Want to look svelte and slim without sweating it out in the gymnasium? Try these simple tips, changes in everyday life and get the results.

• Sleep tight: You may be amused to know that sleep has a lot to do with weigh gain. When you sleep, a hormone called Leptin is produced in your body. Leptin works to help you lose weight in 2 ways. It stops you from eating. It sends a signal to your brain when your stomach is full. It also prompts you to expend energy. So when your sleep cycle is disrupted, you may gain weight.

• Don’t skip meals: You are not going to be helped in weight loss anyway by starving. It will only serve to make you ravenous, so that you will eat the first thing that you see. And this may not be healthy. Also when you skip meals, your blood sugar level falls and your metabolism slows down. And its elementary that a slow metabolism makes it harder for you lose weight.

• Walk when you can: A majority of overweight people will tell you that they lead a sedentary lifestyle. They take the car to work and back. They use the elevator where there they can use the stairs. They spend most of their work time working from chairs. Basically, they get no exercise. How can they work some exercise into their life? Pace when you are on the phone. Take the stairs instead of the elevator. Walk around during commercial breaks on TV. Walk to work and back.

• Control those emotions: Losing you cool and getting angry can make you gain weight. Stress raises the level of the hormone cortisol in the body and this increase can make you gain weight.

• Say no to cookies and junk food: Get into the spring cleaning mode and rid your kitchen and pantry of all unhealthy snack items. Don’t store cookies in glass jars where they are plainly visible. ‘Out of sight, out of mind is an a adage which may be useful in controlling your snacks craving.

Follow these simple strategies and lose weight the easy way.