Tip 5. Send Yourself to Boot Camp

BY AYOUB OUBARKA

Now, if you want to jump start your body on its way to fast weight loss, here's what you're going to do.
Ignore the charts above, and drop yourself right down to a 1000-calorie-per-day diet immediately. In
addition, make sure you get at least 15 minutes of walking (or some other easy, basic, extra exercise) in
every day as well.

You will do this for exactly two weeks... no more... no less. Then, you will go back to eating the normal
amount of calories as indicated on the chart above. Here's a sample day:

Time	Meal	Calories	Foods
6 am	Breakfast	150	1 cup cereal     100 1/2 cup soy milk 50
9 am	Snack	80	1 apple   80
12 am	Lunch	290	3 oz turkey breast  90 2 lite wheat bread  90 Small salad w flax oil 110
3 pm	Snack	80	Fat-free yogurt   80
6 pm	Dinner	360	6 oz chicken  180 Flour tortilla, small  100 Lettuce, tomato, olives 40 1/4 cup brown rice   40
9 pm	Snack	40	stalks of celery  18 11 baby carrots  22
		1000

It's not going to be easy. You won't be able to eat any junk food for these first two weeks. You can,
however, eat plenty of good foods - chicken, salads, whole grain breads, etc. It won't be easy, but once you
get through it, you'll be able to add lots of calories back in to your diet, and feel more normal again... in
fact, after eating only 1000 calories for two weeks, you'll probably have a hard time bringing yourself back
up to 2000 calories (or whatever you should be at).

Now, you're not going to eat the same thing every day. The chart above is just a sample of what you could
eat one day. You can mix it up a little. Notice how I spread my food out throughout the day - eating every 3
hours (or as close to it as you can). Eat often and you won't need to eat as much.

Here's why this works: dropping your calorie intake down to 1000 calories will shock your body into new
eating habits. You will cleanse your body of toxins (like those monster grease burgers you've been eating)
and get some good, healthy food in you. You will notice weight loss after the first couple of days, but you'll
be keeping your energy up by eating good foods at regular intervals. You can stop any cravings you're
having with water, or add some extra veggies in there - you can eat just about as much green vegetables as
you want.

We have many more sample 1000-calorie-day meal plans available on our Web site at
RicksWeightLoss.com.
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