Easier said than done, but I'd try and reduce pre-prepared food. These often contain sneaky levels of sugar, which is bad for weight gain.
ERRR I am a vegetarian and eat a basically ayurvedic diet when i am not being careless ,(gf likes cakes) .It is nutritionally much more beneficial to eat in the morning but all meals should be small to medium.I have spent alot of time working as a microbiologist and food flavourist and my advice is dont eat anything made on a production line make it fresh yourself.
Take up yoga this causes the weight to rapidly disappear and within a couple of months you should be standing on your head in the lotus postion lol
Watch the amount of Carbs in your foods, Those simple sugars are everywhere and the human body will snatch them up very easily. That is one reason (amongst) others why Americans are having problems with obesity (amongst others).
i think exercise is the key thing. diet can go a long way by just cutting out junk food snacks like chocolate and crisps and only eating meals.
Im in fairly good shape, not brilliant, just slightly overweight. i dont regularly exercise as much as i used to but still go out for runs every now and again. even if its just 3 or 4 laps of the track. The trick is to get started and make sure you keep going.
cardio is more important to lose weight, and if you want to burn fat you have to get your heart rate up. the best advice i think i can give would be to go see a doctor and ask their advice. they should put you in touch with a nutritionist or give you a good idea of what exercises will be best without affecting you asthma.
maybes the US really is that bad, but it could be worse here in the UK everywhere is on some sort of healthy crusade. I think our problem here with weight is more to do with alcohol than diet. I blame mcdonalds for all the fat kids though. there "eat some crap and get a free toy" campaign is a bit underhanded.
I never thought of warhammer as a seditary lifestyle. at least i always stand up to play, and theres a hell of a lot more movement than in video games.
the fact you dont have a car is probably good thing, i means at least you are walking everywhere.What i did once to get some exercise was every time i went food shopping i walked to the supermaket that was about 45 mins away, then had to carry it all back. i know it sounds like self punishment but what i was really doing was changing one of the more mundane parts of my life and turning it into exercise.
My best advice is to give up Soda all together, even some juice will contain way too much sugar. Drink water instead, and if you have to drink juice, drink REAL fruit juice.
Soda (I call is pop) has so much sugar in it, tons of calories. Substituting that with water will make a world of difference, not to mention water is extremely healthy and necessary in a good diet.
I walk to work everyday which seems to keep me at around the average weight for my height.
It's surprising how much difference a bit of regular walking has made.
Xander speaks truth. Soda is LOADED with carbs and reducing the intake of such will work wonders. Water whenever possible.
Well, since im only 15, im still burning my 'puppy fat' as i like to call it
Im 6 foot and a bit, and weigh 185 pounds, but im not fat, i am proud to say it's all muscle
I used to have wieght problems when i was 12-13, but as i got older the wieght distributed
I suffer from a very low metabolism. I walked more than three miles every day for years, low fat/sugar food, and didn't lose a thing. The first change I made to my diet was to have a banana in the mid afternoon, because it would keep my metabolism higher for longer, therefore burning more calories. It worked for a while but then I plateaued again. Next step was to replace my lunch sandwiches with bananas also. This had a marked effect, the weight came off slowly and consistantly over the following few months. I eventually stopped having any bread apart from in the occasional pizza and it all worked wonders. I was slimmer than I'd been in years. It seems that bread was actively slowing down my metabolism (and explains why I lost hardly any weight while at uni, since I used to eat loads of bread because it was so cheap). I put it all (and more) back on when I changed jobs and moved in with the in-laws, who ate a lot of unhealthy foods with large portions, and I no longer had motivation to walk. Since we moved out I went back on the same regime and lost most of it, but not all, and I still don't walk as much. I am now starting to lose the fat that I have had in certain places since I was in my early teens.
One thing I've noticed about US food is that there is a huge amount of sugar in everything. It seems that just about everything contains high fructose corn syrup, which doubles the calorie count with the aim of making it taste sweeter. Eating out is significantly more unhealthy than anything you make at home, even processed ready-made meals. Places like Sharis and Perkins have more fat in them than you can imagine, most meals have more than the entire daily calorie intake recommended. European foods might look the same or less healthy, but in most cases they aren't. Mexican food is probably the best take-out if you avoid the fried stuff and don't overdo the cheese.
Good foods to eat are soups, cereals (not the ones covered in sugar), and bananas. You don't have to completely cut out any particular meals or food types, in fact you can use them to treat yourself once or twice a week. Grill your meats (I know that grills are unusually rare in the US, except those on barbecues), grilled chicken is very low fat and tastes as good as fried. Cut down on what you put on foods: salt, butter, mayonaise, sauces, sugar. A night of heavy drinking can add an extra 1000 calories, even if you drink that crappy "light" beer.
wooo george foremam grills! for the win lol
i am obsessed by them i think im onto my fourth now, the big one with 1 big grilling side and 1 hot plate side perfect for onions, mushrooms and healthy fried eggs!
When my fiancée did her weight watchers i had to do it too, and you do notice a lot more what your eating. i had to cut down regular beer and start drinking coors light, which is now my favourite beer.
talking about metabolysims when i was playing american football i used to take suppliments to speed mine up, which in theory helped burn fat and build muscle quicker. all i ever noticed was visiting the tiolet more often, though i never put any weight on.
cooking at home is great. im in a bad situation for health at the moment because i spend a lot of my time living out of hotel rooms, which means eating out unless you can cook it in a kettle (beleive me weve even tried making sunday dinner in a hotel kettle). so when i get home i do try and add more fruit and veg into my food, use grills meat, cut out bread, potatoes and cheese as much as possible, and use spices instead of sauces.
some of our favourite meals are ones my fiancée came up with while on weight watchers. dice some chicken, fry it in a pan with some healthy spray oil and mix in cajun spice so its sealed into the meat. make a sauce out of a tin of chopped tomotoes, some tomato puree to thicken it up and add onions, peppers and mushrooms. (all free on WW) then serve on top of nice rice (i dunno what its called its the yellow stuff in the pack with bits). Doesnt take too much effort to cook and is really healthy. you could have wholemeal pasta instead of rice but it does taste like crap.
Another good one is chinese stir fry. pack of stir fry veg, diced pork, a few spices on the pork and cover the thing in soy sauce. very cheap very healthy and tastes great.
Also, many people will confuse thirst with hunger. Sometimes all you need is a glass of water.
Okay, so I;ve read all of these suggestions and it seems I'm following most of them. I excercise for at least 6 hours a week (very heavily), I do at least 2-3 hours of walking a week (I was doing more, but I have less lectures now), I'm quite active in lectures as I;m a drama student, I only ever drink water, I'm eating far more healthily than I was and yet I'm still putting on weight (obviously not muscle weight asd well), all that's happened is that since I reduced the amount of walking ionvolved, I;ve reduced the rate of fat-mass increase. Any ideas on that?
i think thats an average staying the same weight calorie count. if you want to burn fat you need much less im sure. 1400 to 1200 i think. basically instead of eating less food you can eat the same amount of healthier food. easiest way is substitute your chips and potatoes with veg and salad.
By eating healthily, I mean more healthily than I was (which was take-away every night on top of ordinary meals), reducing snacks and replacing them with carrots and instead of picking the fattier, more sugary and salty foods, I've been picking the ones that have lower contents (looking at the % of GDa for each). I've reduced my meal portions to just under the average perrson, been eating more in the mornings and less of an evening. I do stamina training and ordinary training. i know it's not muscle because I've gained inches. 2500 calories is avergae for a man to flatline and 2000 for women. So, the numbers Sojourn suggested sound healthier than tonr's because they will reduce fat levels without causing muscle decay. It's not so much the weight I'm trying to lose as the inches, but often they are coupled. I'm not dangerously overwieght and I'm very muscular benath the extra inches, so would weigh somewhat more than the average for my height anyway (I'm thicksetm barrel-chested and broad shouldered. Think American-style dwarf. [5'6.5" ya see
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Malificant: They cook all sorts of things in the morning. Waking up to that sort of smell isn;t good when you know you shouldn;t eat it and won't get any
from weightlossresources.co.uk
"UK Department of Health Estimated Average Requirements (EAR) are a daily calorie intake of 1940 calories per day for women and 2550 for men."
"In order to lose weight you need to eat less calories per day than your body needs. To lose 1lb a week you need a negative calorie balance of 500 calories per day. To lose weight at 2lb a week you need to reduce your calorie intake by 1000 calories a day."
n.b. not eating wont waste away your muscles unless you are actually starving yourself. 1250 calories to lose 2lbs a week isnt starving yourself. And if your 280lbs trying to get down to 200lbs dieting that way will still take the best part of a year according to the numbers.
Well, just to throw in my two penny's worth!
I'm what you might call a fat lad. This is because I eat too much sh*t and I drink too much beer. I am over weight but I'm really not bothered. I am happy! I see too many people who may be slimmer and fitter than me, but spend much of their day worrying about what they are eating, worrying if they've put on weight, devoting more time to the gym than their family etc. That doesn't make you healthy, it makes you ill! So if you're happy the way you are, stay that way!
If you still want to lose weight then the first thing is, don't starve yourself. Your bodies defense mechanism when you haven't eaten properly for a while is to store everything it takes in, converting the energy into a gel that it can store around the body. this is called fat.
A balanced diet is a good step towards a healthier lifestyle, but don't expect to loose weight by simply eating healthily. Going on a diet works if you stick to the diet, as soon as you come off it, your body will start saving up that surplus I mentioned earlier.
The most effective way of loosing weight is by taking on regular exercise. You don't have to go to the gym, or go out running everyday but take into account what you do during the day. Chances are, if you do heavy manual labour, you are not going to need much exercise outside of work unless you are on a staple diet of pie and cake.
Loosing weight is all one simple equation:
Calories in - calories out = weight loss/gain.
If you take in a million calories but burn a million and one, you will loose weight. FACT.
Swimming burns off more calories than running, running burns off more calories than cycling. keep in your lower cv range (aka fat burning heart rate) and run for longer, this burns fat at a much better rate than thrashing yourself for a short period.
Take the stairs instead of the elevator, when you go shopping, park as far away from the main entrance as you can. Walk everywhere that's close enough.
If you walk your dog regularly, try running with him, he will probably enjoy that more than walking.
If you live within 15 miles of work, cycle once a week instead of driving. You don't have to go fast, your just burning extra calories.
When you go up stairs, take two at a time.
tell your Wife/Husband/Girlfriend/Boyfriend that you need to have more sex in order to lose weight!! (note: my wife doesn't buy this)
Doing stuff like this will mean you can carry on eating what you want but still lose weight.
Hope this helps!
1. drink only water
2. only eat what youve cooked yourself (cut down on sugar and fat) - it makes eating an exercise by itself- and no prepared food
3. positively no food after 6 pm (or at least 4 hours before you go to sleep)
4. walk everywhere
5. start smoking!
1) I DO only drink water. Always been the case.
2) I do that as well.
3) This isn't a plausibility when I go to sleep at 2 (counting it as early), but I've heard of a 3 hour rule before, which I take into account indefintely.
4) That's the case for me.
5) It's going to do me more harm than good, whether I lose weight from it or not. Other people's smoke sets of asthma (which is another reason I can;t do TOO much excercise) and we all know the health and financial risk.
However, I'm yet to try this 5 meals a day thing. I now have less lectures, so it may be a possibility. I'll see how it goes. (As for the girlfriend thing, that's what Summer's for. 230 miles makes it slightly difficult...)
I think the big key is getting your metabolism up. Protein is good for this, and eating small meals a day. Obviously exercise. As long as you're getting some exercise and eating right it should take care of itself. Find out how many calories a day you should need, and get an idea of how much food that is. Then start small with exercises, walking, shooting hoops, doing arm curls or biking while watching TV. Once you get your metabolism up, your body will lose weight in your sleep.