![]() Weeks to Summer Shorts Diet Plan. By WLR Consultant Dietitian, Juliette Kellow BSc RDLet's face it, the thought of stripping off the layers and revealing, pale, bare flesh is enough to make most of us a little anxious. Scrubbing, buffing and a little fake tanning will help of course, but what about if you could go on your hol a good few pounds lighter? Most of us would feel better and have a bit more confidence on the beach. So we asked our favourite dietitian Juliette Kellow for a plan to make the most of those last few weeks before the holiday, here's the plan. ![]() ![]() Three Weeks to Summer Shorts is an easy- to- follow three- week eating plan that's designed to help you lose up to half a stone. Better still, it's suitable for most people. You can add the Summer Shorts Plan straight into your Food Diary in WLR (take a free trial if you want to try this), once it's there you can easily change bits of it to suit your tastes whilst still keeping on track to lose the weight. Jump to Daily Plans. Whether you've come to WLR to lose weight for your summer holiday or want to kick start a longer- term eating plan to help you shift several stone, this 3 week plan provides an easy way to get started. The plan will also be useful if you're already on the road to losing weight, but feel your motivation beginning to slip. The 3 weeks of focus will help you get back on track and leave you feeling inspired, as well as half a stone lighter! If you are looking to kick start a new weight loss routine or conquer a diet plateau, try Dr. Oz's new two-week rapid weight-loss plan. By loading up on healthy food. The Ultimate Healthy Weight Loss Meal Plan Nutrisystem is the least expensive meal. So forget about hiding those bulges under long baggy clothes. Instead, start following our plan today and in just three weeks you'll feel cool, comfortable and confident in shorts, t- shirts and swimsuits. Here's what to do.. It couldn't be easier! Over the next three weeks, simply follow the daily menu plans. It's fine to swap the order around to fit in with your lifestyle - for example, you may prefer to start your diet with the meals given for day 3, followed by day 6 and so on. You may repeat your favourite daily menu in place of one of the others or swap individual meals from one daily menu to the next if you don't like some of the choices given. In addition to the daily meal plans, choose ONE snack every day. You may choose from either the SAVE (1. SPLURGE (2. 50 calorie) snacks - remember though, the more times you choose the SAVE option, the more weight you'll lose! Each day, have 2. Milk is packed with calcium, needed for strong, healthy bones so it's important to have this every day. Remember, portion size matters! All teaspoon and tablespoon measurements should be level, one small can is equivalent to around 2. Add plenty of vegetables or salad to meals. You should eat five different servings of fruit and veg every day to boost your intake of fibre, vitamins and minerals. It's fine to sweeten fruit with a little artificial sweetener, if liked. Drink eight glasses of water each day, water really heps with weight loss. It's also fine to drink tea, coffee, herbal tea, and sugar free squashes. For even more focus on eating to get your body ready for the beach, see my holiday body diet tips. How many calories does the diet provide? Each daily menu, together with the milk allowance, adds up to 1,1. Choosing a SAVE (1. SPLURGE (2. 50 calorie) snack takes it up to 1,4. It's up to you whether you choose SAVE or SPLURGE, but as a general guideline, if you have less than 1st to lose you should opt for the SAVE snack, while if you have more than 1st to lose, you should choose the SPLURGE snack. Finally, as this is a short- term three- week plan, you may find it contains fewer calories than you've been having each day. Once you've completed the diet, you should go back to your usual daily calorie allowance recommended by WLR. Daily Menu Plans~ Day 1 ~Breakfast: Toast with marmalade and fruit (v)2 slices wholemeal toast with 2tsp of low- fat spread and marmalade. Plus a bowl of raspberries. Lunch: Turkey sandwich, chocolate mousse and fruit. Plus 1 pot low- fat chocolate mousse and 5 strawberries. Dinner: Roast beef with fruit salad and cream. Yorkshire pudding, 5 new potatoes boiled in their skins, vegetables, 1tsp horseradish sauce and fat- free gravy. ![]() ![]() ![]()
Plus 1 bowl fresh fruit salad with 1tbsp single cream.~ Day 2 ~Breakfast: Muesli with fruit and yoghurt (v)2tbsp unsweetened muesli with 1 pear and 1 small pot low- fat natural yoghurt. Lunch: Ploughman's roll (v)1. French bread filled with 4tbsp grated reduced- fat Cheddar cheese, 1tbsp pickle and salad. Dinner: Baked chicken and roasted new potatoes with fruit and ice cream. ![]() Place 6 new potatoes in their skins in a roasting tin, brush with 1tsp olive oil and sprinkle with fresh rosemary. Place in a hot oven until cooked. Meanwhile, bake 1 skinless chicken breast in the oven. Serve the chicken and potatoes with steamed vegetables. Plus a bowl of raspberries and 1 scoop reduced- fat ice cream.~ Day 3 ~Breakfast: Bacon roll and fruit. Plus 1. 0 grapes. Lunch: Jacket potato with fruity cottage cheese (v)1 jacket potato with 7tbsp cottage cheese, 2 pineapple rings canned in juice and salad. Dinner: Spaghetti bolognese with salad. In a non- stick pan, dry fry 1. Add 1 chopped small onion, 1 clove crushed garlic, 1 sliced carrot and a few sliced mushrooms. Cook gently until the veg are soft. Add 1 small can chopped tomatoes, 1tbsp tomato pur. ![]() Simmer until cooked through and the sauce thickens. Serve with 1. 50g/5oz cooked wholewheat spaghetti and salad. You can get a PDF of the full 7 day plan including recipes with our fortnightly newsletter simply enter your email address (never shared).~ Day 4 ~Breakfast: Fresh fruit salad and yoghurt (v)Fruit salad made from 1 small banana, 1 kiwi fruit, 2 pineapple rings canned in juice and 1. Lunch: Warm roast beef baguette. French bread filled with 2 thin slices hot lean roast beef, 1 sliced tomato and 2tsp horseradish sauce. Serve with salad. Dinner: Vegetable chilli with rice (v)Spray a non- stick pan with a spray oil, heat, and fry 1 chopped small onion, . Add chilli powder to taste and cook for a few minutes. Add 1 small can red kidney beans, 1 small can chopped tomatoes, 1tbsp tomato pur. Simmer until heated through and the sauce thickens. Serve with 7tbsp cooked brown rice and salad.~ Day 5 ~Breakfast: Wholemeal scone and fruit juice (v)1 wholemeal fruit scone with 2tsp low- fat spread and 1 small glass unsweetened orange juice. Lunch: Minestrone soup, salad roll, chocolate mousse and fruit (v)1 small can minestrone soup with 1 small wholemeal roll filled with salad and 1tsp reduced- calorie mayonnaise. Plus 1 pot low- fat chocolate mousse and 1 kiwi fruit. Dinner: Lamb chop and new potatoes with fruit. Plus 1 peach.~ Day 6 ~Breakfast: Apple muesli and milk (v)3tbsp unsweetened muesli with 1 apple and skimmed milk. Lunch: Salmon and watercress pitta with fruit. Plus 1. 0 grapes. Dinner: Turkey in black bean sauce with noodles. Spray a non- stick frying pan or wok with a spray oil, heat, and fry 1 chopped small onion and 1 clove crushed garlic, until soft. Add 1. 75g/6oz skinless turkey, cut into strips, and cook until brown. Stir in 3tbsp back bean sauce and heat through. Serve with 1 layer wholewheat noodles, cooked according to the pack instructions.~ Day 7 ~Breakfast: Croissant and jam (v)1 small croissant with 2tsp jam. Lunch: Soup and toast with mousse and fruit (v)1 small can carrot and coriander soup with 2 slices wholemeal toast. Plus 1 pot low- fat fruit mousse and 1 peach. Dinner: Baked salmon with potatoes and vegetables. Place 1 salmon steak on a piece of foil and sprinkle with lemon juice. Wrap up the foil and bake in the oven until cooked. Serve with 3 new potatoes boiled in their skins and steamed vegetables. It’s the practicalities that can often sabotage a diet. That’s why we’ve made this plan simple to shop for and prepare. If you use the plan in WLR you can produce a shopping list, swap meals around or substitute any that you don’t like. You can try it free. Take Our FREE Trial »~ Day 8 ~Breakfast: Beans on toast (v)1 slice wholemeal toast with 1tsp low- fat spread and 1 small can baked beans. Lunch: Jacket potato with tuna and sweetcorn mayo. Serve with salad. Dinner: Mushroom omelette, chips and salad with chocolate mousse (v)Spray a non- stick frying pan with a spray oil, heat, and fry a large handful of sliced mushrooms, until soft. Beat 2 eggs with 1tbsp skimmed milk and pour into the frying pan. Cook until the egg is almost set. Top with 2tbsp grated reduced- fat Cheddar cheese and place under a hot grill until the cheese melts. Serve with 1. 15g/4oz low- fat oven chips and salad. Plus 1 pot low- fat chocolate mousse.~ Day 9 ~Breakfast: Sultana cereal and juice (v)5tbsp branflakes with 1tbsp sultanas and skimmed milk. Plus 1 small glass unsweetened orange juice. Lunch: Tzatziki and pitta with fruit (v). Plus 1 small banana. Dinner: Bacon and tomato pasta. Spray a non- stick frying pan with a spray oil, heat, and fry 1 chopped small onion, until soft. Add 2 chopped rashers lean back bacon and cook for a few minutes. Drain any excess oil, add 1 small can chopped tomatoes, 1tbsp tomato pur. Simmer until cooked through and the sauce thickens. Stir in 6tbsp cooked wholewheat pasta, heat through and serve with 1tbsp Parmesan cheese and salad.~ Day 1. Breakfast: BLT sandwich. Lunch: Avocado pitta pocket and yoghurt (v)1 wholemeal pitta bread filled with shredded lettuce, . Plus 1 pot fat- free yoghurt. Dinner: Vegetable stir fry with salad and ice- cream (v)Spray a non- stick frying pan with a spray oil, heat, and add a selection of chopped vegetables eg spring onion, red pepper, broccoli, cauliflower, courgette and mangetout. Stir fry for a few minutes, then add 1tbsp each of soy sauce and dry sherry and cook until heated through Serve with 7tbsp cooked brown rice. Plus 1 bowl fresh fruit salad with 1 scoop reduced- fat ice cream. All evening meals can be easily scaled to serve 2 or 4. You can get recipe information, including how to prepare, in our free PDF of the full diet plan. Enter your email below and we’ll send you the plan now.~ Day 1. How to Lose Weight in 4 Weeks- Diet Chart for Weight Loss. Rati’s darling hubby wrote a very thorough article here about fitness. Making us girls acquainted with the point of view of the opposite sex. We all were totally impressed and agreed to every word he said. So let’s take the same thought a little further. To stay fit and maintain your shape a regular workout helps a lot. But when it comes to losing weight and getting back in shape, a regular workout or exercise routine won’t suffice. You will have to take it a step further and take care of your diet in order to lose weight. Even the gym instructors would tell you so. Exercise and diet are the two sides of a coin. You can’t achieve weight loss with just one of them. A regular exercise routine and a healthy diet is your route to salvation. I’m following a Indian diet myself by a leading dietician. Me, my cousin, some of her friends and a lot of people I know have taken diet from this dietician. And we all have lost a considerable amount of weight to say the least. You must be thinking that the diets given by the dieticians are personalized then how can we all follow the same diet routine with our different weights and blood groups. For starters, he doesn’t gives the diet according to the blood group. Though, generally the diets given by dieticians are personalized. I have noticed a similarity In the diets given to me and others. And since now, that I know his diets are universal. I’d want YOU, Rati’s lovely readers to reap its fruit as well. When I first went to this dietician, he told me to get some blood tests done. Like thyroid checkup, blood sugar, serum insulin in my case since I have PCOD. So it’s just not about losing weight but getting to know the underlying reason of piling on the kilos. In my case it was increased serum insulin levels. But in my cousins case all her tests were ok, she was gaining weight because of her erratic routine and the junk food she so loved. So if you think that you are doing everything right but still gaining weight, the first thing you should be doing is finding the underlying reason for it. First things first, If everything with you is fine your weight gain is due to lethargy, wrong dietary habits and erratic routine. So When u go on a diet make sure that whatever plan u follow it must be timed right as well. You must wake up latest by 8: 0. I used to wake up by 1. This is the most important thing in your routine because the body has its own clock and you shouldn’t mess with it. This diet is split in 4 weeks period with the diet changing every week. Before starting the diet weigh yourself and write it down somewhere. This way you know where you started and you feel good to see the scales going down. Some things you need to follow this diet: No salt after 7: 3. No aerated drinks. Yes that includes even the diet version. Restrict mango and banana. Restrict potato and rice. No artificial juices as well. Half an hour of aerobic exercise daily. If u want to join a gym good enough. But if due to any reason maybe time or money constraint u can’t join a gym. All you need is a comfortable pairof shoes to do some aerobics, a skipping rope to do at least 5. Just these basic things and you are set. Strain out the methi seeds and drink the water. Helps a lot in water retention and bloating) 5 soaked almonds with the skin. A small plate of salad before starting the meal. The fibers in the salad fills u up which in turn prevents false hunger that makes u overeat. Generally at my place dal is cooked at night so I used to store the dal made at night for the other days lunch, u can do the same. A small plate of salad before starting the meal. Also Read: 1. 0 Golden Rules to Weight Loss. When this week ends, weigh yourself again. I’m sure u must have lost weight. I lost 1. 8kgs in the first week itself. U lose the max in this week because you lose all the water weight and the bloating is gone. The further weeks you are surely going to lose weight but it won’t be this much. Now to the next week. Week 2. 8: 0. 0 am (as soon as you wake up) – 2 glasses of tulsi leave water ( soak 5 tulsi leaves in 2 glasses of water. Strain out the leaves and drink the water.) 5 soaked almonds with the skin. A small plate of salad before starting the meal. A small plate of salad before starting the meal. This week I lost just . Week 3. 8: 0. 0 am – 2 glasses of methi seeds water. Any one of the following for vegetarians: 1. Week 4. 8: 0. 0 am – 2 glasses of methi seeds water. This week you have a lot of options which you can take alternatively. By the end of the month you will definitely lose 3- 6 kgs I lost 4. PCOD. I’m sure u can do better. He also gave me some really good gyan as well. According to him when on a diet your social life won’t stop but you can still manage your weight without locking yourself at home. Some pointers for it: When you go out with friends try to have your lunch or dinner at subway. The healthiest option out there. Take a veggie delite sub in brown bread and eating out won’t harm your diet and weight at all. Tell them not to put mayo in it though. If you don’t have a say in the place of eating then make your choices sensibly. If you go to eat Chinese have rice rather than noodles. Order stir fried veggies instead of Manchurian. And control your proportions. Don’t take fried starters. Avoid those thick soups they are no good. When going out just pick 2 fruits before sitting in the car and eat it on your way to the venue. When you are already a little filled before going out. Your somewhat filled stomach helps your mind take the right decision. If eating Indian, order tandoori chappati rather than butter naan or parantha. Take less gravy since it is the most fattening. Even if you don’t want to lose weight keep these points in your mind and you will be able to maintain your weight easily. So go on a diet now and get your svelte figure back. P. S.: I really want to thank Rati for giving me a platform to share my thoughts and ideas without having me to bear with the responsibility of making a whole blog work. It is so convenient, without any complexity. Eachday becomes motivational when everyday u find the weighing scale moving. My daugbter who has PCOD and I going through pre menopausal phase were gaining weight, Both are benefitting out of this diet plan. Thanks ones again”. ANITA Realistic diet plan.. Loved it. September 3, 2. I have just started this plan with a few modifications which i think everyone should add in their diet Morning - add one glass of luke warm LEMON HONEY WATER It helps a lot in controlling weight”. Nisha Perfect. August 1. I'm planning to start with this one from tomorrow itself. Also I want to know what according to you is the best time for exercising, in case I plan to join gym too. But they say we should not eat anything 3 hours before or after gyming. Please advice!”. - Sheetal It's working. April 2. 5, 2. 01. Still have to reduce to 6. I am unable to do aerobics as got confused which video to be followed. Can u share Any aerobics video which u followed so it helps me alot.”. Eesha Tagged as. 4 week diet loss. It's relatively easy to get started and by following the guidelines, the pounds will melt off. The menu can get a bit boring but with a little ingenuity and menu planning, you will do great! The calorie intake is limited to 5. But as I said before, you will not feel any hungrier than usual, however, it may take a couple of days to get to that point so be sure to hang in there. Your very low calorie diet can't be just any calories. You really can't eat whatever you desire and expect the weight to come off. You have to eat very little fat, moderate carbohydrates, moderate protein and drink lots of water and continue to take your homeopathic HCG. Breakfast and Snacks on the HCG Diet Plan. Well, technically there aren't any breakfast or snacks. However, personally, I am unable to wait until lunch time for a meal. I would get too hungry so I pulled food from the lunch and dinner menu and spread it throughout the day. Simeons, the specialist who researched the HCG weight loss program, breakfast should just be liquids: Tea. Coffee. Herbal Tea. Non- Carbonated, Zero Calorie Drinks. My personal opinion: do not drink the zero calorie drinks as they contain aspartame, a very harmful artificial sweetener that can damage your brain cells. One other drink option in the morning is pure water with a splash of fresh lemon juice. This does two things: the lemon will naturally energize you; and help flush out the toxins from the fat you are burning. The water flushes too and re- hydrates you after a good night's sleep. If you are hungry at breakfast time, start eating an item or two from your lunch menu. I would take my food allotment for the day and spread it out. I usually never went more than 2- 3 hours without some sort of food that was on the HCG diet plan list. What's for Lunch & Dinner? Basically, lunch and dinner are same menu: one protein, one vegetable, one fruit, and one starch. For each meal you select one type of food from each category. You have to stay under the 5. Protein Choices: (2 servings per day)What we are looking for is lean protein that is very low in fat. For. instance, there are some fish that are high calorie, fatty or even oily. Each serving size is 3 ounces or for those of you outside the U. S. 1. 00 grams. Chicken breast. Lean beef. Lobster. Crab. Fresh white fish. Shrimp. Veal. The following items are not allowed because of their higher fat content: eel, herring, pickled fish, salmon, tuna, dried fish. Vegetable Choices: (2 servings per day)Always good to have a healthy dose of vegetables with your meal. Each serving size is 3 ounces: Beet Greens. Spinach. Green Salad. Chard. Chicory. Tomatoes. Celery. Red Radishes. Asparagus. Onions. Cucumbers. Cabbage. After the first weeks weeks on the protocol, I went out on a line with regard to vegetables and added broccoli, cauliflower and green beans. Since I knew my average weightloss, I found that my weight loss stayed the same when I changed up the veggies. I can't say the same will happen for you, but stick with the exact plan for the first few weeks before making any changes. Fruit Choices: (2 servings per day)An apple a day keeps the doctor away and in this case keeps the fat cells away. Here is the selection of fruit that is allowed. Select one for each meal. Strawberries (a handful)Small- medium sized orange. One apple. 1/2 of a grapefruit. Starch Choices: (2 servings per day)Now, this list is small and at first I didn't even like what was on it but after a while the melba toast tasted great!- -hard to believe, isn't it. Again, select one for each meal. One low fat breadstick. One Melba Toast Two Melba Rounds. Have a Drink. Water, water, water. Add a splash of lemon for flavor. Don't overdo the lemon as you still have to stay under the 5. Be sure to drink half your weight in ounces- -if you weigh 1. This is essential to your weight loss and will help with any potential constipation. If you need a little sweetness, add some stevia, it is a natural sweetener that doesn't have harmful side effects. HCG Diet Plan Points to Ponder. Cutting back on the fat in this program includes anything you might put on your skin or hair- no oil based products. Only use skin care that is allowed on the protocol. Be sure not to use oil based cosmetics or skin care, use only cosmetics allowed on the program. Plan your meals ahead of time. This will ensure you don't get overly hungry leading to overeating. Learn to make 5 minute meals. Food prep and planning goes a long way in helping you stay on target. Once you complete your weight loss phase, be sure to do the maintenance phase, to insure that you keep the weight off. You can learn more at HCG Fat Loss. Go to the Weght Loss Program Overview. Leave HCG Diet Plan and go to HCGDiet. From Monday January the 7th to January the 1. I lost over 4. 0 pounds within the first three months and I’m still going strong! The diet and program I describe below can typically produce 1. Note to women: Yes, you do lose weight differently than men. Your metabolisms are different and it’s important to keep this in mind. This post outlines solutions for women as well (our mom lost over 2. Here are my before and after pictures to checkout: The First Day and Week 2 weigh ins here: Initial Weight: 2. Pounds. Week 2 Weight: 2. Pounds. 15 pounds lighter in 2 weeks – needless to say I was pretty excited and this definitely helped me to keep going. I followed a customized fat loss program for 9. There is a female and a male version of this program. Click here if you are a women. If you are a man, click here. After the 9. 0 days this is where it took me: Initial Weight: 2. Pounds. Day 9. 0 Weight: 1. Pounds. Here is my before/after picture for the initial 9. I threw in a recent update from about a month ago – still going really strong like this. My brother, Devon had very similar results as well (although much less to lose). Even our mother was able to drop 2. Want more info on the program? If you are a women, click here. If you are a man, click here for your program. This has been life changing and actually a lot of fun! This post is meant to be a recap on the types of lifestyle changes we’ve made and and overview of what we did to lose this weight. We hope it can help as many people as possible. Although we did end up exercising a bit, most of the losses we noticed were from optimizing a meal plan and program that worked specifically for us. If you’re serious about losing some weight then you might want to check out the customized fat loss program (for men) Or its sister program called the Venus Factor (for women). Please take some time to review some of the post, but much of the info was taken from this program (Men: click here. Women: click here. The video on the page is about 2. The program is only about $4. I used to spend on pizza every weekend. Follow the link below to check it out. It’s crazy what dropping as little as 1. It was going through this process that sparked my renewed interest in the health and fitness community and snow balled into me being much more passionate about all this. If you’re looking to lose weight quickly, there are three things you need to optimize or focus on: Your diet – what you eat and drink. Your exercise – timing and duration of specific exercises. Supplementation – speeding up the process with the help of safe drugs. I really think that the best way to lose weight is by optimizing your diet. More specific it’s to manage your blood sugar levels and eat for your specific metabolism. Women, click here to see the program that’s specific for the female metabolism (this is how our mom lose her weight. Men, click here to check out the customized fat loss program for guys. I lost my weight by only optimizing my diet. I changed what I ate dramatically and literally melted the weight off. I remember waking up on the fourth day after starting this in complete amazement by the fact that my fingers felt skinny. I’m not sure if it was the amount of salt I ate or what, but my fingers and hands have felt fat for the last year – this alone was enough to keep me going. For the sake of this overview, I will not go into any detail on supplements (as I have yet to learn much about them), and will only briefly touch on exercising. Instead, I’ll focus on optimizing diet for rapid weight loss. So how did I lose this weight so quickly? I kept my blood sugar from spiking by following a fat loss program built for me. It was quite similar to the slow carb diet. The methods I used were from the advice I found from a variety of locations, surrounding foods and how diet alone can make for some amazing weight loss. You can get the program we used for this right here: women click here – and – men click here. Not going into details of the diet (you can read that yourself). These were the key changes I made that I know helped with the rapid weight loss. I ate a big, high- protein breakfast. I love my breakfasts. It’s crazy to think that I could lose 1. It’s great though because in the evening when I sometimes get cravings, I will just remind myself how awesome breakfast is going to be. I included a picture to the right of a typical breakfast that I will eat. It’s three fried eggs, 4- 6 pieces of bacon, and fried mushrooms, onions, and beans. Delicious. Lets be honest, there were mornings that I just didn’t have it in me to make this. For those mornings I would fall back to just 2- 3 hardboiled eggs, or a single hardboiled egg and a protein shake made with water + whey protein isolate. Since I work from home, I can typically take the time to make a big breakfast, but probably 1/6 days I would have to fall back to the quick breakfast. Remove most dairy products. This wasn’t a huge issue for me. I haven’t drank much milk since junior high, and although I do enjoy cheese on almost everything it was easy enough to give up. Luckily, I could still use butter to cook with, and if you are like the many people that love cream in their coffee – this is okay as well as long as it’s heavy cream and not milk. Cheese is a big part of my cheat days as I explain below. Water, Coffee, or Tea. This was one of the biggest challenges for me. That said it is crazy how fast you can lose weight quickly if you simply cut out drinking unnecessary calories. Admittedly, I’ve historically enjoyed a beer or two over dinner at home – and even more than one or two if out with some friends. Although I don’t think there’s anything wrong with a beer a night, or a glass of wine a night, I know the former is not great for losing weight. If all you have is two weeks to lose weight, you’re going to have to be very strict with this rule. Luckily you can still drink any water- based drink such as coffee and tea, so it’s not all bad. I usually have a huge glass of ice cold water plus one or two large cups of coffee in the morning to kick start my day. I often use cinnamon to flavour my coffee – it’s a great tip for those of you that really enjoyed adding milk. No white carbohydrates. In fact, anything that is white or can be white. So no pastas, no rice, no breads, no oatmeal, no potatoes, etc. However, I still ate a ton of carbohydrates. I just ate better high- fiber carbs such as black beans, kidney beans, and lentils. The latter I didn’t really enjoy, so most of my meals were made up of beans. The picture to the left is an example of what I would eat for supper. This night I had a spread of black beans, cooked frozen veggies, and sliced ham. I basically substituted the ham for any other meat – chicken, beef, or pork mostly – and alternated between black and kidney beans. Note – if you find your food getting bland, try using mustard and pepper. For lunch, I’ll often take 1/2- 1 can of tuna, 1- 2 cups of frozen veggies, and a big scoop of bean, cook in the microwave, add a couple squeezes of mustard and pepper and shake. Moderate 2. 0 minute weight resistance twice per week. When I was reading the Four Hour Body, it really got me interested in how the body works and how it deals with exercise, food, etc. This is one thing that I think really helped me – especially during my cheat days. I will do a light to moderate 2. Bicep curl x 1. 5Air squats x 5. Military shoulder press x 1. Wide arm pushups x 2. Against- the- wall tricep extensions. As many close- grip pull ups as possible. Calf raises x 3. 0The goal of the workout was to promote food storage to muscle instead of fat – this is especially important during your cheat days. During my cheat day I will look to do the air squats + tricep extensions even if I’m eating out. I didn’t go to the gym at all for this, instead I just took a couple old 2. If you don’t have a pull up bar don’t buy one, simply exchange the exercise for a back row or seated back fly exercise. I also don’t own a weight bench so no need to spend your money on that. What I’ve learned since losing even more weight is that these workouts are pretty important if you want to lose weight fast. They aren’t necessary but they certainly do help shed some extra pounds by keeping the fat off, especially on your cheat day. I gave myself one cheat day. I say one cheat day, because I wanted to illustrate the fact that this diet can be used for people wanting to know how to lose weight in 2 weeks. If you are only using this as a fast way to lose weight, then you’ll only want to indulge in one cheat day during your two- week period. However, I now give myself every Saturday as a cheat day. I believe that this cheat day is important for a number of reasons. Firstly, the science behind it suggests that if you go for too long on a limited- calorie diet (which this isn’t, however I noticed that it took me much, much less food to fill me up when I ate well, so you tend to naturally eat less on this diet) that your metabolism will shift to a lower gear in order to compromise for the lower intake of calories. By cheating one day and spiking the number of calories you consume, it will keep your metabolism from doing this – and allow you to maintain your high metabolic rate throughout the week. Personally, I find the cheat day important because it gives you something to look forward to. This diet is a huge change from most Westerners’ lifestyles. With the diet comes a lot of cravings, especially in the beginning. I would make a little note of anything that I was craving and made sure I went out and bought it Saturday morning. For example, this is what my first cheat day looked like: Breakfast – bacon and eggs with hash- browns, toast, a ton of ketchup, and a fruit smoothie. Snack – Full bag of All Dressed potato chips and a large bag of sugar candy (Cherry Blasters)Lunch – Entire box of extra cheesy Kraft Dinner. Snack – 2 large Caramilk chocolate bars. Supper (and evening snack) – 1/2 large poutine, a few garlic fingers and 7 slices of a 1.
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