Sunday, August 22, 2010

Real Rapid Weight Loss

By Rian Haswanda

Can you really achieve rapid weight loss? The reply is yes, but it might not the ideal long term answer. You've probably seen examples of this on the Biggest Loser TV show. What most people don't understand is what the contestants put their bodies through to get such dramatic results in a brief period of time. The outcomes seen on the program are not an illusion, but not realistic for many people in real life who have multiple daily responsibilities. However, provide safe, realistic results, they might be obtained by incorporating the following suggestions.

Focus on Your Diet

To ensure you to achieve rapid weight loss, your diet must be impeccable! Not only must you avoid the obvious bad foods such as: fried foods, cakes, cookies, ice cream, all desserts, chips, and most processed foods that come in a box or bag. You must also avoid most beverages and fruits. You ought not to drink any alcohol, coffee, soda, or fruit juices if you'd like rapid weight loss. Your beverages should consist of plenty of water throughout out the day (6-8 glasses), and optional green/herbal teas, or low sodium vegetable juices and broths.

Your meals should include one source of protein; preferably lean cuts of chicken or fish in 3 ounce portion sizes, or if you're a vegetarian substitute tofu or natto for meat. Eggs are another great source of protein you could include in your meals. You should limit your carbohydrate intake to just vegetables and these should be contributed to each meal. Avoid starchy vegetables like peas, carrots, potatoes, sweet potatoes, or corn and rapid weight loss will be easier.

Instead, focus on green vegetables. Also, consider adding a small portion of raw veggies to each meal, but avoid commercial salad dressings. For dressings use 1 tablespoon of olive oil and fresh lemon juice. Your meals shouldn't be spaced more than 4-5 hours apart and be sure to eat breakfast, lunch, and dinner. If you skip meals or wait longer than 5 hours to eat, your metabolism will slow which will make rapid weight loss hard.

You Must Exercise Daily

The other important consideration for rapid weight loss is exercise. When you have watched the Biggest Loser you might have maybe seen the contestants engage in numerous physical challenges and exercise sessions. What you don't know, is the contestants spend hours every day working out. You probably don't have more than an hour of free time to exercise everyday so you should concentrate on high intense workouts if you would like rapid weight loss. Your workouts should include combining cardiovascular conditioning exercises along with resistance training exercises.

All very reputable weight lifting exercises to perform are those that use your body weight as resistance such as: pushups pull ups, squats, lunges, dips, planks, crunches and bridges. The reason these exercises some others other movements is they require more balance and coordination, resulting in more calories burned. Also, these exercises usually tend to significantly raise your heart rate. In between performing body weight exercises, add a short bout of cardiovascular exercise such as: jogging in place, jump rope, stepping along on a stair/bench, running on a treadmill, riding a stationary bike or using an elliptical trainer. The key to your exercise sessions is intensity. Try to keep your heart rate up and avoid long breaks in between exercises looking for rapid weight loss.

Rapid weight loss is not hard nor is it suggestible. However, if you're diligent about your diet and you include high intensity workouts daily you can achieve your goal. Remember, as well as advisable to check with a physician before beginning any weight loss routine, especially if you're focused on rapid weight loss.

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