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I lost 5 lbs in 6 days
Here’s how :
- I eased myself into it. You don’t go from eating 1500 calories to fasting in a day. That’s how you binge. You go to 1200 to 1000 and so on.
- Water : First thing every morning, I drink a bottle of water. I never eat or drink anything else until I have finished my water. If you want, add some lemon to it, here are the benefits.
- NO SODA omg. I’m not going to be one of those people nagging you that it’s not healthy, I don’t care about that. I’m saying to avoid it because it makes you look bloated af and will show you as way heavier on the scale, which can be huge discouragements and lead to a binge.
- Drink Tea: You can’t say you don’t like tea when there are so many flavors out there and the warm water keeps you full longer. Whenever I have a craving I just drink tea and it goes away
- NOT
green tea: As you know, green tea boosts your metabolism, but unless you hit a plateau or have a ridiculously slow metabolism, you don’t need metabolism enhances I can’t stress this enough because when you already have a certain metabolism and spead it up, all it will do is make you absolutely ravenous. I suggest for the best results without binging and only if you really want to, drink green tea (or take green tea diet pills) before a meal. Otherwise it’s a recipe for disaster. - Only eat when you’re hungry : Screw what people say about breakfast being the most important meal of the day, start eating when you are hungry. Think about all the times you binged late at night when you had already eaten your daily calorie limit earlier, now image how much easier it would have been if you hadn’t eaten a lot until that binge.
- Be creative : Most of us have safe foods but eating them regularly can be boring and repetitive. I like to spice mine up by cooking them in a different way (oven/steamed/boiled/fried with no oil) or adding different spices. Another good tip to spice your meals up is by mixing different safe foods (yogurt + nuts or fruits - carrot and sweet potato soup)
- No salt : Salt makes you retain water weight, gives you chipmunk cheecks, generally bloats you and makes you show higher on the scale stay away.
- Don’t stress your body: As much as dieticians and fitness addicts may preach that changing your lifestyle is key to weight loss, it really isn’t. If think you can go from laying in bed all day to having a carefully detailed, time sensitive program including 3 hard workouts then you’re wrong. Your body will associate not eating with your new stressful agenda so when you finally give up waking up at 3 am to work out then clean your room (which you will because that’s not sustainable) you will also probably binge because ‘Well, I ruined part of it, I might as well ruin all of it’. Which doesn’t sound too rational now but imagine after 7 days of green tea and veggie juices. What I’m trying to say is, don’t change your routine, don’t change your activity (at first) just change your food habits, do more of what you like doing that doesn’t involve food and focus on that. (Ex: I developed a skin care routine and made 3 blogs)
- Just like food, introduce exercise gradually : Try starting by doing 5 minutes of an exercise a day. Or search on YouTube work outs for beginners, never the ones that burns the most calories because that will kick your beginner ass and make you never want to work out again. Slowly make it a habit and I promise you’ll have a lot less pulled muscles
*Disclaimer : I do not promote eating disorders or wish an eating disorder on anyone. These things work for me, I am not a medical professional*

