Lose 20 Pounds in 2 Months – Permanently!
Here’s what you need to do if you want to lose 20 pounds permanently. Reduce your carbohydrate intake and add more protein and natural fats into your diet. Get used to your new diet by using some tools like a nutrient calculator and a meal planner, and help yourself to follow the diet by cleaning up your kitchen and making and following shopping lists. You will lose weight fast and easy if you follow these weight loss tips, which are all based on recent research about controlling your weight and staying healthy.
Limit your carbohydrate intake
Carbohydrates are sugars. Our body doesn’t need that many of them, yet our daily diets are filled with carbs. They are even the main nutrient of all the official diet recommendations! Unfortunately there is a number of studies that offer convincing evidence that the over-consumption of carbohydrates is behind the growing obesity problem everywhere where people have adopted the Western diet. There are many different ways to reduce carbohydrates, and one good way to start is simply to stop eating white flour, potato, pasta and sugar. Another way is to follow a diet plan, like the Atkins diet, which is the quickest way to lose weight and has also been proven to be a very effective long term diet. It also has many health benefits like a lowered blood pressure. According to the latest research low-carbohydrate diets are better for your heart’s well-being than low-calorie diets.
Add natural fats and protein
We have been told to avoid fats to protect ourselves from vascular diseases. The recent research shows something else: there’s no association between fat consumption and heart diseases and that natural fats are actually good for us! However, it is important to notice that synthetic trans fats are still on the dangerous foods list and should be avoided. Another common misconception is that consuming fats would make us fat, but the amount of fats consumed has almost no effect on your weight. The ingestion of high fat foods leads to an increase in satiety and to lower food intake at the next meal. In other words: you will be less often hungry and also eat less during your meals. The low-carbohydrate diet is ideal for learning intuitive eating and it might help in avoiding emotional eating as well.
Stick to the diet!
Moving away from carbohydrates can feel difficult in the beginning since most of us are used to a high carb diet, but it doesn’t take long to get used to it. You can use a food diary to know what exactly you are eating and to learn more about the nutrition levels of different foods. The diary will help you stay motivated and see the results of your low-carb regime. It is also a good idea to take a moment to plan your meals for some days or a week. A meal plan helps you stick to your new eating habits by preventing you from falling out of your new eating habits just because you are too hungry or tired to think about what to eat.
The world is still full of temptations. Luckily one result of following the low-carb diet is that in time you will have fewer cravings. Snacking just isn’t that interesting anymore! However, it is important to stick to the diet in the beginning, and that can be achieved by not having any “forbidden foods” in the house. Some more tips on how to lose weight with a low-carb diet: clean up your kitchen from the foods which are not a part of the diet and do not buy more of them. Make a shopping list before going to the grocery shop and stick to it.
Making these changes in your diet will make you lose 20 pounds in 2 months if not faster. Don’t forget to use the food diary, not for counting the daily calorie requirement or intake but to fill in your measurements in the beginning. You will be surprised how fast you will feel the difference in your weight, in your looks and in your overall feeling.
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