REAL ways to LOSE WEIGHT | Healthy Life Hacks

Hi guys, welcome back to my channel, so today I'm going to share with you some healthy life hacks. So over the past few months from July to now, I've lost over 15 pounds and I could not feel happier about myself and I just love the feeling of losing weight. For the past like two years or something, I let myself fall into a huge rut when it came to like my health and especially like my weight and stuff like that. I kind of let it get carried away and I wasn't 100% like committed to it, but then this July I was like, oh my goodness, I have allowed myself to go a little out of control. I was 115 pounds and I didn't like it at all because I was just like chubby loving everywhere, so I didn't like it at all. So I decided that I wanted to lose weight and I really 100% committed myself to that and the feeling is absolutely amazing now, especially since like when I try to wear clothes that I bought and like it can't fit me anymore. It feels really good except for the fact that I have to pin up like everything that I have. So I want to share with you some of the healthy hacks that I use in my life to help me lose weight. So I hope you guys enjoy this video and let's get started. Okay, so one of the easiest ways to start losing weight is to give yourself like a little gentle detox and I recommend using like a cup of water and a lemon slice inside with some ginger if you want. You don't have to include the ginger because I think that lemon is really very effective on its own and like I said, it's a gentle detox, so it will definitely cleanse up your entire system and just make you feel amazing and it's really a great way to kickstart your morning to help you lose some weight. So do this consistently every day and the results will be phenomenal. Okay, so the next one is what I like to do is use smoothie bags because a lot of times on mornings, I'm so busy, I don't get time to eat breakfast. So what makes it really easy is that if you take a Ziploc bags and you cut up your fruits as well as like your spinach and your kale and you put them into your smoothie bags and you put it into the freezer. So on mornings when you're rushing or whenever you feel the need to drink a smoothie but you don't want to go and just have to cut up a ton of fruits and stuff like that, you can just pull out your smoothie bag from inside your freezer, pop it into the blender and just add any liquid you want like coconut water, water, almond milk or like a juice that you would like. It is really such an easy way to make you feel very, very full and there are times during the day when you might feel to snack and you don't really need to snack, that is when your smoothie bags will come in really, really handy and it will avoid you binging or just snacking out on completely unhealthy things. So I did a fitness video a little while ago which was like my healthy lifestyle inspiration and in it I showed you how I meal prep. So meal prep is a critical part of eating properly as well as losing weight and just staying healthy because what happens is that if you don't cook your own food, chances are when you are hungry you won't want to cook and then you will end up just going out and buying junk food which is completely disgusting, might I add. So if you meal prep, so like I spent my Sunday meal prepping and you can check out the video somewhere on the screen, I will link it in for you guys. So what I do is like I prepare salmon and couscous and salad and stuff like that and then I just have big containers and I just dish out my food every single day. Alternatively, you could just dish out your food in the bowls, like five bowls for the five days of the week, take a bowl every single day for lunch and I think that this is a really great way because it helps you to know that okay, I have food, I don't need to go and buy crap. Metabolism is a critical part of losing weight. I decided that to swap out some bad food that I was eating and swap in some really good food that will kickstart your metabolism. So some foods include spinach, broccoli and beans and there are a ton of other kinds of foods so you can check out my blog down below where I have a list that you can use to really help kickstart your metabolism and that will help you to also lose weight. A lot of times when you are hungry, you really, all you need is just a glass of water. I used to drink a ton of juices but juices have such high amounts of sugar so you would think that even though you swap out soda and coke and all of that really bad stuff and you substitute that for juices, it's really like a trick because juices have so much sugar in it and it's really not good. So instead, I have a bottle of water, well a mason jar of water with me everywhere I go and at all times. So I carry a bottle of water to work every single day and no matter what I'm doing home, I have water around me 24-7 like I'm filming right now and I have a glass of water right here. I have water every single minute of my day whether I am by my laptop, vlogging, editing videos or in my canopy, yeah I did a DIY on this, shameless self-promotion, you can check out that video somewhere on the screen as well. So another healthy tip is if you were like me and you never drank water because you just didn't like how it tastes, to some people I swear, we just don't like water sometimes so what you can do is add some fruits to it or like mint leaves and just flavour your water in such an amazing way that you are able to drink it. So I did mention this while I was talking about the water, you need to cut out all soda and all like high sugar juices from your diet because you would not realise how much weight that makes you put on, it is insane and absolutely ridiculous. Okay so you need to get at least 15 minutes of exercise every single day and I love using YouTube to do that, my favourite person is Blogilates Cassie and she just makes it so easy to do things right at home which is perfect if you don't want to go to the gym or you just don't have time to go to the gym, just lay out your yoga mat and just pop on one of her videos and you will be working up a sweat within no time. Another person that I love is Dance Fitness with Jessica because I love to dance so very much so when I watch Dance Fitness with Jessica I'm like oh my god get that booty poppin'. Okay so with eating again you need to substitute some bad things with good things so like instead of using sour cream you can use Greek yoghurt, non-fat of course, so instead of using dip for chips and stuff you can use hummus which is so easy to prepare and so amazing, I will have a recipe down below if you are interested in that so when I'm craving fries I will substitute fries for baked carrots which I did a video on so you can check out all of my health related videos down below. A huge part of my weight loss came from just stop eating bad carbs like bread and pasta and everything like that, I would switch that up for couscous and quinoa as well as some good provisions such as sweet potato because it really makes a difference in your life so that is one thing that you may want to consider swapping out as well. Okay so with working out sometimes you should make it fun like doing challenges so I love like the 30 day squat challenge and stuff like that, I just have it on my phone and everyday I'm like squatting in my room because I mean at least I'm doing something rather than nothing right and it just does not take long because the challenges are made out in such a way that it's really easy to follow and really easy to do so you guys should check that out as well. When I really started in the gym this past summer I always had my iPod and I downloaded like amazing songs, Tokay is one of my favourites as well as Reggaeton, I love them so very much so pop that on and you will see the huge difference that it makes, it motivates you to just keep exercising and doing amazing stuff at the gym. Coming down to my last few tips, it is to stop eating at least 2-3 hours before you go to bed because your body needs time to just digest and just settle itself from everything that you ate during the day and when you're sleeping you do not want your body to be trying to digest the food that you just ate so if you stop eating about 2-3 hours before you go to sleep you'll notice a huge difference in the morning and habits are very important so if you just start that habit it will be very easy and you will not feel the need to eat all hours of the night and just binge out and be a little piggy like I was. Okay so another fun tip is to pay yourself to exercise so if you don't go to the gym and you don't want to exercise get a little jar and put like gym money and every time you exercise just toss a $5 inside and you will see how much money you can make or you can save and then you can completely treat yourself to something new. My last healthy life hack is to help you help yourself so sometimes it may be hard to get yourself in the frame to do all of these things that I just told you so if you want you can sign up for a system that caters for you and your needs so I love Fittee as well which I talked a lot about in my healthy lifestyle and I did a whole review on it but there is also Our Skinny which I really really love this company, you can sign up for bottles of like shakes so all you do is just fill that up and you can go it's an amazing on shake and they also have these incredibly delicious yummy bars which are so many different flavors to choose from and I love that as well because it is very much protein packed so it's like a mini meal so if you don't have time to eat lunch and you don't want to buy crap you can just have a mini meal and it tastes so good and so amazing and I just love programs like these because if you don't have the time and you really have a very hectic schedule you can use a program like Our Skinny in order to get yourself going because you just have to help you help yourself sometimes so I will have all the information to Our Skinny down below as well as my blog post and all the recipes and everything that I mentioned in this video so let's get this video to 500 thumbs up if you want to see a lot more healthy hack videos like these or fitness inspiration and I will definitely do it for you guys so thank you so much for watching and don't forget to subscribe so you won't miss a thing I will see you in my next video I love you bye