For the past few months, there were just two words in your diary: lose weight. You have actually tried everything and anything possible, what you heard from your friends, neighbors, television commercials, print ads and fake lose weight billboards, to shed those pounds and get in shape. Here’s the scenario now: you are deprived of food pleasures, worn out from working out, scared of weighing scales, tired of slimming teas, and still looking obese.

Since none of this has worked, why not try adding a few words to your vocabulary: lose weight unconventionally. Who knows, these top ten alternative ways to get in shape might actually work better for you?

Top 10: Laundry? Yeah Man, Here I Come!

Start loving Sundays, the day when you do all of your laundry. Cancel all your appointments on this day and allot this especially for laundry. If you’ve got a big family, volunteer to do their laundry as well.

Aside from losing weight, you can also become the apple of their eyes, or ask something in exchange. You can offer your services for a few bucks per piece, or have them treat you.

Doing laundry can actually work your arms, such as your biceps and triceps. You can also develop great buns and thighs if you do a lot of squatting while washing the clothes. Carrying pales of wet clothes is also like lifting weights, which is a great anaerobic workout for faster fat burning.

Oh, but don’t use the washing machine. (For more information on doing the laundry, learn the Top seven laundry cleaning tips)

Top 9: Work It Out with Woof

Playing golf or badminton with your friends can be boring at times. Not only do you see the same faces, but you do the same movements as well. Try this alternative: play with your dog. You can also go for the frisbee with your mouth and jump as high as you can. If nobody’s looking, roll on your stomach like a dog, sit ardent like a dog would when told, fetch baskets and shoot balls using your elbows. Why not also try doing headstand? Yes, just like a dog.

Top 8: Ain’t No Mountain High Enough

Whether you’re a student or librarian staff, you can do this alternative exercise anytime. If you’ve got lots of free time at school, why not hang out at the library. This may sound geeky, but for the sake of slim body and well-toned torso, be a geek! Try sitting close to the book racks. Here is what you’re going to do: every time someone comes near and tries to get a book, offer to get it for him or her. Use a climber if necessary.

This alternative exercise makes you stretch your upper body for a leaner look, same as the effect of pilates or yoga. A bonus for you is helping handsome or hot students. You can even have this for a hobby, because you have the heart to “reach out” to people.

Top 7: Laughter is the best medicine.

The best, but not often prescribed medicine for obesity is laughter. When you do this, open your mouth wide enough and your stomach will be filled with air in no time, leaving you lighter, and full of gas.

Top 6: Bind the Bulge.

If in ancient China, women were feet-bound, why not make this practice alive again? This time, it’s your bulges that you will tame.

If you have a higher budget and go for high quality aesthetics, you can buy waist trimmer bands or magic girdles from home television shopping. On the other hand, you can always improvise. Take a long cloth and wrap it around your waist. Just be careful because binding bulges can result in bulges appearing at the higher or lower areas. You surely don’t want added love handles or armpit fat.

Top 5: Smell the food first.

Take in the spirit of the food. Yes, devour the succulent scent of the chicken. With your eyes feasting on the food, use the ability of your nose to take in the delicious odor your food emits. Though there is no single study that would say this can get you in shape, you can still try and see for yourself. Smelling can give you little bit of satisfaction. Let your mind take in the projected taste of the food through its smell. When you have tasted it in your mind, who knows, the food might lose its appeal to your stomach?

Top 4: See Thin, Be Thin

This one is the perfect alternative way in which to release your creativity. Take Beyonce posters or Arnold Schwarzennegger pictures and hang them up in your room. Be sure that the first thing you see when you wake up is these pictures.

Also, open your computer and change the screen saver to “I am on the way to becoming thin and in shape.” Every morning, also allot about ten minutes imagining and visualizing you and your new shapely body. Add more excitement by listening to lose weight subliminal or hypnosis mp3s. As they say, “What the mind can conceive, the body can achieve.”

One thing you must avoid though is hanging out with obese people, because as another saying goes, “Birds of the same feather flock together.”

Top 3: Swallow parasites

Who said dogs are men’s best friends? For those who want to lose weight, tapeworms can be your greatest companions. Parasites, I mean. Tapeworms enter your body through direct skin penetration. They enter your body through your feet. Remember when your mother used to scold for not wearing slippers? This is exactly why.

Tapeworms, as parasites, feed on what you eat. They actually prevent your body from storing the excess food. Many people who have lived with tapeworms are characterized as thin.

Top 2: Mom Knows and Talks Best

This is a tried and tested method to lose interest in your food. Some people would block their ears and pretend they don’t hear anything their parents blab about, and just proceed to eat. What you have to do is the opposite. Unplug your ears and really listen to what your mother has to say. In just a few minutes of her nagging and unstoppable blabbing, you will surely lose your appetite. Congratulations! You will then eat less.

Top 1: You can still be sexy

When everything fails, simply accept the way you are. You are a gift of God and you are perfect the way you are. Love yourself first and then the world will fall in love with you.

These are just suggestions on how to those fat and get in shape. Proper diet and regular exercise are still the best combination to get that kick-ass body. For more information regarding this topic, read how to get rid of fat.

 

* If you’re on a tight budget, there are ways on how to eat healthy on a budget.

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