Since you cannot control how long you sleep, you cannot do it too much. You can control how little you get but not how much you get. If you doubt this, then try it. Try to sleep 20 hours. You can lie there for 20 hours but will only be asleep if your body decides that you need it. Note that I am not talking about stage 1 sleep where you are drowsy and trying to get to sleep but you are not really sleeping.
They announced on the news, in November 2006, that 70% of American people have trouble sleeping. There is a McDougall website about getting over depression naturally. It says that sleep is depressing so you should not even get the suggested 8 hours. This shows that while there is a limit to genius, there is no limit to stupidity. His other ideas are good, though. The singer, Mariah Carey, had a nervous breakdown years ago and said that it was because of lack of sleep to warn others so the same thing does not happen to them.
I have seen on forums people giving rates of weight loss (weight loss/time) that are too fast. I checked this out and did not find reliable sources saying this. An MD on TV said that people on the same diet can lose weight at different rates. Also MDs think it is safe (and the FDA agrees) to lose many pounds of bodyfat in an hour with liposuction. Like with sleeping, you do not control how fast you lose weight. That is why you cannot lose weight too fast. Remember the above rule about exceptions, where someone with a serious problem can lose weight too fast.
Many have fasted for 5 days (trying to lose weight) and only lost 2 pounds. I have fasted many times but I was never overweight. People would ask how much I would lose but I did not notice any difference. So I got a scale so I could measure it scientifically. I weighed myself at the beginning of a fast and right before the end of a 4 day fast of pure water. I did gain one pound which does happen sometimes when people have reserve nutrients and are consuming air and water.
Someone could say "you just retained more water." But most people lose water weight during a fast. Regardless of whether I created more bone (people can mend broken bones during a fast) or retained water is the fact that I had no control over the rate of weight loss which in this case was negative one pound.
People can control their efforts to influence this rate. Fasting and exercise gives your body the chance to lose weight the fastest. Some exercise, like yoga, is OK during a fast. Allan Cott M.D. suggests walking 3 hours a day during a fast to lose more weight and for circulation. These are mild exercises. But you have to be careful about doing a lot of strenuous exercise during a fast. My mother could eat large amounts of fattening foods with lots of bad carbs and fat and still be thin without exercising. Copyright 2007 by Chuck Bluestein
The initial thing I'd like to see you do is to figure out the amount of calories that you are eating in a single day. Just begin in the morning and follow through with your day as usual. Try to eat the same types and quantities of food as you would eat on any other ordinary day without making any changes, and keep a record of everything that you put in your mouth as well as the quantities that you consume. Most people find out that this activity can take an intense level of motivation and seriousness from you as the dieter. It is extremely important that you remind yourself that you have decided to improve your health while losing weight, and to follow a realistic system for losing weight.
This type of method will be a whole lot more beneficial than some new starvation diet system or weight loss drug. The fact is, the entire exercise won't take more than 10-15 minutes despite all of the lingering advantages that it will bring. Just before you go to sleep for the night, you will want to figure out the actual amount of calories, carbohydrate, protein, and fat that you put into yourself over the course of the day. You need to be as exacting as you are capable of being so that you will get a reliable perception of what your current nutritional intake is like and what characteristics of your current diet will probably be the most beneficial targets to work on.
Next, there are a few small, simple steps that you will want to follow in order to reduce the amount of food that you are putting into yourself that will enable you to initiate weight loss.
The weight loss maneuver will be to actually increase the quantity of protein that you eat in a typical meal. Scientific studies have proven that augmenting your protein levels in your diet without changing anything else will actually bring about substantial fat loss, due to the fact that proteins are a lot more filling than other foods. As you add protein to your diet, you should work on steadily cutting back on the amount of total carbohydrates you are consuming. Medical research has shown that carbohydrate can actually increase your appetite. This is why you usually eat more food if you drink some soda pop together with your food.
On top of changing your diet in these ways, you will also want to increase your body's ability to burn fat by building up new muscle mass. The way to do this is simple: weight training. Many people enjoy weight training because it allows you some time in between workouts and because the physical benefits are readily evident. The best way to do weight training is to do nice, slow exercises and forget about the number of "reps" you are doing. Have a nice protein shake before and after each workout to speed up the rate at which your body builds muscle.
Cardio exercise is not an effective weight loss tool. The reason for this is that you are not actually burning as many calories as you would expect to burn doing these exercises. Also, this type of exercise tends to reduce your blood sugar levels, causing feelings of hunger and thereby increasing your likelihood to overeat. Due to these factors, cardio workouts are not advisable unless you just really happen to enjoy it.
By the time you've followed this plan for a week, you will find yourself a pound or two lighter. This is a perfectly healthy and natural pace for weight loss, and it is good to keep this in mind so you will not get caught in the trap of crash dieting. The latest fad diet would probably take the pounds off more quickly, but you could compromise your health this way and regain all the weight after a short period of time. If you continue to lose weight at this rate of just a pound or two per week, by the time you reach the one-year mark you will have become more than 50 pounds lighter by barely even trying.
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