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Quick Weight Loss Diets that Work – The best and worst diets

The most popular diet with doctors and nutritionists is currently the Mediterranean diet, which contains lots of fruit and vegetables, lots of fish and lean meats, and a lack of junk food. Some of the best foods for weight loss can be found in the Mediterranean diet, foods that are low calorie but high in nutrients. Italian food has lots of healthy recipes for weight loss too, as do Spain and Greece.

Probably the best way to lose weight though is to follow a flexible diet plan, this sounds easy but it does involve quite a bit of groundwork – particularly at first. Flexible dieting is the idea that so long as you hit your macronutrient targets (protein, fat, and carbohydrates) and are in your calorie target you can eat whatever foods you want in.

There is a misconception that flexible dieting means that you can eat lots of junk food whilst still losing weight. But actually, the idea of flexible dieting is to allow yourself to have some bad food so long as you can account for it.

Psychologically this is a lot easier for people to follow because unlike other diets it treats all food as food, not as good or bad. Assigning a moral value to some cheese or a bar of chocolate is quite crazy, and it over restriction of the foods you like is the number one reason why most dieters fail.

To be successful at flexible dieting you are going to need to know how many calories you should be eating, and you should have an idea of how much protein, fat, and carbohydrates you should have. This can be done for you online, using a calorie counting app.

Once you have your calorie and macro target, you can eat what you want so long as you fit into those targets. This is harder than you think and means that you will have to get creative. What tends to happen is that people start looking for healthier alternatives to some foods just so that they can fit the foods into their macros!

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Is it Possible to Lose Weight in a Week?

At the beginning of this article, we asked the question “Is it possible to lose weight in a week?”. The answer is that yes it is possible, but it is also a terrible idea. The methods you would need to employ would have to be extreme, you would be in a lot of discomforts and any results you did get would swiftly vanish.

You need to change the way you view fat-loss, anyone can lose weight (really) the main job is keeping the weight off for the rest of your life. You are not going to manage that if you try unsustainable things like crash dieting, following detoxes, or trying to find special foods that will magically burn calories.

Start walking more, join a gym, eat healthy high-protein foods, track your calories using a calorie tracking app, and try to cut down on your alcohol intake (if it is too high). Plan ahead for social situations like meals out, birthdays, and holidays, as these are the times where most people put on the most weight.

Do these things and you will lose weight, not in a week, maybe not even in a month, but over the course of several months, you will be able to lower your body fat until you reach your desired size. Then you can spend the rest of your life maintaining this size. It won’t be easy, but it can be enjoyable, satisfying, and will help you live a longer and healthier life. Which is much better than the continued weight rebounds that come from a crash diet, right?

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lose weight in 3 days – Is short term weight loss worth it?

The first thing that you need to do when planning to lose weight is to set realistic targets. One’s that you can actually manage without killing yourself. Wanting to lose weight in 3 days is not a realistic target, but increasing your daily step count by 1000 is realistic.

Other goals you could set yourself would be cutting down on alcohol during weekdays, or having smaller portion sizes. These are goals that are achievable but they are also one that you have control over. You don’t really have control over how much weight you can lose in a given amount of time, there are too many variables for that. But you do have control over a number of calories you eat, or the amount of exercise you do. So set targets based around that.

Next thing you are going to want to do is to assess your current situation, measure everything: your weight, tape measurements around your stomach, waist, chest, arms, and legs. Find out how many calories you are eating per day (this might take a couple weeks to get a good average for), and how many steps per day you take on average.

Find out your capabilities on the following exercises: Squats, deadlifts, bench press, pull-ups, bent over rows, leg press etc … and work out how often you are currently training. Then once you have all of this information you can begin to plan out your weight loss strategy.

How many calories are you currently eating? How much do you weigh? If you want to weigh 10kg less than you currently weigh, how many calories should you be eating going forward? How often do you feel you can train per week? And how many steps per day is a realistic target.

Once you have all of this information to hand you can begin to follow this program, if you are doing it properly you might be a little disheartened about how slow a process it can be at first. A lot of people don’t notice any changes in physique until around 6 weeks into the program. But once they start to notice the difference they will be surprised how spectacular the results can be when you have a little patience.

Some people might only lose 1-2kg within the first month, but after 12 months they are down 30kg. Wouldn’t that be fantastic? If you dropped all of your body fat within a year? Do you see how changing your approach can actually lead to better results? 1-2kg after 4 weeks of hard work sounds awful. But 30kg after 52 weeks is an average of 2.3kg a month, and will completely transform your body.

Sometimes taking a step back and looking at the bigger picture is the best thing that you can ever do, so next time you start to stress out about a holiday or wedding, just think that you might not be walking around with a six pack in time for that event – but if you take the time then you can have a six pack for the rest of your life!