Lose Weight

I want to lose about 30-40lbs but I don’t want to do a restricting diet only to gain the weight back as soon as I reach my goal weight and stop dieting. Right now I eat between 1700-2100 calories per day and I use the elliptical machine for 35 minutes daily. For fluid intake, I am only drinking water. Can I still lose weight this way?

Try the Baby Jack workout http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TKCGe2Ezris

i need to lose weight for baseball season…in two weeks

When you are losing weight, you should exercise and diet together.
If you exercise without dieting, you will get bigger appetite, which
will lead to increase of weight, or muscle grow
underneath the fat layer, and make you bulkier. If you diet without
exercising, you will become flabby and will have excess skin. For
diet, go wheat free. No pasta, pizza, bread and so on. And no food
after 7 p.m. People achieve marvellous results with it. Depending on
your initial weight, you can drop upwards from 20 pounds a month. If
you don’t eat wheat then you don’t eat all those sticky, fatty goey
cakes, you don’t eat junk food, and you don’t eat biscuits. But your
diet is still balanced. It costs nothing, and you do not have to
calculate points or to buy special meals or plans. For exercising,
start with walking, and then switch to running/jogging. Running is the
most efficient and calorie-burn exercise ever. If you are overweight a
lot, walk first or you may have health complications (heart attack,
disjointed bones and so on). Weight lifting is a good means to target
your problem areas for men and women. It’s not necessarily to become a
bodybuilder or even join a gym – a couple of dumbbells will help you
to target your problem areas (stomach, butt, legs, arms, chest).

diets are quite difficult for me as my parents wont allow it
maybe there are a few little tips for me
nothing extreme
im working on doing some running on a machine at the gym
but is there anything i can do at home that is effective

my fat it on my stomach and thighs mostly
can you help?

Be honest Michele said it. Although for some, it’s easier said than done.

Start eating better, eat less food in general and NO sugar crap, less fat and less alcohol (it’s hard, I know)

Then walk/run more. Going a couple of miles, just walk it or jog I mean the weather is picking up now.

Drink water, tea, maybe (take into account the sugar you use) and avoid most other drinks like energy ones or whatever.

Also try and exericse in the morning, before breakfast … so maybe … get up/shower and go out for 30-45 minutes for a brisk walk then come back and eat – I hear this burns fat from the bodys stored energy 3 times faster.

Don’t brother with indoor machines like bikes and tredmils they are soo boring, waste electric and expensive. I see almost no reason for them (unless it was bad weather)

Get yourself an mp3 player/ipod for your walks and they are fun themselves.

I want to lose ten pounds in 25 days and i was wondering what’s the safest way to do it and also keep off the weight. I am currently 5′3" and am 126 pounds. I have found that i look best when i weigh between 115-122 pounds (less is better for me). I want to burn off the tummy fat and tone down my arms some more. Thanks for the help.

www.southbeach.com

The south beach diet by Dr. Agatson is low carb. and very effective. Easy to understand and do.

Good luck.

I weigh 420 lbs and am taking steps to lose this weight before I die of a heart attack or something. I plan to weigh 200 lbs by August. However, I am very concerned with sagging skins and breasts. I realize I will probably need some surgery, but I was hoping to give my skin a little help to avoid surgery as much as possible. What have some of you tried to avoid the major sagging skin that comes with major weight loss? Thank you all!

Your breasts will sag, sorry. The reason they appear full now is that breasts are made of two things, fat, and glandular tissue which makes milk. When you lose fat, you will lose it from your breasts, too and they will become smaller.

It is so very important to incorporate weight training. You will burn fat, and gain muscle which will help a lot with the sagging skin lot over your whole body. This is the slow approach. Diet and exercise. But if you do lose all that weight that fast, you skin will not contract that quickly.

Visit any discussion forum on the internet for those wanting to lose weight, and you will find an astonishing number of people searching for which the “best” diet is to lose weight. Generally they also want to lose it quickly. That’s natural and normal.

However the answers these people get are both very muddling and very revealing.

How come?

Well the thing you will find is that nobody agrees with one another. One person will have lost a huge amount of weight on Weight Watchers, another will swear by Rosemary Connelly. And so on. There may be dozens of “best” diets recommended.

And there’s a reason for that – there *is* no best diet – just the best diet *for you*.

It’s vitally important to understand that fact, so please reread the last line to burn it into your head.

Let’s be honest – we all know that basically to lose weight we need to burn fewer calories than we consume. By reducing our calorific intake and/or exercising more we will achieve that.

In theory, therefore, you could create your own diet tonight and it would work and help you lose weight.

Perhaps you’d eat just salads and run for 30 minutes 3 times a week.

That would work, wouldn’t it?

Well, yes on a physical, nutritional level.

But perhaps not on a mental level – and that why there is no best diet.

Consider how many foods that are apparently bad for you – can be accommodated by other diets. For example with Weight Watchers you are allowed desserts in moderation. In the Atkins you can eat cheese. Yet people still lose weight on both of those diets.

But there are other differences too. Some diets require no exercise, others moderate and some an aweful lot.

Some require cycling, others running, some walking.

With some you get days off eating healthily, with others you build up “credits” which you can “spend” on treats.

The simple fact of the matter is that we are all different and what appeals to one person may not appeal to others.

The first time I tried the South Beach Diet I lost 7lbs in 7 days – but I disliked the rich food.

In contrast, I loved Body For Life with it’s day off each week to eat whatever I liked.

And so it follows that the best diet – for you – is the one you can follow for a long time. Any diet will work over the short term – like my South Beach experiment.

But for long-lasting wieght loss results you need a diet you can stick to – week after week, month after month.

Because while that sounds depressing – when you actually enjoy the diet sticking to it becomes a pleasure not a pain.

So the key is this – try out a variety of diets yourself. Don’t let others tell you what to do.

Maybe try a week or two of each one to see which you enjoy the most. Which seems “effortless” to you? Because even if you only lose a pound a week but are having the time of your life, it’ll be easier for you to lose weight than if you lost 7lb a week but hated every minute of it!

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Trying to find the right weight loss regimen can be frustrating to say the very least. You listen to all of the opinions and suggestions from your family members, friends and coworkers. How are you honestly supposed to find effective weight loss solutions with everyone telling you how you should lose the weight?

Then it gets even worse, you begin searching online late at might to find out what you should do and how to go about losing the weight. After you do this, more than likely you have been completely confused or you are frustrated beyond your imagination. Hang on, by the end of this article you will have a better understanding of how to lose the weight.

The first thing you need to know is you have to be burning more calories a day than you consume. This basically causes your body to begin burning the stored fat for energy. So, how do you do this? This is the easy part. You need to do a few different things.

1. Get exercise. You should start off slowly and gradually increase your intensity. Start off by power walking or jogging for about 30 minutes a day for 3 or 4 days a week.

2. On the days that you are not walking or jogging you can go swimming for a half an hour or so. This will keep your body from becoming in tuned with the exercise and leave you on a plateau of weight loss.

3. Take the stairs instead of the elevator. Basically, in any way you can increase your physical activity you should.

4. Increasing the amount of water you drink daily is another way you can burn calories. Actually, the water will flush your system out and at the same time it will boost your metabolic rate which will increase the metabolisms productivity.

Most people not only want to lose weight but they also want to tone their muscles at the same time. If this is something you want to do you will need to work out more often and slightly more intensely. Every other day you should target specific areas of your body to tone and increase muscle mass. Here are some tips to help you build muscle mass and tone your body.

5. You will need a lot of energy in order to build muscle mass and tone your body. To give your body the additional source of energy you should eat more carbs. However, you should not overindulge yourself with the carbs. Only eat as much as you need to in order to have the energy to turn the fat into muscle.

6. Increase the amount of foods you consume with antioxidants.

7. Drink green tea. At least 2 8 ounce glasses a day.

8. Consult your physician about herbal remedies that are safe for you to incorporate into your diet.

Effective weight loss solutions are actually going to be a combination of different strategies. Not everyone responds the same way to diet and exercise programs, therefore you will need to try different things to determine what will work for you. Nothing is going to work overnight, so be patient and consistent in the regimen you choose. In time you will reach a weight that better suits you.

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What is the best online weight loss program? It all comes down to the individual in question. Choosing the best online weight loss program for you can be hard. You need to assess your weight and health and what you want to achieve.

Always listen to good advice when looking for the best online dieting program. Take your time, do a little research. Listen to the experts and always take in what they recommend. Weight loss and being overweight is becoming so common now that millions is being spent on research to help us lose that fat.

There are now so many online dieting programs now on the market. Some offer a free trial, take advantage of this and see what they have offer before wasting your money on something that will help you achieve your goal.

Ensure the weight loss programs are sensible and well structured. You don’t want to go on some mad diet that makes you eat foods you have never heard off. This will just put you off losing those extra pounds all together! You want lose that fat in a comfortable way that will suit your needs.

Most online weight loss programs deal with losing water. This is not good advice, being dehydrated is not healthy. You need to choose a program that will deal with getting rid of fat. It is much easier for a person to lose water than fat, this is what so many dieting programs try to get you to do.

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Losing weight is hard, if you don´t know what you are doing but it is easy if you do. Most people fail to lose weight before they have even begun. If you have the mindset, “I´ll go on a diet and see what happens, hopefully I will lose some weight,”you can´t lose any body weight with that kind of an attitude. You have to set yourself a goal and then go for it.

If you have a goal or a target, then it subconsciously creates motivation and energy to do stuff. You have the willpower to wake up early in the morning, burn calories with exercise and keep track of your nutrition. You have to think positive, it may seem silly but it is true. If you think, “I can’t lose weight no matter what I do, I would work out but I don’t have time” or “I don’t want to be fat anymore,” then you will never reach you goal and lose body fat. “I am getting leaner every day, I like eating healthy foods, I can do it,” that is much better, isn´t it?

If your goal is simply to lose fat, then that is not a very good goal. It has to be more specific. “I want to lose 7% of body fat in 3 months,” is much better. If you have a very specific goal and you have the right attitude, then you will have a much greater change of actually reaching the goal. Obviously if you want to lose fat, then you also have to measure your fat percentage. If you don´t do that, then you will not know if you have reached your target. A scale is helpful, but consistently measuring your body fat levels is much better.

For example, if you have lost 10 pounds in a month, then you don´t really know how much of that was fat. Weight loss is not fat loss. It is good to use the scale, but you also have to use body composition testing.

If you set your goals, then don’t be shy. You have to think big and have big goals in mind to lose body weight because it can be hard to do. Use your imagination and create the perfect you and go for it. If you make progress, then you get closer and closer to that PERFECT YOU. If you don´t aim high, then you will never make it.

Goal setting is only one part of losing body weight, but nobody really uses it. If you combine goal setting with the correct nutrition, cardio training and weight training, then you will really take off. Where the mind goes the body follows, remember that.

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With all the commercial diets being promoted with mega advertising budgets and trendy looking fads which come and go literally by the week, how is one supposed to keep your head together, and make the right choice of a quick weight loss program, that will be successful for you, and keep the fat off forever?

The answer is pretty simple: do not fall for these come and go diets, and do not allow the million dollar ad campaigns to fool you into believing their claims. Be a wise and innovating individual, and go the one and only way that is right. The one and only way that will assure that you will not go through hunger pains and hardships, and that will ensure guaranteed weight loss, day by day until you reach your goal. The only way which is sure to take the weight off, and to keep it off forever.

The quick weight loss program that I am talking about, consists of two steps.

The first step, and this is not for everyone, is to go on a detox fast for a few days. There are uninformed people that condemn fasts. The one valid point that these people have, is that a fast should not be approached with weight loss as the sole outcome. It is a fact that this is the fastest way to lose weight, but you have to be intelligent about it.

The main reasons for you to go on a fast, should be to cleanse your body from harmful substances, and to rid yourself from unhealthy eating habits. The respect that you will gain for your body, will give you more than just a reason and a will, to start eating more healthy after the fast.

Famous religious leaders, artists and scholars such as Jesus, Mohammed, Mahatma Gandhi and Mark Twain were regular fasters, and so were Socrates and Plato, who fasted regularly for 10 days at a time. Pythagoras was known to fast for up to 40 days. These are only a few names, from a myriad of known fasters through history.

The most important is not the type of fast you decide on, but to educate yourself on what you are taking on, by preparing yourself for it, and by knowing what to expect, how long would be appropriate for you to stay on the fast, and how to come out of the fast.

The second step (the first step if you would rather skip the fasting), is to simply work out a calorie controlled diet for yourself. By knowing how many calories your body needs to sustain itself, it becomes second nature to create a calorie deficit tailor made for your personal circumstances and weight loss goals. By being aware of the numbers, you will have total control over how fast or slow you lose that weight.

It is crucial for you to beware of not going too low on your calories. And once again, there is a simple answer. Instead of consuming too little calories, get more active and simply burn more. This will allow you to eat more, and still reach the same goals.

A quick weight loss program that is safe and healthy will then firstly be calorie controlled, it will secondly consist of more regular but smaller meals during the day, and thirdly a plan for regular activity. Your diet will be balanced, and consist of appropriate amounts of lean proteins, fibrous and starchy carbohydrates, and healthy fats. Your body needs all of these to burn fat effectively.

All you need in a quick weight loss program is the right mindset and a calorie controlled meal plan on paper. That is really it. Weight loss is guaranteed, and a maintenance plan for life as at your fingertips. Exercise is of course optional, but highly recommended, and one of your greatest allies in your efforts. You will be able to eat more, and more of what you like to eat.

Kim Levin
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