Weighed in yesterday and lost 4.4 lbs in the first week! Hubby lost .2 lb but I do have more than him to lose anyway! So am very happy about that and looking to keep the fat burning method going. I think that eating every 3 hours was a huge help and I noticed that I really didn’t eat much bread at all last week. When we went shopping on the weekend it wasn’t something I needed to buy. I know that I was eating way too many carbs for sure.

This week my grocery cart was full of fruits and vegetables. Strawberries were on sale and I picked up some over ripe bananas for a $1. This made 5 low fat banana breads which I sliced and put into the freezer. This way it is just a matter of taking out a slice and letting it thaw. Can’t over eat that way!

My goal for this week is to drink more water and add some herbal teas in as well. Exercise is still going good and I added doing some situps and lifting 5 lb weights. My knee feels really good so hopefully I can start doing more on the aerobic side of things too.

Would love to hear what you have planned for this week, let me know below.

Lose 20 Pounds in 3 Weeks – Learn the Proper Way to Burn Fat – Free Diets!
Do you believe that it is possible to lose 20 pounds in 3 weeks? Of course it is, you could even lose up to 40 pounds in 3 weeks. The question is: Do you want your weight to stay at 20 pounds less? Or is it more of a temporary weight loss you want?

In this article you’ll learn more about how to achieve a consistent weight loss in a safe and healthy way.
The American College of Sports Medicine recommends that you should not lose more than 1-2 pounds every week and that is also what your body can handle.

Is it ridiculous to think that you could lose 21 pounds in 3 weeks? No, but it is ridiculous to think that you could lose 20 pounds of fat in 21 days. See the difference?
Weight loss is easy to achieve but is not healthy. Why? Because you lose lean muscle mass in the process and you also lose lots of water.

A successful dieter changes a lot of things, she does not only go on a diet. She changes attitudes and understand that exercise is an important part of weight loss. Cardio exercising and weight lifting are two types of exercise that will help you keep your muscle and still burn the fat. If you go on a diet without exercising you burn more muscle than fat.
So now you know that exercising is vital to be a successful dieter.

It is also important to change your calorie intake (No, it is not the time to starve). Actually you should only reduce your calorie intake by 5-10%. It is more important to change the sort of calories you eat. Our daily calorie intake comes from:

Proteins: Proteins are the building blocks in your body. Most tissues in your body are replaced with new tissue every three month, some tissues are replaced every week. That is important to know and a diet needs to have enough proteins to allow new tissues to be built.

Fat: Fat is also essential. Fat is used for energy in your body. An important fact about fat is that it slows down the metabolism of carbohydrates and thus keeps your blood sugar and insulin levels at reasonable levels. This is important if you want to burn fat in an effective way.

Carbohydrates: Also known as carbs. Carbs are used as energy in your body, carbs are the premium fuel. There are several different kinds of carbohydrates and some are ‘bad’ while dieting and some are ‘good’. There are several diets recommending that you stay of carbs all together but it’s not a way to get a durable weight loss. Once you introduce the carbs again your blood suger will spike and increase the rate that fat stores in cells.

The sum of this is that there are not two people alike and nor is there working diets that suits everybody. Weight loss in theory is complex but losing weight is easy. Do it the right way and you’ll feel better while losing weight and once lost it is gone.

Lose 40 Pounds in 2 Months Burn the Fat, not the Muscle!
According to The American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM) a healthy weight loss is 1-2 pounds per week. Faster weight loss diets are not healthy because you don’t want to lose muscle, right? I know that you often see headline like lose 10 pounds in 11 days’, lose 10 pounds in a week’ and lose 15 pounds in 4 days without any exercise’. Headlines like that are so frequent that they must state the truth. Well, they don’t, instead they mislead you.

If you lose 10 pounds in a week it is not healthy for you, let’s divide your weight loss into categories of water, muscle and fat. A fast weight loss of 10 pounds means that you have lost approximately 2 pounds of fat, 4 pounds of water and 4 pounds of lean muscle. Did you know that? What happens when you stop dieting? You will gain the water weight (remember that the body consists of 70% water and it strives to be well-balanced). You lost 2 pounds of fat which is great but you also lost 4 pounds of lean muscle-mass. It is a lot easier to gain weight fast and that weight gain consists of fat because it takes longer to build muscle-mass.
Basically, in the long run, you have lost 10 pounds only to gain them again and you also replaced 4 pounds of muscle with 4 pounds of fat. Seems like a good idea? That doesn’t even have to be answered.

Let’s go back to what the ACSM writes in their guidelines. A healthy weight loss should be no greater than 1-2 pounds per week, 1-2 pounds of fat that is. You do not want to lose muscle and you do not want to lose water.

If you want to lose 40 pounds of fat it should take at least 20 weeks. Losing the weight in fat takes time because your body can only burn so much fat at a time. Losing 2 pounds every week means that you should use a diet that increases the metabolism of fat.

There are lots of diets that do this and in every other ad you see they tell you that exercise is not a necessity for this to work. Let me tell you, our body is the product of thousands of years of evolution and it tries to improve through every generation. If you want to keep muscle-mass it means that you have to use the muscle you have or else it will be metabolized into energy instead of your fat. The body wants to keep storage of energy and that energy is stored in fat. The body does this to have a reserve in case of a starvation period. On the other hand, if you exercise during your diet, your body knows that you already need the muscle-mass you have and instead it uses the fat for energy. Makes sense?