A good fitness and food plan to drop pounds please?
Question:
Answers:
The only variable you can really control is exercise. Find a method exercise that you enjoy and do it every day. Build muscle. Eat what you want when you are actually hungry and stop before you are stuffed full. Try to eat a balanced diet, but don't limit yourself with a bunch or rules and diets. Diets don't work and are unhealthy in the long run. Only do things that are healthy and that you can do forever, for the rest of your life, like cutting fast food forever. 95 percent of dieters gain it all back in one year and 99 percent do in two years. Dieting is associated with weight gain over a long period of time. You need at least 1200 to 1600 calories every day just to perform basic bodily functions.
If women like you learned to love their bodies, a billion dollar industry that cashes in on insecurities and making people feel like they are not good enough would collapse. Quite frankly, being a little fat isn't as unhealthy as being thin. Anybody who thinks diets or restricting food types is a good idea is uneducated about the human body. Short cuts do not work. Most of the weight you lose is water weight. For health, eat a balanced diet and exercise for the health and endorphins and forget about an ideal shape. The average age a girl starts dieting is 8. 1/3 women are on a diet at any given time. 4/5 US women are unsatisfied with their appearance.
Your body has a set point weight that it wants to be. If you starve yourself, the body will fight back by lowering the metabolism to maintain it's ideal weight.
Limit your tv viewing. 1/4 TV commercials send out a message about attractiveness in this brainwashed society that has been seeing images of beautiful skinny women and mocking chubby people. It's worse for women: look at the number of average or uglier guys on tv and in movies versus the number of women. 30 percent of women in a study rated their ideal shape and it turned out to be 20 percent underweight. Julia Roberts and Cameron Diaz meet the clinical requirements for anorexia, and so do 25% of playboy centerfolds. If the flippin mannequins became real women, they wouln't be able to menstruate. Women finally get some rights, but we limit ourselves like this and our bodies are reduced to objects we inspect and criticise. Men decide to only value women for their looks and a thin, attractive wife symbolizes social status for them. Girls call each other fat as the greatest insult they can muster. When did fat become worse than cruel, stupid, dishonest, lazy or cowardly. When did "chubby" start to mean the last four of those things?
We are killing our daughters and wasting our lives trying to meet an ideal that blows. I wish women would get together and fight it instead of letting others control us like this. Unless you are considered obese, or have a BMI of over 25, don't worry about it. Love your body and your confidence will light up the room and give other women permission to love themselves too.
For info on nutrition, go to mypyramid.gov and let them calculate whan you are getting that you need.
Eat fruits and veggies. No white foods. Low carbs, low calories. Do plenty of cardio and just give it time.
I lost 25+lbs in 6 weeks, this is how I did it:
stopped drinking soda and juices, replaced with just water and green tea
stopped eating a lot of pizza, cheese, fat, junk food, etc and replaced with better food, lower carbs, no fat, no sugar, no cholesterol.
joined the gym and went 5 days a week, 30mins of cardio and 15mins of weight training.
purchased a bike two weeks into my program and rode it for 4 miles 3 times a week.
walked to and from the gym(2.3mi) 5 days a week.
go for walks whenever time allows (4-6mi each day) 4-5x per week.
I went from 206 to 177. :-)
Eat a protein, a carb at every meal. Eat lots of fruits and veggies too.
Get 1/2 hour, 3 times a week of some kind of cardio. Get a pilates/yoga/strength training dvd and do that 2-3 times a week.
well when u eat.Only eat half of what ur eating each day.And To burn off some punds then buy one of these:
http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=h...
its a trike and i've heard it works cause it works your whole body!
I highly recommend the South Beach diet. My daughter lost 40 pounds in three and a half months (she was 280 pounds though) and I lost 17 pounds in less than a month. Great eating plan and very healthy. Lots of books are available with eating plans. It is not the Atkins diet, and is very effective for quick weight loss, with a very reasonable eating plan.
my sister and nephew are doing this diet i will show you the link i thin k its mad but its just for a week to kick start you http://www.weightloss77.com/ime... also dieting ime on weight watchers you dont have to go to the meetings if you know what your doing stick to your pointshttp://www.weightwatchers.co.uk/index.as... dont forget walk atleast 1 hour a day and drink plenty of water good luck walking is the best form of excersize also toning you up
every day you must walk and you must bought a hand grip,cycle for the progression.
a good fitness and food plan consist or various exersises walking,running, weight lifting,cutting down on carbs,sweets surgary soda, taking in more water protein belive it or not women have muscle to and can become fat burning machines just choose a plan stick to it and dont put to much pressure on yourself start out light
The diet stuff... just eat right... seems to be a theme above and I agree. You'll know what's right for you.
More important:
You need a fitness program you can stick too. If it's possible and you're city has done a little modern planning, could you change the way you commute to work?
I ride a bike to work rain or shine and it takes about 40 minutes of good riding. I am fortunate because we have bike lanes, paths, etc. but I know this isn't something for everyone.
The point is - I am rolling my excercise into my daily routine and using time I would have spent anyway! It can take up to an hour to drive to work, depending on traffic. It takes about 45-50 minutes using public transportation - so not only do I get to work quicker - I am working out!
The chances of me "blowing off" my workout are minimal because then it's a pain to get to work (buy a bus ticket, pay for parking) - it costs me not to work out, rather than paying too work out at a gym.
You see!?!? So you'd be saving time, not scheduling additional time - and you'll be setting up a good incentive to keep at it.
No matter what you decide to do, make sure you enjoy it and will want to keep doing it. Excercise programs and equipment are OK if you'll use them or stick to them, but if you're like me you've been stuck with a Gym Membership Contract even though you haven't been to the gym in weeks.
I guess the other idea... and this is hopefully not innapropriate but one of the activities that actually burns the most calories is sex... so I think folks who are looking to lose weight should serously consider having more!
More Questions & Answers...