5大減肥妙招讓你活得更健康更長壽
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.
很多文章都是關於健康飲食、減肥、健康的生活方式。例如，“怎樣能在5天內減肥”等等。
Your weight control is not just about how many pounds you weighed before and after your diet. It’s much more complex。
減肥不只是節食後你瘦了多少。事實上它比那更爲複雜
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?
我們想要的不只是可以減肥，還想要保持心情愉悅（不會反彈、不用忍飢挨餓），同時還能改善健康問題，能夠長壽，對嗎？
Here are 5 killer strategies to lose weight that work like a charm if you follow them exactly as described.
如果你按以下這五種方法減肥，你一定會變的很苗條。
Make a Rock-Solid Plan
制定一個堅如磐石的計劃
Create a weight loss goal, set the stakes and assign a family member or a friend to keep you accountable.
制定一個減肥計劃，爲了監督自己堅持完成目標，你可以在朋友或是家人那裏設立一個賭注。
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.
如果自己沒有做到，就給一定金額的錢，比如訂到50美元到100美元之間，或者根據你的意思將那部分錢捐給慈善機構。
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.
在某些事情上加上賭注，當那些事變成我們不得不做時，我們就會去做這些事。所以，這種下賭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、每週的、每月的目標，堅持下去，否則你的錢包就會慢慢地一點點的癟下去。
Keep Track of Your Calories by Writing Down Everything You Eat
記下你每天吃過的東西，記下你攝入的卡路里
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.
這個方法可以幫你把找出分散攝入的熱量。這樣你在吃東西前都會再三考慮，作好記錄，計算你所攝入的卡路里。智能手機上也有一些關於健康的應用和記錄減肥的網站也能便捷的查詢食物所含的卡路里。他們所提供的健康食譜，預備好的菜單以及推薦的食物搭配也挺不錯的。
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，不能堅持，而且很不喜歡計算食物的卡路里，你可以訂一份事先制定好的每週要使用的食譜，這種食譜預先就限定了減肥時應攝入的卡路里，價格也是相當便宜的。
Gulp Water Before Each Meal
飯前喝水
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，但是它產生的效果也是不可預料的。如果在飯前喝下八杯水，你也就不會吃太多。據美國化學研究會研究顯示，想要減肥，保持體形，那樣至少得一年纔可以。
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飲暴食我們平時喜歡喝的蘇打水以及其他卡路里高的飲料。多喝水也可以降低超重的可能性。
Keep Moving
運動
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.
不運動，懶惰減肥的大忌。長期坐着的人不止會增重，不利於減肥外，還會增加患心臟病和2型糖尿病的機率，這兩類疾病會影響他們的生活方式及壽命。久坐Go for a walk. Take the stairs. Help somebody. Stretch. Whatever you do - do not just sit there!
步行，爬樓梯，幫助別人，做伸展運動，不論你做的是什麼都可以-不要一直坐在那裏。
Post a Picture of Yourself on Facebook
將照片放到網上
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!
如果你想要別人來激勵你，想要堅持你的減肥大計，把你“之前的”照片用做頭像，許諾一個月後會放上“之後的”驚人的、健康的、減掉20磅後的照片，。研究表明這樣會很有效。
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.
所有的這些方法都相當簡單的，甚至原始人都可以做到，更何況我們比原始人好很多，也聰明很多，還更專注目標。
