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Here are ways to lose weight fast written by regular people as comments on various blogs or articles on line.

Eat grilled or boiled meat such as steak and chicken instead of fried meat. Add spices to make it taste even better.

Give up the soda. If you have a soda or two every day you are adding empty calories. If you find it hard to stop completely, cut back at first and drink water instead|Stop drinking soda. Those are empty calories so stop drinking it and substitute water. (Note that the average person adds 90,000 calories a year from sipping juice or soda. WOW! That’s a great tip.)

Don’t buy junk food. Shop from a list. If you don’t have junk food at home you won’t eat it.

Give yourself a treat. When you skip a food for a long time you end up craving it more, and eventually binging. Enjoy a treat once a week, or even once a day in smaller quantities. Don’t go crazy, remember the rule of moderation.

Trick yourself into being satisfied with less by using a smaller plate. (Not only are you tricking yourself, even if the trick doesn’t work it’s easier to stop eating when the plate is finished and there’s no more food available.)

Get poor. Throw away your money so you can’t afford food. (Um, no. That’s a bad idea.)

Stay away from fad diets. They starve you and then you eat more when the diet is over.

Exercise at every opportunity, even at the desk with some leg lifts. (That’s a great idea to increase the work outs.)

The three most important factors in healthy diet are portion control, portion control and portion control. (Portion control is a big part of a healthy diet. Most restaurants and even people at home serve portions that are too large.)

Get really sick. After a month in the hospital I had lost 25 pounds. (Another bad idea. It’s best to stick to ways to lose weight while remaining healthy. After all, the ultimate goal is better health.)

Stick to something long enough to repeat it a few times, then you can coast. (It’s said that if we repeat something 21 times it becomes a habit. Sometimes the number is different, but the idea is the same. Will power is only needed to repeat something enough times for it to become|turn into a habit.)

When you eat fast the body doesn’t have time to feel full. Go slow.

These are all great tips from regular people just like us. Most of them also happen to be common advice given by experts in safe weight loss. So ways to lose weight fast do exist, and they’re not something only professionals can know.