Asian Tips for Weight loss

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Wives Tales:

• If you lay down right after eating you will turn into a cow (become fat); obviously this is not true, but do it enough times after eating a big/heavy meal you will soon find it can be. Take a slow-paced walk around the neighborhood after eating for 10-20 minutes to help your body digest the food quicker and easier. Especially after a heavier meal. 
• If wanting to lose weight, you cannot eat after 8pm, this is FALSE, it does not matter what time of the day you eat, only calorie intake and how much daily exercise your getting matters. 
• Eating hot sauce on everything will help you shed the weight, NO IT WON'T!!! Any calories you burn off will be minimum at best and you should really just do it to personal taste unless you are using it to control portion intake. 

General Tips and Lifestyle:

• Don't eat dinner late, keep it between 5 and 6 pm, as then you have 3 hours to digest and walk it off. 
• Aloe Vera gel, you can buy the flavoured juice or buy the actual plant, you simply cut up the plant and use only the clear gel, throw away the green as it is bitter, you can eat the gel in yogurt, salad, by itself, or put it in a drink. Lots of Asian cultures such as the Japanese, use this plant in their diet to aid digestion. 
• In Japan people really love to eat their vegetables; it is always best for 50-60% of your plate to be veggies, this doesn't mean take your normal portions and make half of it veggies it means, cut down your portions to normal, healthier sizes and THEN replace half with veggies. Japanese people are not all strictly vegetarian either, but they do include a lot of fruit, lean meats (sea food), and greens (sea weed) into their diet and usually stay away from high fat contents. Also, eating smaller meals through out the day is better than 3 large meals or 2 small and 1 large one. 
• Riding a bike everywhere, this is not just for people looking to lose weight or get in shape, it can also be a great way to enjoy the outdoors or spend time with someone. If it is close enough, maybe ride your bike to work every once in a while to see how you like it, you might find you feel much better by the end of the day from the small workout in the mornings. 
• Enjoy the scenery, being outdoors is actually proven to improve your mood, the electromagnetic field of the earth actually helps improve health and cure anxiety and depression which is why if you go to the park for a few hours you will feel yourself relax.