Looking for ways to get slim naturally? If you want to lose weight, but don't want to take diet pills or follow some ridiculous diet (cabbage, anyone?), you need to learn how people can get slim naturally, without much effort.

If you have to spend too much time to lose weight, you're likely to give up and go back to your regular habits because they are easier. The key to losing weight and keeping it off is to learn the little tricks that make losing weight easy. Take a look at these seven simple ways to get slim naturally (say that 10 times fast!):

Sometimes it feels like you have to work hard to lose weight. And don't get me wrong -- I know that fat loss takes effort. But sometimes we make it more complicated than necessary, don't you think? If you've got bad food habits, you can shed 10 pounds easily just by making small changes in your daily diet regimen. Make some of these small changes and watch the weight peel off.

Change #1: When cooking, quit using fatty oils to flavor up and moisten your dish. Instead, steam your food or use a pressure cooker. Cook it in broth and you'll still get the flavor without all of the calories. Oil can house 39 calories teaspoon. Steam or pressure-cook your food and you save 273 calories a week (and this is if you only use one tsp, which most people actually use much more)!

After a long, hard workweek it's completely understandable that you'd want to relax, unwind and enjoy the couple of days off you have over the weekend. This includes making a pit stop at the grocery store for stuff to cook on the grill, drinks to ice up in the cooler, and extra munchies to help pass the time since you're not in nose-to-the-grindstone work mode.

This is like an American pastime -- using our weekends to meet and eat with friends and family. It gets even more indulgent on holiday weekends when meals might include an entire smorgasbord of potluck goodies everyone brought by your house while they swim in your pool.

Even on non-holiday weekends, we tend to consumer more calories because we drink calorie-laden alcoholic beverages and we eat out in restaurants and ignore portion guidelines, ending our meals with desserts that have names like Death By Chocolate.

You don't have to let your free time that you spend on the weekends ruin all of the hard work you do to achieve or maintain trim figure during the work week. Pick one of these tips to help you whittle down your waist if you're prone to splurging from Friday night through Sunday:

I'll let you in a little secret the diet companies absolutely do not want you to know: the bottom line is, it doesn't matter what diet plan you follow! Take just about any diet plan, figure out the calories in one of their typical meal plans and chances are you'll see a daily calorie count of around 1400 - 1800 calories for women and around 1800 - 2100 calories for men. That creates a nice moderate calorie deficit to lose weight for just about anybody.

Anytime the topic of discussion in my blogs, articles or newsletters has turned to my own personal grocery shopping list, there has always been a spike in interest. It seems that many people are not only curious about what foods a natural bodybuilder eats to maintain single digit body fat, but they also want to be taken by the hand and told exactly what foods to eat themselves while on fat-burning or muscle building programs. That's why I decided to put together four separate "top 10" lists of healthy foods that burn fat and build muscle.

In order to lose weight, you need to create a calorie deficit. There are several ways to do this, but one quick way is to substitute healthy low calorie or low fat foods for the high calorie or high fat foods that you eat.

Here are 5 tasty substitutes for more common high calorie or high fat foods:

1) Soda pop has no redeeming qualities other than it tastes good. It's high in sugar, containing about 3 tablespoons per 12 ounce can, and often contains sodium and caffeine. Switching to diet soda made with an artificial sweetener is better than downing all the sugar. Better yet is to drink water instead. If the flavor of water gets boring, jazz it up by adding a squeeze of lemon, lime or orange juice. Try sparkling water as a change of pace. Add a slice of fresh fruit, like peach, or watermelon and mash it against the side of the glass to release flavors. Do this with fresh mint and lime and you have yourself a nonalcoholic mojito.

There are foods that can boost your weight loss program and are super for you. Include them in your diet as often as possible -- try to add at least two or three each day to your daily menu.

Here are 10 "superfoods" to help you lose weight and feel great:

Feast or famine? Is that how your lunch hour goes? You either skip lunch entirely because you're too busy and there are errands to run and chores to get done. Or you chow down on a fast food burger and fries. Neither is good for you or for losing weight.

If you skip lunch entirely, the odds are that a couple hours later you'll be famished and hitting the vending machine for chips and a candy bar. That means a fast rise in blood sugar and drop as well, which means another vending machine run. But if you splurge on a fat-filled calorie laden burger and fries you can use up your entire calorie allowance just on lunch, never mind all the fat and salt. Here are 5 ways to lighten up at lunch and lose weight:

Taking that first step to lose weight can be tough sometimes. Where do you start? Here are 7 simple changes you can make to your diet today to lose weight.

Snacking as a means of weight control has pros and cons. Eating every three to four hours means you don't feel hungry and your metabolism level is maintained. That's the good news. The bad news is that most of us don't allocate the snacks out of our daily allotment of food but tack it on to full three meals.