Two Simple Changes To Lose Fat

If there is an eating plan out there, I've probably tired it.  I avoid the word "diet" because I feel like diet limits me too much and I automatically become hungry.  So, eating lifestyle is how I prefer to think about my relationship with food.  A few organized plans I have followed include Body for Life, South Beach Diet, 40-30-30 Plan, Zone Diet, Weight Watchers, Clarence Bass Plan and 4 Hour Body.  This doesn't include countless diets like Skinny Bitch, cabbage diets, fruit diets, eggs and grapefruit diet and on and on.  Anyway, over the duration of this blog I'll give you some tips that have worked best for us (I'm including Rich here because he's been an amazing and willing guinea pig over the years).  

Here are your nuggets for the day:  eat (or drink) 30 grams of protein within 30-60 minutes of waking up in the morning.  Preferably, this is clean and good quality protein but it can also be a protein shake (Jay Robb egg white protein is highly recommended).  Try and be a little picky and make sure you aren't drinking a load of sugar at the same time. I prefer egg-based protein and avoid whey-based mixes, myself. More about this in a later blog.

Next, drink a gallon of ice-cold water daily.  This is not easy especially when you're my size (5'1").  What doesn't work is the typical recommendation of half your weight in ounces (the basic rule is that a person weighing 120 pounds would drink 60 ounces). Going to a gallon rids your body of retained water and jump starts your fat-burning metabolism.  A gallon of water daily is a minimum - if you're 6' and weigh 200 pounds you may have to drink two gallons daily to start the fat-burning process.

The ice-cold water goes against Chinese medicine practices; however, so is carrying extra fat on the body, so one must occasionally (and temporarily) bend the rules.

One last bit of advice for today: weigh yourself and measure your waist before you implement the changes above.  Losing weight and losing fat are different.  I'll go into this more tomorrow and just drag yourself to the bathroom and do it.  Be sure to remember where you're measuring your waist because you want to be consistent.

Drink up friends!

Until tomorrow.

Melissa