• Font Size    

Most Popular Videos Featured On KDKA.com

Pittsburgh Festivities Kickoff Holidays
E-mail

Close Window E-mail This Page

8 Tips To Look Slimmer In 1 Week

Required fields are marked with an asterisk(*)

The information you provide will be used only to send the requested e-mail and will not be used to send any other e-mail communications. Read more in our Privacy Policy

Send E-mail

   Print     Share +   
Nov 3, 2009 5:40 pm US/Eastern

8 Tips To Look Slimmer In 1 Week

PITTSBURGH (KDKA) ― With the holidays coming up, many want to look and feel their best when they put on that little black dress or Thanksgiving sweater.

However, if you don't have time for a diet, you can still look and feel slimmer.

Prevention Magazine and UPMC Dietician Leslie Bonci, has eight things to add or subtract from your diet to look and feel slimmer in one week.

Do you ever get the feeling that as you get older, your stomach seems to get bigger?

As we get older, it takes longer for food to leave our stomachs, plus air can get trapped in there too and that makes clothes tight around the waist.

But, there are simple ways to solve the problem quickly by adding or subtracting things from your diet.

First add not one, but two kinds of fiber. Soluble and insoluble.

Many foods already have both, like fruit and potatoes.

The peel or skin has insoluble fiber while the inside has the soluble fiber.

You also get insoluble fiber in bran and soluble in oats.

Another way to feel thinner is to subtract sodium, which makes you retain water and look and feel bloated.

Most people eat more than two times the recommended daily amount of 1,500 milligrams of sodium.

In fact, the average five sprinkles of salt from the shaker is 1,100 milligrams alone.

And that doesn't count the high sodium in processed foods we eat.

"Sodium tends to make the body hold water. Potassium may actually do the opposite effect of helping body lose water," Bonci said.

That's the next tip. Add potassium rich foods, like potatoes, bananas, oranges, yogurt, milk, tomato sauce and spinach.

Number four, subtract raw produce because it takes up a lot of volume in the stomach.

Instead, substitute a big salad with cooked broccoli or cauliflower.

Number five, subtract sugar alcohols, like sorbitol, mostly in gum and mints. They can cause bloating because the body doesn't break them down well.

That goes along with number six: subtract candy, gum and soda.

When you chew gum or suck on candy with your mouth open, you're ingesting air which bloats your stomach.

The next tip, add more fluids.

Women should get 90 ounces a day, or 11 eight-ounce cups. Men should get 125 ounces a day, or 15 eight-ounce cups.

The best choices -- water and tea.

Number eight, add yogurt with probiotics, which are good bacteria and help with digestion.

(© MMIX, CBS Broadcasting Inc. All Rights Reserved.)

Featured Slideshows On KDKA.com

You need the latest Flash player to view video content.
Click here to download.

Click here to bypass this detection if you already have the latest Flash Player.

Health

Top News Stories

© MMIX, CBS Broadcasting Inc. All Rights Reserved.