Fast but Healthy

Tired of me yet?

Ok, I'm in a weight loss contest at work that started on June 1 and ends on Sept. 1. Some of my coworkers are doing some crazy crap to lose weight and win the contest.(juice fasting, meat diets, etc.) I would like to win, but I want to do this the healthy way and continue after this thing is done. I'm working out 6 days per week, eating healthier, and using Calorie Count to control my daily intake. Does anyone have any advice to speed up the process while keeping it safe and healthy?

If you can hack it, cutting out all dense carbs (leaving only vegetables and fruits, but no root veg) can help you shed 'weight' (its probably at least half water). But short term only! and you really need to make sure you are eating a lot of lean protein at this time.

Drink a lot of water, like at least a gallon a day.  It really helps your body to mobilize the fat so you can lose it.

Not much in the way of advice, but I wanted to tell you that regardless if you win or lose, my humble opinion is that you will be the real winner of the race. ;)

That's a really great thing to say. You made my day, thanks. W

 i don't know if you watch the office

but there was a hilarious episode about them doing something similar

you should try to find it on nbc.com and watch it

Original Post by thin_girl:

 i don't know if you watch the office

but there was a hilarious episode about them doing something similar

you should try to find it on nbc.com and watch it

 LOL That was a great episode. Go Stanley!

There's this anabolic diet. Though I wouldn't really call it diet per se. This is what some of the bodybuilders use to "cut," which means they are trying to lose body fat rather than muscles and they do it for several weeks.

The very basic gist of the diet is 5 days of mostly no carbs, high protein and high fat diet and 2 days of high carbs. They call it carb cycling. You can google or go to bodybuilding.com to check it out more. There's more than just percentage of macronutrients.