What to eat to lose weight?!


Question: What to eat to lose weight?
Is there a good diet plan that works? I want to lose some weight

Answers:

Hi there. Trimming up can be a challenge and diets frequently don't work. An effective goal is to stop eating all fast food and junk food. Good Luck.



Eat what you want, but eat less of it.

The healthiest way to lose weight is neither crash diets nor bursts of exercise. The body likes slow changes in terms of food and exercise.

Diets that severely restrict calories or the types of food 'allowed' can lead you to be deficient in the nutrients and vitamins that your body needs.Your body uses food for energy. It stores any excess energy as fat. This means if you eat more food than your body needs for daily activities and cell maintenance, you'll gain weight.
To lose weight, you need to get your body to use up these stores of fat. The most effective way to do this is to:reduce the amount of calories you eat, increase your levels of activity.
This is why experts talk about weight loss in terms of diet and exercise.
Introduce changes gradually
Small changes can make a big difference. One extra biscuit a week can lead you to gain 5lb a year – cut that biscuit out of your diet and you'll lose the same amount.
You're also more likely to stick to, say, swapping full-fat milk for semi-skimmed or making time for breakfast each morning than a diet that sets rules for all foods.
You should think of weight loss in terms of permanently changing your eating habits. While weight-loss goals are usually set in term of weeks, the end game is to sustain these changes over months and years, ie lifestyle change for life.
Increase your activity levels
Someone who increases the amount they exercise, but maintains the same diet and calorie intake, will almost certainly lose weight.
No matter if you hate gyms – even light exercise, such as a short 20 minute walk, will be beneficial if done most days of the week.
Every single time you exercise more than usual, you burn calories and fat.
There are lots of ways to increase the amount of activity you do. Team sports, racket sports, aerobics classes, running, walking, swimming and cycling will all improve your fitness levels.
Find something you enjoy that's easy for you to do in terms of location and cost. You're then more likely to build it into your routine and continue to exercise, despite inevitably missing the odd session through holidays, family commitments, etc.
Get out and about at the weekend. Leave your car on the drive and walk to the shops. Try to incorporate longer walks into outings to the park, coast or countryside and take a picnic, so you're in control of what you are going to eat that day.
Every extra step you take helps. Always use the stairs instead of the lift, or get off the bus a stop before the usual one and walk the rest of the way.
It's not possible to reduce body fat while eating lots of food, cakes and sweets. This doesn't mean you can never have any treats, but you need to learn how to limit these foods to small quantities – say, for special occasions.
In terms of weight-loss, you can get your body to use up existing stores of fat by eating less and making healthier choices.
This doesn't mean crash diet (anything less than 1500 calories), which usually ends up with you either getting weaker or giving up in desperation. Quick-fix diets can lead to a yo-yoing effect of drastic weight loss followed by weight gain, resulting in a vicious cycle.
There are no shortcuts to losing weight in a healthy and reasonable way.
Eating 300 to 500 calories less per day should lead to a loss of between one and two pounds per week. This is a realistic target.
Fat contains the most amount of calories out of all the food types (protein, carbohydrates), so a good way to achieve this is to cut down on fatty foods and eat more wholegrain bread, fruit and vegetables.

Replace fizzy drinks and fruit cordials with water.
Swap whole milk for semi-skimmed, or semi-skimmed for skimmed.
Eat less lunch than usual. For example, make your own sandwich and limit the use of margarine or butter and full-fat mayonnaise (store-bought sandwiches often contain both).
Stop taking sugar in tea and coffee.
Have smaller portions of the food you enjoy.
Avoid having a second helping at dinner.
Cut out unhealthy treats – such as confectionary, sugary biscuits and crisps between meals.
Cut down on alcohol intake.
All these things will influence your health in a positive way.
Finally, don't be tempted to skip breakfast – or any meal to lose weight. While skipping a meal will reduce your calorie intake for that hour, it will leave you much hungrier later on.
Not only are you likely to overeat to compensate, but you'll often make bad choices to fill the gap: a cereal bar is not as healthy as a bowl of cereal or as filling, leading you to 'need' something extra for lunch.
Irregular eating habits also disrupt your body's metabolism, which makes it harder to lose weight in the first place.

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Don't listen to half of them down there telling you that you need to eat as little as possible. Eating too little drops metabolism. It is one of the biggest mistakes dieters make. You should only drop your calories down by a couple hundred from what you are eating now.

And what do you eat? Eat five to six small meals a day. Consisting of fruit, vegetables, nuts, lean protein (low fat content), and 100% whole grains. Do not eat things with trans fat. Eat only limited amount of saturated fat. And stay away from simple sugars (simple sugars are candy, complex sugars are fruit).

If you want some more help, buy "You on a Diet." It's a great book!



this diet is working for me. i lost 4 lbs in 7 days by eating everything i normally eat but cut it in half or 1/3 and eat a half of grapefruit and drink a full bottle of water before each meal. i eat every 2 or 3 hours. if u like carbs like bread, pasta etc. only eat whole wheat and in the mornings or afternoons so u can be burning it off throughout the day. run a mile everyday and each week increase it by .15 miles because your body will start to adjust and will stop/slow down losing weight but if u increase then the body will keep burning. also weight train a few days a week. muscles burn faster than fat.



Keep your calorie and saturated fat intake as low as possible. Only eat when you're hungry, and have lots of fruits and vegetables. Diet plans don't really work as you will be frustrated trying to stick to it. Eat something that you know is good for your body.



It's not what you eat, it's how much. And you need to exercise while eating as well. Just dieting isn't going to work unless you want to lose like..a pound.

Cut out sodas. 1 a week is okay. Drink mainly water or juice. Tuna sandwichs helped me lose a few pounds. I ate them twice a day for a while.



One simple change that I personally found very effective was to eliminate grains from my diet. I replaced the grains with vegetables - brocolli in particular. I lost 5-7 lbs inside of 2 weeks. Hope this helps.



In my opinion, just eat normally. The healthiest method, eat what you think you should, eat happy.



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U better start regular Swimming n Cycling..to reduce weight /good health.
All the best.




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