You are probably wondering what is the quickest way to lose weight? If you switch the television on then you’ll see no end of weight loss gurus each touting their own favourite way for you to lose the pounds fast. The reality is that there are only really a handful of different ways to lose weight quickly. Let’s take a closer look at how you can combine your diet and exercise to obtain the greatest weight loss possible.
Extreme Calorie Restriction
Most dietitians say that it is safe to have a calorific deficit of around 500 calories per day. Roughly speaking this means that a man should consume 2,000 calories per day (instead of 2,500) and a woman 1,500 calories (instead of 2,000). This should give a safe level of weight loss of around a pound per week.
But it is possible to lose much more simply by doubling the deficit to 1,000 calories. In this way you can lose two pounds per week. Whether this is safe or not is open to argument. Many people have successfully done this with no problems at all despite others advising against it. Personally speaking I would advise it only for limited periods.
High Intensity Interval Training
It has been known for years that cardiovascular exercise is great for burning fat. But in recent years scientists have been able to prove what they had long been guessing anyway – that interval training i.e. non-constant speed cardio, is a far better fat burner than just running at the same speed on a treadmill for 30 minutes, for example.
The reason that this type of exercise burns more fat and energy is because it keeps the body guessing. If you are playing basketball then most of the time you don’t know what is going to happen so your body doesn’t have a chance! Given the chance, your body will adapt to whatever it is doing in order to conserve the most energy – don’t forget that long ago food (energy) was scarce and had to be conserved and this remains the situation today in many parts of the world. So you can see that this is a survival mechanism.
Most sports require reacting to various events with your body and are a great way to burn fat. But by far the best type of interval exercise is HIIT (high intensity interval training). This involves running for 20 seconds and then sprinting for 20 seconds and alternating for a period of around 10 to 15 minutes.
You will burn far more energy than if you had run at a constant speed for 30 minutes and what’s more, your metabolism will also be raised for the rest of the day.
The Quickest Way To Lose Weight
Clearly, a combination of extreme calorie restriction and HIIT is the fastest way that anyone can lose weight. However, it is clearly not sustainable and I don’t recommend doing this for longer than one week or else you may risk your health.
