Contrary to popular belief, losing weight is not a matter of eating less food, it's a matter of eating less food at one sitting so you can eat more times throughout the day.
If you knew you were going to get $5,000 a day for the rest of your life... guaranteed...
...what would you do?
You would have no problem spending some money!
Your body is no different. If it knows it is going to get fed six meals a day it has no reason to store anything. It will simply eliminate any excess food you consume and in the process it will burn off the excess fat you have stored! I mean... who needs food stores when your consistently eating 5 to 6 meals a day?
Your daily eating pattern should resemble the following...
-- Breakfast
-- Snack
-- Lunch
-- Snack
-- Dinner
-- Snack
It's important to spread these meals out evenly... about three hours between each.
For example, eat breakfast as soon as you rise, wait three hours, then have a snack.
Most people have fallen into the old three square meals a day routine. This is simply an eating pattern handed down to us by our parents... who's parents handed it down to them... and so on.
It stems from the invention of your favorite thing...
...the old nine to five!
Think about it... you eat breakfast, go to work where you get one lunch break, and come home and eat dinner. This eating pattern is perfectly designed for the eight hour work day.
Those who cling tightly to this "old-school" eating pattern simply can't fathom that eating more often will actually cause them to lose weight.
But this is exactly what...
-- Bodybuilders
-- Top fitness models
-- And the most finely tuned athletes
...do in order to obtain their fantastic physiques.
In fact, bodybuilders are the ones who taught everyone else to shred body fat by consuming five to six meals a day.
Now I realize that you might not want to be ripped like them, but one has to admire those washboard abs! And please forgive the following analogy as you are not an animal, but have you ever seen an animal living in the wild that is extremely overweight?
Probably not too often.
How do these animals eat?
They graze non-stop throughout the day!
I have seen fat dogs, cats and other domesticated animals though. Could it be because we force them to eat like us?...
Make sure you remember the following...
You were created to graze. It's how your metabolism functions to its peak fat-burning potential!
So make sure to consume 5 to 6 meals a day.
The truth is that you can reach any healthy weight from any size with the right techniques. You can drop from 450 pounds to a size 12 dress for example, without bariatric surgery or even medically supervised diets like Very Low Calorie Diets (VICD). Many have achieved this to confirm that it's a replicable possibility among particular people.
When it comes to total weight lost what is realistic is primarily depended on the individual. The motivation the desire and the willingness to change are very important. So important are these that even extreme interventions like weight loss surgery that have a near guarantee of huge permanent weight loss, weight regain can occur if the individual lacks the desire, will and motivation to change.
However even all the willingness and passion will never replace good dieting habits. Infact when looking at realistic dieting goals you should look at two main perspectives; total amount of weight loss targeted to result to the idea weight or desired weight and the time taken to reach this goal or rate of weight loss.
You have probably heard that you should aim for two pounds of weight loss a week. This is what is generally acceptable as healthy. But as you probably are aware, weight loss tends to taper and hit a platue.
Similarly you may have heard of people that lose much more in a week. For example the story featured on US magazine of Janet Jackson who lost 60 pounds in 4 months. From chubby figures that could no longer fit her rings, she transformed into a model that graced the cover of the magazine with chiseled abs.
What you need to understand is celebrities like Janet Jackson have nearly endless resources to support their endeavor, from motivational coaches to personal chefs. This is why what can be a realistic goal for one is by far not realistic to someone else.
Your goal setting should agree with your level of commitment. Commitment requires sacrifices. It also requires priotisation. Infact there is a level of commitment which if you find yourself in, you should forego losing weight for the time being. This is rather than putting yourself in a position of imminent failure hence frustrating yourself.
And though it seems that you should set goals depending on your level of commitment you can do the reverse. For example, you just want to fit in a size 10 jeans. Then you can find what is needed overtime to achieve this. Then you can commit to achieve it. All in all what is realistic always depends on what your really want and how much you are willing to pay to get it.
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