About Steven AitchisonBurn Fat 4 Dummies Diary – Days 1 and 2
The first two days of the Burn Fat 4 Dummies diet plan is over. The initial plan lasts for 4 weeks and after this you go back to eating normally but hopefully with a renewed education on food and motivation for exercise and eating correctly.
Starting point
Obviously there has to be a starting point so let me tell you my statistics just now
Weight: 14st 5Ibs (201 Ibs)
Height: 5ft 11ins
BMI: 28.0 (There are flaws with the BMI scale but it is still useful, you can calculate your BMI here
Goal: Lose 12 – 16Ibs and start eating a healthy diet
Day 1
The first day wasn’t as bad as I had expected. When I saw my plan for the 4 weeks, there are different plans depending on your weight, I panicked a little. I was beginning to think I had made a mistake posting the details on my blog. However I am determined to follow the plan and see how it goes.
The first day consists of eating a set plan of food, drinking eight glasses of water and drinking normal consumption of tea or coffee. As I said, when I saw the plan I thought it was a small amount to eat for the day. I thought I was missing a page or something or had misread, but no, all I had to eat for the first few days was this small amount of food.
I actually managed to do this with ease, although the cakes, sweets and bread did tempt me a lot. Whenever I felt a bit hungry I drank a glass of water. I also cut down on the amount of coffee and Tea I drank. I usually have 6 – 8 cups per day with two sugars. Today I only had 2 cups of tea and 2 cups of coffee, with sugar.
Obviously I cannot tell you what the meal plan is as that would be giving the authors secrets away. However, I wrote to the author and asked if it was healthy to eat this small amount for the first 2 days. He advised that it is not unhealthy unless it was for a prolonged period of time. The first two days is to kick start the metabolism and reboot it, so to speak.
Day 2
It is the end of the second day and I am feeling very lethargic and suffering from a sore head. However I have not been drinking as much water as I should have been. Yesterday I drank only about ½ litre of water but today I have drunk about 1 ½ litres of water. I also have not taken any vitamin supplements.
The second day was the same eating plan as the first day and although I didn’t feel particularly hungry I felt the need to eat something else due to the sore head. So I deviated from the plan and had two weetabix with some semi skimmed milk, otherwise I have stuck to the plan.
I was going to weigh myself every 4 days but I was making sure the scales were okay J so I weighed myself today. I couldn’t believe it, I had lost 4Ibs already. Thinking the scales were wrong I tried them in different places in the house and then asked my wife to weigh herself and she was the same weight as she was at the time I started the eating plan (I had asked my wife to weigh herself as a barometer to make sure the scales were okay).
So far I have not felt that hungry which really has surprised me, I think this is a mixture of motivation and still being able to drink coffee and tea. Also I have asked the author a few questions and he has pretty much answered my questions within a few hours, so I know there is support there which also comes with the Burn Fat 4 Dummies program.
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Hi, Steve!
Great job Steve and I wouldn’t worry about the scale those numbers may fool you at the start, as you might have eaten ALLOT before you hit the scale the first time, (i.e.: you get a high weight loss initially which isn’t accurate at all).
As you have noticed the rest of the days this week, you have to eat a lot of food. Those two initial days are very important and I strongly advice everyone to follow it to the point. (Off course if they can.)
About the tea/coffee don’t worry about it, maybe you can drink 4-6 cups with 1 sugar? It`s important for you to not lose the motivation, so drinking / eating something you like is important for future progress.
So Steve your two hard days for this week are over, today you can relax have 3 meals + 4 fruits which is amazing and it works…
Hoping you stick to the end, because it`ll be worth it, I promise you!
Best,
David Holm
http://www.burnfat4dummies.com
Losing weight is a simple equation eat calorie dense food and exercise, you can get away with a change of diet for a while but you need to do resistance training burning fat is about heating your body up by getting into the high heart rate zone.
har har yeeeeahhh… that guy creeps me out. ALOT. and his website has a gallery of pictures of him.
thats just…
geeze I need a shower it makes me feel so slimey and gross. nasty man! nasty!
why does he have to have that icky fake hair and that icky over bleached smile?
this article is great!
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I actually managed to do this with ease, although the cakes, sweets and bread did tempt me a lot. Whenever I felt a bit hungry I drank a glass of water. I also cut down on the amount of coffee and Tea I drank. I usually have 6 – 8 cups per day with two sugars. Today I only had 2 cups of tea and 2 cups of coffee, with sugar.
I still have the craving
Steve, looks like you have done well for the 1st 2 days even though you went down with a sore head on the 2nd day. But being able to lose 4 pounds in just 2 days is a great start!
Keep up the good work! Will be following your diary closely..