Of course, you still need to exercise, but......
 

1. Eat Regular Meals

Regular meals translate into a higher metabolism and more calories burned though your day.  Skipped meals slow metabolism and make your body think that it is starving, encouraging it to hold on to fat. When you miss meals, you end up gaining more weight in spite of eating fewer calories. Shoot to eat three or four meals per day, and avoid snacking in between.

2. Eat Fiber

Fiber cleans our your digestive tract, and a clean digestive tract is critical to proper digestion. Since improperly digested food is more likely to end up being stored as fat, eating enough fiber directly prevents fat storage. In addition, fiber both fills you up, meaning you consume fewer calories, and slows down the digestion of carbohydrates, which also helps prevent fat storage. Finally, processing fiber through your body actually burns calories.

3. Drink Plenty of Water

Fat gets burned through a process called “hydrolysis” which literally translates as “breaking with water”. Every molecule of fat in your body has to go through this process before you can burn it for energy. As a result, if you aren’t properly hydrated, your body can’t burn fat as efficiently. Drink 3 to 4 liters of quality water per day to keep your fat burning biochemistry working at full speed.

4. Get Up and Move for at Least 5 Minutes Every 90

Ok, so this is technically exercise, but were just talking about walking here. The point isn’t to burn fat directly by walking around for five minutes – that won’t happen. But a brief walk every 90 to 120 minutes will keep your metabolism up, meaning you’ll burn more fat across the course of your day.

5. Visualize Exercise

Seriously, this works! The doctors and trainers for the US Olympic team have knows for decades that closing your eyes and picturing exercise activates many of the same nerves and muscles as actually doing exercise, resulting in some of the same changes in the body. Daily exercise visualization sessions can increase cardiovascular health, and even raise metabolism, helping to reduce fat stores. Check out The Power of Visualization for tips on how to put visualization to work in your life.