The best strategies for quick weight loss results that last are simple, do not require obsessive calories counting or cutting out entire food groups and they involve less exercise too. Weight loss is now easier than it ever has been thanks to all the latest research findings. So what's the catch? You must be willing to shift your mindset and ditch the old school weight loss mentality.

The Best Diet Plan for Weight Loss is one that's customized to your metabolic type and to your lifestyle. Not only do fast oxidizers and slow oxidizers burn calories at different rates they also burn through certain types of food faster than others so customizing your diet to your metabolism is key to faster weight loss and it's easy to do with a quick metabolic typing test like the one Jillian Michaels and Dr. Mercola recommend. Once you know your type you can tweak your diet a bit more to fit with your lifestyle which makes it easier to follow long term and prevents plateaus and setbacks.

The Best Weight Loss Smoothies are not the ready to drink type or the highly processed whey or soy protein type either. Any weight loss smoothies that include artificial ingredients, chemicals, or highly processed ingredients that are difficult to pronounce are like toxins that your body can't process and when your body can't use something it either stores it in your fat cells or it gets rid of it which means you are missing out on all types of nutrients that your body needs in order to burn fat. Your best bet with smoothies is using organic real food ingredients. Try 1 cup organic yogurt, 1 cup berries, 1 tbsp all natural peanut butter, and 1 scoop organic vanilla whey. Want to go green and boost fat burning? Lose the berries and add a big handful of spinach plus a splash of homemade iced green tea.

The Best Cardio Workouts for Weight Loss are not the long boring steady state type that you hear about constantly in traditional workout articles. Not only has "fat burning zone" cardio been found to be less effective for fat burning it can actually cause weight gain and increase appetite. If your goal is stress-free permanent weight loss then get busy with metabolic conditioning cardio workouts also known as metcon, interval cardio, high intensity interval training, or just plain interval training. Try 60 seconds of walking or cycling followed by 30 seconds of sprinting and repeat for 15 min. Add a 5 minute warm up and a 5 min. cool down to boost fatloss and prevent injuries. You can also combine your cardio intervals with any type of strength training for increased fatloss. Watch my Metcon Fatloss Circuit Workout video to see how.

The Best Exercise to Lose Weight are ones that target multiple muscle groups or the largest muscles including pushups, planks, rows, lunges, step-ups, and any type of cardio intervals. The reason multi-joint and high intensity cardio work best for weight loss is they boosts fat burning hormones which produce an afterburn effect (also known as metabolic effect or EPOC) that forces your body to burn stored fat for up to 48 hours after your workout. If you want more and faster weight loss results from your workouts be sure to spend about 75% of your workout time on the best weight loss exercises and only 25% of your workout time on less intense exercise such as walking, zumba, yoga, pilates, trouble zone toning, abs, etc. And NEVER EVER workout for more than 45 minutes per workout to prevent cortisol (the anti-fat burning hormone) from rising. Once the weight comes off you can switch up your workout ratios a bit more.

The Best Quick Weight Loss Tips are too many to list in one article but the one tip that every trainer and body transformation expert on the planet recommends for better and faster weight loss is goal setting. Be sure to set both long term and short term goals then focus daily on the activities that will help you reach your goals. A daily check list can help and so does tossing out your scale. Focus on the tasks that you must do each hour of every day to reach your goal i.e. adding more veggies to your meals, planning healthy meals, trying new weight loss exercises, journaling your meals, switching up your cardio intervals, etc. Once you reach your goal weight you will be able to set new goals to help you maintain it.
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