<p>Dear all:
I want to get some suggestion for “How to Lose weight in the Healthy Way?”
Give me advices, please:)</p>
<p>I suggest eating fruit and/or oatmeal for breakfast.
Steamed veggies for lunch- maybe broccoli, snow peas, carrots, red peppers, asparagus, etc.
(the prepackaged steam able veggies are the best, and they come in a light sauce so they taste much better)
Grilled chicken is also very high in protein, and very low in fat–I eat lots of grilled chicken when I try to slim down.
I’d stay away from processed food altogether, but that doesn’t mean you can’t eat anything that tastes good. I wouldn’t start off on a hardcore diet.
Drink lots of water, and try to stay away from soda.( soda is in high in sugar and sodium which causes bloating and actually dehydrates you more than it hydrates you)
Alcohol also suppresses your metabolism, so I suggest no heavy drinking.
Eat frequently to increase the rate of your metabolism, the higher it is, the quicker you burn any fat from food.</p>
<p>Also, start low impact exercises, then slowly increase the intensity for your work outs.
For example, start stretching and moving more often, then as you build a little strength, try going on long walks, then once that becomes easier, maybe start jogging.</p>
<p>Hope this helped! It really does work for me. A food journal is a great idea, also! Just don’t be too hard on yourself. If you want a friggin cupcake, eat one! Like I said, don’t start off hardcore dieting, because most people who do that end up subconsciously hate dieting. If you’re starting slowly and steady, it will come more naturally.</p>
<p>Run, bike, swim, box, etc.</p>
<p>There are three things you can do which will keep you trim. You can’t pick and choose which ones, you must do them all.</p>
<p>1) Wait until you are actually FEELING hungry (not just desiring to taste food, but you can feel in your stomach that your body wants food) to eat, and then eat either a little bit (like a piece of fruit or pb&j sandwich if it’s not meal time) or a regular meal. Don’t assume that because your stomach is really growling that it wants a huge feast, it may just want a regular-sized meal. I’ve tried counting calories and weighing out portions and so forth, but I wound up <em>under-eating</em>, so I decided instead to just listen to my body. If you are halfway through a meal and you look at your food and think “gee, I don’t really want to finish that, I think I ate my fill for now,” then by all means DON’T finish eating it. That’s your body saying “stop eating, I’m good for now.” Wrap it up and stick it in the fridge, or :::gasp::: throw it away if it won’t keep. Ignore what your parents said about clearing your plate. Just ignore it.</p>
<p>2) Stay active by doing <em>something</em> at least five days a week. Walk for an hour, or jog for a bit and then walk for the rest of the time (you can build up how much you can jog, one minute-per-session the first week, two minutes the next, and so forth until you can jog for ten, twenty minutes continuously, etc.) or ride your bike and lift weights (this doesn’t necessarily mean body-building, if you are a woman I know the fear of bulking up keeps a lot of women from doing weights but it’s a myth, those freaky bulked up women you see are taking <em>steroids</em>.) Find an exercise you like and stick with it.</p>
<p>3) Have a motivator. Look at your flabby self in the mirror (no offense), take pictures over time, look at the people around you who are thinner and healthier and aspire to be like them. I may sound like a Chinese mother (we can all laugh at that, right?) but if shame motivates you to stay healthy and thin, then find something to shame yourself with! We talk so much in our culture about self-esteem that we ignore the importance of shame (and yes, I’m aware that’s a strange thing to say). Take pictures of yourself, with no clothes on, as a reminder of what you <em>don’t</em> want to look like. On a college campus, you ought to be surrounded by thin, healthy people who probably make you feel a bit ashamed of your body right now. That’s good, as long as you deal with the shame in a healthy way by exercising and eating right. A big motivator for me is my dad, who has my body type (puts on weight VERY easily and that includes both fat and muscle). When he was in his twenties, he looked like me, broad-shouldered, muscular, football-player build (he actually was a football-player), and now he’s obese because he overate and underexercised for a period of years. He’s a big motivator for me, because we share the same body type and I could easily wind up like him if I’m not vigilant. So find a motivator for you. Maybe your motivator can be the desire to go to a public pool or beach or something and feel confident (not proud, just confident), I don’t know. But without proper motivation you will not stick with it.</p>
<p>Eat less calories than your body needs, its that simple. Of course you should do a ton of cardio also.</p>
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And on future occassions, serve yourself less so you waste less.</p>
<p>Forget everything these people said, and just join the cross country team. I did it, and look at me! Okay, maybe you can’t see me, but I can eat whatever I want and stay skinny! ;)</p>
<p>If you find you don’t have the time for actual workouts, try pop pilates on youtube. Intense 10 minute pilates workouts focusing on different areas of the body. Everyone has at least 10 minutes to work out in a day.</p>
<p>drink health. it helps build strong bones and muscles.</p>
<p>I’ll preface this by saying that I assume you want to lose weight and keep it off. There are lots of ways to lose weight; unfortunately, most people gain the weight back and more. The only way to lose weight is to to change your diet and exercise habits forever. Eating real food (avoiding processed foods), making your meals yourself, avoiding restaurant food, and having portion control, and increasing vegetables and fruits, low on meats and fats and concentrated sweets. But as I said before, it needs to be something you want to do and can really do forever - so not a diet, but a healthy way of eating. In terms of exercise, an hour of moderate activity a day is recommended. More will help shed pounds off faster. Find some healthy activities that you enjoy doing – finding a friend to do it with will help. </p>
<p>Most people fail to lose weight or lose weight and regain, because they are trying to stick to a diet that is restrictive and that they don’t really like. The few percent of people who have lost a lot of weight and kept it off, exercise a lot every day.</p>
<p>It is true that one can lose weight eating twinkies if you have a deficit of calories. Unfortunately, you will not get the needed vitamins and you will get excess fat, sugar, preservatives etc. So, if you want to lose weight and sustain it, choose healthy real foods that you enjoy.</p>
<p>but I don’t enjoy any healthy real foods. help.</p>
<p>Eat cookies and cake and jars of sugar. Sit on your butt all day. Mix this up with daily McDonalds and your golden. Try to make combinations with all of the above.</p>
<p>You could also try to eat yourself</p>
<p>Good advice on the second post: trimming down and keeping it trim is about permanent lifestyle changes that results in a healthier life. Once your weight goes down to where you desire it to be, just start eating a little more to keep it stable.</p>
<p>For me, it’s about eating <em>more</em> healthy foods than unhealthy foods, combined with a good amount of exercise from biking. Over the summer of my freshman year, I lost 60lb even though the amount of food I ate was only a minimal change in diet. Once I got to a healthy weight, I just increased the amount I ate until my weight stabilized.</p>
<p>So basically, permanent changes I made are:
- Started biking at least 2mi per day; on some weekends, I’ll go with an extended 30mi ride.
- Ate regular meals consisting of 60% veggies; chicken and fish are a regular part of my diet. I still kept going with 2500 calories / day though.</p>