Lose Weight Program > Not Losing Weight, and Protein Requirements

One warning: Don't be discouraged, the first week or two, if you show no weight loss even though following your diet faithfully. It's most likely a matter of water retention. The body eventually adjusts itself when it finds you mean business, and often the water loss is quite sudden when it occurs.



Sometimes it is disheartening to weigh yourself every day and discover no significant change. It is average weight loss that counts and once a week is often enough for your little session with the scales.

If you do weigh yourself every day, however, do so under the same conditions and at the same time of day. Perhaps the best time is immediately after getting out of bed in the morning, for ordinarily your weight is lowest at this hour. You dispose of quite a number of calories while you sleep-nature has her kindly moments.

It is not even necessary to count your calories if you follow the safe reducing diets. The proportions are all figured out for you. The main idea is to reduce only the starch and sugar calories, and to dispense with practically all of the fat calories.

It is impracticable, however, to list in these diets every food that may tempt you. After all, reducing is a practical business and it should not disrupt the familial cuisine by stressing foods that do not regularly appear on the ordinary dining table.

That is where the Two-Minute Calorie-Counting Table comes in. Here you will find average servings of common foods listed according to their three kinds of calories, making it an easy matter to select the high-protein dietary stressed in modern reducing diets.

See how simple the arithmetic of reducing really is:

Start with the Ten-Day Miracle Diet, with your doctor's permission. Otherwise, adopt a 1,000-, a 1,250-, or a 1,500-calorie diet - whichever is closest to the figure you get when you subtract 1,000 from your daily maintenance needs.

If you lose less than one and a half pounds a week, reduce your daily diet 100 calories at a time until you reach the one-and-a-half-pound level. If you lose more than two pounds a week and don't want to shrink so fast, step up your calories proportionately. Give your diet at least two weeks to show what it is doing.

In selecting foods, remember that for safety and the swiftest results in slimming:

A 1,000-calorie diet should provide a minimum of 325 protein calories.

A 1,250-calorie diet should provide a minimum of 375 protein calories.

A 1,500-calorie diet should provide a minimum of 400 protein calories.

If you make sure of a daily intake of 150 carbohydrate calories, which you almost certainly will, the rest of your calories may be distributed between fats and carbohydrates more or less to suit your taste. On the whole, it is best to make your selection from carbohydrate foods because, except for concentrated sweets, they provide many dietary essentials.

We are assuming that you prefer to adhere to the minimum number of protein calories - actually, it is perfectly O.K., and in fact quite desirable, to increase your protein food intake as long as you get your carbohydrate minimum. If you would rather have more sugar and less butter, that's up to you (except that foods vary also in vitamin and mineral values). In obese persons the fat intake can safely be cut right down to the vanishing point.


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