How can I lose weight before Chinese New Year?

The food choices you then make to obtain these 1,200 calories is the crucial factor in how hungry or otherwise you will feel. To beat hunger pangs completely, try these fail-safe tips:

1. Make two thirds of your diet plant-based. Pasta, rice, beans, bread and fruits and vegetables give maximum fill for minimal calories, and making them the main rather than secondary part of your meal means you'll always have plenty to eat.
2. Choose high fibre options wherever possible. Fibre doesn't contain any calories, so it fills without being fattening. It also slows down stomach emptying so that you feel full for longer. And because you have to chew high fibre foods so well it forces you to eat them more slowly.
3. Eat high water foods. Water is the ultimate low calorie, high volume food, so liquid meals such as soups and stews can be particularly satisfying, and kinder to your waistline. Another trick is to drink a glass of water before a meal to trick the stomach's stretch receptors into sending 'I'm full' messages to the brain.
4. Don't skimp on low fat sources of protein, such as fish, grilled chicken and lean meat. Lean protein has an effective blunting effect on your appetite, and can make you feel full for longer.
5. Cut the fat. Apart from the obvious reason - that it has more than twice the calories than the same weight of protein or starch - fat is also the least filling food component of all.

If you follow these rules, you'll be able to eat really well (for example cereal and fruit for breakfast, soup, bread and yoghurt for lunch and a large veggie curry and rice followed by fruit fool for evening meal) and
still not go over 1200 calories. You can count calories yourself.

The Perfect Morning Workout

Don’t start your day hating life. Jumpstart your fat burners and build muscle with this quick at-home routine. 

Mornings are, to put it bluntly, hell for some of us. The sound of the alarm clock violently ringing in our ears rips us out of rest and puts us instantly in a bad mood. Worst of all, we're completely aware of being in a bad mood, but believe we're powerless to stop it. We have to wait until the mood burns off and hope we don't do anything we'll regret later.

It probably shouldn't be this way. After all, the way you wake up in the morning affects the rest of your day—diet and training included. If you start out on the wrong side of the bed, you're more likely to hit up the fridge and dominate that cheesecake. A bad morning becomes a bad day.

So here are some ideas for those of you who only have a few minutes a day to exercise. 

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Warm up with the mobility and dynamic flexibility moves. Then perform the 1-minute drill. Rest 15 to 30 seconds, then do the strength circuit. Rest 1 minute. Repeat the drill and strength circuit sequence three to five times. After the first round, try to work at an effort of 7 or 8 (on a scale of 1 to 10) each time you perform the 1-minute drill.


MOBILITY AND DYNAMIC FLEXIBILITY
Perform the following exercises as fast as possible with good form. Rest 30 seconds between exercises and 1 minute between rounds. Perform 2 rounds.

3-Step Lateral Run and Pause (5 reps)
From a strong tall posture, perform a high knee run sideways taking three total lateral steps, running on the balls of your feet, driving the elbows back and maintaining good upright posture. Do not cross your feet as you run. On the third step pause and maintain balance for at least 1 to 2 seconds before running in the opposite direction. That's one rep.

Lateral Speed Lunge (8 reps)
From an athletic position, take a lateral step to the right. Quickly and with good squat form, touch your right hand (outside your right leg) to the floor and immediately drive your body up and shuffle one step over to the left touching the floor with your left hand. Your body should be completely extended (tall) when you move from side to side.

Spiderman Climb (10 reps per leg)
Start in the top of the pushup position. Keep your abs braced, pick one foot up off the floor, and slowly bring your knee up outside of your shoulder and touch your foot to the ground. Slowly return your leg to the start position and repeat with the opposite leg.

1-MINUTE DRILL
Perform the following exercises for 15 seconds each.

Jumping Jacks
Start with your feet hip-width apart and hands at your sides. Simultaneously raise your arms above your head and jump so you can spread your feet shoulder-width apart. Then jump again to lower your arms and bring your feet together. Repeat.

High Knees
Run in place, with knees driving toward your chest.

Side-to-Side Hops
Starting with feet together, push off with your right foot to hop laterally to the left about 3 feet. Land on your left foot and follow with your right. Hop back, this time pushing off with your left foot. Repeat.

Mountain Climbers
Start in a pushup position. Keeping your head in line with your body, bring your right knee to your chest, then back to starting position. Alternate rapidly with the left leg.


STRENGTH CIRCUIT
Complete as many repetitions as you can of each exercise in 20 seconds. Rest 20 seconds, then move to the next exercise. (And to take your workouts to the next level in minimal time, be sure to check out The Big Book of 15-Minute Workouts.)

Jumps
Dip down at the hips and knees, and then explode up.

Pushups with Row
Get into pushup position with your arms straight and your hands resting on light dumbbells. Squeeze your abs and glutes as you perform a pushup. At the top, pull one dumbbell off the floor and toward you until your elbow is above your back. Slowly return the weight to the floor and repeat with the other arm.

Two-Way Lunges
From a standing position, take a large step forward with one leg, then immediately lunge backward. Switch legs after 10 seconds.

Single-Leg RDL
Stand with your feet slightly more than shoulder-width apart. Raise one foot and extend it behind you, just off the floor. Contract your glutes, brace your abs, and keep your spine naturally arched. Focusing on balance, lower yourself until your torso is parallel to the floor. Initiate the movement by pushing your hips back. Push back up to the starting position. Switch legs after 10 seconds.

Glute Bridges
Lie on your back with your knees bent, feet flat on the floor. Squeeze your glutes and raise your hips so your lower back is off the floor. Hold for 20 seconds.

10 Ways to Control Your Cravings

You can lose weight by overcoming your cravings now. Here are the latest tricks :

1. Avoid your triggers.
   
   
   “You crave what you eat, so if you switch what you’re eating, you can weaken your old cravings and strengthen new ones. This can happen pretty fast. The first few days are always the hardest, and you probably can’t completely eliminate your old cravings. But the longer you avoid your trigger foods, the less likely you may be to want them. In fact, you’ll probably begin to crave the foods you eat, a real bonus if you’ve switched to fresh fruit.
   
2. Destroy temptation.
   
   
   If you’ve succumbed to a craving and bought a box of cookies or some other trigger food and start to feel bad while eating it, destroy it. “Don’t just throw it away; run water over it, ruin it. You’ll feel a sense of accomplishment that you’ve licked your binge. Don’t think about the money you’re wasting. If the cookies don’t go into the garbage, they’re going straight to your hips.
   
3. Go nuts.
   Drink two glasses of water and eat an ounce of nuts (6 walnuts, 12 almonds or 20 peanuts). Within 20 minutes, this can extinguish your craving and dampen your appetite by changing your body chemistry.
4. Jolt yourself with java.
   Try sipping a skim latte instead of reaching for a candy bar. The caffeine it contains won’t necessarily satisfy your cravings, but it can save you the calories by quenching your appetite. And the warm richness and ritual can distract you.
5. Let it go.
   Since stress is a huge trigger for cravings, learning to deal with it could potentially save you hundreds of calories a day. This will take some practice. You can try deep breathing or visualizing a serene scene on your own, or you can speed things up by buying one of the many CDs that teach progressive muscle relaxation.
   
6. Take a power nap.
   Cravings sneak up when we’re tired. Focus on the fatigue: Shut the door, close your eyes, re-energize.
   
   
   
7. Get minty fresh.
   Brush your teeth; gargle with mouthwash. “When you have a fresh, clean mouth, you don’t want to mess it up.
8. Distract yourself.
   If only ice cream will do, it’s a craving, not hunger. “Cravings typically last ten minutes. Recognize that and divert your mind: Call someone, listen to music, run an errand, meditate or exercise.
   

   
9. Indulge yourself -- within limits.
   Once in a while, it’s OK to go ahead and have that ice cream. But buy a small cone, not a pint. Try 100-calorie chocolate bars and 100-calorie snack packs of cookies, peanuts or pretzel sticks. The trick is to buy only one pack at a time so you won’t be tempted to reach for more. And since even 100 extra calories can sabotage weight loss if you indulge daily, strike a bargain with yourself to work off the excess calories. A brisk 15-minute walk will burn 100 calories or so.
   

   
10. Plan or avoid.
    Vary your usual routine to avoid passing the bakery or pizzeria. If you know you’ll be face-to-face with irresistible birthday cake, allocate enough calories to fit it into your diet.