How To Lose 10 Pounds In A Week
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So how to lose 10 pounds in a week? Start by picking a diet plan that you feel comfortable with, here are a few options to choose from:
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Diets have evolved over the years to make it easier for people to reach their optimum weight, there are now diet programs that specifically ask you to eat more of the right food, this shouldn’t come as a surprise once you understand why starvation-mode food deprivation diets don’t work, which will be explained bellow.
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When you starve yourself or even severely restrict your food intake, you’re sending an emergency signal to your body ordering it to preserve the amount of calories it currently has access to; when you stop eating, your metabolic process – which is the main fat burning mechanism in your body – assumes that you lack access to food, so what it does it is it activates an emergency energy preservation mode (it stops burning calories) to maintain your energy level until you can get access to food, this is a natural bodily process built in all of us to ensure survival in harsh conditions (when you really don’t have access to food), and that’s exactly why low-calorie diets don’t work.
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Now that we’ve clarified how this process works, let’s get to the most important point about losing weight. Assuming you’ve picked one diet plan from above, the next step is to get yourself emotionally ready to lose 10 pounds.
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To achieve your weight loss goals, you need to ensure that you stay motivated, you determination level and your ability to remain dedicated to your diet plan are ultimately going to be the deciding factors in losing 10 pounds in a week or any amount of weight you’ve decided to lose. Remember that anything worthy in life requires a certain degree of effort and determination to accomplish, losing weight is no different. Here are few things that you could do to keep yourself on track:
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Find A Friend Who Is Also Interested In Losing Weight
Having someone joining you in taking the challenge of losing 10 pounds, someone you can easily share results with while you’re dieting, will have a tremendous influence on your motivation level. Many people are interested in losing 10 pounds but just never really reached the point where they made the decision to do it, this would be a great opportunity to find such a person, be it a friend or relative, that can take this challenge with you, it will really give you a great deal of motivation and drive to lose those 10 pounds.
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Ensuring that you stay in a positive, cheerful mood, minimizes the risk of consuming unhealthy food that goes against your diet plan, so try as much as you can to keep yourself in a good mood, and whenever you feel a sudden urge to eat random unhealthy food, stop and think of whether you’re doing this because you’ve made a conscious decision to consume food or you’re simply frustrated, angry or just bored. You would be surprised to know how many people break their diets because they had nothing to do one day and they’ve just decided to give up and eat whatever they want.
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Understand That It’s Not Going To Be Forever
This is very important, when you begin the process of losing weight, it’s not unusual to feel a bit discouraged, especially at the very beginning, this is simply because you’re making these sudden changes in terms of the type of food and sometimes in the quantity of food you eat, and your body needs time to get used to these changes before it feels like normal again. The best thing to do if this happens to you is to keep in mind that it’s not going to last forever, it’s just your body adapting to your new diet plan for a day or two and you’ll soon be feeling and looking great.
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Tell Everyone That You’re On A Diet
Make it clear to everybody that you’re following a diet, that way you don’t get the pressure of having to break your diet plan when you’re going out with your friends or even at home. Believe it or not, letting your friends and relatives know that you’re on a diet also tend to help in more subtle ways; when we tell others about our goals, we automatically give ourselves another reason not to fail, since we don’t want them to see that we haven’t succeeded in achieving our goals, so go ahead and spread the word about your plan to lose 10 pounds in a week.
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