Every year you balloon up over the winter and you think, “Wow! It’s happening again!”—the annual migration of your gut!
The goal is always to trim up and slim down by the spring and well into the summer, so before you know it you’re fit.
But now that the Spring Break 2015 countdown finally dwindled down to just four days, you realize you’re a few weeks short of trying to reach that hot beach bod you promised yourself you’d commit to as your New Year’s resolution.
Your motivation evaporates. And despite the odds against you, you’re both eager and desperate in your attempt to try absolutely anything. This is it, you get a bright idea—crash diets, detox, and hitting the gym super hard. This is not the answer.
You already know the first rule to quick weight loss and body tightening: Expend more calories than you consume. To start losing a reasonable amount of no more than seven to 10 pounds before the Spring Break clock runs down, you must change your diet and eating habits to spark change in your calorie intake that causes you to get thinner.
“As you lose weight, your metabolism rate falls”, says Madelyn Fernstrom, Ph.D., founding director of the University of Pittsburgh’s Weight Management Center in Health Magazine. A thinner body requires less energy to sustain itself, which means fewer calories burned. That means you don’t need as much food as you think.
With only days left of the countdown to the part of the school year each college student in the nation looks forward to, it’s too dangerous to put your health at risk in such short notice.
Chaotic crash diets and long nights at Planet Fitness aren’t going to make the impact you’re hoping for. Yes—the remedy to this is to start sooner; however, the risks of trying to achieve your goal in too little time is dangerous.
Starvation mode is a myth that is the mother to most crash diets. The truth is—they’re extremely bad for you. The more healthy calories you consume, the faster your metabolism wheels begin to spin helping you to shed those extra pounds.
Another weight loss crash course method is to hit the gym super hard day and night. What that actually does is overexert your muscles. Crazy weight lifting and running can not only cause muscle fatigue and deprive your muscles of natural nutrients, but it can also dehydrate you if you don’t drink enough water.
Hydration is key to fast weight loss, but so is plenty of rest. Overworking yourself by putting in extra hours at the gym in just four days isn’t going to make the cut either—it will only make things worse.
The bottom line is, don’t take the chance—it’s not worth it. Don’t let the other side of your conscience convince you that those bold headlines to “Losing 10 pounds in 5 days” take you to the dark side while doing your daily duties of surfing through the Internet.
If you want to get the spring break body of your dreams, be good to your body– Start early!
