Latest researches have shown that loosing weight is not only to deprive you from diet and hectic workouts. Rather small baby steps instead of giant jumps to get lasting results. Annals of Behavioral Medicine recently published that participants who made one small permanent change in their eating habit or in a physical routine each week, lost more than two and a half inches waistlines as compared to those who followed the traditional calorie guidelines. Following are a few effective tips that if you follow will help you to loose those few extra pounds.

1) Food Log

Write down how much you eat and you will tend to practice portion control. This will help you avoid mindlessly and keep away the extra calories. It will remind you that you just ate half an hour back. According to researches people who keep written record of what they eat, tend to loose twice as much weight to those who don't. Moreover if the same practice is combined with moderate diet and exercise plan results can even be far better.

2) Skip in breaks

Don't just sit idle during the commercial breaks on TV. Move around; quickly tidy up your living room or lounge, skip or dance, run up the stairs. Do anything that would rate up your heart beat. Practice this every two minute break, and you will be quite surprised by the results. You can easily burn 270 calories per day and can lose around 28 pounds weight in a year.

3) Minimize high calorie food

Consider the high calorie fat food as deadly weapons for your body. Snacks like candies, cookies, chips/fries and ice cream are threats to your weight. Suppose you are taking seven of them per week, then reduce it to 6 and gradually cut them down every week. Drop until you reach to one or two. At the same time, go for fresh fruits, vegetables, carrots, leafy vegetables etc.

4) Climbing up stairs

It has been researched that people who climb 2-3 minutes of stairs daily, covering about three to five floors can burn calories and avoids 1-2 pounds gain of weight per annum. It's helpful for your waistline as well.

5) Whole Wheat

Prepare your own chicken breast on whole wheat bread with low calorie mayonnaise and lots of lettuce and vegetables. You will avoid 400 calories as compared to the chicken you will get from restaurant full of sodium and fats.