I can't lose weight?!
Question: I have gained about 40 pounds in 3 years. I use to be like a stick. I am in my early 20's and nothing that I do makes me lose one pound. Whats wrong with me? Everyone around me tells me I am fat.....makes me feel like crap....I'm just not motivated anymore.
Answers: I have gained about 40 pounds in 3 years. I use to be like a stick. I am in my early 20's and nothing that I do makes me lose one pound. Whats wrong with me? Everyone around me tells me I am fat.....makes me feel like crap....I'm just not motivated anymore.
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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
you should change your diet. working out daily would also help a lot. dont let other people get you down.
You're just eating too much. That's it.
well same here, first thing u have to do is take time excercising, u will loose weight defff, dont think u will not. the only reason u might be not loosin weight bec u might be eating too much while u excercise, so limit the food and increase excercise, play sports, dont eat before going to sleep a big NO NO. dont ever do that, eat liek arond 8 pm latest after that no, your body does not use alot of energy at night, so eat aroudn 5 small meals and drink plenty of fluids, trust me it works. take care, and listen you can always loose weight, dont think u cant
Surround yourself with better friends, for starters.
You haven't told us anything about what your diet is, if you exercise or not, whether you have any underlying physical conditions...I would suggest you get a referral to an endocrinologist who can test you for a number of imbalances, to include your thyroid. You may be hypothyroid.
it could be something hormonal like PCOS. go to an endocrinologist.
Firstly, you have to motivate yourself to want to loose weight.
Secondly, go and see a dietitian. She will give you a meal plan. Then just stick to it.
You will also have to do some exercise at the same time.
Work out a strategy - they say 1 kg a week will result in permanent weight loss.
And in the end, you have to change your eating patterns permanently.
Good luck!
If you are a woman, you need to see your doctor and have your hormone levels and your blood checked. You are way too young to be that overweight, and you probably have a thyroid condition or polycystic ovary syndrome. Have your doctor check for both. These illnesses make it very difficult to lose weight, but once they are diagnosed and treated, losing weight becomes as easy as it is for anyone else. If you are in good health, start writing down what you eat. It sounds like a pain, but it's a huge eye-opener. I used to think I ate about 1700 calories a day, but it was more like 2,600 to 3,000. Seeing it on paper made it easier to cut back and eat better. Most people don't like to exercise, so you're not alone. Exercise helps with depression, anger, and of course weight loss, so if you can make yourself do it, you will be better off. If you need support or extra help, try TOPS or ediets. Some people swear by these two programs. With TOPS you weigh in once a week at a meeting, but you can follow whatever diet you want and get support from others. On ediets you get grocery lists and online groups and all kinds of other stuff too. The next time someone tell you you're fat, tell them to go to you-know-where. That's rude, and you don't have to put up with that.
To lose weight (fat), include more fiberous slow digesting carbs, as opp to the
fast ones, no white breads, fast foods, ketchups, sugar, only skim milk, not 2%,
skim and whole grain non sweet cerial, whole wheat bread, buy some protein,
include lean meats like ham, and other sources of protein, no red
meats,multivitamin, calcium and vitamin d every 2 days, v8. Don't starve, eat
small healthy meals, a lot of small meals opposed to a few bigger ones-- make sure is has at least 8-10 or more g, not too much protein,
the body can only digest a certain amount at a time, avoid too many fruits, carbs
and sugars, fiberous veggies, greens (no starches or potatoes) are good ,and no bbq sauce
(unless used sparringly) and not too much salad dressing, before bed (2 hrs), eat something with protein, dont
eat many carbs before bed. Eat some of that good cereal in the morning, you need carbs, just not too much, and the slow ones.
Do crunches until you can not do anymore, jog stairs, be safe, warm up and sprint, short bursts
of intense activity is very effective compared to long weak activity, just don't
over do it, Jog stairs ;and also do some lunges until it burns, do this every day or 2 days, keep
going and don't give up, same with eating, you need fat, so one fish oil daily,
eat fish (not fried, be careful, very careful for bones, peanut butter on whole
wheat (no jelly),which has protein, and dont worry about the fat in that,
avocodos, has fat, good fat, eat it when your hunger cravings get you. when you
do crunches, also twist on some to work your sides, keep tension on your abs.
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