1. You know those carbs we all love and crave, forget they even exist. STOP EATING CARBS like pasta, rice, bread, cereal, cakes, crackers, potatoes and starchy veggies. I also suggest you try to limit the intake of vegetables and fruits, especially bananas, melons and grapes. I would suggest you stick with berries and apples. As for vegetables go with loads of lettuce, and some green beans, tomatoes and brussel sprouts. I also love eggplant with my main meal and I like cucumbers in my juices.
2. SAY NO TO any kind of SUGAR (hence any sweets and pastries and chocolates). You also have to cut the honey and any natural syrup you might be using. Fructose, that is fruit sugar, is definitely better than sucrose, but is still sugar and it will thus make your insulin levels spike and make it more difficult for you to burn stored fat, and so will carbs. You can read about the effect of carbs on insulin here.
3. Reduce the portions of your meals. I am not saying you have to starve yourself but EAT REASONABLY and stop before you are completely full. That feeling of satiety will neither lead to productivity and nor to reaching your weight loss goal.
4. DRINK AT LEAST 2 LITRES OF WATER. And cut caffeine, or limit it to one every morning without sugar. You can also drink green tea and freshly squeezed orange juice in moderation. And do not forget to have one green juice a day. I have this as my lunch and it is usually made with lettuce, cucumber, an apple, parsley, water and sometimes some fresh orange juice. Other times I might throw in some beets and others a peach, or some berries.
5. You should turn into a salad by the end of the 6th week, meaning that you will EAT SALADS DAILY as your main meal. You can add lean ham, liver pate, simmental, low fat cheeses, olive oil, nuts and seeds, any herbs you like and also lean meats, fish and chicken in your salads. So even though you will be eating a salad a day as your main meal, it doesn't have to get boring. I actually crave my salad each day prooving that I really enoy it.
6. ADD NUTS TO YOUR MEALS OR HEALTHY TREATS. My favourite breakfast and treat is berries topped with low fat plain yougurt, cashew nuts, almonds and peanuts and lots of ground cinnamon powder.
7. In terms of healthy snacks you can eat an apple with one teaspoon pure peanut butter (must have only peanuts under ingredients), sugar snap peas with 30g light Philadelphia cheese or light cottage cheese or the snack I mentioned above with berries and yougurt.
8. GET USED TO FASTING FOR 14 HOURS. As scary as this might sound, it is actually very easy to master. If you are able to have your dinner before 6 pm and you have your breakfast the next day around 8 am, then you have gone through 14 hrs fasting. Obviously you have to refrain from eating any snacks in between, just drink water. Once you are ready from your dinner, get away from the kitchen and have your breakfast ready in the morning so that you can grab it just before you are having it or before going out the door for work or school.
9. PLAN YOUR MEALS & PREPARE YOUR WORK/SCHOOL MEALS. I usually have my favourite berries treat as breakfast or a no carb pancake, a green juice for lunch and some snap peas to snack on. I will also sometimes drink orange juice and obviously loads of water. When I go out shopping, I take some nuts with me and I either buy a healthy juice or a yougurt so that I avoid any temptation. That way I can avoid fainting due to hunger.
10. EXERCISE AT LEAST 30 MINUTES, 5 TIMES A WEEK & DRY BODY BRUSH. If you are able to add a walk or some cleaning here in there, it will definitely be an added bonus.
The way you will look at the end of this 6 weeks diet obviously depends on your initial dress size and body frame. The size is irrelevant though. What matters is that you will feel great in your own skin.
STAY FAB
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