Week 1: In The Books
Starting in on week 2, let’s check in on our expected progress:
Weeks one and two have the potential for showing the biggest gains (or losses in our case) as your body hasn’t had much of a chance to adapt to the new eating and training regime. That means that your scale at home should be friendly to you, but your muscles should be complaining (sore), as your body hasn’t adapted to dealing with the heavier training stimuli. If you haven’t kicked it into gear yet, the window isn’t lost on you as week two will still bear you easy fruit.
Everyone is reporting good initial losses from week 1, so the competitive side of you should be having a field day. Everyone’s before pictures will be posted here this week as well. If you have something that’s working for you, feel free to post it here. If you have some smack to talk, that’s welcome as well.
Tips of the week:
Tapering your carb intake from the start of the day to the end is most conducive to your body burning fat. As a general rule, you want to be eating minimal carbs after 7 PM. If you have a real urge for a cookie or bagle, it’s far less damaging to your diet to succumb to that in the morning than the evening.
Cheating on your diet can work FOR you if you plan it correctly. Plan a cheat meal toward the end of the week and relatively early in the day (see the above tip). First, it will increase your willpower as you can look forward to rewarding your diligence throughout the week. Second, the cheat meal can help replinish low glycogen levels from the week of dieting. Third, the cheat meal can actually delay your body’s reaction to lower your metabolism from the calorie restricted diet.
Here’s what you looked like to start!
