Best ways to lose weight?!


Question: Best ways to lose weight?
My doctor told me that my cholesterol was a bit higher and she recommended that I lose 10 pounds. I weigh 160 pounds. I have never been able to lose weight. I always lose 1 or 2 pounds or just weigh the same. I don't exercise as much and I am addicted to a lot of sweet foods, such as cookies, bread, chocolate candy, and so on. How should I tackle this problem? What should I do to motivate myself in having a better lifestyle? What exercises and what foods do you recommend?

Answers:

The most important things you need are as follows:

First you need a plan. You need to have a clear goal of why you want to lose weight, how much weight you want to lose and when you want to have lost the weight. The wehn part needs to be realistic, however. So lets say you have something coing up ion a few months, then challenge yourself to lose say 20 pounds by August, if this event was in August. Then you need to plan out smaller goals to help you get to that such as eating healthy for a week and exercising for 5 days in a week. These small goals will make you feel great and help you get closer to your big goal. You also need to plan your days and plan your meals. Everyday have a game plan of what you will eat and at what time. Make sure to eat 6 meals a day with no more than 3 hours between each meal. Then plan out what meals making sure they are balnaced meals. You want lots of veggies and fruit, but you also want lean meats and whole wheat carbs. Once you get that, purge your kitchen of all distractions, either donate the bad food or throw it out. The stock up on good foods and get going.

For your exercise, you can also do things such as walking or running for your cardio. The point of cardio is to get your heart rate up so you want to do something that will do that for you. The jump rope is good, but jump ropes work better for circuit training when you combine cardio with strength. If you want to do circuit training, just google it and you will get tons of ideas from people like Jillian Michaels. However, one piece that was missing from all of this was strength. You need to get some weights and devote at least 2 days a week to strength training and 3 days to cardio. You should not really exceed 30 minutes for your daily exercises, especially if you do it 5 times a week. Doing more than that is counter productive. So with the weights, just go to the store and do bicep curls with a weight. If you can do 10 reps and feel tired, that is a good weight. If you do more or less than 10 reps that is a bad weight. You may also want to get an exercise ball because these things come with exercises you can do and some come with dvds showing you how to do them. These balls are great for your stomach muscles. As far as strength exercises go, there are tons of them you can do so I would suggest just looking at that up online.

Finally, set a start date for this and get to it. Stop thinking and just take the plunge. Good luck.




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