Quickest Way To Lose Weight

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Work out love handles by first dropping the fat, then by shaping your core.

To drop the fat, it’s not glamorous, it’s not exciting, but it’s not expensive at all and you get out in the open air all the time.

Walk. Walk briskly for at least 40 minutes a day.  Walk 3 days, have a day off, walk 2 days, have a day off, rinse and repeat each and every week.

If it rains, so what? Walk somewhere dry or walk in the rain. It doesn’t hurt and you need to develop the habit.

Once you’ve walked off enough excess fat, get into the gym and do some resistance training to completely knock those love handles over.

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Losing weight quickly can be done in one or two ways.

The first is to starve yourself and drop a few kilos very rapidly.  This has it’s drawbacks, not the least of which is it doesn’t always work. Also you tend to feel hungry and weak and cranky most of the time (only when you are awake).

The second is to start eating the right type of food and doing exercise 5 days out of 7.

Start with a good breakfast within an hour of waking up – no, not a good fast food breakfast, something like toast, eggs, muesli or porridge within an hour of waking up.

Pack your own lunch and give up deserts.  Giving up alcohol is also a sure way to drop kilos because alcohol is just empty calories waiting to be joined by fatty, salty snacks.

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One diet actually doesn’t quite fit all. While you will lose weight by cutting down on junk and moving a bit no matter what your body shape, you can tailor your diet and exercise to suit your natural shape for the quickest way to lose weight.

The most effective day to day diet is a body type diet, which takes account of whether you are a mesomorph, endomorph or ectomorph.

What you eat and how often depends on how sensitive you are to carbs (endomorph) and how many fuel top ups you need throughout your day (lots for an ectomorph)

Whether you focus on cardio or resistance style exercise depends on your body type, though a mesomorph gains the most benefit from any exercise s/he does.

The most comprehensive guide to eating and exercising for your body type that I have ever read (300+ pages of usable facts) is from Tom Venuto, who produced the bible of weight loss Burn the Fat, Feed the Muscle.

The idiot proof diet is an effective one, though it is not one that you will want to stick with for the rest of your life.

Such a weight loss plan as the idiot proof diet allows you to drop a significant amount of weight in a fairly short period of time, giving you the positivity to keep up the good work.

Let’s face it, when you are a bit slimmer you feel like doing a bit more exercise and eating a bit more healthily and every little bit certainly helps in our battle against the bulge.

This diet does help you to break your dependance on junk food and complex car

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The best exercise to get rid of love handles is simple, effective and absolutely free.

No gym, no equipment, not too much strain on your frame.

To get rid of love handles and burn the fat off your midsection, you have to get walking.

Map out a track that will take you 45-60 minutes to get around, not too challenging at first in the way of steps or hills.

Work out the time you can be there and get moving 5 days a week without fail.

Have a wet weather plan, but not a “I’ll do it tomorrow instead plan” cause that is planning to fail!

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The 3 most important losing weight tips (probably NOT what you’ve tried so far)

These 3 tips will ensure you lose weight.

But if you are the usual human being you may just ignore or discredit them because they seem so simple and they are a change to your current habits.

See if you can stick to these 3 things for a week or two and you will notice a definite drop in your weight.

1. Eat breakfast, a nutritious breakfast, within an hour of waking up.

2. Drink water – not cola, not sugary tea or coffee, not milkdrinks – drink water.  At least 2 liters a day.

3. Keep a food journal and REMEMBER everything you eat during the day. You will likely get a big shock in relation to the mindless grazing you’ve been doing.

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Fitness books and diet publications have to come up with the goods for your exercise and diet plans or they die a lonely death.

Readers vote with their feet, which is a good thing for the buyer and keeps most sellers honest.

Books that are popular are current, easy to read and tell you what you need to know. Information must be direct, pertinent and easy to find.

Your diet plan and exercise program demands that you have the right data at your fingertips so that you can work on your body for life.

You can spend without pause on fitness and diet publications so you have to be sure in yourself what you are looking for to prevent impulse buying. There are plenty of incidental books lying in bookstores everywhere trying to catch your eye, so try not to be taken in by glossy covers and racy promises alone.

Take a few minutes to really think about the table of contents, the index, the layout, the type of information provided in each chapter, the writing style and the graphics in any book you are considering spending money on.

Don’t buy anything that you suspect might languish on the coffee table if you are not inspired to open it more than once or twice.

Make sure you don’t waste your hard earned cash. There are plenty of quality publications out there.

With a little patient research, you have every chance of buying fitness books that you will find very supportive of your exercise and diet plan.

The most popular diet and fitness E-Book on the market is Burn the Fat Feed the Muscle, which I have reviewed here for you.

For a quality bodybuilding E-Book targeting the ectomorph body type (the “hard gainer”) consider no nonsense muscle building by the self confessed skinny guy Vince Delmonte.

What we all want, if we are honest with ourselves is rapid weight loss.

As much as we understand that it took a long time of sustained bad eating and exercise habits to be in the shape we’re in, not so deep down we just want quick results so we can feel better now.

You can lose weight rapidly.

But you want to be healthy while you do it and you don’t want to set yourself up for failure. You just have to get yourself prepared and motivated.

Arm yourself with a basic calorie counter book to record your calorie intake and output and you are ready to start your program.

You have to record your data or you are not going to maintain the goals you reach. Be prepared to spend some time reflecting on your data and what it means for you and you will be that much closer to reaching and keeping to goal weight.

Your goal can be achieved in 1 of 2 ways. Your best bet is to combine the 2 components because that will maximise your results.

First – diet. You have to consume less calories than you need. A lot less. So the calories you put in must be the absolute best quality nutritious food you can get.

You will not be eating much of it. Do not go under 1200 calories input per day or your body is likely to go into survival mode and refuse to drop any weight because it is going to protect you from starvation.

Aim for eating between 1500 and 1800 per day and create a bigger calorie/weight deficit with exercise, cardio exercise . If you want to eat more, no problem – it just means you need to exercise more as well.

In order to lose weight quickly, your diet should be low carb and of course low saturated fat. The protein you eat has to be high quality.

You may like to try a quick purge of toxins and parasites from your stomach and intestines to maximise your state of readiness to achieve healthy weight loss.

For your major source of protein, you can alternate between chicken, pork, beef and fish fillets or other prime low fat cuts.

Yes, they are expensive, but again you will not be eating much of them and you will spend a lot less than you currently do on fast food and snacks.

Couple these dishes with fresh salads or lightly steamed vegetables and you will be feeling fine about your diet in no time.

If you want really quick results, try to cut carbs out of your evening meal . No more sides of potatoes, rice or polenta while you are on a rapid weight loss diet.

This takes a bit of getting used to because you are effectively changing the habits of a lifetime, but if its quick weight loss you want, this will certainly help you get there.

To lose weight fast, consider replacing a meal with a protein shake . These mixtures are low fat and high energy. Mix your shake with skim milk or even water if you want to maximise your rapid weight loss results.

Now to component 2 – exercise. And it’s cardio style exercise that is going to achieve rapid weight loss for you. Just start walking and keep going.

Walk for 1 hour a day. Be brisk and focused. You are going to suffer some aches and pains from your cardio workout for several weeks, but that is just your muscles waking up and working through sore points. The discomfort will stop so long as you don’t.

Accurately measure your walking routine both in terms of distance traveled and time taken so that you can insert the data into your calorie counter.

You will notice straight away the benefit of combining exercise with correct diet for the most rapid weight loss results.