subject: My Top 5 Dieting Tips To Slash Belly Fat Right Away [print this page] Let me be frank, dieting sucks! Everyone hates it. I even hate it and I do this for a living. Youd think I would get a high when it came to dieting, but to me its a thoughtless process where most people end up screwing it up big time. How many stories have you heard of people successfully losing 20, 30, even 100 pounds and only end up putting it back on within a year or even less than that? Thats the problem that our society has when it comes to dieting. We do it the wrong way because we are consistently bombarded everyday with false crap about losing weight.
I hate it and cant take it. If only people werent out to make a quick buck on peoples dreams, hopes and aspirations, I feel a lot more people would be successful in losing stubborn belly fat. I look around and it is just sad. I feel really bad and want to help people and yourself as much as possible. This is the reason for this article. I just wanted to give you some killer information regarding different tactics that you can use in your dieting adventure so you can lose the weight easily, quickly, and without any of those damaging rebounding effects.
One thing that I have found over the years that adds to the nasty rebounding effect for some people is crash dieting, or even dieting for long periods of time by consuming a low amount of calories. Basically starving yourself in a nice, slow and controlled manner. Study after study and real world case shows that people who starve themselves in this way most often lead to substantial weight gain right after they are finished dieting. The mental anguish they go through while dieting will always lead them back to weight gain when they are finished. For example, I had a buddy who lost close to 80 pounds so in full summer so he could join the Marines, Which is great for him.
He was overweight and stuck to it so he can do what he wanted to do. However, the way he did it, I knew would set him up for failure down the road. All he did was eat an apple, bowl oatmeal and run each day around the track. Thats it! Two years later, I saw him while he was on leave and he had probably put back close to forty of those pounds. I feel the extreme dieting was a big reason of what caused this.
Another thing that I have found is that you need to be educated on healthy food choices. I am taken back some times by people who have no clue what to eat and what is healthy for them. For example, the bank that I go to, the teller and I strike up a conversation. She finds out Im a trainer and starts asking me questions. This usually happens when someone finds out this information and it can be quite comical sometimes.
Anyways, I see a bottle of Vitamin Water sitting on her desk. I ask her is that hers. She replies, yes. I then ask how many do you drink a day. She tells me around 2 or 3 a day. I dont know if you this, but Vitamin Water has about 30 grams of sugar in each bottle. A can of cola has around 38. Vitamins or not, that stuff is not good for you if you are just sitting around doing nothing. You might as well chug sugar.
My third tip is to not make things so complicated at first. There are so many awesome little tricks that you can implement to lose weight that its mind boggling. Do you know I have never had to bust out any advanced tricks on someone to make them lose weight? Yea we can do re-feed days, low calorie days, play with leptin levels, integrate G-Flux training, escalating density training, carbohydrate rotations, etc. But all you really need to do is keep it simple. The K.I.S.S. method. One good way to do this and to get in a habit with your healthy diet is to eat the same thing each meal, for each week. This ensures you know what you have to prepare and you know what you have to ingest every day.
There is no guessing about calories, etc. Everything will be taken care of. Another way to make it easier is to cook everything on Sunday and Wednesday and just keep the recipes simple but flavorful. For example, use a crock pot. Its a great piece of cookware. You set it and forget it and you can get some tasty recipes out of it all.
My fourth piece of advice would be to cut out all processed foods. This is usually going to be all of your carbohydrate sources minus fruits, beans, nuts etc. By cutting out all of your processed foods, you are cutting out a lot of stuff that can add significant amounts of belly fat. Such foods that I am talking about are pastas, wheat bread, cookies, cakes, muffins, doughnuts, bagels, most fruit juices, soda, granola bars, plus many more. The list would be endless. I then want you to replace these sources of foods with high nutrient density foods such as fruits, vegetables, nuts, beans, full sprouted grain breads like Ezekiel Bread.
My last piece of advice would be to have fun and enjoy yourself. Dont make dieting a stressful hardship where you deny yourself any pleasure in life. That will most certainly derail your chances of being successful during and after your diet. Remember, like I said, if you deny yourself enough, eventually will power will fade and you will binge and binge and binge. I have seen it happen too many times. So if you want to go out and have a few drinks, then go do it. If you want to have a bowl of ice cream at the end of the week on a Sunday, then reward yourself. Obviously do not go overboard and eat the whole gallon, but have some. You deserve it.
All in all, try not to make dieting a nerve racking, stressful venture. Look at it from a positive point of view as a new chapter in your life. Just take it day by day and by the time you know it, you will have achieved your goals.
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