subject: The Best Way To Get Thin [print this page] I am going to tell you a few secret ingredients to get thin, and the first one is do not diet.
That is right, you heard what I said. Diets, by their short term nature, are designed to fail. That is because they are a short term approach to the long term situation called nutrition. Although you may get thin for a time what typically happens is you will gain the weight back and you begin a syndrome of getting thin and gaining weight.
What you really want to do is to change your way of eating and eliminate as many processed and manufactured foods from your life as possible. My wife lost 25 pounds in a year and got thin by simply eliminating soda. Processed foods have lots of bad things in them that actually cause us to retain weight. This is why obesity is a worldwide epidemic.
What you need to do is change your fundamental approach to nutrition. Start eliminating processed foods that come in bags, boxes, cans and any other form of packaging that requires the manufacturer to put additives in it that will extend the shelf life. Now, this may take some doing and, I will admit, eliminating everything might be impossible, but at least you will be well ahead of the game. If you do this and this alone you should notice yourself losing weight and getting thin without doing anything else.
You should be eating things that are closer to the way nature intended you to eat; raw or steamed fruits and vegetables, lean beef, chicken and fish. One approach you may want to take is to eat 4 to 6 smaller portioned meals throughout the day. This is more in the fashion of grazing animals like gazelles as opposed to gorging animals like lions. Which one is more slender?
The second key ingredient is do not join a gym. Yes, you heard me. I made the mistake and, while I did see some results, you can get far better results and get thin faster in the comfort of your own home if you know what you are doing.
The best form of exercise to burn calories is not mindlessly running on a treadmill to nowhere but doing High Intensity Interval Training. In the 1990s a team of Japanese researchers discovered that by doing 20 seconds of high intensity exercise 8 times with only 10 seconds of rest in between you could burn more calories than if you had worked out at a lower intensity for a longer time.
This is the problem with people working out at gyms. They are simply walking on a treadmill or lifting the occasional weight on a machine while watching the TV or talking to others. They are simply moving their sedentary lifestyle to the gym and calling it exercise.
Now, the workout above is only for people who are in good condition already. However, the elements of high intensity interval training can be used in a longer (and less intense) workout. Simply pick an exercise or group of exercises and expend a lot of energy before taking a brief rest before moving on and starting over. Body weight squats are ideal for this as is jumping rope. This type of activity causes your body to go into a metabolic shock so that it is burning calories at a greater rate throughout the day. The nice thing about HIIT is that it can be done anywhere, even in your home and if you combine it with a fundamental change to your diet this is the best way to get thin.
