How to Lose Weight Fast

Losing weight is a simple mathematical formula: You need to burn more calories than you eat. Experts generally recommend creating a deficit of 500 calories per day through a combination of eating fewer calories and increasing physical activity. Over the course of a week, this should yield a loss of about 1-2 pounds of fat.  For most of us this is too slow!

Here at R&D Diet Cookie we believe losing weight faster is a great motivator and if you are otherwise healthy, there is no reason to lose weight slowly.

If you want to lose weight faster, you'll need to eat less and/or exercise more. On this type of plan, you can expect to lose 3-5 pounds the first week, or more if you weigh over 250 pounds.  We don't require (or even recommend) exercising while on the R&D Diet Cookie program because it is simply not necessary and could actually hinder results.  If you must exercise, make sure you are not compensating the calories burned by eating more!

Dieters who follow the plan can lose 2 pounds each week, and even more if they have more to lose, because the more fat you have to lose, the faster it comes off.

You may lose even more weight initially if you limit carbohydrates.  A recent study conducted by R&D Diet Cookie showed that combining the R&D Diet Cookie with a low-carb diet such as Atkins resulted in greater weight loss than simply dieting alone.

Dieting is Best For Fast Weight Loss

When it comes to weight loss, calories count the most.  We recommend around 800 to 1000 calories per day while on the R&D Diet Cookies weight loss program.  Dietitians more typically recommend 1,200 calories as a daily minimum but here at R&D Diet Cookie we think “quicker is better”.  Of course, some days you will simply want more calories and on those days you should!  The number one rule is to never go hungry.

R&D Diet Cookie advocates a diet that minimizes starches, (even healthy whole grains should be controlled), and added sugars. For rapid weight loss, dieters should eat mainly fruits, veggies, egg whites, soy products, skinless poultry breasts, fish, shellfish, nonfat dairy foods, and 95% lean meat.

There are other ways to control calories, such as minimizing total fat, but we believe that tends to be more challenging than his suggested weight loss plan.  Another way is minimizing carbohydrates which actually proved to be the most effective way to lose weight using the R&D Diet Cookies.

Other experts recommend tactics including drinking lots of water, eating plenty of protein, and keeping a food journal.

Eat enough protein to minimize muscle loss and maximize fat loss.  It’s also a good idea to swap out carbs in favor of veggies.

Weighing yourself daily and tracking your food intake can also help you keep focused, experts say.

You Don't Have To Exercise In Order To Lose Weight

R&D Diet Cookie absolutely does NOT believe in exercising for fast weight loss!  Exercise can make you feel good but it won’t actually help you lose more weight.  It could, if you have the will-power to not eat more to compensate for the calories you burned while exercising but that is unlikely to happen.  Your body works at maintaining an equilibrium between the amount of food you eat and your level of activity.  That means, if you eat less it tells you to sit on the couch and watch TV in order to burn less.  If you eat more than you need, it tells you to go do chores (or some other activity) in order to burn some of it off.  It's the same with exercising... if you go to the gym and burn more calories, your body will tell you to eat more!

You have heard the phrase “work up an appetite”.  That is what our bodies are doing when we exercise.  You burn a few calories but your body wants you to replenish them.  The way your body makes you replenish them is by becoming hungry!  You eat more because you are hungry because you exercised!  What a cycle!

So don’t feel bad for not including exercise in your weight loss program. It’s actually better not too!  There is plenty to time (and good reasons) to add exercise to your life after you lose weight.

Behavior Modification

Habits, good and bad, are formed by repetition. Eating habits are no exception. If you are in the habit of snacking when you watch TV, you were reinforcing that habit until finally it became a part of you. Other habits are formed in the same way. Some of these habits could be: eating while reading, eating the minute you come in the house, eating when the kids come in from school, or eating while cooking dinner.

We also find that certain moods such as anger, boredom, loneliness, happiness, nervousness cause us to eat even if we are not hungry. The list is endless. Habits are hard to break. We must not only break old habits, but we must make our goal to form new ones in the same manner through repetition. Make some daily commitments. Work to meet these commitments each day whether you feel like it or not.

Resisting temptation is difficult. However, if you succeed in resisting the first time, it becomes easier to resist the next time.  In a way, eating is like an addiction to cigarettes… there’s two parts to the addiction, one is the physical addition (the habit of eating) and the other is the chemical dependency which would be like the hunger or cravings.  R&D Diet Cookie can take care of the hunger and cravings but you still have to work on the habit of eating.

Try substituting another activity for between meal snacking. If you are in the habit of going straight to the kitchen and eating every time you walk in the house, try to change this habit by going to another room of the house when you come home. Better yet, eat an R&D Diet Cookie on your way home.  It will take away away your hunger so you can break the habit of automatically eating when you get home.  

When you are tempted to eat, try to use one of the following substitute activities:

FIRST... eat an R&D Diet Cookie and then:
Take a walk
Take a long bath
Call a friend
Get out of the house
Write a letter
Read a book

Or busy yourself with a hobby such as:

Painting
Floral arranging
Ceramics
Wood working
Gardening
Genealogical research
Surf the Web
Catch up on your email!!!

Keep A Positive Attitude!

Once you have made up your mind to lose weight, you should make that commitment and go into it with a positive attitude. We all know that losing weight can be quite a challenge. In fact, for some, it can be downright tough. It takes time, practice and support to change lifetime habits. But it's a process you must learn in order to succeed. You and you alone are the one who has the power to lose unwanted pounds.  Believe me!  The R&D Diet Cookie will make it a lot easier but it will still take commitment from you.

Think like a winner, and not a loser - - remember that emotions are like muscles and the ones you use most grow the strongest. If you always look at the negative side of things, you'll become a downbeat, pessimistic person. Even slightly negative thoughts have a greater impact on you and last longer than powerful positive thoughts.  For example, don't dwell on the fact that the R&D Diet Cookie doesn't taste like Mrs. Fields cookies... Think about how good they taste for bieing a diet product!  Mrs. Fields cookies won't help you lose weight... the R&D Diet Cookie will!  Think about how they taste like a muffin top or even a European pastry (not too sweet).  Have you ever been to Europe and seen their highly decadent-looking pastries?  Your mouth waters as you order the most sinful looking chocolate cake... bite into it... and frown because it's just not as sweet as it looks?  Theirs is similar to the sweetness of our cookies.  Think of the taste as a healthy muffin top and enjoy them with a cup of flavored coffee and you won't be disappointed!

Negative thinking doesn't do you any good; it just holds you back from accomplishing the things you want to do. When a negative thought creeps into your mind, replace it reminding yourself that you're somebody, you have self-worth and you possess unique strengths and talents. Contemplate what lies ahead of you. Losing weight is not just about diets. It's about a whole new you and the possibility of creating a new life for yourself.

There are success stories across the country today. On television and in newspapers, magazines and tabloids about people who have miraculously lost untold pounds and kept it off. In all instances they say their mental attitude as well as their outlook on life has totally changed.

It Takes Effort to Lose Weight

In order to be successful at losing weight, you must take action.  That doesn’t mean it has to be difficult, it means you can’t simply ‘wish’ your weight away.

Nothing is more frustrating than to see that you are gaining weight again.

It pays to be prepared, and that comes down to having a plan that works. It's not always exciting. It's not always fun. It is, however, always necessary. The R&D Diet Cookie can help here.  You know it works… you just have to allow it.

By being prepared, you have to create a game plan to get back on track right away without beating yourself up. My game plan is the R&D Diet Cookie. What's yours? Maybe it's taking it a day at a time, going back to your diet tomorrow. Maybe it's getting angry and becoming more determined than ever to succeed.

Have you ever been at a Weight Watchers or TOPS meeting and noticed several people there who are slim and trim? What about those Jenny Craig and Nutri/System ad's with their before and after pictures? They make losing weight look so effortless, but remember, in reality, these people have been dieting for years. And you know something they don’t… the R&D Diet Cookie takes away hunger and cravings so it is actually easier for you to stick to your diet than it was for them to stick to theirs.

Without effort and action, you will not succeed. You can't wish your weight away. You have to work at it and be prepared for those times when you slip, so you can pick yourself up, dust yourself off, and "get right back on the horse".

There is No Such Thing as Cheating

There's no right or wrong way to eat.  There will be times when you eat a high-fat meal or eat beyond fullness. This happens.  It's normal. But it's very important that you don't get down on yourself and abandon your new healthy lifestyle when this happens.

If you're like most people, your reaction to these diet lapses is guilt. You feel as if all your hard work has been for nothing. "I blew it; I was doing so well. Oh well, I might as well enjoy this weekend and start over on Monday." Or even worse: "I quit."  Feeling defeated, many people discontinue their cookie diet and return to their old routine until some mythical time in the future.  This kind of scenario is a perfect example of the bad diet mentality at work.

An all-or-nothing attitude is why so many people have so little success; we choose structured programs such as the R&D Diet Cookie because they are easy to follow.   A properly designed program makes sense, but expecting to stick to a structured eating plan for an extended period of time without ever deviating makes no sense at all. Life is full of unplanned obstacles, distractions, and temptations. Your best approach is to prepare for them, keeping an open mind and maintaining a positive attitude.

It's very important that you begin your cookie diet with an understanding that there will be days when you will stray from the program. Before you begin, tell yourself that no matter what happens, rather than quitting, you'll resume your cookie diet as soon as you can; it is equally important that you feel confident, not guilty, about doing so. Whatever the temptation or obstacle is, keep in mind that it's not wrong or bad to eat fattening foods once in a while. Just remember to resume your cookie diet. If you keep moving forward and you don't let guilt and discouragement stop your program all together, you'll eventually have improved eating habits and lose the weight you want. Good luck and enjoy all the wonderful benefits of the R&D Diet Cookie.