How to Lose Weight Really Fast at Home

How to Lose Weight Really Fast at Home

People wanting to know how to lose weight really fast at home are usually women who stay at home, possibly looking after the children or who have a work from home job rather than those that travel to work each day. They also likely want to lose weight really fast because there is some event looming on the horizon: a wedding perhaps, or some other function where they want to look their best.

It could also be someone of either gender who is housebound for one reason or another and who perhaps has to lose weight for a forthcoming operation or surgical procedure, but irrespective of who it is, why they must lose weight at home and why they must lose weight fast, what they want can be done.

It is possible to lose weight really fast at home if you carry out some simple exercises and maintain a lean and healthy diet. By 'lean' is meant a diet free of too many carbohydrates, particularly the high-calorie types such as hot chocolate fudge cake, trifles, cookies and the like, but packed full of protein and nutritious fruits and vegetables.

Keep in mind that losing 3-4 pounds each week is 'really fast' as weight loss goes, and will not be easy to achieve safely, but it can be done. Losing weight too fast can endanger your health and crash diets are not good ways of losing weight. However, fasting is one possibility, and it is possible to fast healthily for a limited period.

For a really fast weight loss, you could start with a 24 hour fast to detox your system and give your diet and exercise regime a good start. A colon cleanse might also help but is not necessary. Drink only water or a nutritious juice mixture from sunup to sunup for one day. This will help to cleanse and detox your system and give your digestive system a short rest. Then have a light breakfast of fruit juice and maybe scrambled eggs.

Take a protein-rich diet supplemented with highly colored fruit and vegetables. The color indicates a high level of antioxidants and anti-inflammatories, and also other nutrients such as vitamins and minerals essential to your health. You should also take some fat, either as chicken fat or oil capsules, and complete your diet with chicken or a high protein supplement. You can ring the changes between meals with eggs, chicken and fish (oily and white).

Also up your exercise rate to create a calorie deficiency. If you have a home gym then great, or even a treadmill would do, but if not then you will have to devise some high-energy activity such as running up and down the stairs for 30 minutes or so. You can also use press-ups, sit-ups and highly aerobic step-ups using a staircase or a bench. If you are able to go out jogging, then all the better. A half hour jogging will use up 300 - 400 calories depending on your current weight. You really want to expend at least 1,000 calories daily to start with and then check your progress.

A pound of fat contains 3500 calories, so to lose that each week you have to lose 500 calories - each half hour of jogging would achieve that. Expect to lose weight quickly at first through excess water loss, and then settle down to 2-3 pounds each week. You cannot realistically lose much more than that at home, unless you have some serious exercising equipment.

What you can do is improve your flexibility and shape by carrying out flexibility and stretching exercises. For example, sit up straight in a chair. Hold your arms out in front of you and bend round to left as far as you can. Hold it 3 seconds and then do the same to the right. Repeat 6 times to start with. Do that a few times each day and you will find that as time goes on you can increase the number of repetitions as you feel more supple and your waist gets trimmer.

Try bending to touch the floor with your hands. Don't overstretch, but go as far as you comfortably can. Repeat 5 times and you will find yourself getting closer and closer until you can finally touch the floor.

If you mix these exercises up with more aerobic exercises that make you breathe hard and your heart beat faster then you will soon notice a weight loss. If not, then you are either eating too many calories or not exercising enough, so attend to the problem. Even running on the spot will expend a whole heap of calories, and the more you use up the better because you must expend more calories than you eat or you will never lose weight.
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