Tarquin Fuego wrote:
Need to shed 13kg in 8 weeks for my UK trip
Breakfast : small banana
poached egg on bed of dry fried spinach
Mid morning : apple
Lunch : Massive bowl of Pumpkin/capsicum/chilli/carrot homemade Soup
Small slice of wholemeal bread to dip in
Afternoon : grapes and 2 kiwis and small handful cashew nuts
Dinner : BBQ (27c here today) , Big Salad + low fat Feta , Olive oil dressing , 2 Kangaroo sausages
Supper : Low fat yoghurt 100g
1200 calories
Any tips for tomorrow ?
Be very careful undertaking a restricted calarie diet. They're very good for a quick burst of weight loss, but soon after your body will enter starvation mode and weight loss will not only become difficult, you are likely to gain weight.
1200 calories is likely to be over 100% less then you recommended daily amount. If you deprive your body of the intake it needs to such levels it will began storing fat and preserving it thinking it wont be getting much in the future. It's a simple survival feature that thwarts most people who attempt this diet.
If you like meat, and as another poster has pointed out, go for a higher protein diet and restrcit carbs. It's effective and you feel less hungry due to the ffods you eat. If you can chuck exercise in then you'll raise your mertabolism and burn weight more efficeintly.
But like anything else, diets are horses for courses, that's why there's so many out there. We all thrive under different regimes. I do think, though, that there is a near consensus that "crash" dieting seldom works.
