Are you on a diet plan to control the body weight and shed some extra weight? Or, have you determined to lose some weight by following a healthy eating plan for the year 2010? There are plenty of tips and diet plans in internet that promise to work and make you fit. But in reality, there are very few genuine and good tips that actually work. One has to also remember that all diet plans do not work for everyone. You need to choose a diet plan depending on your body weight, kind of weight you have, cholesterol level and eating habits.

In this article, I list 3 tips to lose weight and follow a healthy eating plan.

1. Drink Excess quantity of water.

Drinking water is very much important to keep the body from getting dehydrated. Our body leaves of waste materials and other excretory wastes and so it is highly important that we maintain the water level in the body. Especially, during the dieting process, water acts as a energy source and keeps the body hydrated. Water in the body helps us to stay active all the day and the more water you drink, the better the digestive system works. So, ultimately it helps in the digestion of the food materials and sees that fatty materials do not get settled in the body. If you think drinking excess water is boring, you can mix up citrus fruit with it. Stay away from those so called energy drinks and soda.

2: Have 5-7small meals at regular intervals.

Even if you are with full hunger, do not eat stomach full. And also at the same time do not starve in the name of dieting. It is important that you eat food to stay fit and active. But you have to consume meals in small quantity but at regular intervals like for every 3-4hours a day. The food you intake gets digested in 3hours and so start eating again. Remember to eat in small quantities and avoid full regular meals. This process is known as grazing. This burns the calories and also increases the metabolism rate. Digestion needs energy and the energy that is gained by previous meal helps to get the food you eat now digested. In this way, no energy gets wasted and metabolism rate increases.

3: Eat healthy snacks and nutritional food.

There are zero nutritional values in junk foods like chips and ice creams. It is important that you need to intake nutritional foods if you are on strict diet and are following some dieting plan. An apple or any other fruit and even a slice of whole grain bread have some nutritional values. Consume them as snacks at times if you feel like eating anything quick and tasty.

The above 3 tips contribute to your already existing healthy eating plan and they work great in making your body lose extra weight.