As you have been reading up on how to lose weight fast, you’ve learned that diets don’t work, working out ten hours a day is unsustainable, and supplements can only go so far. We are going after changing your bad eating habits which is the best way to lose weight fast. We are not really shooting to lose weight fast, but at a good normal pace. If you are asking,”how can I lose weight fast?” you need to change your mindset. It isn’t about speed, it’s about permanency, and step one is going to get you there.
Why Step 1 works.
Eating less in the way outlined in the previous article Weight Loss Tips works for a couple reasons. First, you are effectively cutting out an entire meal’s worth of calories. It seems like you are eating a lot because of the frequency of your meals. Since you are cutting out half of your dinner (which is very important that you do this) and using your lunch as a snack, you are cutting out a snack. Take off a meal a day from your caloric intake? You are going to start to lose weight!
It also works because you are training your body to accept less food at each sitting. Since you are only eating 1/2 of a meal, your stomach is never stretched to the point that it takes a lot of food for you to fill up. Yes, this is a fallacy, but if it is in your mind and it helps you, then believe it! So you are eating a lot less food per day and you are training your body to expect less calories per sitting.
As your body gets used to eating less food, it will be a bit of a struggle. You will want to eat all of your lunch and dinner, but you need to hang in there! Feel those hunger pangs and imagine them as the fat leaving your body. Eventually what will happen is, your body will start to get used to the smaller serving. It will say, “Hey, I’m only going to get this much food right now, but I’m going to get some more in a couple hours so it is okay to use this food now and not store it my body’s thighs, middle, waist, butt, and gut.”
After you have half of your dinner, try not to eat anything until the next morning. This is the real challenge. Sitting and watching TV and thinking about those chips/ice creams/chocolate covered peanuts/etc. I’m not going to tell you not to eat anything after 6pm dinner, but if you must, don’t eat anything except raw fruits and vegetables. This should tide you over until morning. If you don’t eat anything, your body will be in burn mode as you sleep, because you won’t have extra calories. Your body will burn your fat as you sleep!
As you can see, this tiny tweak to your daily eating habits will change your life. It is easy to stick to because you aren’t chasing diet foods that the rest of your family won’t eat and you aren’t having to do the impossible of preparing 6 meals to eat throughout your day. You can still eat basically whatever you want. I hope you avoid cheeseburgers and fries, deep fried foods, and so on. If you can, start to make better choices, but don’t get bogged down doing so. Quit searching for ways to lose weight fast. Stick to the Half Meal Habit and you will see success soon enough.
To supplement your success, there are two more things you need to do, steps 2 and 3. I’ll reveal those to you in the next article.
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