What A Fat Loss Day Looks Like
If you are interested in healthy, permanent fat loss, every day can be a fat loss day. Here is how such a day looks. Follow this template and you will lose fat, guaranteed
The day starts out the night before. You have not eaten dinner or snacked at night. More on these further on.
Drink some water, hot, warm or room temperature. There was a time when I could not drink water in the morning, so I know this can be a challenge. I was able to change and so can you if you need to.
I like to exercise on an empty stomach, so I start my day with exercise. Whether you like to eat before or after exercise is your choice, but it is important to get exercise in the morning. When we exercise in the morning, we charge up our metabolism from the start of the day. This keeps it elevated throughout the day, so we burn calories even when we are not exercising. If we wait until the afternoon or later to exercise, our metabolism tapers off sooner and we lose the benefit of burning extra calories.
Eat a full, healthy, nutritious breakfast. Ideally it is your main meal of the day. A whole grain, multi-grain cereal, hot or cold, with fresh fruit and almond, rice or soymilk is one good choice.
My favorite is rolled oats, with dates, almonds, walnuts, raisins, apple. I sometimes add a banana smoothie in place of milk. This dish is nutrient dense, with protein, fat, carbohydrates, plus fiber. It really sticks to the ribs.
If you don’t have time for such a meal, get up earlier. Or use a crock-pot to cook your healthy cereal overnight. Making breakfast the main meal of the day is that important.
You do not snack between meals. You let a minimum of four hours pass before eating again. If you have eaten the kind of breakfast I advise, you will not get hungry for at least four or five hours.
If you get hungry between meals, drink water. If water will not do and you need to eat, have a banana, apple, an orange. In any event, pure, filtered water is now your main beverage.
Relieve stress and tension throughout the day. Do deep breathing, stretching, mini breaks. A short walk. Stress is a major cause of overweight, so do not neglect healthfully handling it.
Lunch should be a substantial meal, emphasizing foods as grown: fresh vegetables, fruits, complex carbohydrates. Real food, not refined.
Eliminate dinner. And nighttime snacks. The pounds really come off when you this. The health benefits of fasting during the evening hours include enhanced production of melatonin, which helps regulate sleep.
Bed: you get enough sleep, but not too much. For most, the ideal is between 6 and 9 hours. You wake up feeling ferociously fantastic, hungry for a nutritious breakfast, ready for another great day.
