Important rules for losing weight:

• Eat 4 - 5 small meals, evenly spread throughout the day.
• Only have carbohydrates straight from nature’s back yard.
• Only eat meat if you can see where it’s come from. E.g. Can you obviously see what the cut of meat is and if it used to fly, swim or run? Don’t eat processed meat.
• Choose a high in fibre breakfast – porridge, Weetabix, Branflakes (this will hold your hunger for longer, providing you with a slow release of energy) OR use a Formula 1 Shake
• Snack healthy: Eat beans, nuts, fruit and seeds. These have vital fats, vitamins, minerals and proteins  used for recovery and sustaining health.
• Plan and cook your meals the night before and if you do get stuck think simple e.g. low fat cottage cheese on Ryvita or rice cake. Look through our recipes for help.
• Have one treat per week, TO KEEP YOU SANE. Probably one of the most important points, too many people try to cut too much out too fast and this is why they fail. Enjoy your food!
• Reduce alcohol intake.
• Replace fizzy drinks with fruit juice, cordial, water. You should be drinking 3 – 4 litres of fluids a day.
• Swap whole milk for semi-skimmed, or semi-skimmed to skimmed.
• Stop taking sugar in tea and coffee.
• Supplementing your diet with health products: This can be done as a healthy option and woman should especially look at what supplements they are taking due to their hormone balance. Herbalife products provide a great range of products. Herbalife is 100% natural, so woman can count it as a safe, healthy route to aid weight loss. Their best seller and key weight loss product is Formula 1, meal replacement shake.

Myth: Eating before bed is bad

Reason: Your body still needs calories (nutrients) while sleeping so don’t be afraid to fit your meal in or a quick snack. Don’t starve your body just because its bedtime. The key is to stick to Vegetables and proteins after 5PM / 6PM.

Take a look at our weight loss made easy article for more information on this diet.

Weight loss steps in order of effectiveness

1. For the biggest result in fat reduction cut out the complex carbohydrates completely and have a shake like Herbalife Formula 1 for breakfast or for breakfast and lunch / dinner. This is an extreme and you must ensure that you eat as much vegetables and fruit as possible. Once the weight is lost you should start trying to introduce the carbs steadilly back into your diet.

2. Reduce complex carbs through the day. By the end of the day you should really be only eating salad and vegetables, with a portion of protein. The graph below shows the amount of complex carbs reducing as the day goes on. The idea is to start the day with the same Formula 1 breakfast listed above (Point 1.), but then to just slowly reduce and remove.

 

3. This is the easiest and is mainly used for people who really struggle with their food. Still have a Formula 1 shake for breakfast, but Simply make one extra change to your diet per week. Examples below.

 

·         Remove bread

·         Remove pasta

·         Reduce alcohol intake

·         Stop drinking full fat milk

·         Eat 5 small meals a day

·         Drink more water

 

This is by far the slowest way to remove excessive fat, but is the easiest. The steady changes to your diet shouldn’t make a huge impact on you but will make you start to lose weight due to the reduced calories and get you on the way to living a healthy lifestyle.

*To Increase your weight loss potential on all the above steps you can have 2 Formula 1 shakes, making up to of your 5 meals per day! Furthermore have you seen the rest of our Herbalife products? Check out this 7 Day Diet Plan to see how to use the herbalife in your daily routine.

To get the most out of this diet plan take a look at our recipes and add some training to boost your fat burn.