![]() ![]() But if you have 20 minutes per day to use, do INTENSE strength training with very little rest every other day. Exercise: the absolute least you can do which does provide metabolic enhancement is a 5-minute Tabata workout (Google it).(Protein shakes become very useful for busy mornings.) Try to make it to noon before eating anything sugary or starchy. Avoid sugar as much as possible, but ESPECIALLY just after waking up.If weighing what you eat makes it hard to eat out, and you’re not making progress, STOP EATING OUT.a measured cup of oats may turn out to weigh 225g instead of the 200g you expected.) Record every ingredient in grams in your food log. Start weighing EVERYTHING you eat (I use a cheap digital scale you can get for about $20 on Amazon).The above tips will get you pretty far when you’re starting out, but here’s what you do if you don’t see any progress: It also lets you record what TIMES you ate things, which I find to be indispensable information when I’m really trying to hone in on a dietary problem. Their iPhone app is the best I’ve tried (and I’ve tried them all at this point), which syncs with the website. With, you do have to watch out for the user-submitted entries, but the official database usually has what you need just be careful which ones you select. SparkPeople is too feature-laden and flashy and who needs their stupid SparkPoints anyway. They are essentially a Google-bait content farm at this point. I have been using for the past year and totally love it. Having to record “4 M&Ms” along with lunch is just kinda annoying. Most people also find that just by knowing they have to record everything they eat, they decide to eat less, or eat simpler things, and they stop “picking” at random foods (which can really up the caloric total at the end of the day). You’ll start seeing patterns in your cravings (“I always seem to want something sweet around 9pm…”) You will learn a hell of a lot about the content of the various foods you eat and are attracted to, and that’s supremely valuable information. I also didn’t go totally calorie-crazy on the 7th day I just chose foods that spike insulin with a hefty glucose load, like stone fruits, bananas, medjool dates, yams, and so on.Īs for diet-tracking: DO IT. I went totally paleo and didn’t eat any of the “safe starches”. This is similar to Tim Ferriss’ Four Hour Body diet, however I didn’t eat beans. My waist went from about 31" (mommy belly!) down to 27" which is what it was in high school… 14 years ago.ĭiet: I ate ultra-low-carb (about 30g of carbs per day) for 6 days and then had a carb binge on the 7th day. ![]() This year I lost 15 pounds of post-baby fat (which was all I had to lose) within about 2 months. ![]()
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