So you want to slim fast? Low carb diets may be the answer in the short term as you can lose weight very quickly by reducing the amount of carbohydrates you consume.
Putting a carbohydrate curfew in place will help to speed up weight loss as well as reduce bloating thus making you look slimmer. Front end loading your day i.e. eating most of your daily allowance of carbohydrates for breakfast will also help you to attain your weight loss goals.
You need to avoid sugar laden cereals as well as white carbs i.e. pasta, bread and rice. Instead switch to granary and wholegrain breads and cereals. If cooking pasta or rice only use the wholegrain varieties.
Cut alcohol out entirely and watch those pounds fall off. Not only is alcohol full of empty calories but it also causes you to snack on the wrong type of foods. Not many people would get chips and a kebab every evening if they hadn’t had a drink first.
Drinking more water will help you to lose weight as will cutting down on tea and coffee. Switching to skimmed milk is also a good idea to reduce your calorie consumption without forfeiting the calcium your body needs.
To slim fast, low carb diets will work but over the longer term they have not been proven to keep weight off. The reason for this is that most people fail to stay on a low carb diet for long. In fact most of us start more diets than we finish. The key to losing weight in the long term is to change your lifestyle not just your diet. You need to eat healthier but you also need to get off the couch and out into the air. We all need more exercise and if you make it a family activity your kids are less likely to become obesity victims.
This is the first generation of children that are unlikely to outlive their parents and it is all because of their lifestyles. Our diets are too full of sugar and salt and parents are more likely to allow their kids play video games than go outside playing football. Society has changed and it is perceived to be more dangerous to let our kids play outside. Instead we are killing them slowly via a combination of poor diets and lack of exercise.
Slim fast low carb diet programs are not suitable for your kids unless advised by a doctor. You need to exercise caution when putting any child on a diet. Instead change your whole families approach to food. Introduce low GI foods such as those described above. Put a carb curfew in place for everyone and never let your kids go to school without a filling breakfast. Grilled bacon on wholemeal toast, boiled or poached eggs are much better than a sugar coated cereal.
Good luck with achieving your weight loss goals when following the slim fast low carb plan.
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