Get Skinny Quick in a Few Short Steps
Posted By Connie on January 29, 2011
I am a personal trainer and I receive call continuously from women wanting to “get skinny quick” or who need information on how to lose weight fast. While I think it’s Ok to jump start your weight loss program and try to lose 10 pounds quickly by doing extreme things (like overly exercising) for the short term, I don’t recommend using this approach every time you need to reduce your weight. If you keep on gaining all the weight back that you just lost, you have to find a lifelong strategy to keep yourself lean and fit permanently.
Let’s start with the basics. A lot of people have an unhealthy or difficult relationship with food. Someone who has fought their weight throughout the years undoubtedly has attempted various approaches and some have actually been successful, but they constantly regain the lost weight. I have worked with numerous personal training customers who have been able to lose from ten to thirty pounds in my program and then they just regain it. It’s frustrating for me to see how well they were eating and working out and then go astray and gain it all back.
As a result, I’ve had to come with a wide variety of diet plans for my clients to help them lose weight and keep it off permanently. I always advice low calorie, nutrition dense foods plus the right exercises to help them slim down and get fit without starving themselves and spending hours in the gym.
What’s the best way to control your weight long term?
Fundamentally, it has to do with not taking in excessive amounts of calories. Ninety percent (90%) of the calories that you consume have to be in the form of whole natural foods that give you the maximum amount of nutrition with the minimal amount of calories. I also get my clients who want to lose 10 pounds fast to start becoming more active every day, with some exercise added to their daily routine as well. For more details about how I think you should keep yourself healthy and fit, check out my Fitness Contrarian Principles. Once you read the Fitness Contrarian Principles, you will know how to eat right, exercise properly and have so much energy that you will love living a new, more active lifestyle. (These fitness principles are a work in progress and I keep adding to them every week)
After working with people for over 25 years helping clients and friends lose weight, I have found that some people have to reprogram their minds to eat the right foods. They have to change the association they have with the foods that are keeping them over weight. If you want to stop eating the foods that you think are keeping you heavy then make sure you read this post called Don’t Get Fat Fast. I explain a mental exercise that I do with some of my clients to stop them from eating fattening foods they love. It’s not easy doing the exercise but it works.
Another tried and tested method I have used on my clients is occasional fasting diets. I wrote a popular post about my experiences with fasting called Fasting For Weight Loss. I first learned the skills in Fasting For Weight Loss from Brad Pilon’s Eat Stop Eating diet program. You ought to take a look at Brad’s website, “Eat Stop Eating.” He has one of the best programs I have come across for losing weight.
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