Here is a list of 5 important diet tips that will help you lose weight and keep the pounds off. The diet tips are straight from the mouth of an expert weight loss specialist from Harvard University.

1. Make sure to find time in your day to exercise at least once daily. If you end up not having the opportunity to exercise today, then make sure you do it tomorrow. Don’t keep putting it off, waiting for a time to be perfect, the time will never be perfect and you will just keep adding pounds and feeling miserable. Take a look in the mirror and if your feeling overweight that day then the first thing you can do is get off your butt and start moving. No excuses, if your knees hurt because your body is too fat then ride a stationary bike, if you can’t find a stationary bike then start doing some sit ups. Do something! start the thermo weight loss process by taking some sort of action that will make you sweat.

2. Don’t drink your calories. Basically, if you drink soda throughout the day, those are empty calories that are doing absolutely nothing for your body besides making your bones weaker and your teeth brittle. Start drinking water and low fat milk. That way you will be hydrating yourself and also saving your bones. Especially women should take note of drinking milk to maintain proper calcium levels.

3. Eat three fruits and three vegetables daily. Keep your food pure. Stop eating a bunch of filler calories such as chips and cookies and start focusing on healthy natural foods that absorb in your body like nature intended. Vegetables will also help lubricate your intestines so your stools can pass freely and won’t be constipated. Also, fruits have natural sugar in them that digests at optimal levels in your body to give you consistent energy. Try eating an apple before your exercise and notice the difference, it is truly amazing.

4. Eat lean proteins to go along with your vegetables. Listen, it is really simple. Eat clean foods like vegetables and fruits to maintain energy and then eat proteins to keep the muscle and burn the fat.

5. Limit your alcohol intake. Drinking too much alcohol not only gives you a bunch of empty calories that do not help your body at all, but it also leaves you bloated and dehydrated. Not only that, but you can be sure that alcohol will also stop muscle growth and fat burning because you are stunting your body with poison every time you drink. Don’t worry, if you have alcoholic tendencies or if you just like to get drunk and forget that your fat, then by all means get excessively drunk at least once a month, thats fine. But don’t drink 10-20 beers every single weekend.