Have you tried almost everything and still can not deal with weight reduction effectively? Are you constantly torturing yourself with restrictive diets that bring short-term effects with a powerful yo-yo effect? Does your life look like a typical parabola consisting of periods of ascetic diet and paralysis?
Maybe this time it is worth trying to approach this problem a little differently and eventually deal with extra kilos once and for all? First of all, you must realize that in the case of reduction, the guarantee of success is not a quick loss of kilos, but a long-term lifestyle change and increasing dietary awareness. Get to know four simple rules that will make your reduction challenge not a failure this time.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
- Make changes gradually
- Turn up the metabolism
- Do not set yourself on fast weight loss
- Start your diet and plan your tactics
- Make changes gradually
One of the most common reasons for your failure is to use too many stimuli at once. You’ve never trained, followed any diet, restricted simple sugars and alcohol consumption? No wonder that if you suddenly start training 5 times a week and you follow a draconian diet, your body will rebel in the most normal way in the world. Apply the small steps technique and make changes gradually but regularly. Your body that is not adapted to physical effort will respond quickly to even small stimuli. There is no need to throw yourself into deep water, where the probability of failure is much greater.
Set up a gradual tactic and implement it step by step, enter challenges every week, for example
- limit sweets;
- train every other day for one hour;
- write a diet with a small negative calorific balance;
- add one workout a week;
- completely eliminate sweets;
- train daily;
- cut another 200 kcal from the diet.
- Turn up the metabolism
A long-lasting hunger strike is the easiest way to slow down your metabolism. An organism that you do not supply for about 6 hours begins to activate defense mechanisms on the basis of „He is starving me, so I have to start saving.” The principle of eating less, but more often, seems to be the most appropriate solution. Another way to boost your metabolism may be to eat protein in every meal. From time to time it will be beneficial to make a cheat meal in exchange for a weekly diet (this will increase the level of leptin – satiety hormone, which drastically decreases during a long-term diet, hindering further weight loss). However, try to make sure that one meal that goes away from the diet does not turn into a cheat day, cheat week or cheat month.
- Do not set yourself on fast weight loss
You did not take 20 kilos for one night, so even the best-chosen diet and training plan will not cause you to burn them in one day. The rate of losing weight is an individual process and depends on many factors, including the amount of body fat, gender and how sensitive you are to the training stimuli and diet.
For example, a 90-kg man with 20% fat in physiological conditions is able to burn about 1 kilogram of fat per week. In turn, a 50-kg woman with about 14% body fat under physiological conditions is able to lose about 0.5 kilograms of fat per week. It is easy to guess that if the weight will drop too quickly, then along with the fat we will also lose a lot of muscle tissue. This in turn is associated with a reduction in the basic metabolism (each kilogram of muscle is an additional 75 kcal necessary to nourish the muscle, which you can eat with impunity, with the certainty that it will not put down in the form of adipose tissue).
- Start your diet and plan your tactics
For many people, diet is associated with fasting and eating one rusk a day washed down with black coffee. Meanwhile, nothing more wrong. Unadapted to nutritional principles, the body will respond well to small restrictions. At the beginning, simply eliminating simple sugars, limiting alcohol or giving up alcohol will bring satisfactory results.
Dismissing the diet should be just the next step. A well-planned diet should have a solid tactic. Determine what your behavior will be when the kilograms stop going down and do not be taken by surprise. A good move will be to establish a small negative caloric balance 200-500 kcal from the basic metabolism in order to be able to increase it along with the duration of the diet.
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