The human body is highly adaptive. If your current diet has been poor or high in refined carbs, then your body has adapted to that unhealthy pattern. In other words, it knows what to do with the sugar and carbs that you currently eat – burn some for energy, store the rest as fat. Your
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Life will throw you a few twists and turns over the next 21-Days, but you want to hold on to your “I can do this” attitude and find a way to stay on track. Each day of the challenge, you’ll be emailed a Busy Day Plan that will help you stay on track. Below, you’ll
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The 21-Day Challenge Meal Plans are set to provide you with about 1,200 calories per day. This caloric level will be sufficient for most women following the 21-Day Challenge, but if you are a man, athletic or you are a larger woman, you may want to increase your caloric intake. Increasing Calories If you want
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If you’ve developed food sensitivities, you will need to work with your body and find substitutions that you can tolerate. While substitutions are not always possible, the following suggestions may help. Dairy Substitutions If you are intolerant of dairy foods, you likely have a sensitivity to the milk sugar lactose or a milk protein (i.e.
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During the challenge, we strongly recommend taking an electrolyte supplement. From the start of the diet, you will be reducing your overall carbohydrate intake. Carbohydrates cause your body to retain water, so when you reduce your intake, your cells release stored water. Electrolytes, like sodium, potassium, and magnesium follow water out of your body. So,
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The Busy Day Plan is an optional plan to help you keep on track with your weight loss, even when life gets crazy. Pros: This optional plan loosely follows the Daily Challenge Menus, but reduces the need for cooking by either swapping meals or providing easy-to-make substitutions. Cons: The Busy Day Plan does not have
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Rearranging or replacing meals within the Challenge Menu can work if the meal you are substituting has the same macronutrient breakdown as the one you are leaving out. The nutrition for each day of the meal plan has been calculated, so you might find it easier to trade an entire day of eating as opposed
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