need to loose weight

[ramzie]

Hi guys,

I need to loose some weight, any tips?

Thanks and greetings

 

[pointguy36]

without knowing your age, BMI, health conditions (if any) and goals, this will be hard for regular folks to make worthwhile suggestions, but here goes...

1. Talk to your doctor, discuss your goals, health conditions and s/he should be able to offer some helpful advice.

2. Remember, losing wealth in its most SIMPLISTIC terms is calories in vs calories out, i.e. eat less and move more. I know losing weight is more complicated then that, but that's where your doc should come in handy.

3. Depending on where you live, it is just starting Spring where I live (although you would never know it as it 32 degrees F today!!!!) get outside and go for a walk! If on the first day you only make it around the block, who cares, try to do more the next day!

4. Set realistic goals, you didn't add weight in just a few days you will not lose weight that fast either. There is no long term benefit to killing yourself at the gym or starving yourself - slow and steady wins this race!

5. Find a workout buddy - someone to help motivate you on bad days and keep you honest.

Hope this helps a little - Good Luck Ramzie - you can do this!!!!

 

[gb2000ie]

Meaure something.

We humans are EXPERTS at deceiving ourselves. The only antedote is data.

Ultimately, the equation for weightloss is trivial - take in less calories than you burn.

There are lots of devices for measuring how many calories you are burning off each day. I've found the Apple Watch has been a very positive motivation for me.

It's been very gentle with me, and at no point has it pushed me too far, but the other day I realised that I have doubled my daily callorie burn in the last 6 months. It's all thanks to the watch measuring what I do, and, setting me slowly increasing but always achievable daily targets.

B.

 

[c750dt]

Have you gained weight recently or has your weight been consistent? If it's been consistent, you should find ways to work a higher level of activity into your life outside of any working out as a way to reprogram yourself. After you've managed to lose weight that you already have on, you'll need to find a way to bring your number of carbs consumed and carbs burnt daily as close together as you can in order to maintain your new shape.

With that said, I find swimming (just any movement in the water really) as well as jogging or spending time on the elliptical regularly work pretty well for me. Also walking. I can't now but back when I was living at home and unemployed, I'd spend a huge portion of my daylight hours biking or walking aimlessly around town and that kept me in a shape nicer than my current form.

Also, if you drink, that's bad. It doesn't just add calories, it slows down your system and makes you less able to perform physical activity.

 

[trencherman]

I have been taking medication to control high blood pressure since I was in my thirties. None of the physicians I have seen ever told me what could be causing it, they did tell me though of the most likely cause, stress, kidney malfunction, hormones, etc., etc. Twenty years ago in the course of opening my bakeshop, I lost 30 lbs and my blood pressure went normal so from this I gathered my hypertension is a function of my weight. Over the last few years, part of my slowing down and retirement, my weight last Dec. reached 175 lbs. and my blood pressure hovered on 200/145. My doctor prescribed a new drug combination to control it. Meanwhile, I came across this website of a young kidney specialist in Toronto who is advocating an age-old approach to weight loss, obesity and diabetes, fasting (http://anon.projectarchive.net/?http://intensivedietarymanagement.com/ ). He was not selling any merchandise or system for money and the way he spoke inspired confidence so I thought he must be reliable. I immediately went on an intermittent fast in combination with renouncing GTS (grains, tubers and sugar). I now weigh 143 lbs, low normal blood sugar, low normal blood pressure. I am writing this because I want to tell my story to anyone who would listen.

 

[dargelos]

The David Bowie Berlin diet is a sure fire way to lose a lot of weight but at the cost of taking years off your life so I don't recomemnd it.
Lots of cigarettes, lots of cocaine, cups of strong coffee and a little red pepper. Totaly unhealthy but it might make you write some great songs.

The human body is designed to gain weight rapidly and lose it slowly so if it takes a long time to safely reach your ideal weight then that is the way mother nature intended. Be patient, don't become one.

 

[Otage]

Don't make it TOO hard. Calories counting thing isn't all that straight forward. For example calories from sugar will store up as fat much more than same amount on calories from fat.

So keep it simple! Eat little bit less, eat little bit better, build up muscle and move bit more. And you don't have to set your goals to becoming a muscle Mary, but muscle burns bit more than other weight

And more important than anything is consistency. You can fall to bad habbits every now and then, but don't let them last. Keep yourself straight at leat six days a week.

And find the fun in moving! Don't grind in gym if you don't like it. Find the joy and enjoy the feeling that moving gives, that you are less tired, enjoy the feeling that good food gives; instead of undoing your belt, feeling that you are so full that you can't move, the food actually recharges you, gives you energy, as it should do!

 

[sallywoppy]

yes

 

[cacc]

Definitely not any sort of expert on nutrition, but cutting sugar out of the diet is one of the biggest things, drink a lot of water, and make sure you're eating enough as skipping meals I've been told by people who know a lot more than me can slow down the metabolism and be detrimental to losing weight.

 

[jimid]

I would recommend a low carb diet. Stay away from processed sugars

 

[suchat13]

Me also need, just come to see comment.
Thanks

 

[Stonecold]

Dr. Atkins diet, first 6 to 10 days kind of strict but after that it gets pretty good. I also like the fact after the first week or so alcohol can be added. Vodka and Mic Ultra light work for me and I gain no weight. I have an ideal weight when I get there I stay there but always reward myself with a couple weeks of going off it until I gain 10 to 15 pounds back and then I do a week of an all fruit diet and then go back on Atkins. I always time my off my diet time to match up with holidays and when my other half is on vacation. I drink 6 to 8 bottled waters a day also.

 

[coolfashion]

Exercise and eat "Healthy"

 

[gb2000ie]

Definitely not any sort of expert on nutrition, but cutting sugar out of the diet is one of the biggest things, drink a lot of water, and make sure you're eating enough as skipping meals I've been told by people who know a lot more than me can slow down the metabolism and be detrimental to losing weight.

I have a few other important related points to add:
1) never skip breakfast, doing so will put your body in starvarion mode, which means it will hang on to any fat it gets for dear life.
2) another reason it's important not to skip meals is that doing so make snacking almost inevitable. Much healthier to eat three well balanced meals a day than two.
3) sleep deprivation makes you crave sugar - your body tries to get the energy you didn't get from sleeping from sugar. A good night sleep will help to curb your suagar cravings signifficantly. It will also make you less likely to over-eat at meal times.

B.

 

[gb2000ie]

Dr. Atkins diet, first 6 to 10 days kind of strict but after that it gets pretty good. I also like the fact after the first week or so alcohol can be added. Vodka and Mic Ultra light work for me and I gain no weight. I have an ideal weight when I get there I stay there but always reward myself with a couple weeks of going off it until I gain 10 to 15 pounds back and then I do a week of an all fruit diet and then go back on Atkins. I always time my off my diet time to match up with holidays and when my other half is on vacation. I drink 6 to 8 bottled waters a day also.

Be bloody careful with extrem diets like this.

A house-mate of mine did it, and it messed with his brain chemistry - literally drove him mad - paranoid, agressive. We had to stage an intervention.

The only way to be healthy is to eat healty - my advice is to steer clear of dangerous nonsense like this.

B.

 

[c750dt]

Geography and genetics also play a role. Some people can process carbs more efficiently. On top of that, it seems like people in warmer climates have an easier time maintaining a slim waist while people in cold climates are more likely to have an insulating layer of blubber.

I suppose, when it comes down to the bottom line, you obviously need to alter habits and lifestyle but can't rely on a single set system; you have to simply experiment and see what yields positive change.

 

[trencherman]

For 200,000 years hominids and eventually homo sapiens hunted and foraged until 10,000 years ago when most of them developed agriculture and settled down. Hunting and foraging meant a glut of food when you caught or gathered something and absence of food when you were not so lucky. This is probably how humans developed this mechanism to store fat when there is a feast and to expend it when there is famine. This storage and tapping of stored fat is mediated by insulin. Because of our modern lifestyle, we hardly ever have any occasion to expend stored fat and because of eating too much and eating too much carbs, this system is taxed to the limit and develops into insulin intolerance and obesity. An effective way of tackling this modern problem is the Low Carb High Fat approach. An even more effective method is Intermittent Fasting. Eating a balanced diet and physical activity have always been healthy and great advice for those who are not overweight yet. Those who are already overweight are in a desperate situation and need to take extreme measures under medical supervision.

 

[Lucas88]

No sugar. Exercise.

I do weight lifting 4-5 times a week. The only rule I have regarding food is 'no sugar'. I eat everything from meat and cheese to bread and pasta.

 

[nysander]

What worked for me was eating less and eating better (bye bye sugar and snack foods) and exercising more, i lost 45 pounds in six months. By the way, when you buy food check the ingredients, the food industry puts sugar and/or high fructose corn syrup in a LOT of products that don't rally need any sugar added.

I give a lot of credit to my activity tracker and related app. I used it to keep track of exercise and calorie intake and it worked wonders for me.

That said it's a good idea to check with your doctor, especially if you have to loose a lot of weight, they should be able to suggest you the right and healthy approach.

 

[gb2000ie]

What worked for me was eating less and eating better (bye bye sugar and snack foods) and exercising more, i lost 45 pounds in six months. By the way, when you buy food check the ingredients, the food industry puts sugar and/or high fructose corn syrup in a LOT of products that don't rally need any sugar added.

I give a lot of credit to my activity tracker and related app. I used it to keep track of exercise and calorie intake and it worked wonders for me.

That said it's a good idea to check with your doctor, especially if you have to loose a lot of weight, they should be able to suggest you the right and healthy approach.

All great advice.

One thing I woud add to that - the easiest way to know what you are eating is to make it yourself - buy raw ingredients and cook! The less processed foods you eat, and the more you cook for yourself from scratch, the more chance you have of really taking control of your diet.

The amount of salt, sugar, and fat in processed foods is horrific!

B.