Weight Training Program - Free Workout Routine Walk- Through*UPDATE* One of the first articles I wrote for this website years ago was a complete walk- through of my weight training program at the time. It included the full details of how that weight training program was set up, what muscle groups were trained on what days, what exercises were done for how many sets and reps, and why I planned each factor the way I did. Now, years later, I no longer use that workout routine (for reasons I’ll explain at the end of this article), but I didn’t want to just remove it and pretend it never existed. So instead, here it is in its entirety. While I wouldn’t use it today, there is still plenty of really useful information in here, and at the end I’ll explain exactly what I’ve changed and why I’ve changed along with exactly what guidelines my current weight training program follows. So, with that out of the way, here’s a full break down of a workout routine I was using nearly 1. After that, I’m going to take you through each day, each muscle group, and each exercise to explain every single aspect of the workout. I’m not showing this to you as if it were the “Greatest Workout Program In The World.” It’s just what I do. I’m not trying to sell it to you. You don’t have to use it. It’s just an example of a workout routine based on 3 highly important weight training principles. It’s 4 days on and 3 days off, and it’s chest and triceps together, back and biceps together, and then one day for shoulders (and traps/abs) and one day for legs. There are probably a lot of similar looking routines out there, and with good reason. Simple is what works. Like I said before, the only real keys to an effective weight training program are the right exercises, the right amount of rest/recovery, and the constant push towards progressing. Now that you have an idea of what my routine looks like, let’s go through it all from top to bottom so I can hopefully answer any possible questions you have now, or may have in the future. Monday: Chest and Triceps. Chest. My chest workout starts with, big surprise, the bench press. It seems most people’s weight training program begins with chest, and that chest workout begins with the bench press. This is why Monday is usually the most crowded bench press day in most gyms. I start with 2 warm- up sets, and then I do my 4 real work sets. The first work set can almost be considered somewhat of a warm- up still, because I am using a weight I can probably do 1. I stop at 1. 0. The second set I increase the weight and try to get 1. I can do. The same goes for the third set, when I increase the weight and go for 8 reps. And just like the others, the fourth set I increase the weight again and go for 6 reps. Because I’m going to failure or pretty near to failure on those last 3 sets, I always have someone spot me. For anyone wondering, “failure” is when you are at the point where you absolutely can’t do another rep. When this happens during something like bicep curls, there’s very little to worry about. My goal here is to, while increasing the weight each set, end up doing reps of 1.
First off, Lindora is a . The plan consists of one-on-one clinical. Sometimes I get something more like 9, 8, 6, 3 or 1. However, my goal is to get an exact 1. I work as hard as I can to reach those reps. Sometimes it takes a week, sometimes a month, sometimes more. But, when I finally reach that goal, it means it’s time for me to increase the weight I’m lifting on each set. When this time comes, I usually increase each set by 5 pounds. Once I do that, I just start this whole cycle all over again and basically just work my ass off to get 1. Well, what I just described above is exactly that. Whether it’s 1 extra rep, or 5 extra pounds, it’s that type of weight training progression that builds muscle. This is pretty much what I do with every exercise (although the number of sets/reps may be different). I’m mentioning that so I don’t have to repeat this over and over again for each exercise. From there I move on to 3 sets of incline dumbbell presses. For my chest workout, I like to do something flat, something inclined, and something that isn’t a press. Since the first time I did them, I always found the typical incline bench setting to be too high. My shoulders always felt like they were brought into the exercise a little too much. Because of this, I usually use the bench setting one notch below that. Again, this is just a personal preference. I’ll usually try for reps of 1. Now would probably also be a good time to mention the recurrence of the numbers 1. 2 steps on How to Lose Weight Fast are 1. Pick a fast weight loss plan 2. Get motivated to lose weight fast. Lose up to 10 pounds in first week with the steps. TRIPLE Your Fat Loss and Get Ripped in Only 19 Minutes, 12 Minutes or Even Just 4 Minutes with 51 NEW, No-Equipment Home Workout Revolution Videos. This 28 Day Detox Diet is offered by Arbonne company. I am happy to share the details of this program with you briefly which had helped me start a healthy life. You’ll notice me using those specific numbers when talking about reps for basically every exercise. The reason is not because they are magical weight training program numbers. It’s just that a person looking to increase muscle would ideally want to stay within the 6- 1. Most people, including myself, prefer aiming for the even numbers, which would of course be 1. Is that any better than making your goal to reach reps of 1. No, it’s not. Remember, the key here is progression. Whether your goal is to get reps of 1. What does matter is progression. That should be the main goal of your weight training program. Yes, staying around the 6- 1. My chest workout ends with 2 sets of dumbbell flyes. Not much else to say about that. Triceps. Now I start triceps, which are already pretty warmed up and ready to go from my chest workout. Since all pressing exercises use the triceps secondarily, it’s almost like my triceps workout started during my first set of bench pressing. Not bench dips. I start off with 1 set of just my own body weight, and then I add weight to both of the next 2 sets. You can add weight to dips by using a dip belt, or by holding a dumbbell between your feet. I aim for reps of 1. Then I end my triceps workout (and this workout as a whole) with single- arm reverse grip (underhand) cable press downs. I do 2 sets and aim for reps of 8, 6. Next time I change my weight training program around I’ll probably switch back to using the regular grip and both arms. The sole reason? It’s just a another way of doing it. Don’t put too much thought into small things like which grip is better. All focus should be on progression. I’ll repeat this 1. At this point I go down to the gym locker room, get out my bag, drink my post workout shake and go home. Tuesday: Back and Biceps. Back. My back workout starts with what is probably my all- time favorite weight training exercise of any muscle group. I don’t care if you bench press a million pounds, it wouldn’t impress me at all. What would however is seeing how many pull ups you can do and/or how much additional weight you can add to them. I use a slightly wider than shoulder width grip with my palms facing away (forward). This is my favorite grip, and it’s also probably the grip that makes pull ups the hardest. But, this is a good thing. The reason is that this grip takes your biceps out of the exercise more so than using an underhand (palms facing you) grip, which puts your biceps in their strongest position. Pull ups are a back exercise. Your goal should be to use your lats to pull. If your biceps are in their strongest position, you will be more likely to pull with your biceps instead of your lats. I do however use a variety of different grips at times (and no grip is “bad” to use, they’re all fine), but this grip is the one I use most often. I start off with 1 warm- up set of just my body weight, and then I add additional weight to the next 3 sets and go for reps of 1. Just like dips, you can add weight by using a dip/pull- up belt or by holding a dumbbell between your feet. The lat pull down machine is a fine exercise and I used it all the time (and still occasionally do), but once I started doing pull ups, it was like a whole other world. Strength and muscle wise, I credit pull ups a great deal. For detailed information on how to increase how many pull ups you can do, read this: Do More Pull Ups. After that, I move on to the bent over barbell row. I use an overhand grip and bend over so that my upper body is a little bit above being parallel to the floor. I do 3 sets and try for reps of 1. From there I move on to the seated cable row and go for 3 sets of 1. One of the biggest weight training problems people tend to have in regards to their back workout is using their biceps instead of or just more so than their back. The key is to imagine you are trying to pull your elbows back rather than trying to pull the weight in your hands towards you. Biceps. Then I move on to biceps. One preference I have for biceps (and triceps as well) is that I like to do something two- handed and then something one- handed. Any weight training program I create will almost always abide by that. There is no scientific reason for it, it’s just what I like to do. The first bicep exercise is just plain and simple standing barbell curls. I do 3 sets and aim for reps of 1. After that is 2 sets of seated dumbbell curls. I try for reps of 8 and 6. Not much to say about them, other than no part of your body should move during any type of curl except for the lower half of your arm (and the upper arm may just slightly come forward). If you can’t do curls while keeping your body still, you’re using too much weight and wasting your time. And that’s the end of my back and biceps workout. I drink my post workout shake and go home. Wednesday: OFFWednesday is one of the 3 days of the week I don’t go to the gym. If I was doing any direct cardio workouts at the time (I’m currently not), Wednesday, Saturday and Sunday (my 3 off days) would be the days I would do them. If you are doing both cardio and weight training, I would recommend doing them on separate days if you can. If you can’t, do the weight training first, then the cardio. Thursday: Shoulders, Traps and Abs. Shoulders. My shoulder workout starts with the seated barbell press. I do it behind the head. It’s also a more strict way of doing it. It’s very rare that I see someone doing this exercise in front of their head and not cheating by leaning back and getting into an almost incline bench press position. Fat Burning Workouts - Best Weight Training Workout For Fat Loss. When it comes to losing fat, there are primarily two different categories of workouts a person might consider doing. And while this is all wonderful stuff that I get asked about approximately 3. But I swear, I will cover all kinds of cardio topics eventually. Now in terms of weight training and losing fat, there are primarily two different types of workouts you can do. Or, more accurately, two different. The first is to actually lose that fat. The second however is to avoid losing muscle while we’re losing fat. As I’ve explained before, we may call it weight loss, but it’s body fat we want to lose here. However, your body doesn’t really give a crap about what you want. It’s just going to see that a. So, it will look to burn fat and muscle whether you like it or not. This of course can be prevented (more about that here. But, due to the improper way. I don’t recommend it. So with all of this in mind, there are two forms of weight training workouts you’ll be interested in when you’re trying to lose fat. Workouts that. So a workout designed specifically for muscle maintenance will mostly suck for burning fat. And workouts designed specifically for burning fat will mostly suck for maintaining muscle. The other, while certainly useful, is purely optional. Why do I feel that way? Let’s find out. Weight Training To Cause Fat Loss Version 1: The Myth. When the average person thinks of using weight training to burn fat, their first thought will often be one of the. In fact, I’ll go right ahead and appoint it THE WORST of them all. Which myth, you ask? The one claiming that you lift heavy weights for low reps when your goal is to build muscle, but then switch to lifting light weights for high reps when you’re trying to lose fat and get lean, toned, defined, ripped, cut and blah blah blah. Not only is this NOT true. Please allow me to quote myself from a? Well, on a fat loss diet, just maintaining your current levels of strength (aka intensity, aka the weight on the bar) is what now signals your body to maintain muscle. If that signal goes away, your body. And while we’re on the subject, the answer is no, this form of training won’t make you “toned” either. As you can see, this one myth is single- handedly responsible for quite a lot of crap. Weight Training To Cause Fat Loss Version 2: Metabolic Training. Now with all of that cleared up, it’s time to get to the type of weight training that is actually, you know. And that is something known as. The hormonal response to this type of training is legit. It burns more calories than traditional weight training, and it also burns more calories than traditional cardio (and it’s waaaaay less boring than traditional cardio). So, if you’re interested in using weight training to cause fat loss, metabolic training can certainly be beneficial. The Problem. Remember that tiny problem I mentioned earlier? The one that was both ironic and annoying? Yeah, it’s time to bring that back up. You see, while metabolic training can be great for burning fat, it’s not- so- great for maintaining muscle. As I explained before, the key to maintaining muscle while in a deficit is maintaining that same heavy strength training stimulus that allowed you to actually build that muscle in the first place. But with the way metabolic training is designed, it makes this nearly impossible to do. In order to go higher in reps and very low in rest periods and do all of the other cardio- like stuff that goes along with getting the fat burning benefits of this type of training, you’re just not going to be capable of lifting as heavy as you need to for that muscle maintenance signal to be there (at least not for anyone past the beginner stage, and that may be the one exception here). Or to put it another way, what makes metabolic training “good” for burning fat is also what makes it “bad” for maintaining muscle. And the best name I can think of for it is plain old. Or more specifically, maintaining (or increasing) your current levels of strength. Why? Because doing so is the primary stimulus that tells your body to keep (or increase) your current levels of muscle. To make that even clearer, if you’re looking to avoid losing muscle while you lose fat, this type of training isn’t just useful and beneficial.? Well, you know the type of weight training that is optimal for building muscle in the first place? That’s also what’s optimal for maintaining it (with one possible adjustment being a small reduction in volume and/or frequency to compensate for the reduced recovery that comes from being in a? Well, this type of training is the complete opposite. But, this type of training isn’t about that at all. This type of training couldn’t care less about calories burned. Metabolic training does, and it’s designed specifically to allow you to burn as many calories as possible in a given period of time. This type of training however is designed solely to allow you to maintain (and/or increase) strength as best as possible. Because maintaining strength is what maintains muscle, and that’s the fundamental purpose of strength training in a deficit. So. For burning fat, it’s clearly metabolic training. For maintaining muscle, it’s clearly strength training. A better one would be? Because of the two, it’s the only form of weight training (or really the only form of exercise in general) that is actually required for this goal. What I mean is, unless you’re significantly overweight (in which case muscle loss is much less of an issue or concern), you will lose muscle and strength in a deficit if the type of strength training described above isn’t there. For this reason alone, strength training wins the battle of the workouts. Now that’s not to say metabolic training can’t also be important or highly. It most definitely can be if it’s your preferred way of creating your caloric deficit. But, if you’re only going to be doing one or the other, the clear choice here would be to skip the metabolic stuff in favor of strength training and use your diet to create your deficit. Fat still gets lost, muscle and strength get maintained? What if you want to do both? The good news is that this is certainly doable and really the ultimate solution for getting the benefits of both forms of weight training (maintaining muscle AND burning fat). In this case, it’s just a matter of having both metabolic and strength training workouts in your overall program over the course of the week. The details of exactly how this should be set up is a good topic for another day. But for right now I want to focus instead on the potential bad news. That’s just one of the things that come with being in the energy deficient state needed for fat loss to take place. Which means, while you always need to be careful not to exceed what your body is capable of recovering from, you need to be a little extra careful during this time because recovery is already lower than it usually is. Plus, if you do exceed your capacity to recover, the first thing that will often start to go is your strength. And if strength isn’t being maintained while you’re in a deficit, that means muscle mass isn’t going to be maintained either. For this reason, all forms of exercise (not just metabolic training, but HIIT, steady state cardio, etc.) have the potential to become detrimental to this goal by cutting into your ability to optimally recover from and perform during those muscle- preserving strength training workouts. Again, this isn’t to say that these “fat burning” forms of exercise can’t or shouldn’t be done. It’s just to say that doing them increases the total amount of. And in terms of recovery and muscle maintenance. I think it’s best suited as a muscle and strength building (and maintaining) tool, and for many people. I just don’t love it, because I think there’s a better way to do it. If anything, I like to view “fat burning” forms of exercise (which again includes all forms of cardio as well) as a “wait- until- it’s- truly- needed” fat loss tool. Meaning, start by creating your deficit through diet alone and save that type of exercise for when/if you reach a point where you still want to get leaner but would rather burn more calories than eat less calories. Granted, some people feel this way right from day #1. By all means feel free to do whatever you feel is most ideal for you. If you will fail to lose fat without using. The same goes for cardio. But in my opinion, it’s a much harder way to create (and consistently sustain) a deficit day in and day out, fairly inefficient when compared to just eating slightly less as a means of creating the deficit. Metabolic training and/or cardio are completely optional. Use them only when/if needed (or just preferred) to create or help create your deficit. But if you do, and you care about maintaining muscle, do so in a way that ensures this type of training doesn’t. Full 4- 1. 2 Week Exercise Program. To transform your body, to get fit, to be healthy and to feel great you gotta exercise. And it needs exercise in a way that is so far- reaching that scientists are only just starting to unravel some of the amazing effects exercise has on our bodies. Did you know, that exercise can actually reprogram your DNA? And while you may think that by not doing exercise you’re not doing any harm, lack of exercise itself can alter your DNA – but unfavourably! Putting aside all the complicated, scientific reasons to exercise, exercise offers benefits that dieting just can’t. Exercise allows you to boost your metabolism and turn your body into a fat blasting furnace. Exercise builds muscle in the places you want, improves body shape and gives you a firm, toned body. Dieting, on the other hand, doesn’t promise a firm body – you can lose weight dieting and still be jiggly! Follow this workout plan and practice healthy eating and portion control, which means eating the right food in the right quantities at the right times, and you’ll be able to burn off at least a pound or two of body fat each week. But remember, you’ll also be doing resistance training to gain muscle in all the right places, so you’ll want to keep track of your progress with body measurements and, if you can, body fat percentage. This weight loss workout plan consists of both cardiovascular exercise and resistance training. The name of the game is to blitz fat, which means to burn as many calories as you can. Cardiovascular exercise burns a lot of calories, as such this weight loss workout plan is centred around cardio. And to really blitz the fat, you’ll be doing two types of cardio, steady- steate cardio and interval training. Steady- state cardio (referred to as simply “cardio” on the weight loss plan below) means you’ll be exercising (e. Steady- state cardio workouts tend to be longer. Cardiovascular interval training (IT) and high intensity interval training (HIIT), on the other hand, are a shorter workout, but alternate between higher levels of intensity and recovery intervals. HIIT (short bursts of all out exercise e. Cardio is an integral part of this weight loss workout plan and it is important that you like what you are doing in order to stick with it, not just for the duration of this program, but also afterwards. You can do your cardio workouts outdoors or on cardiovascular machinery indoors. If you are carrying a lot of weight, it’s best to start with low impact exercise such as walking, swimming or using the elliptical machine. If you have access to an elliptical machine/ cross- trainer, give it a try. I love this piece of cardio equipment, as it allows you to burn as many calories as jogging/ running, but is low- impact. Exercising on the elliptical also “feels” much easier than jogging/ running, allowing you to exercise for longer and burn more calories. This workout plan has a lot of variety and gets progressively harder. Not just to make you stronger and more fit, but to make sure you keep losing weight. When you do a workout over and over again, it eventually gets easier, which means your body doesn’t have to work as hard and therefore burns fewer calories. So your motto is always better. Every week you want to be better than the previous week. WEIGHT LOSS WORKOUT PLAN: RESISTANCE EXERCISEThe other part of this plan is resistance exercise. This is important because it’s the part that focuses on building muscle. During weight loss, not all the weight lost is fat, some of it is muscle. Resistance training will ensure that you avoid the loss of muscle that usually occurs and will actually help you build muscle. You’ll be doing 3 resistance workouts per week: As you get more advanced, . A pair of light dumbbells (5- 1. Each workout only takes about 3. If you haven’t exercised for a long time start with the beginner weight loss workout plan. If you have been exercising regularly for the last few months. You can always skip ahead if you feel it is too easy or switch to a more difficult plan. The great thing is that all of the plans burn calories and all of the plans require commitment. As long as you give it your best at every workout (and watch your calorie intake!), you will make progress, will burn calories, will drop the pounds and will get stronger. Remember: Check with your. Stretch after your workout. How To Lose Weight - The Ultimate Weight Loss Guide. This is it, folks. This is the first, last and only weight loss article you will EVER need to read. Only, this is much more than an article. This, my friends, is a guide. In fact, it's the ultimate weight loss guide. It's a collection of every single thing you will ever need to know about losing weight. Every helpful tip, every useful fact.. Below you will be taken through every aspect of weight loss that you could possibly imagine. From diet and nutrition to exercise and fitness. From counting calories to burning calories. From supplements and products, to myths, lies and unsafe methods. Everything you need in order to never have weight to lose in the first place is here. Everything you need to prevent yourself from failing to lose weight is here. It is quite simply the ultimate guide to all things weight loss. However, I will mention that this guide is meant to be read from beginning to end without skipping over anything. Take my word for it, everything will be extremely easy to understand if you go through it in the order it was written. This is literally everything you need to know, so you might as well read it the way it was meant to be read. You'll be happy you did. All the tips, all the articles, all the methods.. Here now, is that fact. Your body requires a certain number of calories per day in order to maintain your current weight. This is known as your calorie maintenance level. It's the number of calories required by your body to do everything it needs to do (intense exercise, brushing your teeth, pumping blood, keeping organs functioning properly, etc.). Calories are what our bodies use for energy, so in order to do what needs to be done, a certain number of calories are needed. If we end up consuming exactly the same number of calories that our bodies need each day, our weight would remain exactly the same. For example, if your calorie maintenance level was 2. All of the calories you take in would end up getting used (or . This is how you maintain your weight, by giving your body only the calories that it needs. So, for example, if your maintenance level was 2. You are giving your body more calories than it would end up burning. This is what causes weight gain. This is what causes weight loss. Sticking with the same example as before, if your daily maintenance level is 2. Consume more calories than your body needs/burns and you gain weight. And last but not least.. It is the one fact that practically all tips, hacks, methods and diets are based on.. Knowing and understanding it is the key. Just in case any of above was confusing, this article will most likely clear it all up. If your body needs 2. Doing this consistently will cause weight loss. As I mentioned before, your daily calorie maintenance level is the number of calories that your body burns per day. So, for example, if your daily maintenance level is 2. Because all 2. 50. There is no surplus and there is no deficit. A caloric deficit = weight loss. If you then burn an additional 5. Just like the deficit created if you consumed 5. Studies have shown that people who utilize both diet and exercise were more often able to maintain their weight loss long term than those who did one or the other. Doing both is also more beneficial from a general health standpoint as well. If you're the type of person who just wants a clear- cut answer, here it comes.. This can be done through diet, exercise, or for best results, both. The next thing you'll need to know is what your daily calorie maintenance level actually is. Your BMR is the number of calories that your body burns at rest to do all of the things it needs to do to keep you alive and functioning properly. Your activity level is also factored in to estimate how many other calories you burn per day in addition to your BMR. The answer given is the total of the two and should be, for most people, a pretty close estimate of your daily calorie maintenance level. Good, because that's what we're about to do. Now that you have a good estimate of your daily calorie maintenance level, it's time for the fun part. Let's call this first part . To do this, it's going to require a fairly simple 3 step experiment.. Be as consistent as you can. If your maintenance level was 2. Just get as close to 2. Of course, if a food lists the calorie content right there on the package, you can just use that instead.). Do this for a week or two (or three). Here's how: The One Fact Adjustment. Did you end up maintaining your weight? To lose weight, start consuming 5. If your maintenance level was 3. Whatever it was, subtract about 5. Doing so will put you in a caloric deficit (you'll be 5. One Fact is happening. Translation: Weight loss will now happen. Weight loss will still happen. Whether the estimated maintenance level was too high or you just miscalculated the number of calories you consumed, it doesn't really matter. Just start consuming 5. The One Fact Experiment all over again with this new amount. If you maintained weight, you would follow the above instructions. If you lost weight, you would follow the instructions below.). Did you end up losing weight at the rate of about 1- 2 pounds per week? The One Fact is happening, and weight loss is happening at the ideal expert- recommended rate. A pound or two lost per week is perfect. Continue consuming this number of calories every day from this point on. If you fit into that category and are losing weight at this speed, you can probably ignore this. However, to play it safe, you can definitely still follow the instructions below anyway. There is a simple solution. Depending on what your weight does this time, follow the necessary One Fact Adjustment instructions. The above method uses just diet to get it done. This is a perfectly fine way to do it. However, it could get done just the same with exercise (albeit, a bit tougher). To do that, you'd just have to burn 5. For example, you could consume 2. AND burn 2. 50 more calories per day. A 5. 00 calorie deficit is still made. This method will cause weight loss at the rate of about 1 pound per week (more on that below). Then, I'd recommend adding in a few days of exercise per week on top of that. This will most likely result in close to a second pound lost per week. This means the combination of the two will result in 2 pounds lost per week, which is absolutely perfect from both a weight loss stand point and an overall health stand point. It is in my opinion and the opinion of most qualified experts the ideal way to lose weight. You want to lose weight faster than that. We all wish we could drop 2. Not only that, but attempting to lose weight faster than the above recommendation can actually be quite harmful to your health. The human body was just not designed for . At this point it will actually start to KEEP body fat as a precaution. If you go on some stupid unsafe starvation diet, your body's only real instinct is survival, and one of the first things your body may do in this situation is keep your body fat and burn muscle for energy instead. As you can imagine, this would not be a good thing. Health risks aside, studies have also shown that people who lose weight too quickly were MUCH more likely to regain it all back. That may not sound like much, but if you really think about it, it is. Do it consistently for a year, and you could lose 5. Do it for a month and you could lose 4- 8 pounds. It may not be as fast as you wish it could, but long term.. What makes being 5. Well, now that you understand what the ideal weight loss rate is, this is going to make a ton of sense. What that means is, for every 3. GAIN 1 pound of fat. At the same time, it also means that for every 3. LOSE 1 pound of fat. If you consume 5. One Fact), you will end up creating a 3. And, since the ideal weight loss rate is 1- 2 pounds per week, this would put you right within range. Add some exercise in as well, and it will bring you closer to the higher end of that range. Making small, gradual adjustments to your calorie intake is the safest way to do it and the way it should always be done. This is another reason why the One Fact Adjustments call for 5. This is all for one purpose and one purpose only.. Not too slow, not too fast. Goldie Locks would be proud. Take a breath, stretch your legs, whatever. You just learned everything you need to know about weight loss. What follows from this point on is information you'll most likely either want to know, or definitely should know. Let's start with what foods you should and should not be eating.. This information isn't as much beneficial for weight loss as it is for general health purposes. See, technically, as long as the One Fact is happening (a caloric deficit), most people will lose weight no matter where their calories are coming from. That's just how it works. And, there is a lot more to your health than just your body weight. You can reach your goal weight and still be unhealthy because of the things you are and are not eating. Let's start off with what you should NOT be eating. Unless you've been living under a rock, you're really not going to be too surprised by what shows up.. They are. Foods containing any trans fat. Foods high in saturated fat. Foods high in sodium. Foods high in sugar. The thing they all have in common (besides tasting yummy) is that they are all quick and convenient. As if being the most common sources of the extra calories people consume wasn't enough reason to avoid them, there is a ton of scientific and medical research clearly showing a variety of health risks associated with diets high in these types of foods. Avoid it all as completely as possible. I personally never touch this stuff, and it is my opinion that most people would be better off (both for health and weight loss purposes) if they did the same. For now though, just know that this is the stuff NOT to eat.
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