subject: How To Lose One Pound A Week [print this page] How To Lose One Pound A Week How To Lose One Pound A Week
In my own journey to get fit and lose weight, I have found one method that I have had a lot of success with. With this special, simple method I can easily lose one pound or more in a day. I have used it many times and it has consistently worked like a charm. I want to share my successful method with you, in hope that it may work for you too! I know I can loose four pounds a month by using this weight loss method.
Quite simply, how I lose a pound a week is by eating as little as I can for one day. I will eat a healthy, normal quantity of food six days of the week, but for one day (Sunday for example) I eat as little as I possibly can and I fast.
So how is it that such a simple method helped me lose weight every week? By eating as little as I can, I burn a lot more calories than I take in. This is what helps me lose weight. After falling for those calorie restricted diets where you eat less food than you are used to daily I realized there had to be a better way. The calorie restricted diets work for many at first, but in time your body adapts, and you have to eat fewer calories to make up for it. Dieting like this is a self defeating cycle because eventually you eat so little that you don't have any energy, and that is when many give up. When you eat normally for a week, and then restrict your calorie intake as much as you can only one day out of the week, your metabolism doesn't drop the way it does when you consistently eat fewer calories for weeks.
If you do this alongside a healthy diet, and regular exercise, you can loose fat even faster. Resistance training with either your bodyweight, weights or resistance bands done with cardiovascular exercise will also help you lose weight faster. You can do resistance training 3 days a week and cardio 3 days a week.
On your fast day, drinking water is very important. Your fast will go much better if you drink a lot of water throughout the day.
On the one day of the week I try to fast and eat as little as I can, I drink a lot of water, and I go for as long as I can without eating during the day. In the morning it is easy for me. Up until the late afternoon is when it gets harder. At this point, if I can't take it anymore I eat a small bite of food. I make it a goal that if I must eat something I either take a bite of a raw vegetable or fruit. Also, when I fast, I do so for 36 hours. If I stop eating at 7 PM on Saturday, I'll fast all Sunday and start eating normally again at 7 AM on Monday.
It's simple really. The less you eat on a fasting day, the more you can lose when the day is done. This simple method has worked for me time and time again. Using it I can lose 4 lbs a month, just from fasting once a week. One day to lose a pound makes the struggle well worth it to me. It isn't easy for me to fast for 36 hours, but it helps me lose weight, and it also teaches me self control. I hope that this simple strategy works for you too.
