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Fast Weight Loss Diet

January 29, 2009 by Terry  
Filed under Diet, Nutrition and Health, Featured

Many of us look for fast weight loss yet this is rarely the best choice! When you decide to change your diet there are a few things to consider before you begin.

Observe your body and your mind

What are you feeling physically? You know your body better than anyone else. What is going on with it right now? Is your current diet fueling you? Is it giving you energy throughout your day? Or are you feeding yourself poorly and expecting your body to pull you through anyway?

And how are you doing mentally? Are you feeling like you can conquer the world? Or are you suffering mild depression or lack of excitement about your life?

Before you make a change in your diet, take stock of where you are now, jot down your current state of mind and health so you know your starting point. Then write down what you would like to be feeling both mentally and physically.

How do you want your body to look? How do you want your body to feel? Do you want to wake up more excited about each new day? What do you want to have accomplished in the next 30 days? Three months? Six months? A year from now? Write out what it would feel like to reach the goals that you are working toward.

Avoid a binge the day or night (or week!) before you change your diet.

You set your body up for disaster by overeating junk foods before starting a new healthier diet. Unfortunately this is probably one of the most common moves that many people make. If you have ever gone on a diet or know someone who has, you have probably heard or experienced the “last supper” where huge amounts of food are binged on (and not usually even enjoyed) in an effort to eat as many forbidden foods as possible before they are taken off the menu.

Drink a lot

Not alcohol, silly, water! Hydrate your body with lots of water continuously. This is good advice for every day of your life, not just when you’re making a change in your diet. You can never hurt yourself by getting a lot of water each day. Keep a glass of water near you at all times and sip it throughout your day.

Avoid eating late at night

You may not know this, but sumo wrestlers use the method of eating a lot of calories and then going right to sleep (either napping or sleeping at night) as a technique for putting the pounds on fast. So don’t do what sumo wrestlers do. Don’t eat late at night and then go to sleep. If you eat a lot of calories late at night you won’t have time to burn off the calories you have eaten before you go to sleep and as an added bummer you will wake up in the morning feeling groggy, not rested, because your digestive system has had to work hard all night to deal with all the food you munched on the night before.

These are just a few health tips to consider when making a change in your diet. It is good to move toward a healthier diet — just keep these tips in mind for a smoother transition and better results.

And most of all avoid that temptation to starve yourself to obtain a rapid weight loss. What comes off fast usually goes back on twice as fast. Keep in mind though that a quick weight loss may be expected from a weight loss surgery patient. While the meals for these patients may be small they are balanced and the patient is also taking nutritional supplements such as those offered by our sponsor BariatricAdvantage.

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2 Responses to “Fast Weight Loss Diet”
  1. Melinda says:

    Well this week has been one of the worst in some time. I received my second denial from Aetna this week stating they would uphold their original denial because the surgery is not a covered procedure. Who can’t read over there? For me it is not a surgery for weight loss; I don’t even qualify for bariatric surgery any longer…it is a ‘revision’ but that is to repair a major blockage in my stomach that is related to a 22 year old “bariatric”, which I’m not even sure they called it that back then, as well as a severe reflux problem, leaky gut syndrome, protrusions into my diaphragm, and a hernia.. Anyway…Mark contacted the insurance commissioner’s office yesterday and they are sending out a packette for me to fill out. They also gave Mark the name of an attorney in California who handles these cases, so we’ll go from there.

    It has really brought me down. I don’t think I have felt quite this low in many years. I know I’m probably being ridiculous, but my stomach is getting so bad that I’m almost afraid to eat anything anymore. Oh well, I’ll quit now.

    Well Big Brother I hope all is well with you and I hope you will write when you can.

    Love you,
    Melinda

  2. Terry says:

    I am sorry to hear of the difficulties you are having getting this surgery approved. I wish I had the answer for you. Hopefully one of the readers at this site has over come a similar experience and will be able to offer some suggestions. In the mean time I will keep you posted of anything I learn that will help you or others experiencing a similar problem.

    Keep your head up and keep pushing forward for I am sure that there is a way to get this done.

    Love, Terry

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