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Want to lose weight, but find it hard to stick to a diet? Or is it that there are so many different diets with conflicting advice that you just don't know what to, or not to, eat anymore? For someone who can't afford the sometimes pricey Mediterranean Diet, or cringes at the thought of a carb starvation diet, here are ten quick tips using general knowledge to help you shed weight, even if you can not hold to a regimented diet.

1) If you drink a lot of soda, stop! For many people who drink soda, switching to water alone may be enough to lose up to twenty or more pounds in a year. The average can of soda contains 150 calories. Even if you stop drinking one a day, that's 54,750 calories in a year. That's 15 pounds of calories, not to mention sugar, or the fact that the carbonated water makes your body keep on water weight. Dump the soda.

2) Drink lots of water. Aside from reducing liquid calories (which for some people make up 1/3, or even of their calories in a day), drinking five glasses of cold water in a day burns about 50 calories. It's not much, but it is about 5 lbs in a year. If you switch from one or two pops a day to five glasses of water, you are actually making over a twenty pound shift in one year! It's just that easy.

3) Walk. Walking is one of the best ways of burning calories and moving up your metabolism. Walking is low impact, and fifteen to forty-five minutes a day not only burns some extra calories, but it simply makes you feel better!