How does this diet sound for the next 3 weeks?!


Question: How does this diet sound for the next 3 weeks?
have a healthy breakfast, such as fruit and oatmeal. For lunch, a handful of raw vegetables and a tuna sandwich on wheat bread with water. Dinner is where the big cut comes: a small salad with vegetables and 2 tablespoons of vinaigrette dressing.

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It looks like you are reducing your calories too much. You'll lose weight initially on a very low calorie diet, but much of the weight loss will often be water, not body fat, since very low calorie diets tend to be dehydrating.

A very low calorie diet will also cause your body to go into "starvation mode." Once your body is in starvation mode, your metabolism will slow down, you'll lose muscle as your body starts using muscle for energy, and it will become very difficult to lose fat as your body tries to hold on to its fat stores.

The most effective way to lose body fat is by decreasing your calories a little and increasing your physical activity a lot. This enables you to lose body fat without being constantly hungry, without slowing down your metabolism, and without losing muscle.

A good weight loss goal is to lose one to two pounds of body fat per week. Since there are 3,500 calories in a pound of fat, this would mean creating a daily calorie deficit of 500 calories to lose one pound per week, or creating a daily calorie deficit of 1,000 calories to lose two pounds per week. To prevent your body from going into starvation mode, never eat less than 1,200 daily calories if you are female or 1,800 daily calories if you are male.

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Hmm. instead of just having 3 meals in a day, try dividing the food you have listed for breakfast, lunch, and dinner into 5 or 6 smaller meals. This will allow reduce your craving that you have between for example breakfast and lunch. So for example, for breakfast you could have fruit and oatmeal. Between breakfast and lunch, have a granola bar, some fruits or vegetables.




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