Do you have an event coming up? Or do you want a night out with your pals, but want to look great in the pair of slim jeans you have? You don’t have to worry, you can lose up to 5 pounds in a week and be ready and flawless for your night out.
So what are the steps we have to take? How can we lose up to five pounds fast?
Hydrate, hydrate, hydrate!!! Drink plenty of water, not soda or fruit juices, but just water. Keeping the body hydrated will prevent it from retaining water and will help to flush out excess water from the body. This helps you lose weight because some of the extra weight we carry around is from excess water. So by regularly flushing out water, our bodies have less of a chance to carry extra water around.
Reduce / eliminate simple starches. Eliminate simple starches, such as white breads, pasta and rice, and replace them with vegetables. Our bodies digest simple starches fairly quickly and leave us hungry again in a short time span after eating. Vegetables, on the other hand, are complex starches, so our bodies take up a longer time digesting them, leaving us fuller for a longer period of time. So by replacing simple carbohydrates, with complex carbohydrates, our bodies work longer at digesting food, keeping us fuller, and lessening the need to snack in between meals.
Reduce your consumption of salt. Salt is one of the causes of bloating. When we eat too much salt, the body requires much more water in order to eliminate the salt. Not only that, but excess salt causes the body to hold on to water, this is how bloating occurs. Daily intake of salt should not excess 1500mg a day. Reducing excess salt will reduce the chance of bloating making it easier for our bodies to flush out excess water.
Do 30 minutes of cardio training first thing in the morning. Doing cardio workout that requires many muscles groups to work at once helps us burn up to 300 calories in half an hour and certain exercises help to tone our bodies as well. Some such exercises are boot camp workouts, cardio kickboxing and spinning. Exercising also helps us sweat which is a way of eliminate extra sodium and water weight in our bodies.
Sleep. There is a correlation between lack of sleep and weight gain, so make sure you are getting enough sleep at night. If you need to, get an extra 30 minutes worth of sleep at night to help you feel invigorated in the morning. Having a more restful sleep boosts our metabolism, and sleeping a tad bid more will give us better muscle tone, since our bodies build muscles in our sleep.
These are some tips that will help you lose 5 pounds in a week. Stick with these tips and you may end up losing much more weight in the months to come. Of course, there are other things you will need to do for yourself if you want to make the change permanent.
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