You have come to this blog looking for the fastest way to lose weight in a week, and I will tell you exactly how to do that. Losing weight comes in many forms, and for fastest weight loss, you need to attack all of them. At the top of the list is water weight. Usually, when people lose weight quickly, it is all water weight. When competitive fighters and powerlifters have to weigh in before a fight, they often cut twenty pounds in a day of water weight. The next most effective kind of weight loss is muscle loss. If you do not eat, you lose fat and muscle, but usually more muscle than fat. The body keeps fat as its final reserves, and that is why it is so hard to lose it.
Before I go into a plan, let me first warn you that I do not recommend this plan for anyone. Doing any one of the three things mentioned to excess can cause death, so do not do it. This is purely a hypothetical example to look at what might be achievable for the best theoretical fat loss. Do not worry, I will give some real tips after our thought experiment.
Putting these together, here is what your fastest natural weight loss plan would look like:
1) Go on a fast; eat nothing and drink water for the next week.
2) Exercise as much as possible. On the first day I would train heavy, complex movements and run sprints. On the second day, I would walk for a few hours. On the third day, I would do circuit training until I get dizzy then do a bunch of walking. On the remaining days, I would lift very light weights and do do as much walking as possible. After a few days without food, exercise is very difficult.
3) Dehydrate yourself on the last two days of the week. Once you have depleted as much muscle and fat as possible, you drop all the water weight.
Now, with this method, assuming that you lived and depending on your bodyweight, I think it would be possible to lose between forty and up to one hundred pounds in a week for someone with more than fifteen percent body fat. Once you start eating again, if you do not get sick and vomit everything back up because you weened off the fast improperly, you would gain all forty to one hundred pounds back in a matter of days.
Clearly, the goal then should not be the fastest way to lose weight in a week, but rather the fastest good ways to lose weight in a week. Forget in a week altogether if you can. Instead, you should think about:
“The fastest ways to lose weight and keep it off with as little effort as possible.”
Few people come to search engines with such a good definition, but it would serve them well if they did. In my blog I give many weight loss tips, but fast is often counterproductive. So I will now share a few new sustainable habits that can really help you out that are not that hard to do.
First off, do not check the scale often. All you are doing is checking your daily fluctuations in water weight. Check once a day at a fixed time (preferably when you first wake up and before breakfast), and only check it once every two weeks. If your weight goes down over the next two checks, congratulations! Whatever you are doing to lose weight is working. However, we have not yet decided which type of weight loss you are having. You may be losing muscle, fat, or both. Likely, it is both, and if you do not care which it is, ignore the next paragraph.
If you are interested in fat loss, you need to lose fat while gaining or retaining muscle. The only way to do this is through a high protein diet and heavy weight training (or lots of steroids and a small amount of weight training). You simply cannot retain muscle while losing fat unless there is a reason for your body to keep the muscle.
Now, if you are only interested in losing weight (fat and muscle), this can be done through calorie restriction alone (though it is more effective when combined with exercise). For today, I am going to recommend two new habits before every meal:
1) Drink a tall glass of water
2) Eat a handful of unsalted nuts
What this will do is get you past the twenty minute time-delay for fullness so that when you start to eat, you are not extremely hungry. Fats are slow digesting, so you will feel more full when you have some good fats (nuts) with your meal than if you just ate carbs or protein alone. This new habit will make you more full while eating less, which means fewer calories in. It will also probably help get some extra fiber and healthy fats in your diet which have many benefits in themselves (fat loss and improved mood among them for healthy fats).
Eating fat is not the bad guy, having food turn into fat is the bad guy. The worst thing you can do is eat a bunch of simple carbohydrates (sugars) together with bad fats (trans-fats). This prompts a big insulin response from your body that all turns to fat if unused, and it will not be used unless you are weight training or doing crazy sprinting / biking before you consume them. Instead, a handful of nuts before a meal will actually help you eat less and lose weight. Never be afraid of natural foods; nuts, fruits, vegetables and berries in their raw form. Nobody ever gets fat if they eat these good foods alone, it is only in conjunction with bad foods that fat gain happens (unless they have a very rare medical condition).
I hope this article has been enlightening on several levels, from weight loss philosophy, to a few useful tips and nuggets of wisdom along the way. It is not about the fastest way to lose weight in a week, but rather the fastest and easiest way to lose weight and keep it off. Good luck and stay tuned!
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