Losing weight fast
is a relative idea. Not so fast that you risk losing muscle mass in the
process, not so slow that it takes you forever to get visible results
when you can do it quicker. Also by weight you need to focus your
attention on actual fat tissue, not generic weight (fat and water). There is a great deal of talk about the best way to shed those unwanted
extra pounds fast and effectively, some ideas are good but overly
complicated and unpractical to implement (like bodybuilders' style 6
small meals a day), others are just hype preying on people's need to
shed extra weight at any cost. As often as it happens in life,
simplicity turns out to be your best friend, making nonsense of all the
extra data and unnecessary complications that create more problems and
aggravations than the ones they are supposed to cure.
Keep it
basic and simple and stay to the core of body physiology and you are on
the right track to crack the code of effective and comparatively fast
fat burning process. That you need to eat less calories than
the ones you spend is no mystery. This is the way your body will go into
catabolic state, forcing it to open the door to your fat storage and
take the calories it needs from there. However, how many calories and
what to eat for this situation to happen is often made overly
complicated while all you need is to stick to 3 generic foundation
principles. 1 - Keep Insulin levels low. Insulin
is an important hormone with significant impact on fat storage and fat
burning depending on its levels in your body. The higher the level, the
greater the fat storage and the inability of your body to make use of
your body fat to burn calories. The lower the level, the easier for your
body to access fat storage and burn it, rather than using food. So the key is keeping insulin levels down and steady to encourage your
body to draw the calories it needs from your adipose (fat) tissue
reservoir. How do you do that? Simple: avoid carbohydrates and sugar.
The main reason for the global overweight/obese trend mostly comes down
not just to over eating, but mostly to eating too many sugars and carbs. What happens is when they enter your blood stream they create a
spike in insulin levels which prevent your body from using your extra
fat. This means that even if you are dieting and take in less calories
than you should, you will neverburn fat and reduce body weight if you keep eating rice, pasta, pizzas, let alone sugary drinks, cakes, candies even if you eat less of those. What you should do is avoiding them altogether so as to lower your
insulin levels constantly. High insulin levels are a recent disaster in
history on mankind associated with the easy availability of carbs and
sugars in industrial quantities. Not so long ago our ancestors did not
have access to unhealthy amounts of carbs and sugars, as a results they
were lean and athletic. 2 – Replace carbs and sugars with proteins, vegetables and fats, yes fats.
By the time you cut your body off carbs, it will be forced to get the
missing calories it needs from your fat storage. However, do keep your
diet high in proteins from sources like chicken, beef, fish, eggs to
make sure your muscles have all they need for replenishment, especially
if you workout, but not only. Always accompany your proteins
with plentiful portions of vegetables like lettuce, salads, cauliflower,
broccoli and the likes. Vegetables contain all the vitamins, minerals
and fibers your body needs but they only make up for a tiny fraction of
your calorie intake, even in great quantities. Not only that, they are
also bulky and naturally full of water, so they will make your stomach
feel full, preventing over eating. Last but not least on the
list are fats. Fats may seem counter-intuitive since you are trying to
lose fat, but as we have seen, it is carbs and sugars the felons causing
you to be overweight, not fats. Carbs and sugars are much more easily
converted into fat than fat itself, causing the double negative effect
of not only being stored as extra fat, but also spiking up insulin
levels sky high, which in turn prevent your body from burning the very
same extra fat storage they have caused in the first place. A self
feeding vicious circle. Instead, fats like olive oil, fish oil
and nuts are rich in calories that cannot be converted into fat while
dieting in no carbs and no sugar mode because your body is already
burning its fat reservoir thanks to low insulin levels and because fats
are harder to convert into fat than fats themselves. Instead they will
provide a steady, slow source of energy levels in addition to protein
and vegetable intake. 3 – Listen to your body.
With the basics of your diet structured around more proteins, more
fats, more vegetables and little or no carbs and sugars, you body will
be primed to work at its best, restoring its functions at the natural
levels they are supposed to work. As a consequence of low insulin
levels, your appetite will naturally decrease without suffering any
energy drops since repeated bouts of hunger were more the result of
excessive consumption of unnecessary or excessive carbs and sugars
resulting in low energy levels once digested. Your weight loss
rate will naturally ten to be faster at the beginning of such
restructured diet when you are more over weight, less and less so as
your body fat levels will decrease. The more over weight you are, the
more calorie deficit you can afford, the less over weight you are, the
more food you can afford to eat until you reach balance point with a low
body fat, notwithstanding you keep the low carbs, high proteins, fat
and veg ideas outlined above and do not fall for carbs and sugars again.