fat.

3) Start walking

The most underrated exercise of them all. To those who don't exercise this key component can make a huge impact. It is easy to give up walking these days. Drive here, drive there, take the escalator, catch a bus. Stop and think of ways to introduce walking into your life once again.

4) Avoid the foods you crave

So many of the people I work with tell me how they follow their food cravings as they feel the body must know what it needs. This is true to a point, but sadly the worse your diet is, the less accurate your cravings become. If your metabolic type is one that requires more protein and fat and less carbohydrate and you are eating a typical modern day diet your cravings for bread, porridge and the like are a signal that you are not receiving enough protein and fat. To listen to your body would be lunacy and a sure fire way to bad health and storing body fat

5) Examine your eating habits

Many people eat a 'healthy' diet. It is obvious to me and every client I have worked with that what is conventionally healthy for some may be very unhealthy for others. Examine your diet to see if you are following your plan. If you are not sticking to it then why not? If you are, but are not getting results then maybe this plan is not right for you

If these tips are getting you thinking about how you can effectively lose weight or get healthy. I would suggest you look at my on line course or if feasible with location personal training in london.