1. Starving yourself
Less calories = less weight, right?
Not necessarily.
If you don't give your body the food that it needs it can go into survival mode pretty quickly. This is when your body thinks that there is a shortage of food (why else wouldn't you be eating, right?)
The next time that you eat, your body will store more of the food you consume as fat. So if there's another shortage it has some reserves. It will also slow down your metabolism, which means it'll be much harder for you to lose weight in future.
So does starving yourself make you lose weight?
Short term, yes. Long term... hell no!
So, if you've got an important event coming up that you need to be super slim for, and you don't really care if you're a big fat pork pie for the rest of your life, then this weight loss trick is for you!
2. Doing a cleanse
This one is pretty much exactly the same as starving yourself, with the same results.
You are denying your body of nutrients that it needs. When you start eating normally again it'll hang on to that food for a lot longer. Result... it becomes much harder to lose weight in future.
Ok... let's have a quick aside here before number 3
All these kind of diets do the same thing.
But, they also ALL will make you lose weight in the (very) short term. People see the results of the short term and think "Hey! I lost weight!" So they sing the praises of whatever diet they just did. And the people selling that diet get a shed load of very impressive testimonials with before and after shots.
But that's never the full story!!!!
If the before and after shots also included a "Couple of weeks later, after going back to eating normally" then it'd tell a completely different story.
So steer clear of anything that might make your body think "Oh no! There's a shortage of food! But no panic, I can handle this!"
3. Cutting out fat
Your body NEEDS fat to function correctly. Not all fats are bad. Some of them are essential. If you cut them out you will make yourself seriously ill.
I have two friends that cut fat from their diet for years. Now they both have early onset osteoporosis. I'm not a doctor. I'm not saying that cutting fat is definitely the cause of their illness, but your body needs fat. When you deny it something that it needs for a long time there are consequences.
Now let's have 3 tricks that do work
Trick 1 - Eat, stop, focus... and put your knife and fork down!
You body is pretty slow at letting your brain know that you're full. But your taste buds are pretty quick to say, "Another mouthful of that delicious nosh please!"
So here's a trick that definitely works
E A T S L O W L Y
V E R Y S L O W L Y !
When you eat slowly, your brain gets the "OK we're full now, stop eating!" signal form your belly in time for you to not shovel another 10 forkfuls down your gullet.
So you stop, and you feel satisfied.
If you eat quickly, then you can get through a LOT of food between the time that your belly says "STOP!" and your mind hears "STOP!"
When you do that you collapse onto the sofa with the top couple of buttons of your jeans undone, rubbing your aching, ready to burst belly.
All that time you spent preparing the food (how long does it take to order a pizza) is now wasted because you feel like crap.
The answer, SLOW DOWN.
Some tricks that will help you to slow down:
1. Put your knife and fork down between mouthfuls
2. Chat a lot with your eating buddies
3. Become extremely aware of the food in your mouth, chew it slowly, saver every tastes, enjoy it fully, then swallow it
Trick 2 - Drink water
This one works soooo well.
Most of us eat crap food. And we are pretty much always dehydrated.
Often, your body will crave hydration and it'll make you feel hungry so that you eat food because it needs the water that's in the food.
If, ever time that you feel hungry, you drink a full glass of water, then wait for 5 minutes you'll find that the hunger often completely subsides.
Having hydrated yourself, your body no longer needs to trick you into eating food.
Get into the habit of drinking a full glass of water every time that you are hungry and you'll be amazed at how much less you eat.
Of course, sometimes you genuinely will need food, so if you're still hungry 5 mins after your water, grab something to eat (but eat it slowly, otherwise you'll very likely eat too much!)
Trick 3 - The most POWERFUL trick of all!
I can not state how powerful this is. But it really doesn't have anything to do with eating, or dieting or any of that stuff.
Let's call all of that stuff flowers in the garden. What we're going to do is burrow underground to the roots that support the flowers!
The trick is very simply to visualise yourself the way you want to be.
That's it!
Just vividly see yourself as the size, shape and weight that you desire to be. Visiaulise it every day, all day! Make it as real as possible. See your perfect body as you wake up, and see your perfect body as you fall asleep.
This works better than ANYTHING.
Here's why it works...
Your subconscious mind decides what food you like and what food you don't like. It decides if you enjoy exercise or hate it. It decides if you'll have a fast metabolism or a slow one. It turns the food you eat into bones, muscles, flesh, fat and poo.
If your subconscious mind thinks you should be fat it does all of this in a way that will cause you to be fat. And no diet is ever going to change that.
But if it thinks you should be thin it will do all of this in a way that will make you thin.
So it will speed up your metabolism, make you enjoy the taste of healthy foods over unhealthy ones and probably cause you to actually enjoy jogging at 5am before you go to work.
Think about it.
Some people eat like pigs and are always super skinny. Other people walk past a donut shop and instantly balloon an extra 20 pounds of muffin-top.
Why does that happen?
We say, "Oh but this skinny person has a fast metabolism" etc.
But why do they have a fast metabolism?
Because their subconscious mind gave them one because it thinks that they should be thin. You are whatever your subconscious mind thinks you should be. Everybody is whatever their subconscious mind thinks they should be. No exceptions. No cheating. No diet tricks that are gonna change a damn thing.
If you want to be thin, you first have to change what your subconscious mind wants. And you do that by constantly feeding it an image of your ideal body.
Trust me this works. Better than any diet. Period.
The very best way to do this is to use hypnosis to re-program your subconscious mind so that it starts to see you as a thin person. Once that's done it's only a matter of time (and not much time!) your physical body will very soon start to change to match the "blueprint-body" image in your subconscious mind.
I've made a hypnotic recording (called "Effortless Weight Loss") that does this for you, just sit back, relax and listen. For it to work you must listen to it everyday for about 3 weeks. That's how long it takes to transform your subconscious mind.
Free weight loss hypnosis audio...
Another cool little trick you can pull on your subconscious mind is to make it think that you've had a Gastric Band fitted. That's pretty amazing, and it works. Click here to check it out, and read some feedback from previous "patients" and see the science and psychology behind why it works!
Until your subconscious mind thinks you should be thin no diet will ever work long term. As soon as it thinks you should be thin, you'll be thin. And stuffing yourself with pizza ain't gonna change a thing. You'll be one of those lucky skinny bleeders that you've envied all your life. But ONLY if you stick with it until your subconscious mind is on your side.
Now put that donut down.
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