While it is generally regarded that consistent weight loss of 2-3 pounds per week is the safest and the easiest to sustain, there are a number of reasons why you might want to push the envelope and embark on a rapid fat loss diet. Perhaps you have a class reunion approaching, or your friends surprised you with a trip to Cancun in two weeks. Or maybe, for psychological reasons, you need to see some quick results before you settle into a more conventional nutritional program. Regardless, there are no shortages of "starvation" or "crash" diets, supplements, and a million other items being peddled to people in your position. Let's talk about the problem with traditional starvation diets and then we will go over a rapid fat loss diet which is admittedly difficult, but which will also reveal astonishing results in just a few weeks.
Have you ever tried to lose weight by starving yourself with the "Grapefruit Diet", or the "Cabbage Soup Diet", or any of its myriad clones? If you have, you will probably recognize the problems with these diets. The first week, you will most likely lose a lot of weight. Perhaps even a pound per day. By day 7 you step on the scale and you're down 7 pounds! You tell all your friends about the diet and this is how the fad continues. However, during the second week the weight loss slows down, you are having painful cravings, you feel ill and foggy headed and unable to work. Worst of all, the weight loss has come to a standstill. So, you think to yourself "well ten pounds isn't so bad, I'll just end the diet now", and what do you know? Within a few days you rebound right back to your original weight or perhaps you even picked up a couple more pounds as a "souvenir" from your trip down starvation lane!
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Here is an important point, and if you can remember this, you will never fall for another starvation diet again: Your body holds between 5-10 pounds of water underneath the skin. When you go on a starvation diet you are only losing water! The minute you start eating normally the weight will come back, and since your metabolism has likely slowed down from malnutrition, it is very likely you will gain a couple "souvenir" pounds as a reminder of your horrible experience!
When designing the ideal rapid fat loss diet we need to take the above into consideration and take advantage of the millions of dollars of research poured into nutritional science each year. I will warn you: This diet is not easy. But, on the upside, it is easier than gulping cabbage soup all day long and it is the most effective rapid fat loss diet that has been published to this day. Here are some of the advantages of this rapid fat loss diet:
- It includes fiber. This is important for the health of your digestive system and cholesterol. It is woefully lacking from most rapid fat loss diets.
- Sufficient calories. You will be in a caloric deficit, but the total number of calories are double than most "starvation diets" and the results will be much better because they are the right kind of calories.
- Timed carbs. By eliminating carbs you will spare muscle and burn fat quickly. However, if you were to cut carbs out altogether you would quickly plateau. It is important to shake things up regularly, and for this reason you will consume carbs at the right times. After workouts and once per week in the mornings, when insulin response is greatest.
- Healthy fats. The diet includes health fats which help with energy, strengthen immune system, increase oxygen uptake, and so many other benefits we don't have space to list them all.
Here is your shopping list:
- High Quality Protein Powder (Make sure it is isolate, buy a two pound bottle so you aren't stuck with a taste you don't like). If you like fruity flavors than I recommend Syntrax Nectar.
- Shaker bottles. You will find these at a sports supplement store when you purchase the protein powder.
- Milled Flax Seeds. These provide your fiber and some of your EFAs. Purchase these at a local health food store or online.
- Udo's Oil Capsules. This will provide you with the all-important EFAs. Available at any health food store.
- Oatmeal.
- One of the following: Raisins, blueberries, blackberries.
- Grape Juice (Optional, see below)
Take your ideal weight and divide by 30. Round this number down and this is the number of protein shakes you will be drinking throughout the day. Include the flax seeds with each shake and take two of the Udo's capsules with each shake. You will be mixing the powder with water only, and ice if you prefer. You can mix the shakes ahead of time and take them to work with you. It is very important to drink them regularly throughout the day and never go longer than three hours without a shake.
Pick one day per week for your carb meal. On this day, you will substitute a bowl of oatmeal and your chosen fruit for the morning protein shake.
If you work out intensely, you can include one 8oz glass of grape juice after a weights workout three days per week. Otherwise, the weekly oatmeal will be your only carb source.
After following the above rapid fat loss diet, and including the RFB training routine, many people have reported losing up to 30 pounds in 28 days. Of course, we know that some of this is water (5-10 pounds), but since calorie consumption is sufficient you will avoid the negative side effects of starvation diets, and most importantly, your will results will be long lasting.
The Only Rapid Fat Loss Diet You Will Ever Need
The rapid fat loss diet is not complete without the RFB training routine. This routine takes only 12 minutes per day and is available on Matt Barlow's website here: http://rapidfatburning.com