How To Lose Weight Fast

So, you want to know how to lose weight fast.  Do you mean really fast?  If  you’re looking to drop a lot of weight in the shortest time possible, the best way to do it is through a program that combines diet and exercise.

Yeah, yeah, I know you’ve heard that plenty of times before.  But the fact of the matter is that its true.  HOWEVER… there is one major mistake that people make when they try to take the “diet and exercise” route, and this is the most common reason that they fail to lose the amount of weight that they were hoping for, and that they usually end up getting discouraged and quitting when they don’t see results fast enough.

The most common mistake I see people making is that they don’t have enough information to begin with.  They’re not following a proven plan, a system that works.  Let me give you an example.

I’m sure you’ve heard that walking is the “best exercise.”  Well, it’s definitely the exercise most readily available.  But the best exercise for quick weight loss?  I can hardly say so.

Another example.  Most people think that in order to lose weight you need to count calories.  Now, I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again– if you want to lose weight you have to eat less calories than your body burns.  But calorie counting?  That just doesn’t work for most people, especially if you have more than a few pounds you want to lose.

There is so much information floating around about how to lose weight fast, and unfortunately a lot of it is either not true, not effective, or not doable for most people.

That’s why the best option if you want to know how to lose weight fast is to choose a complete weight loss program that you think will work for you, and stick to it.  There are plenty of programs available online that have worked for countless people.  Go to the sites and look around and read the testimonials.

And then once you start, follow the plan.  Don’t listen to anyone else.  Just stick to your program and you’ll see success.  The secret of how to lose weight fast and keep it off is to find a proven program that works and make a serious commitment to following it.  This is going to give you the results you’re looking for—- a fit, trim body that you are proud to show off.  And then you can watch as the compliments start to pour in.

I started the Shangri La diet on Sunday. For the last month I’ve been doing South Beach, and i was getting so frustrated, I can’t even begin to describe it.

I started South Beach when I realized that I just could not manage to lose weight with exercise alone. I had been exercising for about a month, every day, and I got on the scale to see what had happened. Well, in all that time, I gained 5 lb of fat! And yes, I am using a body fat scale, so it wasn’t muscle. I just realized that the way I was eating was too bad for any amount of exercise that I could fit into my diet to compete with. So then I tried the South Beach diet, and it worked for a while, but then I stopped losing weight.

Shangri la is really strange. Basically you drink oil or sugar water. You have to have a full hour with no flavor (no food, no toothpaste, no gum) on either side of drinking the sugar water or oil, and the oil has to be flavorless, like canola, extra light olive oil, or safflower oil. If you’re drinking sugar water it should be either sucrose or fructose.

The idea behind the diet is that flavorless calories lower your set point, the number that your body thinks you should weigh. Obviously its more than just that, but the whole scientific theory is spelled out in the Shangri la diet book, so I’m not going to go into all the gory scientific details here. You’re supposed to have between 200 and 400 flavorless calories a day, so of course, I am having more

So far it’s working, and well. I started on Sunday, weighing 152.2 lb after I had gained 2.2 lb having some whole wheat bread on Friday night and Saturday. That was sort of the last straw in terms of sticking to South Beach foods. I mean, if the only way I can maintain my weight is by sticking to South Beach phase one for the rest of my life, well, it aint gonna happen.

Today, Wednesday morning, I’m down to 149. Finally, a new “tens”. It’s so nice to be somewhere in the forties instead of the fifties, know what I mean?

That weight loss is also nice because on both Sunday and Monday I treated myself to an 85 gram chocolate bar. Yesterday I wisened up and decided to try and accelerate my weight loss by following the extra credit ideas that are listed in the book. I really want to lose weight fast (who doesn’t?) and since the extra credit ideas aren’t horrid, I’m giving them a shot.