Have you ever been confused to choose your diet to loose weight?!!
Just a little disclaimer for you there. I am neither dietitian nor doctor. I am one of you who has already tried almost every variant of diet found on internet and come to a conclusion based on my own experience.
It has been almost 4years since I started my weight loss journey. To be frank I shed good weight when I had little knowledge when all I knew not to eat junk or bad food and do your workouts consistently.
Over the course of 4 years, I lost 25 lbs in 4 months and 10 lbs in rest of 3.6 years. Yupp, you heard me right. Determined to get into shape, I started off religiously working out with motivation to get in-shape and become healthy. Initially I was very consistent with my workouts and food doing the right thing(not eating junk) and then the internet monster hit me with different kinds of diets to try for faster weight loss results. Believe it or not, I was hooked to more and more articles, and my plans started to derail. Slowly I started to concentrate less on working out and what works for me, and instead focused on un-tailored advice from the internet monster.
In the process, I tried every diet possibly out there: Keto, Intermittent fasting, GM diet, Low cal diet… Remember, practically none of these diets can be followed for longer periods of time. Yes, I agree some of these diets might work but each one has its own side effects and hardships. A small mistake in keto diet will start storing fat instead of burning fat if done wrongly. And people say amazing things about intermittent fasting. Yes it is amazing but it works different with different body types, some bodies start release stress hormones due fasting and sugar levels fluctuate, you have to monitor and listen to your body closely before you adopt it to be your lifestyle.
There could be zillion types of diets that might start to evolve, but one thing works for any body type no matter what without you worrying a lot.
KEEP IT SIMPLE, COUNT CALORIES. BURN MORE CALORIES THAN WHAT YOU CONSUME.
Trust me, that’s way less stress for your body and brain.
When some one says burn more calories than what you consume does not mean go starving mode or hang in the gym for hours together.
Let’s say your body burns approximately 1300 calories (varies with BMI ratio) in rest, when you consume 1200 calories a day and burn couple of hundred calories during workout. You create a calorie deficit and that’s how you burn your body fat eventually.
Here are my before and after pics for little inspiration.
Fighting for that beach body now.
C’ya in my next post.
