I need help!?!
Question: i am sort of overweight and i feel i should loose some weight. i dont want to take slim fast or anything like that so what should i do?
how do i loose weight?
Answers: i am sort of overweight and i feel i should loose some weight. i dont want to take slim fast or anything like that so what should i do?
how do i loose weight?
I lost 20 pounds fast by exercising!! I did 30 minutes of cardio (elliptical machine) and then weight training for about 45 min. (depending on how fast or slow you work out). And then another 45 min of cardio. It sounds like a lot but after you get used to it you feel wrong when you don't do it. I did it for 5-6 days a week and let me tell you, on saturdays I would go to dinner and have a huge dinner and even ordered dessert (every saturday) and the pounds still kept coming off. The key is movement. The more exercise you do the faster your metabolism and the more endorphins (happy chemical). You'll look great and even better feel great!! You can still have what you like but portion it out. I guarantee that when you do work out you will find yourself saying "no" to a lot of goodies because you will know how hard it is to work it off. Good luck with that and remember just stay active.
First check with you doctor...get a physical. You'll find out what you can and can't do to condition yourself. The key is good food and exercise. If one is missing, the other won't work. Eat more fiber, less fat and sugar, stay away from processed foods and cafffine. It's better to eat 6 well portioned snacks a day than piling food in a meal. Breakfast time is the most important time to pack in protein. What is so important is getting out and conditioning your heart and lungs. Start easy...like walking. And work your way to maybe jogging a mile every other day or 3 days a week. Stretch and drink lots and lots of water. Your hunger feeling could be that you are really in need of water. Consider that. But before you do anything that has to do with exercise...like running...get the green light from you doctor.
The only variable you can really control is exercise. Find a method exercise that you enjoy and do it every day. Build muscle. Eat what you want when you are actually hungry and stop before you are stuffed full. Try to eat a balanced diet, but don't limit yourself with a bunch or rules and diets. Diets don't work and are unhealthy in the long run. Only do things that are healthy and that you can do forever, for the rest of your life, like cutting fast food forever. 95 percent of dieters gain it all back in one year and 99 percent do in two years. Dieting is associated with weight gain over a long period of time. You need at least 1200 to 1600 calories every day just to perform basic bodily functions.
If women like you learned to love their bodies, a billion dollar industry that cashes in on insecurities and making people feel like they are not good enough would collapse. Quite frankly, being a little fat isn't as unhealthy as being thin. Anybody who thinks diets or restricting food types is a good idea is uneducated about the human body. Short cuts do not work. Most of the weight you lose is water weight. For health, eat a balanced diet and exercise for the health and endorphins and forget about an ideal shape. The average age a girl starts dieting is 8. 1/3 women are on a diet at any given time. 4/5 US women are unsatisfied with their appearance.
Your body has a set point weight that it wants to be. If you starve yourself, the body will fight back by lowering the metabolism to maintain it's ideal weight.
Limit your tv viewing. 1/4 TV commercials send out a message about attractiveness in this brainwashed society that has been seeing images of beautiful skinny women and mocking chubby people. It's worse for women: look at the number of average or uglier guys on tv and in movies versus the number of women. 30 percent of women in a study rated their ideal shape and it turned out to be 20 percent underweight. Julia Roberts and Cameron Diaz meet the clinical requirements for anorexia, and so do 25% of playboy centerfolds. If the flippin mannequins became real women, they wouln't be able to menstruate. Women finally get some rights, but we limit ourselves like this and our bodies are reduced to objects we inspect and criticise. Men decide to only value women for their looks and a thin, attractive wife symbolizes social status for them. Girls call each other fat as the greatest insult they can muster. When did fat become worse than cruel, stupid, dishonest, lazy or cowardly. When did "chubby" start to mean the last four of those things?
We are killing our daughters and wasting our lives trying to meet an ideal that blows. I wish women would get together and fight it instead of letting others control us like this. Unless you are considered obese, or have a BMI of over 25, don't worry about it. Love your body and your confidence will light up the room and give other women permission to love themselves too.
Increase your level of exercise. (Go for a walk if nothing else.) Learn about food portion size. buy a Health Choice or Lean Cuisine frozen entree to get an idea what a standard portion of meat, vegetables, etc. is like. Use that knowledge to help modify your food take of the foods you normally eat.
Remember, weight doesn't mean very much. If you gain one pound of weight is it a pound of water, a pound of muscle, a pound of fat? Have a skinfold test done by your doctor or a qualified professional at a health club to find out what your body compostion is.
Fact: A woman's body weight can fluctuate by as much as 8 lbs. in a month due to changes brought about by her menstrual cycle.
remember this is extremely important
70 percent eating
20 percent excersise
10 percent suppliments(protein, fish oil, pre workouts, ect)