Top 5 Ways to lose 5 pounds in 7 days

1. Eliminate all bread, pasta,salt  and sugar from your diet. These types of foods will slow down your metabolism and cause you to hold on to your weight.  

 2. Eat a small meal consisting of protein and complex carbohydrates every 2 to 3 hours. These types of foods will speed up your metabolism and eating frequently speeds it up even more.

3. Eliminate fat from your diet. You can’t lose fat if you keep eating fat. Your body will just burn the fat you are eating and never go deep into your fat stores.

4. Exercise 30 minutes a day after eating your small meal. Make sure it’s the right type of fuel…protein and complex carbohydrate. Lots of people think eating before exercise will interfere with digestion but in the proper combination, this is the best way to exercise.  

5. Drink at least 100 ounces of water a day. “I’m gonna flush that fat right out of my gut!”

This is tough but it works…I lost 5 pounds just last week doing this. Commit to doing it for one week and you’ll be hooked on this new way of eating. 

7 Tips to practice “Mindful Eating”

From November’s issue of Oprah magazine, Brian Wansink, a professor at Cornell University, gives these tips on eating “mindfully”.

1. Buying at  a discount store means you are likely to eat more. If you do buy in bulk, divvy up your snacks in portion-controlled baggies. Never eat right out of the box.

2. The longer you sit at a table, the more you’ll eat. If you’re trying to lose weight, sit with a small group or by yourself when eating.

3. Pre-plate your food in the kitchen rather than serving yourself at the table. You are less likely to take seconds.

4. When you are eating at a buffet, put only 2 items on your plate at a time.

5. Always eat in the same room of your house but not in front of a TV or computer.

6. Don’t leave serving plates on a table unless they are filled with healthy vegetables.

7. Focus on what you really want…is it physical hunger or emotional hunger? Physical hunger is gradual; emotional hunger is sudden.

Professor Wansink wrote a book about this: “Mindless Eating: Why We Eat More Then We Think”.  

Top 10 calorie-burning exercises to do in 30 minutes

If you are 180 pounds these are the top 10 calorie burning exercises that you can accomplish in one 30 minute session: 

10. Low impact aerobics-238 calories

9. Vigorous weight-lifting-259 calories

8. Bicycling (stationary) – 302 calories

7. Rowing (vigorously) – 367 calories

6. Boxing – 389 calories

5. Step Aerobics – 432 calories

4. Bicycling (outdoor) – 454 calories

3. Rock Climbing (going up) – 475 calories

2. Handball – 518 calories

and the number one calorie-burning exercise to do in 30 minutes is. . .

1. Running 7.5 miles (8 min/mile)- 540 calories