The Fastest Weight Loss Diet In 8 Easy Steps
When it comes time to lose weight, we all want to do it FAST! Here's 8 simple steps to the fastest weight loss diet.
1 - Creating YOUR fastest weight loss diet is easy if you approach it on a one step at a time basis.
In business, it's an axiom that you cannot improve what you don't monitor. The same is true about your weight. You need to know what and how much you are eating before you can make any improvements. A daily food diary where you list everything you eat will quickly give you the information you need.
Then start cutting back on the bad foods and implementing more healthy foods.
Next in our quest for the fastest weight loss diet is exercise. Stop groaning, I don't like it either, but you have to do it. Start off (one day at a time) easy. Maybe 10 - 15 minutes of low intensity walking. Than as you get in better shape, increase the intensity and duration. Start adding in other exercises and so on...
2 - The fastest weight loss diet relies on one thing for it's success. You have to stick with it! (Obviously.) If you pick exercises and food that you enjoy, it makes it fun and not a drudgery.
The glycemic index charts list foods by a ranking number and (usually) lower is better. There are tons of options, so trade out bad foods with ones that rank lower but you still like to eat! Even if it's only a couple points difference, you are making progress.
Hate stomach crunches with a passion? Does the thought of another mind numbing jog bring you to tears? Make your exercising FUN! Try dancing around the house! (No not just dancing, I mean DANCING!) Grab the kids and make a contest out of who can dance the wildest! You'll feel like a fool but you'll all be rolling on the floor laughing before it's over. Try tennis, anything...just get moving.
3 - To kick your fastest weight loss diet into high gear, build and tone your muscles.
To lose weight, we want to burn off more calories than we take in...pound for pound, muscle burns more calories than fat! Plus, you get a nice added bonus - muscle burns calories even when not being used. You could lose weight while sleeping or watching TV! Add some weight training into your daily routine and you will really speed up your metabolism. You'll look and feel better and it will be easier to stay that way.
4 - Carbohydrates play an important part in our energy levels and bodily functions. The body digests them and turns them into glucose which is the "blood sugar" everyone is always talking about. To cut them out of your fastest weight loss diet plan would be a mistake. But, you want to avoid blood sugar spikes and left over glucose which is stored as fat. Start steadily switching to carbohydrates ranked lower on the glycemic foods index.
5 - One of the biggest problems with people carrying through with their fastest weight loss diet is goal setting. Either they don't set a goal at all, which is a disaster, or they make their goals unrealistic. Either way is a killer. Choose goals you know you can attain and make them measurable by setting deadlines. Set short term AND long term goals.
In making lifestyle changes, it's not a contest. The size of the goal is far less important than the ability to stick with it. After all, it's better to comfortably lose a pound a week for a year, than it is to starve yourself and lose ten pounds in a week, then give up and regain it all, plus 15 more pounds to boot!
6 - To reach a successful conclusion to your fastest weight loss diet, you need to cut out all the "empty calorie" foods. Candy, soft drinks, pastries are bad for you. It's beyond the range of this article to get into explanations why, but they are far worse than you might ever imagine! And not just because they make you fat. That's the least of it.
The bonus here is that by cutting out all these fat inducing empty calories, most of us will start to see dramatic weight loss without doing anything more!
7 - Losing weight on the fastest weight loss diet demands that you eat a good breakfast. Your body will recognize this as having plenty of food and will jump start your metabolism! Without breakfast, your body thinks you're starving and slows down the metabolism making it impossible to keep our weight off.
Most of your daily calories should be consumed as early as possible. No more midnight snacks.
8 - Mother always yelled at us to clean our plates but for the fastest weight loss diet, you've got to be willing to leave some behind. Take smaller portions. Portion control is difficult at first but gets easier with practice. Control what you put in your body and you will find weight loss (and keeping it off) to be relatively easy.
The fastest weight loss diet has to not only give you the ability to take off the weight, but to keep it off. Start working these ideas into your diet - one day at a time - and you'll be surprised at the ease of losing weight - for good.
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