by Dan Beckwith
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.
You can’t make improvements in what you don’t monitor. That is an axiom in business and is one in our weight loss efforts as well. If you don’t know what and how much you are eating, how can you make the appropriate changes? Start a simple food diary and list everything you eat for a few days, that will give you all the data you need to start making changes.
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 – Success in your fastest weight loss diet will boil down to whether or not you can stick with it…so select foods and activities that you enjoy doing.
Check the glycemic index chart and find foods that are a better option than what you are now eating, but that you still like! There’s tons of tasty options and any time you can switch one food for a lower ranking one, even if it’s only a couple points difference…you are making progress.
The same ideas apply to exercise. Bored with mind numbing crunches and jogging? Try wildly dancing around the house! Wilder is better! Get your kids involved. You’ll feel like an idiot and laugh the whole time. Tennis anyone?
3 – If you are ready to really kick your fastest weight loss diet into the atmosphere, you will want to start building and toning your muscles.
Believe it or not, pound for pound, muscles burn more calories than fat. And, that’s what we want! As an added bonus, muscles burn calories even when they are not being used! You can literally burn off pounds while you sleep or watch TV. Work out with weights and not only will you look and feel better, you’ll really speed up your metabolism.
4 – Your body needs carbohydrates for energy. They get digested and turned into glucose – which is the “blood sugar” you keep hearing about. But, excess carbohydrates don’t get burned, they get stored as fat. So, in your fastest weight loss diet you need to cut back. Substitute foods lower on the glycemic foods index and you will do fine.
5 – Goal setting can be your biggest asset or the reason you fail in your fastest weight loss diet. We either don’t set goals, (we’ll give up during the first rough patch) or we set unrealistic goals that never have a chance of working. Set both short and long term goals and set some deadlines so you are accountable. Above all, make sure the goals are easily reachable.
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 – It goes well beyond the scope of this article to explain why, but candy, sodas, cookies and other “empty calorie” foods are bad for you. I mean really bad and not just because they make you fat. If you want better health and success in your fastest weight loss diet, cut them out.
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 – To lose weight on the fastest weight loss diet, you have to eat. Not only that, you must have a good breakfast. It’s this that will trigger your metabolism and speed it up throughout the day. Go without and your metabolism slows way down and when you finally DO eat, your body thinks it has been in starvation and will still keep your metabolism at the low point. It stores the food as fat rather than using it as energy.
No more raiding the refrigerator at midnight.
8 – At some point almost every child has had his or her mother tell them to clean their plate. In most cases mother gave us good advice, but not this time. You need to cut back on your portion sizes and on top of that, be willing to leave some on your plate. It can be hard to get used to…portion control…but with experience, it gets better. Cut back on what you put in your body and you will find losing weight to be a snap.
Start working these tips into your life…one day at a time…and you’ll soon realize that it really IS the fastest weight loss diet. Not just because of the weight loss, but because it stays off.
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