If you have read my past articles, you see that one of my goals for this summer was to lose weight. Since that article, I have achieved a partial percentage of my goal. I figured I'd share what I did to achieve weight loss of 11 pounds in two weeks. Please discuss your weight loss goals with a health care physician before attempting any dietary plan. To fully explain what I've been doing to lose weight, I need to take you through a full day of my life.
Start off by waking up in the morning after receiving eight hours of sleep. Eight hours of sleep is crucial for weight loss. While you're sleeping your body is processing sugar, water, and it's resetting your digestive system. If you are sleep deprived, don't bother checking your weight in the morning because your number will be inaccurate since your body is not done resetting itself.
After you've have gotten up in the morning and have done your hygiene routine, grab a nice cold refreshing cup of green tea with lemon. Green tea with lemon is really good for reducing the size of your midsection. It is also a good natural diuretic. I drink this every day and it keeps my digestive system flowing very nicely. It also helps ward off water retention and rids your body of stubborn water weight.
After you have had green tea with lemon, wait until 12 o'clock to eat your first meal. This is a light form of fasting. Depending on when you wake up, this form of fasting mostly occurs while you sleep. People who are busy in the mornings will have no problem following this schedule. This is a could be a perfect fasting schedule for you because you don't have to force yourself to eat in the mornings.
Fast forward to 12 o'clock. Are you ready for your first meal? This meal can be whatever you want. It's preferably known as the cheat meal. Before you have your first meal, you need to decide on a calorie deficit that is perfect for your height, weight and eating habits. I am 5'7 and I weighed 278 pounds prior to beginning my dietary plan. A good number for me was 1200 calories a day. I tested it and I lost a nice amount of weight in a way that kept me full and gave me a reasonable amount of weight loss per day. If you don't know where to start, check out this calorie consumption website where you can enter your height, weight and receive a suggested amount of calories for you to consume. Their numbers tend to be high so play around with the numbers and use what works for you.
The very first meal of the day was your cheat meal. It's the meal you were disciplined enough to put away when you had the urge to eat the day before. It's also your biggest meal. Usually, my first meal of the day is around 850 calories and my next 2 light meals make up the rest of the 1200 calories. The next two meals are light and they must consist of two vegetable servings and one fruit serving. With these two meals, you must have a small cup of coffee to chase it down. This is optional but its a great way to ward off future cravings for the night. My recommendation for those fruit and vegetables are to consume negative calorie foods. You can research what they are but what they do is require your body to use more calories in order to digest them than they are worth. In simple terms, by eating certain foods you can burn calories in the process.
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Personally, the first meal of the day for me is 3 large potatoes 3 pieces of cheddar cheese, and 2 beef hot dogs. For lunch and dinner usually, I'd have two cups of spinach and a piece of pineapple. This meal pyramid I just described allows you to consume one huge cheat meal in the beginning of the day because your body will process the entire meal throughout the day while leaving you wiggle room later on. If your next two meals consist of negative calorie foods then your body will work extra hard to process all the calories you will have eaten before you go to sleep.
Studies show that weight loss is guaranteed to stay off if you adopt an exercise routine as well as a dietary routine. A great way to equally gain muscle and lose body fat is to try Tabata. It's a four-minute workout that included 8 rounds of 30-second heartwrenching cardio followed by a ten-second rest. This workout burns 10-15 calories per minute and it burns an extra 150 calories after the workout is completed. It's a guaranteed metabolism booster. I would explain the science even further but you can view Tabatha (better known as HIIT) workouts on YouTube for free.
The very last thing I want to mention is for people who have experienced weight loss plateaus and a lack of motivation. If you need serious motivation in order to lose weight, download DietBet onto your iPhone or Android and bet on your weight loss. I was stuck on a weight loss plateau for months and I lost confidence and hope in myself. When I downloaded the app and saw how people lost so much weight and won thousands of dollars in the process, I had to check it out. My first bet I placed was ten dollars and two days after that I got serious and lost some weight. The next day I placed a 30 dollar bet and lost more weight. It's thrilling to see how much progress I've made and to be rewarded for my hard work. If you don't want to take chances with your money but want that communal support from others, try apps like Google Fit, Freeletics and so on.
