Quick Weight Loss - For when it is urgent

Let's face it, most of us have been in the situation - the wedding of the cousin is coming up in a few weeks, or a school reunion is just two months away and the dress or the suit just will not fit, because there is a little bit too much around the middle. The only solution in this case: some pounds have to be lost quickly.

Straight forward: losing weight quickly is not a good thing to do, because normally most of the weight loss will be water and muscle tissue. Because the rule is: you put weight on slowly, normally over a period of years, so the weight loss has to be slow as well. And only then you will know that most of the weight loss is actually body fat.

But in our special case here is the clock ticking, so we have to go on a pretty hard diet, to meet our target weight loss. To get us into that suit or that dress.

"Quick weight loss" - Catch 22

And immediately here is the catch. Normally diets do not really work. They are sending the body into starvation mode, a "left-over" from ancient times. A survival mechanism from the times, when humans were facing periods of famine and the "quick weight loss" problem did not even exist.

The body lowers the metabolic rate, when we go too low in calories. This reduces our ability to burn fat and the body sends increased hunger signals. We are quickly starting to crave food which is loaded with fat and sugar. Naturally this is counter-productive to our "quick weight loss" plan.

When you know all this, you do not really want to go through this process, but for this special "quick weight loss" occasion, you will have to. And the key for this is to boost the metabolism, which is lowered automatically by your body, because of the dieting. The best way for this boosting is good old fashioned, intense work-out. One highly intense work-out per week is the best way to do this. It will elevate your metabolism and burn fat along the way.

The two main reasons why this technique works best are the intensity of the work-out and the recovery afterwards. Infrequent high intensity work-out followed by the necessary time to recover is what is needed to build more functional lean muscle and lose body fat.

Now, for the quick weight loss, you have to cut down drastically on the calories during this period of time. Calculate how many calories you consume on a normal day and the lower this figure by 1000. This is now the amount of calories you are allowed to eat, during your quick weight loss period.

Shakes for "Quick weight loss"

Naturally it gets now even more important that the calories are coming from high quality food. You have to eat food that fills you up and not food that fills you out. If possible, use a blender and skimmed milk to make protein shakes with whatever additives you want. Just don't forget to include them into the calorie-count.

Additional to the high intensity work-out, you also need some additional incidental activity, for the quick weight loss. The best exercise here would be plain walking. Try to walk at a pace, which gets you mildly puffing, for one hour every day of the week.

Now, having said all that, please, please, please, keep always in mind: this is a way to lose weight in a case of emergency. For a time when you urgently need a quick weight loss. The weight loss in this way is much too fast and it would be unhealthy, to maintain this programme over a longer period.

Remember: when it comes to weight loss, dieting or similar, you always have to think long term. "Quick weight loss" is only for emergencies!