Hello Everybody,
It is quite possible to lose weight today. Maybe you want to lose a little weight to make a pair of jeans more comfortable. Perhaps you have just decided enough is enough and want to prove you really can lose weight. Whatever the reason today - now - is the best time to start. But the conventional way of losing weight with exercise and a healthy diet is not going to lose you much in a day. Nothing is, but there are a couple of ways of losing a small amount of weight today.
The hard way is to walk for three hours at a reasonable pace. You will burn off about 750 calories and, so long as you don’t spend an hour in McDonald’s at the end, you will have lost weight. The easier way is to go onto a fruit diet for a day or so. This advice by Genius Beauty Magazine is as good as any:
”‘Losing weight in one day? I have recently found an interesting intensive one day diet. Unlike the rest of the diets this one does not force you to starve for the whole day, which is very unhealthy for the body as well as the nervous system. To lower your weight fast it takes only to go on a fruit diet, according to which you consume no more than 810 calories and do not feel the shortage of healthy nutrients.
Breakfast. The breakfast should start with a salad made with cottage cheese. You will need 200 grams of non-fat cream cheese. Add 0.11 pounds (or 50 grams) of mineral water to the cheese. Blend the mix and then add finely cut banana. Sprinkle the salad with some lemon juice.
Lunch. One apple makes a nice snack before lunch. As for lunch - have some pancakes fried on one tablespoon of oil. The pancake dough is made with one tablespoon of flour, one egg, six tablespoons of mineral water and some sugar. Mix the ingredients well. Eat the pancakes with one tablespoon of apple puree.
Afternoon snack and dinner. Have one apple again for the afternoon snack. Dinner is a fruit salad. To make the salad, take any of the four types of fruit, cut them and add some orange juice and one tablespoon of honey.
Meals at the end of the day. No need to feel guilty for eating an apple right before bedtime. By following this diet the body will get enough food, and you will not feel hunger at all. In addition, the calorie intake is quite low while the food itself is very tasty.’
Eat this for a day and you probably will be able to get into your jeans in the morning. The problem long term is that you have now stopped your efforts to lose weight today. I will not mention the effect of all that fruit - suffice it to say that a lot of the weight you lost was water weight. The next day when, you resume your previous eating habits, the weight will come back on again. That is the yoyo dieting effect we hear so much about. You will be unable to get into your jeans and may think you would have been better off moving the button hole.
For long term weight loss you will need to change your life style to daily exercise and eating healthy food. But if you really want to lose weight today, short term weight loss can work for you.
See you soon,
Peter Stockwell
Cambridge UK
5 April 2011
Photo.Michaelswiet (Flickr)