weight loss?
i need weight loss tips. no crash diets i dont wanna kill myself.
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- try to just excercise for half an hour to an hour and then stop eating junk food...also eat constantly but not unhealthy food because the more you eat constantly the faster your metabalism will go up and that makes you lose weight
- jump rope 30 min every day
- try a diet! 1. Eat fruits and vegetables. Especially orange ones. Women trimmed their waists by replacing refined grains like white bread and simple or added sugar with carbs from fruits and vegetables, according to the latest review from Copenhagen University Hospital. Besides packing in the fiber, which keeps you feeling full longer, researchers suspect it's the rich antioxidants, such as vitamin C and beta-carotene, that ward off ab fat. Carrots, cantaloupe, squash, and peaches are great sources of beta-carotene, while oranges, berries, and kiwi provide a good dose of C. To keep calories down, pick veggies, like bell peppers, before fruits, and choose fruits over juice.
- I was 300 pounds just a bit over a year ago. I find cutting out soda COMPLETELY and major, major portion control and don't stop moving! Always burn way more than you consume. The way I lost weight is b/c I became too poor to afford to feed myself, sooo, quasi-poverty-induced-forced-anorexia for me! I am currently at 205 and am aiming for 140-120 for a 5'8 frame. so, I feel ya and wish you all the luck in the world!!
- weightwatchers...I swear it works...this sounds cheasy but it not a diet...it just helps you change the way you et. Go to a meeting and see it's like 15$ per meeting.
- 1. It is said drinking a lot of water increases your metabolism. 2. Try out some upper body exercises it is said muscles are also a way to increase metabolism. 3. Make an exercise plan for the month. 4.Get into to sports. 5.Now the best thing to do is to jog around your neighborhood in the morning for an half an hour. These 5 things helped me lose 20 pounds over the summer. I am 5 feet 10 inches, and I went from 185 to 165.
- 1.Set goals. You'll be better able to make a realistic weight loss plan if you know how much weight you want to lose. 2.Identify your weaknesses. Are you a bread fiend? Do you have dessert after every meal and every snack? Is McDonald's your second home? Find the weakness and throttle it. It does not own you, you are stronger and cooler than to allow some silly little craving to knock you off your path. 3.Throw away anything you know is tempting. Those cinnamon buns with 500 calories each? Gone. The ramen noodles in your cabinet? Gone. The problem is that this is not always feasible. Often times we are not the only ones in our homes and therefore the call of the food must be withstood. In this case, out of sight truly is out of mind. Put unhealthy, unfilling foods in a drawer or in a cabinet that you rarely use. Put them all together to make a particularly unappetizing sight. Don't place them all in a decorative basket out on the counter. Place them in a drawer. A drawer heaping with pastries rarely looks like anything but a drawer of fat. 4.Eat less, but eat more often. If possible, eat 4-5 meals a day. This helps your metabolism and blood sugar to stay level as well. This does require a change in your schedule. Eat less within 6 hours of your bed time. You're less likely to burn the calories closer to your bed time. It's fine to eat a large breakfast and lunch because your body will be working on burning those calories for the whole day. Large dinners are likely to go unburned and converted into fat. 5.Do not skip breakfast. If you don't have time to prepare breakfast, buy healthy breakfast bars or those smoothies on the go. It is important to eat breakfast to jump start your metabolism and give you energy for the day. Otherwise you will probably end up falling back on unhealthy foods during the day. Yogurt is also known to boost your metabolism. 6.Eat healthy snacks when you feel hungry between meal times. Healthy snacks would be things high in fiber, fruits and vegetables. Avoid high sugar and high calorie snacks. This will help you get nutrients as well as help lower your appetite so you won't overeat during meals. 7.Increase your fiber intake. Fiber acts as negative calories. It's also filling and healthy for your digestive system. Make it a part of every meal. 8.Eat slowly and chew more. Take time to enjoy your meals. This will help you to finish at the same time as others, and you'll not be tempted by a second helping. Also, chewing more will ensure you get the most out of all the food and it will be digested faster. The more you chew, the more your appetite will be satiated. 9.Drink more water every day. Stay hydrated. While you don't need 8 cups of water a day to stay hydrated, it'll make sure you're hydrated as well as cut down on your hunger levels and force you to get a little bit more exercise (trips to the sink, water cooler, water fountain, and bathroom). If you're a heavy soda drinker, permit yourself to only one diet soda per day, maximum. Just one extra soda each day can add 15 pounds. Recently, fizzy drinks, even diet ones, have been said to slow down metabolism. 10.Increase physical activity. There are two ways to reduce net caloric intake: 1) reduce the number of calories in your diet and 2) Increase the number of calories that you burn in your daily activities. Both approaches are usually necessary and healthful and both are effective in losing weight. You can pick and choose which exercise you want to do, depending on your fitness level and drive. For example: walking, jogging, using the stair stepper, using cross training machines, swimming, tennis, and basketball. Weight training (and resistance training) can help reshape your body. The more muscle you have the higher your metabolism will be. 11.Find active friends. Find people that will drag you out to do more active things. It doesn't have to be much, but any exercise even walking around the mall is better than none. 12.Don't get discouraged. After one or two weeks of initial weight loss, it is quite common for your metabolism to slow down as it adjusts to the new calorie count. Stay on course and you'll see results. In some cases, the scale will tell you your weight is barely changing, but you may be gaining muscle weight while losing fat weight. Also make sure to weigh yourself first thing in the morning to try to avoid the fluctuations in weight due to water. 13.Take all advice with a grain of salt. Everyone is going to have some tidbit of information for you. What worked for them might not work for you. Take it all in stride and work with what is getting results for you. Trying to do everything everyone says will only cause overload. 14.Eat more protein. If you choose to go this route, do not cut out all carbs. If you do so, as soon as you start eating carbs again you will regain your weight back. Instead of eating stand alone pasta, throw some meatballs or chicken in. Eat some beans, they are high in protein and very healthy for you. Increase the ammount of protein, but not by too much. The more protein you take in, the more water you should drink as well. 15.Eat less calories. The average woman should eat around 2,000 calories a day and the average male 2,500. There's many ways to reduce the calories you intake. Try not to eat frozen dinners, pizza, or from fast food joints. There's also certain drinks, such as Green Tea that are calorie reducers. Lettuce is another calorie reducer, but be careful because dressing tends to have the calories. Low fat/light vinnegette, balsomic vineger, red wine and vineger are pretty healthy dressings, but do not load it on
- sometimes when you try to lose weight you can pick foods with very little calories and fat, but you might actually end up eating more and filling yourself with "empty" food because it never makes you feel full. try eating foods with low calories and high protein/ nutrients: low fat or fat free cottage cheese- 70-90 calories and 12-15 protein! tuna fish!-70 calories and 15 protein protein cereal (special k protein cereal or kashie GOLean!)-about 100-110 calories and 10-15 protein If you're not REALLY hungry, just bored or feel like eating and its really bothering you eat something with a hot or cold temp, or something carbonated so you feel full sugar free popsicles-15-40 calories diet soda! **avoid sugar, try buying most everything sugar free and be amazed at the calories you cut, diet soda has 0 calories, but a bottle of rootbeer will add an extra 200 calories just because of all the sugar!** any type of vegatable! but check the toppings on things. i try to avoid dips because they have so much fat and calories and a salad may have a lot too from excessive toppings. Try and start new habits. When I really payed attention to myself I realized that when I'd be bored I'd just habitually walk around the kitchen. Now I try and be consciese about bad habits and try to find a new habit to put in its place. When I feel like I'm going to go eat because I'm bored, I put something in my mouth like gum. Something else is it reallys helps to measure the serving size of everything. Like i used to eat that diet icecream because it only had 80 calories, but that serving is only 1/2 a cup and I'd be having almost 4 times that! Now I like to measure foods like that out. ...And avoid crackers!!! Personally, i think they are really bad. There is alot of good fruits and things to eat, but when i eat crackers its just a lot of carbs and i get really pudgy.
- **Eat healthy meals (at least 3 times a day with snacks in between) to keep your metabolism running. **Do strength training exercises (i.e. bicep curls, bench presses, leg presses, etc) in addition to doing cardio exercises. **Keep a journal of what you eat and how long you exercise daily. It will help keep you accountable. **Cut off excess calories from your daily diet such as sugary drinks (no soda or Starbucks!), candy, chips, and NO FAST FOOD! **Find support where you can -- friends, family, online communities like www.ivillage.com or www.3fatchicks.com.
- remember that in getting to be overweight, you have sort of abused your metabolism with things like sweets, cakes, or pies. to loose those pounds you must abuse your body again. Deny it those regular sweets. go for a fruit instead. be more active, and miss a few meals. Eating heavily late in the evening isnt a good idea! substitute sweet candies for the sugar free types! experiment with things that dampen your appetite. Especially in evening hours! good luck.
- You have not mentioned your weight and height. So i cant answer you exactly the way for you to proceed. In general i will suggest you to start with exercise and diet. Exercise means do running, swimming, and walking. But down your calories in your food. If your BMI is greater than 40 this will help. In this case you must try weight loss drugs and pills. In an extreme case go to a gastric surgery. For more details visit http://weight-loss.healthcare2u.net
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