Lose weight with a morning makeover!

This is a simple way to make weight loss a natural part of the life. Try the following to help you either burn more calories daily... 

Wake-up workout

When your eyes open, sit up slowly without using your hands. With legs straight out, lean forward until you feel a gentle stretch in your back and hamstrings. Hold; then, using your abs, lower yourself flat. Rest and repeat two more times. This will strengthen your core and burns 10 calories.

Go for the grains

For breakfast, work up to three quarters of a cup of low-sugar whole-grain cereal with at least three grams of fibre per serving, every morning. You will pass on that pastry and save one hundred calories.

Add some protein

Research has shown that the more you eat earlier on, the less you eat as the day goes on. So after your cereal, add a hard-boiled egg to keep you feeling full and away from that pre-lunch doughnut and you will save two hundred or more calories!

Balance booster

While you brush your teeth, alternate standing on one leg as you switch mouth quadrants (every thirty seconds, or so). Balancing develops your core muscles and may even be good for your brain. This will burn ten calories.

Be a ballerina

As your coffee drips from the coffee maker, stand sideways, put one hand on the counter, and lift the outside leg straight out in front of you, keeping it extended. With upper body straight, hold for a few seconds and move it to the side; hold and extend it behind you. Do this five to ten times on each leg. It will tone the outer thighs, hip flexors and quadriceps and burns ten calories at the same time.

Coffee saver

Instead of pouring that one third of a cup of cream into your mug, replace it with the same amount of two percent low fat milk and save calories!

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