The best two-week quick weight loss diet does not entail skipping meals or following the latest fad diet. Instead, you need to cut calories while consuming a variety of fiber-rich, nutrient-dense foods. You should also adopt a challenging daily workout that burns fat fast and builds muscle. In two weeks on a healthful but accelerated plan, you can lose 5 to 6 lbs.
Cut Calories
The Harvard School of Public Health recommends that healthy women of average stature reduce their intake to 1,500 calories per day and lose about 4 lbs. in two weeks. Healthy men of average stature can consume 1,800 to 1,900 calories per day and lose weight at the same rate. Of these calories, up to one-third can be from healthy sources of fat such as avocado, olives, canola oil, flaxseed oil, olive oil, nuts and seeds.
Fill Up With Fiber
An effective diet entails switching from nutrient-poor, sugary and fatty food sources to whole foods with low-energy density but high dietary fiber, meaning few calories in a lot of food. Make leafy greens, carrots, apples, berries, grapefruit, celery and other fresh produce the focus of your meals and snacks. Eat one serving of an unsweetened whole grain such as steel cut oats, amaranth, wild rice, polenta, quinoa or brown rice at every meal. Switch to plant-based sources of protein such as legumes and lentils. High-fiber foods accelerate your weight loss in two weeks by making you feel more full on less calories. Start your meal with a fiber-filled fruit or vegetable to curb overeating.
Exercise
Do challenging workouts that burn fat fast. Elevate your heart rate and burn over 600 calories per hour doing cardiovascular workouts such as walking on a stair treadmill, running, briskly walking on a hilly route, power yoga, boot camp, kickboxing or skipping rope. Add resistance training, including squats and pushups to build muscle mass and raise your basal metabolism. A daily 1-hour workout at a vigorous pace will have you losing up to 3 lbs. in two weeks.
Jump-start Diets
One of the fastest ways to lose weight is by following a jump-start diet plan. However, you must get your doctor to prescribe this plan and supervise you while you follow it. A jump-start diet lasts two weeks but can result in a 10-lb. loss. It drastically reduces your calories, so you cannot follow the plan beyond the two-week period. However, you doctor can recommend some healthful, low-calorie foods to add to the plan so you continue losing weight, but at a slower pace.
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