Eat Breakfast — I know for most that’s pretty obvious, but you’d be surprised how many people don’t. Also make sure you are eating breakfast within 30 min of waking.
Drink Water — Water flushes out our systems. Drinking a big glass of water whenever you feel hungry and before a meal or snack fills the stomach briefly and makes you feel fuller and stop eating sooner. Hunger is often confused with thirst.
Eat Frequent Meals — You’ll want to keep your metabolism fueled so you’ll want to eat every 2-4 hours. Depending upon when you get up in the morning you’ll want to eat at least 5-6 meals.
Strength training — When you strength train, your metabolism for up to 38 hours after the workout. Strength training coupled with diet and cardio burns fat far more than cardio and diet alone.
Post workout nutrition — Within 30 min of strength training you will want to eat a protein and a fast acting carb. I will go into more detail later in the program as to why this is important.
Green tea — This must be fresh, it can’t be the pre-bottled kind. You can’t take it in a pill form. Green tea, helps to slow down digestive enzymes. It must be at the perfect temperature 140°F – 150°F. BTW — It doesn’t suppress your appetite.
Today’s challenge
Drink a 1/2 gallon of water — you can add lemon or other fruits to it to give it a little more flavor. Sorry coffee doesn’t count.
Eat 5-6 meals today.
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I have green tea bags and microwave my water. Is this okay and considered fresh. If so this will get added to my daily routine. In 21 days it will become a habit and hopefully this will add support to everything else I am doing?
@christine — are there ways you can remind yourself to add in water?? I have an app on my phone called waterlogged. It’s a way to help me track my water intake.
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I have green tea bags and microwave my water. Is this okay and considered fresh. If so this will get added to my daily routine. In 21 days it will become a habit and hopefully this will add support to everything else I am doing?
Drinking lots of water is always tough for me…..I’m drinking though!
@michele provided it’s a quality green tea. I’d boil the water the old fashion way vs. microwaving. Yes.. green tea is a piece of the puzzle
@christine — are there ways you can remind yourself to add in water?? I have an app on my phone called waterlogged. It’s a way to help me track my water intake.
Awesome! I just downloaded it…..I’ll start there!