#1. Drop the strawberry juice. Pure or not, its just a big glass of flavored sugar! Your body doesnt care if its table sugar, high fructose corn syrup or naturally occuring sugar from fruit. Its sugar.
#2. Eat MORE! Your body thinks its starving and is trying to hold on to fat. Dont go below 1800 calories, just make them healthy calories split up over as many meals as is practical for you. (at least 5)
#3. "too much meat?" Too much of anything is too much. If a meal is more than your body can reasonably assimilate for bodily functions, it gets stored as fat. If those meatballs were lean meat then ok, but if they were a fatty cut of meat then they were working against your goal. The green beans were good though.
(it could be that the far too small portions for the preceeding meals are contributing to overeating later in the day. That is the worst possible time to eat too much since you are probobly not going to burn off many more calories before bed)
#4. Have protien at every meal. Consuming protien causes a rise in your metabolic rate of up to 25%, which equates to the potential for more fat to be burned.
#5. Consider a lactose free, carb free protien powder for the additional protien and clean calories. Also think about a natural peanut butter...
#6. Dont reduce the carbs, clean them up. Green vegtables are fiborous and help to liberate fat into fatty acids where they can be taken into the blood stream and disposed of as waste.
#7. Chicken, turkey, lean beef, soy (if you like that sort of thing), peanuts, peanut butter... there are lots of choices for protien...
"Am I on the right track?"
NO!!!
Dont take this the wrong way, Im seriously trying to help, not bash you, but you are setting yourself up for a big letdown. Lots of people do that and blame it on every factor they can except for what the problem really is.
But you sound like you know that or you wouldnt be asking this
Some things to remember are:
*too few calories will only cause weight loss at first, and will result in a rapid regain of weight. The catch is, youll initially lose mostly muscle, then youll gain back primarily fat!
*PLEASE dont be fooled into the old starvation dieting frame of mind. Your body needs fuel to burn fat. Think of your body like a furnace. You can:
a)open the door of the cold dark furnace and throw in some junk you want to burn and watch it sit there in this cold empty furnace.
-or-
b)add some fuel into the furnace, get it warmed up and running, then throw in the junk onto the flames and watch it be burned.
Your body is the same. Your metabolism is the furnace, with no fuel it stops burning junk (fat) because it doesnt need to. When its fueled up and running it looks for more fuel to burn. By consuming smaller more frequent meals (without the sugar!) you force it to break down fat to use as a fuel sorce.
*That much cardio and weight training on such a small number of calories will make the scale lie to you and tell you youve lost some weight. Youre losing muscle, and as you lose muscle your metabolism slows down, and that means more fat will accumulate.
*Fruit is crap. Some people will try to tell you otherwise, but fruit is just little balls of "natures table sugar". You can take vitamins or look to other foods for those vitamins. You dont need fruit for vitamin C any more than you need milk for calcium (hell, broccoli has more calcium than milk...).
*basically concentrate on fibourous carbs, lean protiens and plenty of water. More than youre drinking now. Water is the fuel your cells use for many of the actions they carry out (it DOES affect the metabolism!)
*shoot for 1600-1800 calories. break them up between the number of meals youll have (i.e. 1700 calories over 5 meals is 340 calories per meal). Then figure out what youll eat for the meal. Chicken and broccoli for instance. Try to have portions big enough to equal out those calories.
"I wanna lose the 1-2 lbs a week and be ready for summer which is 2 months from now roughly."
That is easily acheviable! 1 pound a week on a good diet with exercise involved is very realistic, 2 pounds isnt out of the question either...
~ Some more aggresive strategies are:
*Cycle calories. 1800 for a couple of days, 2000 or more for a day , then drop the bottom out and go 1600 calories for a day then back to 1800. It will keep your metabolism running like crazy and constantly guessing. (all of these days should be clean calories)
*Flaxseed oil. EFA's are great for fat loss, and they can help spare lean tissue (remember what losing lean muscle tissue means!
)
*play with your cardio intensity. a couple of minutes at high intensity (upper end of max heart rate) followed by a couple of minutes closer to 50% max heart rate, back and forth.
*use thermogenics if you can afford them and tolerate them well.
There are a few other things you can do, but this so far should give you the results youre looking for...
Good luck!!!
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