Weight Loss Watcher

The author of this diet has been linked to the fitness regimens of a lot of celebrities ranging from John Mayor to Halle Berry.Conceived in 2004 and expanded and updated in the year The 5 Factor Diet is usually endorsed by the celebrities in various walks of life.

Game of the 5 Factors?

The 5 Factor Diet is a game of keeping five as a constant number in whatever you do or eat .

• 5 Meals per day
• 5 days a week of exercise made up of 5 phases each 5 minutes long.
• Each meal has 5 criteria

The idea though at first comes off as a show is in actuality consists of a very simple logic.

Guidelines

The trick is to eat frequent meals, but small portions in eat meal, so that the satiety levels are standardized, but the amount you consume is lessened. The meals should have foods consisting of, a lean protein, adequate fiber, “good fats”, low –GI carbohydrate and a sugar free beverage.

Meal Examples - Snacks

• Celery with nonfat cream cheese and pickle wrapped in turkey pastrami
• Nonflour toast with nonfat cream cheese, smoked salmon and tomato slice
• Turkey breast slices wrapped around lettuce and green pepper strips, with some nonfat cream cheese
• Brown-rice cake with a slice of Veggie salami, fat-free cheese, and mustard Beef,
• Beef, salmon, or turkey jerky with piece of fruit
• Pickled herring with nonfat sour cream
• Celery sticks with nonfat French onion soup cream dip.

A Typical Day on the Five Factor Diet

MEAL	NAME	PROTEIN	CARBOHYDRATE
1	Apple-cinnamon oatmeal frittata	Egg whites	Dries apples
2		Nonfat cottage cheese	Apple
3	Curried chicken salad	Chicken breast, nonfat yogurt	Slice of no-flour bread
4		Veggie salami, nonfat cheese	Brown rice cake
5	Lemon salmon	Salmon	Quinoa, side salad

5 Factor Workouts

Exercise as in most dietary regimens is essential to this diet as well, a combination od bodyweight exercises coupled with strength training and cardio work wonders and the time limit of the daily workout sessions is 25 minutes.

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