It’s Not A Diet, It’s A Lifestyle Change
Shukhrat Ishankulov
Executive chef/co-founder at 'Fillet' and 'Zaytoon' Restaurants
The question "How do I lose weight?" gets typed into Google 150,000 or so times per month. The question "How do I lose weight fast?" gets asked even more.
Every day there are all new diets and author's methods of losing weight, but still number of people with overweight increases at the same time.
In fact, normalizing weight is not so difficult if you know the basic principles of healthy eating. They will not make you feel stress and deprivation and will make obvious the shortcomings of all modern diets.
You Don't need to eat less, you need to eat right
The first principle sounds paradoxical, but to get rid of extra pounds, you really need to start eating regularly, and often - more than now. The reason for this is the survival mechanism inherent in our intelligent body. As soon as we begin to limit ourselves in food, adhering to a rigid diet, our body perceives this as a signal of the onset of hungry times and begins to slow down the metabolism. As a result, after returning to the usual diet, or at the next breakdown, every gram eaten begins to be deposited as fat. But the ability of the body to adapt to environmental conditions can be to our advantage.
If we start to eat, 5-6 times a day, in a small quantities, we are already giving a new signal - about the prosperity of food. As a result, metabolism begins to accelerate in proper way and that one of sample where weight losing person should do is to stop experiencing hungry, driving your body into a state of stress.
Your daily food should look like this.
Breakfast (06: 00-09: 00). We eat complex carbohydrates (cereals, whole-grain bread) and a small amount of protein, such as tofu.
First snack (10: 00-12: 00). In the morning we can afford sweet fruits (bananas, grapes, persimmon) or dried fruits.
Lunch (12: 00-14: 00). This should be the most abundant meal, so that in the evening you would not want to fill up lack of calories. Also we again eat protein in combination with complex carbohydrates (cereals, durum macaroni). Vegetarians can replace animal products with soy products and other protein-rich legumes (chickpeas, lentils, beans).
The second snack (15: 00-17: 00). We give preference to healthy fats - it can be an avocado salad or a small amount of nuts (6–8 pcs).
Dinner (18: 00-20: 00). For dinner, we eat protein again, but we no longer allow ourselves carbohydrates for garnish. Instead of porridge, it is better to eat a portion of fiber in the form of vegetable salad. Stewed vegetables are also suitable, with the exception of potatoes.
The third snack (21: 00-22: 00). Here we can only afford vegetables, fruits (green apple, citrus fruits) or a small amount of almond milk.
And dont forget the time it takes for you to see (and others to notice) weight loss results can vary from person to person. Many factors, including your starting size and your eating plan, can make a big difference. In general, however, many people can see results in one to two weeks if they stick to their plan, where they eat right.
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