Fast and Healthy Weight Loss – 4 Crucial Components

1) Proper nutrition. This is the most important element, and anyone who says different is either trying to sell you a “magic pill,” a BS program, or they are just not that smart. You simply must find ways to alter your eating habits. I don’t recommend that you do a complete overhaul all at once and start eating in a completely different manner. That won’t work, because more than likely you won’t stick with it. Start incorporating natural, unprocessed foods (lean meats, dry and unroasted nuts, fruits, vegetables, beans, etc-these are usually single ingredient foods) into your diet and taking out the heavily processed items (fast food, most things in bags or boxes). Once again, don’t try to make the entire change overnight.

2) Strength Training. The most important thing, after nutrition of course, is engaging in strength training. Yes, ladies, this means you. If you only diet but don’t strength train, you are going to lose muscle along with fat. What does that mean? That means that your metabolism is going to decrease, and to continue to lose fat, you’ll have to keep cutting calories. This will leave you looking soft and give you that “skinny-fat” look. The really bad news: if you quit dieting and go back to your old eating habits, you’ll gain all of that weight and then some back. Not only that, but you’ll have a higher body fat percentage since you lost muscle. You must strength train while you diet to maintain or even increase your muscle mass.

3) Bodyweight circuits, intervals, or other conditioning methods. These are the best ways to increase your metabolism and help you burn more calories. Performing several hours of week on long, slow cardio is not only incredibly time consuming, but it can be counterproductive. You are much better off doing bodyweight circuits or performing intervals. These methods will keep your metabolism elevated much longer and will save you much more time.