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The 5 Commandments Of Smart Dieting

Written by Brian Flatt

Topic: Dieting and Weight LossPublished January 25, 2017
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To really see best results from any diet plan you choose to use, you need to learn a few ‘diet commandments’. These are guidelines that must be followed if you are going to see superior results that will help propel you forward.

Sadly, many people miss out on one or more of these and it greatly costs them their success.

Want to learn more? Check out the list of five commandments below.

1. Thou Shall Eat More Protein

Of all the foods that you could eat while on a fat loss diet, protein is perhaps the most important. Protein helps combat hunger, it helps stabilize blood glucose levels, and it helps prevent lean muscle mass loss. This in turn helps speed up your metabolism and accelerates the process of fat loss.

Don’t let your diet intake fall short. Aim to eat some protein in each and every meal and snack that you consume.

2. Thou Shall Eat Regularly

While the concept that your metabolism will increase the more often you eat isn’t entirely accurate — as the boost you get after a meal is directly related to the size of that meal — eating regularly does help to keep hunger at bay.

By feeding your body frequently throughout the day, you’ll help avoid food cravings, energy lows, and make it that much easier to stick to your diet program.

3. Thou Shall Prioritize Fresh Foods

When selecting your foods, eating fresh is a must. We live in a world where processed foods are around every corner and just waiting to cause us weight gain.

Eliminate these and you’ll really give your diet a boost. Focus on foods in their natural state — fresh fruits and vegetables, whole grains, healthy fats and oils, and lean proteins.

If you only make one change to your diet plan, make it this one.

4. Thou Shall Set Short Term Goals

One diet rule that you should abide by and follow is to always set short term goals for yourself. Think about what you are doing in the here and now, not months from now. It’s too easy to lose sight of your goals if they are going to take place six months to a year down the road.

Try thinking in three-week segments. Three weeks is about how long it takes for good habits to form, so is the perfect amount of time to you build behaviors that will stand the test of time.

This is precisely why The 3 Week Diet was created. It will help you stay motivated and consistent until you don’t even have to think about making those changes any longer — They’ll just be automatic.

5. Thou Shall Stop Comparisons

Finally, stop comparing yourself to others. Realize that this is your own journey and your own body. It’s unlike anyone else’s so you simply can’t expect to see the same results as everyone else.

Instead, start comparing yourself today to yourself from yesterday. That will give you all the details you need to know. If each day you are getting better, you are successful in your journey.

So keep these diet commandments in mind. Focus on these and you can feel confident that you are headed in the right direction.

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About the Author

Brian Flatt is the creator of the breakthrough weight loss program The 3 Week Diet, which is a science-based approach to weight loss that helps people melt away an average of 21 pounds of stubborn body fat in just 21 days.

Flatt, now 44 years old, started his fitness career as a professional trainer, weight loss coach and nutritionist. As he became well-known in Southern California and demand for his services soared, he opened his own personal training facility called R.E.V. Fitness, which he still runs today.

As a trainer and gym owner, Flatt was on the front lines in the “battle of the bulge.” He saw how his clients struggled to lose weight and keep it off and developed The 3 Week Diet as a way to help them achieve fast weight loss success.

“I’m a firm believe
that with something that is hard to do like lose weight, enjoying quick success can provide just the encouragement that is needed for a person to commit long-term to the healthy changes they are making,” Flatt says.

Flatt created his diet program after seeing the frustration his clients were experiencing trying to lose weight. He reviewed over 500 medical studies, dozens of diet books and hundreds of diet systems, programs, gadgets, pills and potions as he created the system.

In all, he spent over a decade doing research and two and a half more years fine-tuning his weight loss system.

“This is a revolutionary diet because it focuses on reducing cellular inflammation, which is the real cause of weight gain and is something that most diets ignore,” Flatt says. “Reduce cellular inflammation and you will boost your metabolism and increase your ability to lose weight.”

Flatt’s diet also corrects the bad information dieters receive and is simple to follow as it completely avoids the complexity of counting calories.

“If you would have told me back when I was a beginning trainer that one day I would create a popular diet program I wouldn’t have believed you,” Flatt says. “But now that it has happened, I’m so excited to be making a positive difference in so many people’s lives.”

Flatt’s current mission is to help as many people as possible by spreading his diet system and tips around the world.

“I want to help people learn what to eat, when to eat and how to eat to lose weight,” Flatt says. “I also want to help them develop the mindset, or willpower, to lose weight and keep it off.”

Since writing The 3 Week Diet, Flatt has also become an in-demand health and fitness speaker known for delivering a message of hope to those wanting to lose weight — a message that weight loss doesn’t have to be a slow, tortuous grind, it is possible to lose weight quickly and easily with the right system.

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